Playing Tourist in My Town: Wandering Around the RiNo District

A couple months ago…not sure – from May to now has become a blur…on a Friday (John now has Fridays off work as he prepares for eventual retirement) we went wandering the RiNo District near Downtown Denver.

The “RiNo District” is short for “River North Art District north of Downtown Denver”.

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It is an amazing place to wander about on a sunny afternoon and has many eateries, shops, breweries and amazing graffiti art. It is known for it’s graffiti art on the side of buildings and I thought I would share a sampling of that art with you.

While we were we got to witness a graffiti artist working on a new piece on the side of a building:

We returned to the RiNo District last weekend while we had out of town visitors and got to see the piece completed:

While in the RiNo District during our wander a couple months ago, we stopped the Denver Central Market an amazing inside eatery with various food vendors/little restaurants to choose from.

I had a yummy seafood taco sampler with a different sauce/topping on each taco (okay don’t cringe those of you who live by/close to the ocean, I am fully aware Colorado is completely “landlocked” and the fish was frozen not fresh before they prepared it – ha!)

Later we had gelato at my favorite gelato place in Denver – Heaven Creamery. It’s not like the spiritually transcendent experience I had eating gelato in Italy the first time many years ago, but for Colorado it pretty darn good!

One of our favorite pieces of building graffiti art in the Rino District is the piece below which changes as you walk along the building. It’s difficult to capture on photo but it is such a cool effect in person!

I just love the RiNo District and look forward to returning for a wander when we have cooler Autumn weather!