Okay, so it doesn’t feel much like winter in Colorado right now. Denver is setting records for high temps, including an official (and ridiculous) 70 balmy degrees on Christmas Day. Makes it tough to disbelieve climate science, right? Or it should, anyway.
In a normal New Year, Mile High residents would be considering how to spend their free time while the weather outside is frightful. Luckily, we have quite the selection of indoor activities from which to choose — joints designed in part to entertain and amuse during the darkness of January, places where we don’t need to worry about frostbite or pants frozen with snow or runny red noses. These are places to kick up your heels — once you’ve found a place to hang your puffy coat.
Sure, there are the old standbys: museums from the Children’s Museum to Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Escape Rooms of various themes, roller skating and Meow Wolf. Those are all great options. But there are also more unique and surprising venues in town, of which to take advantage on a snow day. What places, you ask? Here are a happy handful of awesome indoor entertainment options that are quirky or curious or just plain cool…and which deserve a visit even if the weather doesn’t turn…