Breckenridge Real Estate Blog

If you’re flying in to the Denver International Airport and coming up to see real estate in Breckenridge, consider exploring Denver for a day or two to get acquainted with the elevation and the sites.  Your ski-in/ski-out property in Breckenridge—or Silverthorne CO real estate or in Keystone—comes with the Denver territory.  Neighbors living full or part-time in Summit County, Colorado homes will be from across the world.  Others hail from the Front Range cities around Denver.

So, strike up a conversation.  What’s to do in Denver, the capital of Colorado?  Start out downtown near the capitol building with a cup of Dazbog coffee.  Be sure to stand in the middle of the steps to the Capitol where the Mile High City elevation is measured.  There’s actually a wonderful Denver “hike” around the nearby landmarks to take, but you’ll need a few hours to get it in.

To familiarize yourself with more lingoes, though, be sure to also get to LoDo, which stands for Lower downtown and is the site of the now-famous Tattered Cover Bookstore.  LoHi is Lower Highlands and SoCo is not Southern California but rather refers to neighborhoods south of Colfax Avenue.

Large buildings that you may have seen on television include 1) the beautiful new Colorado Convention Center downtown that was recently expanded to the tune of $300 million, 2) the Pepsi Center, home of the Denver Nuggets professional basketball team and the Denver Avalanche hockey team as well as guest arena for the Democratic National Convention this summer, 3) the 1,100-room Hyatt Regency, and 4) the $110 million Hamilton building at the Denver Art Museum.

Denver is full of history, much captured in splendid museums.  If you can even check out one during each visit, you will learn about your upcoming heritage.

If you have lots of leisure time, hop onto the free public transportation for an olden-day treat at the Buckhorn Exchange, the oldest restaurants in the city.  Buckhorn Exchange serves up a traditional fare that includes rattlesnake and buffalo.  If it sounds like your kids would rather have something more familiar, visit John Elway’s place in Cherry Creek or at the Ritz Carlton.  My Brother’s Bar claims to be the oldest saloon and by the looks of it and the classical music inside, that is probably the honest-to-goodness truth.

Another option is the totally “green” experience in Boulder at the Kitchen, a wind-powered conversation piece.  If you’d rather head south to the Red Rock Park or Dinosaur Ridge on the back highway through Park County, we can meet you in Fairplay or Alma and get started viewing the great values for family retreats in the area.  Call Rick Allemang at (970) 547-1002 to learn more about real estate options in the Rocky Mountain resort areas.