Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre

A 9,525 Seat Open Air Amphitheatre Built Between Two 300 Foot Sandstone Monoliths By The Civilian Conservation Corps And Opened In 1941, Inside A 738 Acre Denver City Park. Widely Regarded As The Finest Natural Acoustic Venue In The World. · Morrison, Colorado

Red Rocks is a concert venue built into a gap between two three-hundred-foot sandstone monoliths, and the rock does the acoustics - the Civilian Conservation Corps spent five years from 1936 fitting seats into a formation that was already shaped like a theatre. It holds nine and a half thousand people, musicians talk about playing it the way they talk about few other rooms, and the Beatles played the only non-sold-out show of their 1964 American tour here. What surprises visitors is that when there is no event it is simply a free city park: you can walk in, climb the two hundred-odd rows, and find several hundred people running the steps as a workout at seven in the morning. The park around it has trails, a free museum and a view east over Denver. The only thing that stops you walking in is a show - on event days the amphitheatre closes to casual visitors in the early afternoon, which is worth checking before you drive.

18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, Colorado, 80465, United States

The park and amphitheatre are open to the public free of charge from dawn until dusk on days without an event, which is most days outside the summer concert season. On show days the amphitheatre closes to casual visitors in the early afternoon. The Trading Post, visitor centre and Colorado Music Hall of Fame keep daytime hours. Concert tickets are sold per event and sell out. Always check the event calendar before driving out - it determines whether you can get in at all.

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