Denver, CO
Here’s every 2024 free day at the Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver Zoo, museums and other cultural hotspots
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The much-anticipated Free Days calendar from the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District has been released for 2024, covering the metro area’s biggest nonprofit institutions, from the Denver Art Museum and the Denver Botanic Gardens to the Denver Zoo.
Those are considered Tier 1 organizations in SCFD’s sales-tax-enabled funding, and with another great haul in its most recent annual report — as well as $83 million handed out to nearly 300 nonprofit orgs — it is poised to support even more metro area arts and culture groups.
Here are the highlights for Tier 1 organizations. Note that some organizations are free every day, such as the Broomfield Veterans Museum, city of Lakewood art exhibitions, Heritage Lakewood Belmar Park, Foothills Art Center, Colorado Music Hall of Fame, the Aurora History Museum, and Louisville History Museum, according to SCFD.
Check scfd.org/find-culture/free-days for the full, updated list, and a printable bookmark for the institutions listed below. Many require online reservations, and all events are subject to change or cancellation.
Denver Art Museum free days
- Jan. 27
- Feb. 13
- March 12 and 24
- April 9 and 28
- May 14
- June 11
- July 9
- July 21
- Aug. 13
- Sept. 7 and 10
- Oct. 8
- Nov. 2 and 12
- Dec. 10
Note: General museum admission is free every day for kids 18 and younger. Free days do include admission to ticketed exhibitions. Call 720-865-5000 or visit denverartmuseum.org for more.
Denver Zoo free days
Due to demand, tickets will not be available at the gate. Instead, all reservations must be made online. More info via 720-337-1400 or denverzoo.org/free-days
- Feb. 11
- April 7
- Nov. 3, 9 and 17
Denver Botanic Gardens at York Street and Chatfield Farms free days
- Feb. 15
- March 9
- April 22 (Earth Day)
- June 5
- July 3
- Aug. 28
- Nov. 29
For more information, go to botanicgardens.org or call 720-865-3500.
Denver Center for the Performing Arts free days
There will be $10 DCPAccess tickets for “Emma” (April 5-May 5) and “Where Did We Sit on the Bus?” (April 19-June 2). Also available are $10 student tickets to Denver Center Theatre Company shows, with ID, and 20% to 50% off tickets for military members (with online code BLUESTAR). 303-893-4100 or denvercenter.org
Denver Museum of Nature & Science free days (and nights)
- Jan. 28
- Feb. 25
- April 28 (Día del Niño)
- June 4* and 19
- Aug. 21*
- Sept. 10* and 30
- Nov. 2* and 18
- Dec. 8
* Free only from 5 to 10 p.m. Free admission does not include IMAX or the Planetarium. More info: 303-370-6000 or dmns.org
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Denver, CO
SUV stolen in Denver with foster kittens inside
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DENVER (KDVR) — A Colorado cat rescue group is scrambling after its co-founder said two foster kittens were stolen, along with the vehicle they were sitting in, on Monday morning in Denver.
Kris Meding, co-founder of Colorado Feline Foster Rescue, said the foster kittens were sitting inside a “socializing pouch” inside a sport utility vehicle, on Washington Street between 11th and 12th avenues. She said the foster parent had started the vehicle and briefly stepped away.
Within a few moments, the vehicle and kittens were gone.
“Stepped out of the car for a minute to grab something else, came back and the car was gone with her purse, her phone and the kittens in it,” Meding said.
The vehicle is a 2005 Toyota 4Runner, license plate BQAX60. Meding said both felines are chipped and were rescued from Carlsbad, New Mexico.
She said the foster parent has filed a report with the Denver Police Department.
Colorado Feline Foster Rescue has 170 cats in foster homes. Currently, the all-volunteer organization has 90-100 foster families. Last year, the group adopted out 1,200 cats.
For more information, please contact info@coloradofelinefosterrescue.org or call 303-888-7238.
Denver, CO
Over 400 flights delayed Tuesday amid high winds at Denver International Airport
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More than 400 flights were delayed Tuesday afternoon at Denver International Airport as high winds blew across the area, according to flight tracking data from FlightAware.
There were 406 flights delayed and five canceled as of 5:20 p.m. as wind gusts at the airport hit 43 mph, according to the National Weather Service. Between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m., 70 flights were delayed and one was canceled, according to live flight tracking by FlightAware’s Misery Map.
United, Alaska Airlines, Southwest, Delta, Frontier, JetBlue, Key Lime Air, SkyWest, WestJet, American Airlines and Air Canada all had delayed or canceled flights.
Southwest had nearly half of the delayed flights, with 168 delays and one cancellation. United delayed 128 flights, according to FlightAware.
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Denver, CO
Did you know: Almost $1 million in coins pass through the Denver Mint every day
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DENVER (KDVR) – From the outside, the Denver Mint may be just another two-story government office across from Civic Center Park. But inside the Cherokee Street building, staff and machinery are busy pressing metal coils into millions of coins per day.
According to the Mint, it’s one of two facilities responsible for making circulating coins in the United States – making it a huge part of the nation’s coin flow.
According to Tom Fesing with the Denver Mint, the facility produces roughly 4.5 million coins every 24 hours. Fesing estimates that about $750,000 to $1 million has gone through the facility each day this year.
That said, the Mint can’t exactly predict how much is going to be produced throughout the year as the number of coins depends on the orders the Mint receives monthly from the central bank, the Federal Reserve System, Fesing said.
Despite the millions of dollars in coins passing through, Fesing said the coin with the lowest value, the penny, has historically had the most production.
Those numbers depend on how many coins are needed for cash transactions in the economy, according to Fesing.
“When someone gets back a cent in change, what happens to them? They usually end up in piggy banks, or in a jar, and they’re not introduced into circulation as fast as, let’s say, a quarter or a dime,” Fesing said.
While the Mint can’t predict the numbers for the end of this year, it has produced almost 1.3 billion coins this year, with almost 800 million being pennies. In 2023, the Mint produced around 5.65 billion coins for the entire year.
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