We took our Girl Scout Troop from North Carolina. Ken and his team of volunteers were fantastic. Loved the history of the building and the viewing was wonderful. Would recommend for anyone with small kids or people that love stargazing.

It’s pretty obvious that this park with its observatory and other amenities is a very special one. It’s situated in a lovely neighborhood which is walkable and every block has houses worth seeing. Visitors coming to Denver cannot miss by putting any number of parks on their list; Observatory Park and its amazing surroundings should have place near the top.

We pass this place often on the way to our kids house, so we decided to stop and walk the dog. It is a great family park in a lovely residential area. There is a little observatory that is open for viewings at certain times, hence the name. There were lots of family’s with kids and dogs enjoying the day.

We visited this site from out of town and we were pleasantly surprised. The telescops was amazing and they have a small class explaining different things. We will go back next time we are in town!

This made for quite the romantic cap to our date night! We went to a Public Night, hosted by several enthusiastic and knowledgeable volunteers from the Denver Astronomical Society (cost $4 per person). Walking through the park for the 8:30pm start time at dusk was very atmospheric, with historic mansions surrounding it and bats circling overhead while approaching the lit up glow of the observatory and its dome. On entering the 100+ year old building, you get that fabulous, old, wooden smell. The volunteers gave an interesting talk, followed by us climbing the stairs into the dome, to be confronted by the enormous telescope (12th largest in the world when it was built and still one of the largest refracting telescopes). You can climb a narrow, almost ladderlike staircase up a mobile platform contraption which leads to the eyepiece of the telescope. It's a thrill to watch the telescope be rotated around the dome, and to see the huge slit in the ceiling it looks out of. There's also a balcony from which you can see the night sky to the south and they had high powered loaner binoculars on hand to use there as well.