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Aurora, CO Things to Do & See
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items Planning a visit or just looking to explore your own backyard? This list is packed with the best things to do, see, and taste in Aurora, Colorado. From scenic trails and peaceful reservoirs to vibrant food halls, cultural gems, and local events, Auro...
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Golf
Tom Doak design delivers an outstanding experience to all levels of golfers. From the raw beginner to the most skilled player, CommonGround Golf Course has been designed to maximize the enjoyment of the game for everyone.
CommonGround Golf Course - Aurora, CO
At Murphy Creek, golfers take a step back in time. With more than 80 bunkers, stunning water features and wide, rolling fairways,
Murphy Creek
Topgolf Swing Suites are an immersive social experience offering guests at The Mountain Pass Sports Bar at The Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center a comfy lounge to play and enjoy fantastic food and beverage service
Mountain Pass Sports Bar Reservations
golfers always feel at home at Aurora Hills. With consistently great greens and inviting fairways, Aurora Hills is a fun layout with a mixture of mature trees and substantial rough. With many water and natural hazards coming into play,
Aurora Hills
Heather Ridge is Aurora's newest public golf course. After 30 years as a private club, it was purchased by the surrounding Homeowners and became public in 2010. With some of the best greens in the state, it's a true shot-maker's course, and also one ...
Home - Heather Ridge Golf Course
Nestled in the rolling hills of southeast Aurora, Heritage Eagle Bend Golf Club offers an 18-hole championship golf course designed by Arthur Hills that provides dramatic elevation changes, panoramic views and wide, accommodating fairways.
Home - Heritage Eagle Bend Golf Club
Saddle Rock has tested the best players in the state. The long, high plains, links-style course has a challenging combination of native areas, creek features, strategic trees and diverse greens.
Saddle Rock
The premier entertainment destination in Centennial, CO. Enjoy the climate-controlled hitting bays for year-round comfort with HDTVs in every bay and throughout their sports bar and restaurant. Using complimentary clubs or your own, take aim at the g...
Golf, Party Venue, Sports Bar & Restaurant | Topgolf Denver - Centennial
Nestled in the center of our community, this public, 9-hole Executive course will prove to challenge even the best senior golfer. Its traditional design is enhanced by lush fairways, elevated greens and well-positioned bunkers. Our 2,461 yard, par 32...
Heather Gardens Golf Course | Visit Aurora
The Local Drive offers 12 active golf bay simulators, with one inside a private speakeasy that is available for private rentals. They offer a large bar on the main floor with 20 taps, various spirits, and hand-crafted cocktails.
Cocktail Bar & Golf Lounge - The Local Drive
Springhill is one of the most challenging and varied executive courses in the metro area. The course has 10 par 3's that offer golfers many opportunities for that elusive hole-in-one. With a rural spacious setting,
Springhill Golf Course | Visit Aurora
A former country club, Meadow Hills' signature tree-lined fairways, large lakes and lush grounds define traditional golf at its best.
Meadow Hills
Just Fun
The Aurora History Museum is a community-based history, arts, and cultural center featuring a permanent exhibition on the history of Aurora, as well as two changing exhibit galleries focusing on aspects of local, state, and regional history, cultural...
Aurora History Museum
Home to the Arapahoe County Fair, visitors can expect rodeo-themes, live racing, roping, livestock and more. Check their website for event listings and dates.
Arapahoe County Fairgrounds | Visit Aurora
Arapahoe Park & Mile High Racing facilities features live horse racing in Colorado from May to August and year-round simulcasts of races from around the country.
Bally's Arapahoe Park | Visit Aurora
Morrison Nature Center is your gateway to discovering Aurora's true nature. Consult our library of field guides, reference books, and natural history favorites; enjoy the birding at our songbird feeding stations, or peruse our seasonally changing exh...
Star K Ranch | Visit Aurora
Stanley Aviation now houses Stanley Marketplace, an innovative commercial venture that pays homage to the history of this industrial site and founder, Robert Stanley. A groundbreaking test pilot and engineer, Bob Stanley, established the Stanley Avia...
Stanley Aviation - Stanley Marketplace | Visit Aurora
The Aurora Cultural Art District (ACAD) combines the cultural influences of Aurora with the creativity of artistic expression. Visitors can experience Aurora's local art and culture during any of ACAD's annual festivals and exhibits. Check out their ...
