The rooftop restaurant and terrace have views of the Denver Art Museum, Denver Public Library and the state capitol. Rooftop view from the new Populus Hotel in downtown Denver Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024.

Inspired by Colorado forests, this sleek new hotel in the heart of Denver features biophilic architecture, natural materials, and seasonal cuisine.

In 2022, when the hotel was being constructed, it paid for the planting of some 77,000 Engelmann spruce in Colorado to replace trees wiped out by mountain pine beetles. Extreme weather killed 80 ...

Urban Villages has opened a $100 million hotel in Downtown Denver modeled to resemble an aspen tree, which claims to be the “first carbon positive” hotel in the U.S. The locally based ...

A new Denver hotel is quickly standing out among global travelers, drawing an honor from Time Magazine just months after opening. Populus, which opened in October 2024, was included on Time’s ...

The ambitious hotel opened its doors to the public on October 15 and, like the rest of Denver, we were eager to see if the finished product fulfilled all our biophilic fantasies. So, we spent a night ...