Product Description

Streetwise Denver Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Denver, Colorado - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated light rail map & trolley stations, Boulder inset

This map covers the following areas:
Main Denver Map 1:40,000
Denver Area Map 1: 310,000
Boulder Map 1:57,000
Downtown Denver Map 1:14,000

Located at the base of the Rocky Mountains, Denver is a lively city with an active cultural life combined with great access to outdoor sports venues. This is Sports town USA. There are seven professional sports teams in Denver, and the STREETWISE® map of Denver will deliver you to each one if asked.

Downtown Denver is a bustling area centered along a mile-long promenade that is lined with outdoor cafes and shops. Whether walking or using mass transit like Light Rail or the Culture Trolley you’ll be amazed to see mountain views down every street.

The reverse side of the map features a Downtown Denver map which is site rich and designed to help navigate in, out and around the city center. Clearly indicated are the locations of all important downtown sites: Coors Field, Pepsi Center, Invesco Field, the Colorado Convention Center, and Union Station. In addition, other sites like hotels, government buildings, and the Auraria campus are laid out for the visitor.

The Denver Area Map will help you navigate around outlying areas of the city. This map is particularly useful if you are renting a car and need to drive to and from Denver International Airport or desire to spend the day in Boulder. In fact, included is a separate inset map of Boulder, Colorado just for this purpose.

Our pocket size map of Denver is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE® Denver map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE®. Buy your STREETWISE® Denver map today and you too can navigate Denver, Colorado like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59337 in Books
• Published on: 2009-07-01
• Released on: 2009-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Map
• 1 pages

Review
'Don't leave home without STREETWISE.' --The New York Times

'STREETWISE is an absolute travel essential.' --Travel + Leisure Magazine

'In a strange city, your sense of direction is only as good as the map in your hands. The best maps to carry are published by STREETWISE.' --Chicago Daily Herald

About the Author
STREETWISE® is the first map to be designed with modern graphics and is the originator of the laminated, accordion-fold map format. We’ve set the standard that every map company has imitated but never duplicated. Our mission is to make you feel comfortable, to make you feel safe in a place where you’ve never been before and to enable you to experience a familiar place more fully.

The company was founded in 1984 by Michael Brown, who had been in international publishing for many years, setting up subsidiaries for textbook publishers. In the 1970’s, Brown traveled extensively throughout Africa, India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Brown would take a large paper map, cut out the city center, folded it up and slip it into his pocket, thus preventing him from looking like a tourist in areas where discretion is the better part of travel. This was his tool for surviving.

After many years on the road, Brown settled back in New York and decided to start his own business, based on the adaptations he had made to maps in his travels. His goal was to give someone the ability to navigate easily in unfamiliar terrain.

He started with a new map format: the accordion fold. Such a simple idea, but at the time it was revolutionary. No more struggling to fold an awkward, oversized paper map. This new format would enable the user to blend in like a native, instead of stick out like a tourist. Brown then added lamination to ensure that the map would be a lasting tool.

More important than the format was the design of the map itself. It had to be a map that not only succeeded above and beyond any map he had used, but was esthetically appealing as well. The look of it had to be as striking as the functionality. Color was introduced in a way that was never seen before in a map - vivid purple for water, soothing gray for the background of street grids, gold to highlight elements of the map. Clarity, conciseness and convenience in a very stylish package.

Building the business was a 24 hour job. Brown sold the maps during the day, zipping around Manhattan making deliveries on his Harley Davidson. At night he packed the orders and did the design work. More titles were added, each title requiring months of research and design.

Today, STREETWISE® produces over 130 titles for major destinations, regions and countries throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and Asia. We have grown from the back of a motorcycle to selling millions of maps around the world.

Yet each title is still painstakingly researched and updated. STREETWISE® is one of the only, if not THE only map company that conducts research by walking or driving an area to ensure accuracy. After all, what good is the map if what you hold in your hands doesn’t match what you see on the street sign? This lengthy fact checking results in superior accuracy; in effect, we’ve done the work, now you have the adventure.

In the end, it’s not about the map, it’s about getting out and finding your own authentic experience wherever you go. It’s about being in a city or a region and discovering things that you never thought you would find. You can do this if you have confidence and you have confidence if you have a great map. STREETWISE® is the great map that you need.

Customer Reviews

Great Maps
I lived in New York City for 35 years and always used/recommended Streetwise New York to visitors. (Their lamination means you DO NOT ruin the map -ever) Well my wife and I moved to Denver and The Streetwise Denver Map proved very useful becasue we were lost...Then on our first trip to Boulder,Co. (a genuinely hip community) mapless alas I got lost...but low and behold Streewise Denver had Boulder on it and voila --- lost no more. Seriously these are good maps. I used them whenever I travel and have wasted money on other brands but always come back to Streetwise. For one thing I've found them accurate in extremis which in a city like Rome or Venice Italy is extremely helpful let alone Naples where accuracy can save your life. (Such a dangerous dump Naples is.)

Now if they would just do a map of Vail and Aspen and Telluride I would never leave Colorado.

Very useful, convenient, durable.
I kept the map in my backpack the whole time I was in Denver, and found it just what I needed. It included just about everything I wanted to know.