City guide · Colorado · United States
Trailheads twenty minutes from downtown and breweries with fenced yards.
6 places6 categories6 neighbourhoods2 with an off-leash area
6 places, each checked against the venue's own information
Neighbourhoods covered: LoDo, Five Points, Cherry Creek North, Southeast metro / Aurora, Platte Street, LoDo / Union Station.
No photo yetA roughly one-acre fenced off-leash park in downtown Denver, opened in 2010 with help from local dog owners. Soft sandy surface, shaded benches and picnic tables, waste bag dispensers, and a water fountain that runs in summer.
No photo yetThe Denver-born breakfast chain known for pancakes, Benedicts and breakfast burritos, with a full bar of mimosas and Bloody Marys. The Larimer Street room in Five Points is one of the original locations, with a patio along the sidewalk.
No photo yetA rooftop bar and terrace on top of the Halcyon Hotel in Cherry Creek, with views across the Denver skyline to the Front Range, patio sofas and heaters. The roof deck is the dog-friendly area, and the hotel below is itself a pet-welcoming property.
No photo yetMore than a hundred acres of designated off-leash ground inside the 4,200-acre Cherry Creek State Park, on the reservoir's wetland edge. Dogs can run open field and reach the creek for a proper swim, and the park itself has 35 miles of multi-use trail.
No photo yetDenver Beer Co.'s original taproom and biergarten, set in a converted garage near the Highland Bridge. Big roll-up doors, a fenced patio with umbrellas and misters, indoor seating, and food trucks rotating through from Thursday to Sunday.
A boutique hotel built into Denver's historic Union Station, with rooms themed around rail travel and direct access to the station's restaurants, bars and light rail. Union Station's great hall is the lobby.
Leash rules, off-leash hours and whether dogs are allowed inside are set locally and change without notice. Each listing here says what the venue or the responsible authority publishes, and the listing page links to the page we checked, so you can confirm the current rule before you set out. Outside a signed off-leash area, keep the dog on a lead.
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Patio culture year-round, and a city that treats dogs as regulars.
Forest trails inside the city limits and the most dog-tolerant coffee shops in the US.
Waterfront walks, off-leash beaches and hotels that hand out beds at check-in.
The best off-leash beaches in the country, plus rooftop bars that allow leashed dogs.
Riverwalks, prairie fields and brunch counters that keep a bowl by the door.
America's hardest city to bring a dog to, and the most rewarding once you know which patios actually say yes.
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