36 Hours in Denver

The Mile High City is trying to re-invent itself, from cowtown to a destination city for sports fans, cultural connoisseurs and outdoor enthusiasts. The best place to see this transition is in downtown Denver and the LoDo neighborhood, or lower downtown, where historic buildings are finding new uses as lofts, hotels, restaurants and bookstores, and blending in with new lofts, apartments and offices in old rail yards and along the riverfront. The new Millennium Bridge, above, soars above a train track there. Fall is perhaps the perfect time to visit Denver, as the autumn colors have since peaked in the mountains and the resort towns are in their shoulder (a k a mud) season before the snow really accumulates. Read more in The New York Times...