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Denver

United States of America · 12 quests

History

1 quest
Denver Union Station, Denver🇺🇸 Denver
Denver Union Station
Its first building burned down in 1894

Nature

2 quests
Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver🇺🇸 Denver
Denver Botanic Gardens
A glass pyramid holds a tropical forest
Red Rocks, Denver🇺🇸 Denver
Red Rocks
Two red stone towers hold an open-air amphitheater

Art

3 quests
Big Blue Bear, Denver🇺🇸 Denver
Big Blue Bear
A blue bear peers through a glass wall
Convergence Station, Denver🇺🇸 Denver
Convergence Station
Four strange worlds meet under one roof
Church of Cannabis, Denver🇺🇸 Denver
Church of Cannabis
A former church opens into a painted psychedelic world

Food

3 quests
Artichoke Tortelloni, Denver🇺🇸 Denver
Artichoke Tortelloni
Green filling waits inside folded pasta
Green Chile Burrito, Denver🇺🇸 Denver
Green Chile Burrito
Why is this burrito eaten with a fork?
Indian Taco, Denver🇺🇸 Denver
Indian Taco
A puffy piece of bread replaces the shell

Sport

1 quest
Coors Field, Denver🇺🇸 Denver
Coors Field
A purple row marks a mile above sea level

Party

2 quests
Cervantes, Denver🇺🇸 Denver
Cervantes
One venue splits live music into two rooms
54thirty, Denver🇺🇸 Denver
54thirty
Its name hides a height above sea level

United States of America

Photo quests in Denver

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Denver holds twelve quests across six categories, with no single one of them defining the place: Art and Food are level at three quests each. The one category with nothing in Denver so far is Beach.

One is tier 1, the tier kept for what a visitor would not have found on their own: Big Blue Bear. It is also the only quest here whose check-in asks for PRO; the other eleven are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers nine of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Denver quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The one quests in Denver the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Denver

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Denver

How many photo quests are there in Denver?
12, across six of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Art (3), Food (3) and Nature (2). Nothing in Beach here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: Denver Union Station, Denver Botanic Gardens and Big Blue Bear.
What is there to do in Denver beyond the obvious?
One of the 12 quests in Denver is tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Denver holds one at tier 1, two at tier 2 and nine at tier 3. The tier 1 quest here is Big Blue Bear, in Art.
Can you do all the Denver quests on one trip?
Most of them, with transport. The outermost of the 12 is 21 km from the middle of the Denver list, so the cluster in the middle is an afternoon and the edges are a bus or a taxi each.
Which Denver quests can you do for free?
11 of the 12 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 12 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Denver means one quest: Big Blue Bear.
How do I prove I visited a place in Denver?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Denver is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Denver Union Station fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Denver sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.