Logistics

The conference hotel is the Drury Inn and Suites Denver-Stapleton, located at 4550 North Central Park Blvd, Denver, CO. Click here for hotel registration. You can also call 1-800-325-0720 and refer to group number 2244528.  We will have a shuttle from the hotel to the conference site during conference.

Denver International Airport (DIA) is the main airport you should use

The Drury hotel recommends you use ABC Shutttle.

 

Other Taxi Cab Services:

• Denver Yellow Cab : 303-777-7777
• Metro Taxi : 303-333-3333
• Freedom Cabs : (303) 444-4444
• Union Taxi Cooperative: 303-922-2222

Rental Car Services:

• Advantage Rent A Car: (800) 777-5500
• Alamo: (877) 222-9075
• Avis: (800) 230-4898
• Budget Car Rental: (800) 527-0700
• Dollar Car Rental: (800) 800-3665
• Enterprise: (800) 261-7331
• Hertz: (800) 654-3131
• National Car Rental: (877) 222-9058
• Payless: (800) PAY-LESS
• Thrifty Car Rental: (800) 367-2277

Alternative Transportation: A number of Regional Transportation District (RTD, 303-299-6000) buses serve the campus from approximately 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. From downtown you can take #15 or #20 buses. They stop in front of the main hospital building, on the east edge of the west parking lot. You can also take the AS bus from DIA to the Stapleton Park and Ride, but you will have to get a (shorter and cheaper) cab ride to the hotel or walk from there (About 32 minutes, 1.6 miles).

The Anschutz Medical Campus is located in the east central part of the metro Denver/Aurora area southwest of the intersection of I-70 and I-225. The main entrance is north on Ursula St. from Colfax Ave. From DIA:

• South on Peña Blvd. until it runs into I-70;
• West on I-70.
• Merge onto I-225 (exit 282)
• Get off at the first exit, on 17th Avenue. If you miss that one or there is construction due to the delayed and overbudget VA hospital, exit on Colfax Avenue.

• Map of campus and local environment with key points highlighted (to be added)
• Composite Campus Parking Map (pdf)
• Visitors’ Parking Map (pdf)
• Reciprocal Parking

Here is a local map (to be added) with conference hotel and other relevant sites highlighted. Also please refer to your hotel’s web site.

• Map of Downtown Denver

• Denver weather

• Denver Museum of Nature and Science: A great public museum of nature and science. This is where we will have our dinner on Monday.

• Breweries and such: not that we would advocate such things. But wow, there are a lot of them. New Belgium (Fat Tire) is not too far away. Breckenridge Brewery. Wynkoop. Dry Dock is very close. Yum.

• Bluff Lake: Near campus, walk around a lake

• Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge: Not too far from campus. What else are you going to do with your old military sites?

• Capital Bulding, Denver Mint, Molly Brown House

• Denver Center for the Performing Arts

• Coors Field, Pepsi Center, Invesco Field at Mile High: or whatever they’re calling it now

• Dinosaur Ridge: some of the best fossil tracks in the world. And hey, Denver has beaches. They’re just fossilized.

• University of Colorado Boulder

• University of Colorado Denver, Downtown Campus

• Mt. Evans: Closest highest.

• Denver Mountain Parks: The city owns a bunch of the best land closest to the city for hiking. Red Rocks, Dinosaur Ridge, etc.

• Trail Ridge Road (Rocky Mountain National Park): The closest bestest national park. Especially if you love granite and glacial moraines and mountain lakes.

• Mother Cabrini Shrine: Who was Mother Cabrini anyway?

• HikingTrails: They’re all over.

• Central City: Gambling, old mining town in the mountains; what’s not to love? There are lots of old mines around to visit too.

• Buffalo Bill’s Grave: Bill, we hardly knew ye.