Denver Botanical Gardens

Category: Sightseeing Attraction

The Denver Botanical Gardens house over 23 acres of indoor and outdoor displaying native desert, plain, mountain, and even tropical and sub tropic plants. The park contains a conservatory, a variety of theme gardens, and a sunken amphitheater, which hosts various concerts in the summer. Woody Allen's 1973 movie Sleeper filmed some scenes at the gardens.

Throughout Denver Botanic Gardens, the time honored traditions of European horticulture merge with a dynamic diversity of plants and design that represent the best in horticultural achievement. Many of the innovative gardens are models of drought-tolerance and showcase native and adapted plants that thrive in Western gardens. Denver Botanic Gardens has opened the city's first publicly accessible green roof, on top of the Gardens' Gift Shop. The green roof is the first of its kind on a city-owned building in Denver, and is a highly visible demonstration of the many benefits of green roofs for communities and for building owners.