Aurora Cultural Arts District | Visit Aurora
Kim Robards Dance is known for its straightforward athletic style that makes the leap between ballet and modern dance - as well as between critical acclaim and popular support.
Kim Robards Dance | Visit Aurora
Explore the community through art. The Art in Public Places Program established nine districts for artistic pieces. The Gateway Park District has 3 different public art pieces ranging from murals, statues, media and more. "STEEL STAMPEDE" is featured...
Art in Public Places | Gateway Park District | Visit Aurora
Take a step back in time and prepare yourself for an evening at the Vintage Theatre Productions. Founded in 2002, the Vintage has since received nine Henry Award nominations and continues to grow as a company. Check out their website for the latest s...
Vintage Theatre Productions | Visit Aurora
The Aurora Fox is a 245 seat performing arts facility with attached rehearsal and scenery shop facilities. In addition to season performances, The Aurora Fox Arts Center books other local and regional groups for performances. Check out their website ...
The Aurora Fox Arts Center | Visit Aurora
Downtown Aurora Visual Arts provides community-based arts education programs for youth ages 3 to 17. From the OASIS Studio program to job training skills, DAVA enriches and supports the creative growth of kids in a high-risk urban community within Au...
Downtown Aurora Visual Arts | Visit Aurora
Explore the community through art. The Art in Public Places Program established nine districts for artistic pieces. The Murphy Creek District has one public art piece ranging from murals, statues, media and more. "A QUINTESSENTIAL GATHERING" is featu...
Art in Public Places | Murphy Creek District | Visit Aurora
Explore the community through art. The Art in Public Places Program established nine districts for artistic pieces. The Fairgrounds/Southlands District has six different public art pieces ranging from murals, statues, media and more. "A CHANGE IN THE...
Art in Public Places | Fairgrounds/Southlands | Visit Aurora
Located on the University of Colorado Anshutz medical campus, "The Fulginiti Gallery" features ongoing exhibits, programs, and events that appeal to Aurora residents and visitors alike. Currently the exhibit, "Art as Advocacy" is on display at the Fu...
The Fulginiti Gallery | Visit Aurora
Explore the community through art. The Art in Public Places Program established nine districts for artistic pieces. The Smoky Hill Cornerstar District has four different public art pieces ranging from murals, statues, media and more. "MOON FLOWER" is...
Art in Public Places | Smoky Hill Cornerstar | Visit Aurora
The Mizel Museum is an educational nonprofit organization geared towards addressing today's social justice issues through the lens of Jewish history and values. They encourage people of all ages and backgrounds to celebrate diversity and equality and...
Mizel Museum | Visit Aurora
Explore the community through art. The Art in Public Places Program established nine districts for artistic pieces. The Buckley District has two different public art pieces ranging from murals, statues, media and more. "BIRDS OF AURORA" is featured i...
Art in Public Places | Buckley District | Visit Aurora
THE LUME is Colorado's premiere digital gallery that transforms the world's finest art into fully immersive sensory encounters. The world premiere of DALÍ ALIVE opened October 21! Displayed over 13,000 square feet, including a full coverage, multi-se...
The LUME | Visit Aurora
Explore the sites, sounds, live performances, gallery showings, and so much more at The People's Building. Home to local artists, speakers, and musicians, The People's Building is a performance space that hosts curated experiences for audiences of al...
The People's Building | Visit Aurora
Explore nearly a dozen murals in the Aurora Cultural Arts District (ACAD) on Colfax Avenue designed and executed by some of the Aurora-Denver metro's best muralists. Each muralist has a distantly unique style that showcases the diversity in our city,...
ACAD Colfax Canvas Mural Tour | Visit Aurora
The Aurora Symphony Orchestra, a vibrant all-volunteer community ensemble, brings the magic of live classical music to the Aurora, Colorado area with passion and dedication. Composed of talented local musicians who generously donate their time and sk...
Aurora Symphony Orchestra | Visit Aurora
Explore the community through art. The Art in Public Places Program established eight districts for artistic pieces. The I-225/City Center District has 16 different public art pieces ranging from murals, statues, media and more. "DAWN RING" is featur...
Art in Public Places | I-225/City Center | Visit Aurora
Different Strokes Paint n' Sip is a lively, warm, and inviting art studio located in the heart of Aurora on Iliff & Chambers. No artistic experience is necessary. This dynamic space is woman-owned and exudes "Girl Power", which can channel the in...
