Denver Colorado...

[GrayStangGT]

I'm heading to Denver next month for the NHRA races. Where is a good place/area to stay that is close to good restaurants and bars?

[95ragtop]

16th st is like an outdoor mall with a bunch of restaurants, is downtown, and bars are less than a 15 minute walk. So somewhere near there would fit the bill.

[GrayStangGT]

16th st is like an outdoor mall with a bunch of restaurants, is downtown, and bars are less than a 15 minute walk. So somewhere near there would fit the bill.

I was looking at stuff around there, everything within walking distance is pretty high. I didn't know if there was any other areas similar around Denver maybe in a non downtown area that had lots of places a short drive away.

[03trubluGT]

Be sure to get a ticket so you can yell:

Fuck the Denver pooo-leeece!

[scootro]

go to boulder and see the shining hotel

[motoman]

go to boulder and see the shining hotel

Estes Park, not Boulder and it's not where the Shining was filmed but where Stephen King came up with the idea for The Shining. It was also the hotel where all the hotels scenes for Dumb & Dumber were filmed.

[95ragtop]

I was looking at stuff around there, everything within walking distance is pretty high. I didn't know if there was any other areas similar around Denver maybe in a non downtown area that had lots of places a short drive away.

There are some hotels just south of Denver really close to the Park Meadows mall, but I don't think there are any bars around there.

[scootro]

Estes Park, not Boulder and it's not where the Shining was filmed but where Stephen King came up with the idea for The Shining. It was also the hotel where all the hotels scenes for Dumb & Dumber were filmed.

i don't know we went to go see my buddies dad in Colorado and he got us drunk in that hotel's bar. it's called the stanley hotel









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[CJ]

Yeah the shining was filmed on custom sets based on some hotel in Oregon I believe.

[Sean88gt]

There are some hotels just south of Denver really close to the Park Meadows mall, but I don't think there are any bars around there.

It's not Denver, TX. There are bars everywhere in CO. Drinking is widely accepted.

[Chili]

After having chosen Stephen King's novel The Shining as a basis for his next project, and after a pre-production phase, Kubrick had sets constructed on soundstages at EMI Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, Britain – to enable chronological filming and changes during production, he used several stages at EMI Elstree Studios in order to make all sets available during the complete duration of production. The set for the Overlook Hotel was then the largest ever built at Elstree, including a life-size re-creation of the exterior of the hotel.[14] Some of the interior designs of the Overlook Hotel set are notable for being based on those of the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park.

While most of the interior shots, and even some of the Overlook exterior shots were done on studio sets, a few exterior shots were done on location by a second-unit crew headed by Jan Harlan: Saint Mary Lake with its Wild Goose Island was the filming location for the aerial shots of the opening scene.[15] The Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood in Oregon was filmed for a few of the exterior shots of the fictional Overlook Hotel, and notably absent in these shots is the hedge maze – a nonexistent feature at the Timberline Lodge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film)

[Chili]

The Stanley Hotel is a 140-room neo-Georgian hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. Located within sight of the Rocky Mountain National Park, the Stanley offers panoramic views of the Rockies. It was built by Freelan Oscar Stanley of Stanley Steamer fame and opened on July 4, 1909, catering to the rich and famous, including the RMS Titanic survivor Margaret Brown, John Philip Sousa, Theodore Roosevelt, the Emperor and Empress of Japan, and a variety of Hollywood personalities.[2] The hotel and its surrounding lands are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[1]

The Stanley Hotel also hosted the horror novelist Stephen King, inspiring him to write The Shining. Parts of the television mini-series version of The Shining were filmed there, whereas Stanley Kubrick's cinematic adaptation The Shining was filmed in sets built at Elstree Studios in England (some of the exteriors showed the Timberline Lodge in Oregon, and others showed a set based on a truncated version of that hotel).

The Stanley Hotel shows the uncut R-rated version of Kubrick's feature film on a continuous loop on Channel 42 on guest room televisions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stanley_Hotel

[GrayStangGT]

Are there any good logging roads/easy trails near Denver worth while. Going to be driving the Raptor up there in a couple weeks, but being that i won't be with any other trucks I don't want to hit any trails that are aggressive. Just want to go have a good time, see some nice scenery and still drive the 600 miles back home.

[motoman]

Are there any good logging roads/easy trails near Denver worth while. Going to be driving the Raptor up there in a couple weeks, but being that i won't be with any other trucks I don't want to hit any trails that are aggressive. Just want to go have a good time, see some nice scenery and still drive the 600 miles back home.

Look up Bunce School road trail. It's a very well known off-road trail in Estes Park. I was on it exactly a month ago. We rented some 4 wheelers and took off on the trail into the mountains.


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