United States · Colorado · Denver
LoDo, Denver — Area Guide & Where to Stay
LoDo is Lower Downtown Denver, the city's old red-brick warehouse quarter at the core of downtown.
About LoDo
Where to stay in LoDo
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
Base yourself by the brick. LoDo packs Denver's densest run of loft hotels into a compact grid of restored warehouses, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver marks the district's western edge where the lofts give way to the river flats. The blocks nearer the wider downtown museum district trade nightlife for quiet.
About LoDo
What are the main landmarks in LoDo?
The warehouses are the monument. LoDo's own set piece is the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, whose glass box sits among the district's brick freight blocks, while the heavier cultural weight gathers just uphill in downtown Denver. There the Denver Art Museum, the Clyfford Still Museum, and the History Colorado Center form a tight museum row.
Older houses ring it too. The Molly Brown House and the Byers-Evans House keep Victorian Denver standing within a short walk of the LoDo grid.
What is the history of LoDo?
LoDo grew up as Denver's first commercial ground. The Lower Downtown warehouses rose to serve the railway trade that made the young city a supply hub, and when the freight sheds emptied the district slid into decades of decline before preservation law saved the brick from the wrecking ball. Loft conversions followed.
The same warehouse shells that once held Denver's wholesale goods now hold its bars, and the Byers-Evans House nearby recalls the merchant families who built the early city.
Where is LoDo?
LoDo sits at the northwest corner of downtown Denver, its warehouse grid pressed between the river flats and the taller towers of the central business district that climb away to the southeast.
Good for
More areas in Denver
Updated July 2026