Different Strokes Paint n`Sip Art Studio | Visit Aurora
Outdoor
Anchored around an 880 surface acre reservoir, the park offers a natural prairie environment of gentle, rolling hills and complete outdoor recreation facilities, including camping, picnicking and facilities for group events.
Cherry Creek State Park
Featuring 23 full-sized soccer fields and 12 baseball/softball fields, the Aurora Sports Park is a true destination for any sports enthusiast.
Aurora Sports Park
Aurora Reservoir offers fishing, sailing, non-motorized boating, windsurfing, a seasonal swim beach, SCUBA area, archery range, and large group picnic shelters. Stroll or ride your bike on the 8-mile multi-use, concrete trail that circles the reservo...
Aurora Reservoir | Visit Aurora
Expo Park is a 57-acre community park with an 18-hole disc golf course, softball fields, tennis courts (4), playground, and walking paths with connections to the regional High Line Canal Trail and Westerly Creek Trail.
Expo Park | Visit Aurora
Denver's only beachfront venue is located in The Marina at Cherry Creek State Park. The Lake House is a perfect place to hold a party, host a corporate event, or celebrate a wedding. Enjoy boat, paddlesport, and jet ski rentals , as well as a sunset ...
Pelican Bay Marina | Boat Slips & Rentals on Cherry Creek Reservoir — Pelican Bay Cherry Creek
his nature preserve and educational center features replicas of a homestead village and tipi camp that showcase pioneer and plains Native American life in the late 1800's. It encompasses over 1,100 acres of short grass prairie with breathtaking views...
Plains Conservation Center
Great Plains Park features an outdoor water playground, as well as a playground, picnic shelters with tables, softball diamond, sports field, half-court basketball court, fitness stations, and walking paths. A concrete trail connects the park to the ...
Parks
This expansive 85.6-acre park is filled with native trees and plants along with the brand-new Discovery Playground designed for children of all ages. Take it all in at the newly elevated overlook, an open-air structure that gives the perfect view of ...
Sand Creek Regional Greenway
Utah Park Utah Park is a newly renovated community park perfect walking, picnicking, and just enjoying nature. The park is located on Peoria Street between Jewell Avenue and Mexico.
Parks
This 50-acre wooded wetland located at the northwest corner of Potomac and Jewell Avenue (just east of Utah Park) features over a mile of soft and hard surface trails, a boardwalk/deck access into the wetland and a butterfly garden. A small parking a...
Jewell Wetlands | Visit Aurora
Practice your skills with all things "wheel" at Aurora's award winning Wheel Park. Featuring a concrete skateboard bowl, bicycle free style ramps, bicycle motor cross, as well as inline hockey and RC track. Get Wheel. Get here. The 14.5-acre park is ...
Wheel Park | Visit Aurora
The Sand Creek Regional Greenway is a nearly 14-mile urban trail, which connects the High Line Canal in Aurora at Colfax Avenue with the South Platte River Greenway in Commerce City. This part paved, part soft-surface trail completes a loop of 50 mil...
Sand Creek Regional Greenway
Quincy Reservoir is well known among metro-area anglers for trout, largemouth bass, perch, and crappie. Fish are stocked in the reservoir by the Colorado Division of Wildlife and it is open from March 1 through October 31. The Reservoir also has a US...
Quincy Reservoir
Explore the community through art. The Art in Public Places Program established nine districts for artistic pieces. The Sports Park District has 3 different public art pieces ranging from murals, statues, media and more. "BALL CADDY" is featured in t...
Art in Public Places | Sports Park District | Visit Aurora
Kids & Teens
2025 Summer Fun for Teens
Summer Vibes
Reach higher heights at Sky Zone This indoor trampoline park comes complete with foam pits, a small rock wall, and plenty of ropes for swinging through. This family-friendly day adventure is perfect for kids of all ages (and adults too!)
Sky Zone Aurora, CO
Active Fun
The premiere indoor pickleball facility with 11 courts, professional nets, corporate space for private rentals, and a self-serve beer and wine tap wall. Located 15 minutes from DEN off I-70 and Havana, Mile Hi Pickleball can accommodate all levels of...
