2026 Denver - A Day Around Red Rocks.

We drove up a week ago for the John Fogerty concert at Red Rocks and had some time to explore the area.

We arrived late afternoon on Sunday and had dinner at one of our favorite fast food places, In-n-Out Burgers.  Sadly, the closest one to Omaha is in Colorado.

On Monday we were going to have a walking tour of historic Denver but, due to a misunderstanding and crappy communications from the tour conductor, we thought it was canceled.  (The Wife tried to get a refund but the asshole threatened to block her number so "she could scream into the void.")  We pivoted and went to a few places surrounding Red Rocks instead.

Buffalo Bill Cody's grave, Lookout Mountain, CO.

Our first stop was The Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave.  This was an interesting museum located on Lookout Mountain.  The views from there were incredible - the mountains in the west and the great plains in the east.

Our next stop was the Mother Cabrini Shrine.  The views from here were nearly as magnificent as those from the museum.  We stopped here because the church the Wife attends is the St. Francis Cabrini Church.

Dinosaur tracks.

Next we went to Dinosaur Ridge and took a guided bus tour of the fossil beds along the ridge.  It was an interesting forty-five minutes paleontologist led tour - though his jokes were a bit lame at times, he kept it interesting.  We had maybe a dozen in the bus and all of us were going to the John Fogerty concert later in the evening.

We ended our pre-concert events with dinner in Morrison, CO at The Cow, An eatery.  The food was good and hit the spot.  We did some shopping at some eclectic boutiques across from the restaurant before heading back to our hotel for a pre-concert nap.

Our Monday was awesome.  We had fun and the weather was terrific (during the day ... not necessarily at the concert).  We're battling humidity here in Omaha and, while it was warm in the Denver area, there was no humidity and it felt awesome.

A few more pictures can be found in my 2026-08 Denver Area Google Photos album.