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Neighborhoods

Neighborhoods in Denver

Every neighborhood with the places we list there, and a short, sourced write-up where we have one.

  • Athmar Park

    15 places listed

  • Auraria

    3 places listed

  • Baker

    9 places listed

  • Barnum

    7 places listed

  • Barnum West

    5 places listed

  • Bear Valley

    8 places listed

  • Belcaro

    19 places listed

  • Berkeley

    27 places listed

  • Capitol Hill

    Just east of Broadway, Capitol Hill is bounded by four busy streets: Broadway, Downing Street, Colfax Avenue and 7th Avenue. The city counts Cheesman Park, and North Capitol Hill across Colfax (which some residents call Uptown), as separate neighborhoods.

    39 places listed

  • CBD

    9 places listed

  • Central Park

    Built on the site of the old Stapleton International Airport, which closed in 1995, and known as Stapleton until it was renamed. It's Denver's largest residential neighborhood, with dozens of parks, several schools and pools, and since April 2016 the A Line train has linked it to Downtown and Denver International Airport.

    37 places listed

  • Chaffee Park

    4 places listed

  • Cheesman Park

    Both a city park and the neighborhood around it. Many people think of it as part of Capitol Hill, but Denver treats Cheesman Park as a neighborhood of its own.

    5 places listed

  • Cherry Creek

    14 places listed

  • City Park

    Most of this neighborhood is the park itself: about 330 acres, the largest park in Denver. It holds the Denver Zoo, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Ferril and Duck Lakes and a boathouse, with City Park Golf Course just to the north.

    2 places listed

  • City Park West

    32 places listed

  • Civic Center

    8 places listed

  • Clayton

    17 places listed

  • Cole

    12 places listed

  • College View - South Platte

    10 places listed

  • Congress Park

    11 places listed

  • Cory - Merrill

    8 places listed

  • Country Club

    3 places listed

  • DIA

    5 places listed

  • East Colfax

    5 places listed

  • Elyria Swansea

    11 places listed

  • Five Points

    One of Denver's oldest neighborhoods, and now one of its fastest growing. Much of the new building is in the River North Arts District (RiNo), which locals often treat as its own area even though it officially sits in Five Points and parts of Globeville and Elyria-Swansea.

    52 places listed

  • Fort Logan

    10 places listed

  • Gateway - Green Valley Ranch

    38 places listed

  • Globeville

    14 places listed

  • Goldsmith

    12 places listed

  • Hale

    15 places listed

  • Hampden

    21 places listed

  • Hampden South

    21 places listed

  • Harvey Park

    16 places listed

  • Harvey Park South

    8 places listed

  • Highland

    A Northside neighborhood just northwest of Downtown, between West 38th Avenue, a Union Pacific rail line, the South Platte River, Speer Boulevard and Federal Boulevard. People often say "the Highlands" to mean both Highland and its separate neighbor, West Highland.

    18 places listed

  • Hilltop

    8 places listed

  • Indian Creek

    2 places listed

  • Jefferson Park

    10 places listed

  • Kennedy

    1 places listed

  • Lincoln Park

    30 places listed

  • Lowry Field

    18 places listed

  • Mar Lee

    23 places listed

  • Marston

    4 places listed

  • Montbello

    27 places listed

  • Montclair

    9 places listed

  • North Capitol Hill

    31 places listed

  • North Park Hill

    One of the three city neighborhoods that make up Park Hill in East Denver. Park Hill as a whole runs from Colorado Boulevard east to Quebec Street, and from East Colfax Avenue north to East 52nd Avenue.

    11 places listed

  • Northeast Park Hill

    One of the three city neighborhoods that make up Park Hill in East Denver, along with South Park Hill and North Park Hill. Park Hill as a whole is bordered by Colorado Boulevard, East Colfax Avenue, Quebec Street and East 52nd Avenue.

    19 places listed

  • Overland

    6 places listed

  • Platt Park

    13 places listed

  • Regis

    3 places listed

  • Rosedale

    9 places listed

  • Ruby Hill

    5 places listed

  • Skyland

    7 places listed

  • Sloan Lake

    On Denver's northwest side, this neighborhood is built around Sloan Lake (also written Sloan's Lake or Sloans Lake) and its park, which are its main feature.

    5 places listed

  • South Park Hill

    Part of Park Hill in East Denver, the area between Colorado Boulevard, East Colfax Avenue, Quebec Street and East 52nd Avenue. The city splits Park Hill into three neighborhoods: South Park Hill, North Park Hill and Northeast Park Hill.

    15 places listed

  • Southmoor Park

    7 places listed

  • Speer

    24 places listed

  • Sun Valley

    6 places listed

  • Sunnyside

    A Northside neighborhood west of Interstate 25, between the rail lines on the east, Interstate 70 on the north, Federal Boulevard on the west and 38th Avenue on the south. Highland lies to the south and Chaffee Park to the north, and the neighborhood group is Sunnyside United Neighbors (SUNI).

    23 places listed

  • Union Station

    12 places listed

  • University

    13 places listed

  • University Hills

    18 places listed

  • University Park

    13 places listed

  • Valverde

    3 places listed

  • Villa Park

    8 places listed

  • Virginia Village

    16 places listed

  • Washington Park

    Named for the large park at its center, first laid out in 1899. The park is busy with walkers, cyclists and volleyball players, has a historic boathouse pavilion, and was named one of the "Great Public Spaces in America" by the American Planning Association in 2012.

    12 places listed

  • Washington Park West

    9 places listed

  • Washington Virginia Vale

    26 places listed

  • Wellshire

    5 places listed

  • West Colfax

    28 places listed

  • West Highland

    33 places listed

  • Westwood

    22 places listed

  • Whittier

    12 places listed

  • Windsor

    7 places listed