Mile Hi Pickleball • Denver, Colorado
Auorora's Newest Pickleball Attraction in SE Aurora/ Southlands Shopping Center
Indoor Pickleball Courts in Aurora, CO | The Picklr
Bowlero offers traditional bowling on 40 lanes and was recently renovated to include flat-screen TVs above all lanes and throughout the concourse, an Xtreme bowling package, Kegel Kustodian lane machine, new kitchen equipment, additional lighting and...
Bowlero | Visit Aurora
Lucky Strike Entertainment is your ultimate destination for fun, excitement, and unforgettable
memories. Combining the best of bowling, dining, arcades, and social gatherings, their centers
are designed to provide a unique entertainment experience fo...
Bowling, Sports Bar, Arcade & More | Lucky Strike Southlands
Activate Games is a modern, immersive gaming experience that combines physical and mental challenges. It offers a series of interactive rooms, each with unique games requiring teamwork, strategy, agility, and problem-solving. Players earn points by c...
Activate Aurora | An Active Gaming Experience
Olympic Park features lighted softball/baseball diamonds and soccer fields. A new neighborhood park is next door. The park is on Yale Avenue, ¼ mile east of Chambers Road.
Olympic Park Ballfields | Visit Aurora
The 1.2-acre Hoops Park features three high school regulation size, day-use basketball courts, drinking fountain, seating for spectators, restroom, and parking lot.
Hoops Park | Visit Aurora
History
As Colorado's Official Air & Space Museum your guests, colleagues, friends or family will be exposed to an ambiance found nowhere else in Colorado. They will experience aircraft cockpits and a world-class museum all inside a World War II-era airc...
Wings Over The Rockies
The Hornbein Building, formerly the Martin Luther King Jr. library and reading room was designed by premier Denver architect, Victor Hornbein in 1953, and served as Aurora's first independent library building. The Hornbein Building has been in contin...
Hornbein Building | Visit Aurora
This Queen Anne Victorian style home is the oldest of the ten remaining houses built as part of the Town of Fletcher, the speculative community east of Denver before Aurora was Aurora! Like all Fletcher homes, it was built with indoor plumbing to the...
Centennial House | Visit Aurora
In 1982, two local boys found a Native American grave that dated back to 670 A.D. The grave, containing the remains of an adult male and young child, was fully excavated by an archaeological team, and all associated material was later reinterred at a...
Toll Gate Creek Archaeological Site | Visit Aurora
Travelers setting out for the goldfields of Colorado had few choices when planning the route they would follow. The Smoky Hill Trail, the shortest route to Denver from Kansas, ran roughly along with parts of what is today Smoky Hill Road. The route, ...
Smoky Hill Trail Historic Marker | Visit Aurora
This two-room schoolhouse originally served the outlying community of Melvin. In 1949, the structure was moved to make way for the Cherry Creek Reservoir. After 17 years of use as a tavern, the Cherry Creek Valley Historical Society moved the school ...
Melvin Schoolhouse | Visit Aurora
Strait Lumber's current storefront was built in 1947 and embodies the highly popular mid-century Art Moderne architectural style. The building features elements prominent in Art Moderne: curved glass block corners, strong horizontal emphasis, and smo...
Strait Lumber | Visit Aurora
Melvin-Lewis Cemetery draws its name from two pioneer families very important to the earliest historic settlement of Aurora. Arriving in 1859, the Melvin family's settlement proved invaluable to fellow westward travelers, eventually growing into a co...
Melvin-Lewis Cemetery | Visit Aurora
This H-shaped building was constructed as a "temporary" structure intended to last five to seven years and represents typical wartime construction. In the more than 70 years since it was completed, this building has served as office space, a warehous...
Lowry Building 880
St. Therese School has educated tens of thousands of children since it welcomed its first students in 1956. It was built in response to the tremendous growth enjoyed by Aurora in the years after World War II. St. Therese, established in 1926 as Auror...
St. Therese School | Visit Aurora
Soldiers recuperating at Fitzsimons General Hospital knew they could rely on the Red Cross Building as a refuge from army life. Completed in 1918, the structure was designed in the Mission Revival style common to U.S. Army posts of the southwest. Set...
Red Cross Building and Beehive Memorial
This small house is the oldest surviving home in Aurora. The ranch, house, stables, and corrals that made up the Gully family homestead were originally located at Mississippi Avenue and Chambers Road, where the Irish immigrant family raised cattle an...
