Eldorado Canyon One of the great rock-climbing meccas in the world and it's only 45 minutes from town. In fact, you can simply pull your car over on the highway, get out and feel your heart stop watching free climbers scaling red-rock faces directly above your Buick. Or pull a beer out of your cooler, offer one to a climber who's down and discuss Annapurna. 2. Coors Field 3. Castle Pines Golf Club. Home of the coolest locker room in golf, where, at any lunch table looking out on Pikes Peak, you might bump into John Elway, Patrick Roy, Peter Coors or, depending on which team is playing the Rockies, some great National League pitchers. 4. Ruby Hill. On a sledding day, kid heaven. 5. Drunken Frenchman at Winter Park The gnarliest slope in Colorado, where the moguls are the size of Volkswagen Beetles and tourists turn white as the powder beneath them.

	Tattered Cover bookstore Greatest bookstore in the world. You can read for hours in their overstuffed chairs without getting the boot. 2. Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre. It's breathtaking even without U2 playing. 3. The Denver Mint 4. Water World. The best water park in America. 5. LoDo on game night

The Denver Chop House and Brewery, Nineteenth Street Doesn't matter what the sport is, after games this joint is loaded with players, coaches and owners. Delicious food, handsome men, gorgeous women and nobody asks for autographs. This is where Avalanche center Peter Forsberg realized his spleen wasn't working anymore, but that was because of a hit he took during that night's game, not because of the grub. 2. Vesta Dipping Grill, Blake Street. There's no place like it. 3. Tommy Tsunami's, Market Street. Eat sushi under hanging motorcycles. 4. El Taco De Mexico, Santa Fe Drive. An absolute dump with the best Mexican food north of Tijuana. 5. Wynkoop Brewery Company, Eighteenth Street. Go upstairs, play pool and drink the world-famous mini-brews.

	Central City casino They ruined one of America's most important and picturesque historic towns in the name of 25-cent slots. 2. Hard Rock Cafe 3. Park Meadows Mall 4. Sixteenth Street Mall. Stroll the little shops of Cherry Creek North instead. 5. Any of John Elway's Ford dealerships

Arnold Palmer wins the U.S. Open at Cherry Hills from seven shots behind, 1960. In the final round, Palmer drove the green on the par-4 first hole and went on to win the U.S. Open from seven shots behind, beating, among others, Ben Hogan, who hit 35 greens on the last day, and an amateur named Jack Nicklaus. 2. Broncos defeat the hated Oakland Raiders in AFC Championship Game to advance to their first Super Bowl, 1978 3. Broncos win AFC title over Cleveland Browns on "The Fumble," 1988 4. Julius (Dr. J) Erving defeats David (Skywalker) Thompson in the first-ever slam-dunk contest with the first-ever free-throw-line dunk at the last-ever ABA All-Star Game, 1976 5. Colorado second baseman Eric Young leads off the first inning of the first home game in Rockies' history with a home run, 1993