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Sloan Lake is one of nearly 80 neighborhoods in the wonderful and sophisticated city of Denver. There are historic buildings, museums, art districts, parks and great shopping areas throughout the city’s neighborhoods. The Capitol Building of Denver is in the neighborhood of Capitol Hill, just a few miles from Sloan Lake. The US Mint, Denver Art Museum and Byers-Evans House – built in 1883 – are here, as is the Denver Convention Center, the Denver Performing Arts Center, Trianon Museum and Art Gallery, and the pedestrian-only 16th Street Mall. Denver Botanic Gardens cover 23 acres and includes more than 30 gardens ranging from those dedicated to shade-loving perennials to plants from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, to a Monet Garden with water lilies. Other gardens are devoted to Colorado native plants, plants brought to the state by pioneers, and Great Plains grasses and wildflowers. A domed Tropical Conservatory contains more than 800 tropical and subtropical plants.

Six Flags Elitch Gardens Amusement Park, the Children’s Museum of Denver and Colorado’s Ocean Journey, a 106,500 square foot aquarium, are located in the Central Platte Valley neighborhood. Pepsi Center, home of the Denver Nuggets, is adjacent to this neighborhood. Coors Field is at the south end of downtown as are eclectic Larimer Street with its pubs, antique shops, coffeehouses, boutiques, cafes and small businesses, and Larimer Square with buildings dating to the Civil War. Larimer Square features entertainment, restaurants and shops. There are several hospitals in the Uptown neighborhood as well as the Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys. Trinity United Methodist Church, the oldest church in Denver, is also located in Uptown.

The neighborhood of Highland is home to Potter’s Row, a district of renovated Victorian houses and the West 28th Avenue Historic District (Stoneman’s Row) with its turn of the 19th century flagstone houses and walkways.

There are hundreds of acres of parkland in Denver neighborhoods. Confluence Park in Central Platte Valley neighborhood is located on the South Platte River and offers kayaking. City Park is adjacent to the Uptown and Whittier neighborhoods and is the home of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and the Denver Zoo.

Denver, nicknamed “The Mile High City” and “Queen City of the Plains,” was founded in 1860 and became the capital of the Colorado Territory in 1861 and then of Colorado when the territory became a state in 1876. Denver was built on gold and silver mined from Clear Creek, Cripple Creek and the surrounding mountains. The dusty mining town is long gone, replaced by a cosmopolitan city with a Western spirit. Manufacturing, distribution, transportation and energy companies now bring wealth to the city. Points of interest outside of downtown include the Aviation and Space Center of the Rockies, Four Mile Historic Park, Mizel Museum of Judaica, and seventeen municipally owned mountain areas covering 14,000 acres. Van tours depart from downtown hotels and offer sight-seeing trips to the local mountains, Coors Brewery, Red Rocks Park, Pikes Peak, gold and silver mines, ski areas and historic downtown locales.