Denver CO Homes for Sale

Denver CO homes for sale offers plenty of choices from homes for sale throughout the city. Lofts and renovated condos are available downtown near the skyscraper and bustle of the business center of the city. More contemporary homes are available further out in the outlying communities that offer an atmosphere closer to a nice suburb or a recreation of a small independent town.

Denver offers more choices than just home types or neighborhood feels. The school systems vary from a public school district that serves 73,000 children with over a hundred facilities or a smaller independent school district run by religious groups.

After school there are plenty of museums and historical recreations to venture out to, The Molly Brown House honors the local hero, the “Unsinkable Molly Brown,” with a tour of her well-maintained house. She made her fortune during a gold boom and is credited with taking command of a lifeboat during the sinking of the Titanic and putting down a panic. Her exploits even inspired a musical and film entitled the “Unsinkable Molly Brown.”

Tiny Town takes kids on an adventure through dozens of “Old West” buildings built to 1/6 scale in a gorgeous mountain location. The town even has a toy locomotive powered by steam that takes adults and children on a ride past the town.

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science’s newest permanent exhibit is the Space Odyssey. The exhibit explores the latest in space science with views of Mars’ surface. An astronaut is available while performing research and visitors can maneuver the Mars Rover on the recreation of the surface or practice docking a space shuttle.

If a little more action is preferred then the Elitch Gardens Theme Park is the place to go. The park is one hundred years old and still has the European atmosphere it had when it was first constructed. The theme par is located downtown along the South Platte River and has rides, gardens, lagoons, restaurants, and other amusements.

Government can be seen in action at the U.S. Mint. Denver was a banking and minting center at the beginnings of the city’s history and continues to carry on that tradition today. Over five billion coins are made each year at the facility A twenty minute tour of the process is free on weekdays. The site also holds the second largest stash of gold in the nation after Fort Knox.

Denver CO homes for sale offers more than just great homes , but a great town with plenty of parks and museums for kids to explore.