An Orchard of a Different Color
Many tourists find themselves coming to Denver for its many outside surrounding adventures. But what if your tastes lean to the shopping variety?
A new mall has opened on the outskirts of town that may satisfy both of these needs.
The Orchard Town Center in Westminster opened a few months ago across the northwest corner of 144th and I/25. It has an AMC Movie Theater, a Super Target, restaurants: Happy Sumo, Which Wich, MiMi’s café, Woodlands Grill, Rock Bottom Brewery, Red Robin and Mexico Cantina along with many specialty shops and stores such as: Aero Postale, Claire’s, Christopher and Banks, Colorado Bear Factory, GNC LiveWell, Kay Jeweler’s, Macy’s, Origins, R.E.I., Select Comfort, Tilly’s, Zales and Zumiez to name just a few.
It reads as any mall might appear, but what makes The Orchard special is that it is an Outside Mall, not a Strip Mall, not a maze enclosed inside fluorescent lights, but a mall where the shoppers park along its streets or in a big lot at the end and walk outside, in the glorious sunshine, from shop to shop.
The centers hours are:
Monday through Saturday 10am to 9pm
Sunday 11am to 6pm
It is easy to get there, direct yourself on to I-25 going North from Denver, or South from Erie and exit onto 144th Avenue. Bring some change for the metered parking if you want to get close to a certain store. If you are cool with a nice walk through and around the Mall- the parking at the end of the Mall is free.
Happy Sunshine Shopping!
Comments Off