Denver Car Rental-Best Places To Drive Your Rental Car In Denver

The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Denver is nicknamed the “Mile-High City” because its official elevation is exactly one mile above sea level.

Drive your rental car to Central City and Black Hawk, two old gold mining towns 34 miles west of Denver, which are host to two dozen casinos 10,000 slot machines, poker, black jack, roulette and craps.

Georgetown, 42 miles from Denver is worth a visit. Aptly called the “Silver Queen”, it is an elegant mining town with Victorian buildings, a Loop Railroad and plenty of Hollywood films sets.

You could also drive your rental car to the highest paved road in North America climbimg 9,000 feet from Denver to Mount Evans and stopping at Echo Lake along the way for hiking trails, fishing and picnic tables. At the timberline, the M. Walter Pesman Trail kept by the Denver Botanic Gardens goes through wildflowers and 1,500-year-old bristlecone pine trees.

Nearby Boulder is only 27 miles from Denver on Highway 36. It is home to the University of Colorado and the National Center for Atmospheric Research which has a museum on weather and global warming.  Stop there to trek on Eldorado Canyon State Park or any of the city’s 200 miles of trails.

The main attraction of Colorado, Rocky Mountain National Park, is 71 miles from Denver and has more than 350 miles of meandering trails through valleys of wildflowers, cascading waterfalls, alpine lakes and snowcapped peaks with elk, moose and big horn sheep to see on the ground and hawks and eagles overhead.

Apart from these, do not miss visits to Downtown Denver, Colorado State Capitol, Denver Art Museum, U.S. Mint, Pedestrian Mall, Larimer Square, LoDo Historic District, Confluence Park, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, the Denver Zoo, Cherry Creek, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Buffalo Bill Museum  and Colorado Railroad Museum.

Denver International Airport Car Rental (DIA)

Denver International Airport serves as the primary airport for a large region surrounding Denver. DIA is located 18.6 miles east-northeast of the Colorado State Capitol. DIA is the tenth busiest airport in the world and ranks fourth in the United States, with 51,245,334 passengers passing through it in 2008. It covers more than 53 square miles, making it the largest airport by land area in the United States. The airport is 23 miles northeast of downtown Denver.

All Rental car companies at DIA are located on airport property but are away from the main terminal. Each rental company provides a courtesy shuttle to and from Jeppesen Terminal from their locations. All courtesy shuttles pick-up and drop-off from Jeppesen Terminal Level 5, Island 4, outside doors 505-513 (east side) and 504-512 (west side). If you are arriving in Denver, please follow the overhead signage for the appropriate pick-up location, or check-in at your company’s counter in the center of the Terminal.

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