Gully Homestead House | Visit Aurora
Originally built as an Italian restaurant, this Spanish Colonial Revival building was later converted to residential use. The Italian Villa is associated with Dr. Henry Blank, a tuberculosis specialist, who lived in the house from 1934 to 1954. His w...
Italian Villa
H.M. Milliken, the first mayor of Fletcher, hosted the first Town Trustee (city council) meeting at this residence. The house was one of the first homes built on Galena Street, which was originally called Hathaway Street, constructed as part of the n...
Milliken House | Visit Aurora
The DeLaney Farm Historic District encompasses 158 acres of open space and restored farm buildings that date from 1866 to 1945. The buildings include the historic DeLaney Round Barn and the Gully Homestead House. This area was originally used by the ...
DeLaney Farm Historic District | Visit Aurora
This extraordinary example of Queen Anne Victorian architecture is one of the remaining ten original Fletcher homes. The distinctive decorative elements of the house, including the bar, circle trim, and fish-scale shingles on the front of the house, ...
Fuller House | Visit Aurora
Marshall Cowing was the original owner of 1580 Dallas Street. The McDowell family, owners of the Acacia Pharmacy on East Colfax Avenue, occupied this home in 1916. William H. Hawkins, another owner, became Aurora's first paid fire chief in 1956. Unti...
Marshall Cowing House | Visit Aurora
Originally constructed as a grain silo, this round building was converted into a two-story cow barn around 1912. Possibly the last surviving round barn in Colorado, its exceptional construction and engineering are believed to be the work of an itiner...
DeLaney Homestead Historic District
Smith-Cox House demonstrates the class divisions present in early Aurora (known then as Fletcher). This house embodies the Folk Victorian architectural style, which borrows Queen Anne Victorian and incorporates them into folk houses. Folk houses usua...
Smith-Cox House | Visit Aurora
Generations of children growing up on the prairie surrounding Aurora attended school in a one-room schoolhouse. The original Coal Creek Schoolhouse, located near the Edward Smith Farm, burned to the ground in 1927, and this replacement was constructe...
Coal Creek Schoolhouse | Visit Aurora
The house was commissioned by Mary Jane Lavina Girard Robidoux, the widow of Albert Robidoux, a successful wheat farmer, and rancher from Kansas. After her husband's untimely death in 1912, Mrs. Robidoux moved to Aurora and invested in the design and...
Robidoux House
Constructed in 1913 by the Woeber Car Company in Denver, this car was used on several lines including Line 14 from Denver to Aurora, making its last run in 1932. In 1950, Trolley Trailer No. 610 was sold to Dr. Edwin Perrott for $50. Dr. Perrott move...
Trolley Trailer No. 610 | Visit Aurora
Aurora pioneer William Smith once raised sheep on the open land around this property. Smith was the founder of Aurora Public Schools and owner of the land donated for Del Mar Park. The home remained in the family until 1983 when Smith's daughter, Mar...
William Smith House | Visit Aurora
Built by Albert Carlson in 1911, the Carlson-Holzer house is a fantastic example of Craftsman style architecture in Aurora. The early Aurora home features matching diamond-shaped muntins laid in the windows and front door, overhanging eaves with expo...
Carlson-Holzer House | Visit Aurora
Victory Grange began in 1939 in an effort by local citizens to bring together rural and nearby city neighbors in what later became northeastern Aurora. Victory is a local member of the Colorado State Grange, a community service-oriented, a fraternal ...
Victory Grange | Visit Aurora
The Colorado Freedom Memorial honors those who've given the ultimate sacrifice for our country like no other monument in the United States. Located near Buckley Air Force Base, its glass panels house the names of nearly 6000 killed in action since Co...
Colorado Freedom Memorial | Visit Aurora
Explore the community through art. The Art in Public Places Program established nine districts for artistic pieces. The Havana District has 5 different public art pieces ranging from murals, statues, media and more. "ZING ZIG" is featured in the addr...
Art in Public Places | Havana District | Visit Aurora
Explore the community through art. The Art in Public Places Program established nine districts for artistic pieces. The Aurora Cultural Arts/Anschutz District has 25 different public art pieces ranging from murals, statues, media and more. "UPTOWN: A...
Art in Public Places | Aurora Cultural Arts District/Anschutz | Visit Aurora