Denver: friendliest city

Denver is one of the friendliest towns in the US, according to the Today Show.  Some “did you know” fun facts from the story:

Downtown in the Mile High City is one big, car-free “pedestrian mall” lined with shops, bars and restaurants where locals and tourists alike hang out. There’s even a free shuttle bus that runs along the main street.

Denver is one of only two cities in America with eight professional sports teams.

The first permanent structure in Denver was a saloon. Talk about hospitality.

A cultural melting pot, Denver hosts the country’s largest Cinco de Mayo festival, the Longs Peak Scottish Festival, the National Gay Rodeo Finals, PrideFest, and it has the Black American West Museum in the historically rich African-American Five Points neighborhood. Its population is 40 percent Hispanic and 10 percent African-American.

The city also boasts comprehensive accessibility services like wheelchair-friendly trails and accommodations and transportation services for the physically impaired.

Denver will host the Democratic National Convention this August. For the convention, Bikes Belong will supply the city with 1,000 bicycles to be used in a system similar to that in Paris (credit card access; rates are lowest for short jaunts around the city). Seventy will be left behind as a legacy that Denver plans to grow into a city-wide public
transportation system of several hundred bikes.

The median single-family home sales price is $223,500.

Other cities that made the cut: San Antonio, TX, Nashville, TN, Madison, WI and Davis, CA.