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If my health permits the June western trip I've planned, I'll have 2 nights in Denver. I was going to check out Boulder but instead I'm thinking, hmmm, Cheyenne's a capital, I want to visit all the capitals . . . so on my second day, I've found a way to get to Cheyenne and back from Denver using airport shuttles. (There's also Greyhound but the schedule is bad, and I hate Greyhound.) So, if I go, what's the scoop on the old Cheyenne train station, now a museum? I'd like to see that plus the capital and something of the adjoining Wyoming state museum while I'm there. Also, any tips on where to lunch near these places? And any tips on getting to Denver Airport (without luggage but in early morning) from my downtown hotel to catch this airport shuttle?
Geoff M Member # 153
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Denver has airport shuttles running between downtown hotels and the airport. When you check-in, ask for the phone number of the company that runs it (Skyride? or is that the local buses?) - or better still, they'll phone and reserve for you.
Remember that Denver airport is really quite a long way from Denver itself. Denver direct to Cheyenne is 100 miles and about 1.5 hours by car; do you really want to spend an hour getting to the airport and *then* another 1.5 (or more) hours getting to Cheyenne? That would be an endurance trip for me!
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The Cheyenne UP station is something worth looking at architecturally. I can't comment much on the museum aspects, I was inside last 16 years ago when they had just opened. I suspect they have a better collection now.
Be prepared, though: Cheyenne has about 4 major industries:
FE Warren Air Force Base State Government Agribusiness The Union Pacific Railroad
(Tourism, the fifth, feeds off the 4)
notelvis Member # 3071
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Skyride buses are operated by the local transit system in Denver. One of the downtown streets (17th maybe......or 16th....) is closed to traffic other than city buses and the downtown shuttle buses are free. One of the stops is at a downtown bus hub that the Skyride buses stop at. I was last in Denver in 2005 and stayed at the Comfort Inn just a block off from where the shuttle buses ran.
The downtown transit stop is only about three short blocks from Union Station and Denver is a relatively easy place to get between train station and airport. The Skyride bus was $8.00 OW from downtown to airport in 2005.....probably a little higher now but still much, much cheaper than a cab.
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