LoHi & Highlands Rooftops and Patios: Hours and Parking

Rooftops and patios in the Highlands are easier to plan once the hours, seating and parking sit in one place. Three spots fit that test: a top-floor terrace on Umatilla Street, a patio on West 32nd Avenue and a rooftop bar above the shops of Highlands Square. Each has a stated schedule, a stated price level and a stated set of parking options, and this guide keeps to those facts. Hours change, so treat each listing as the starting point and confirm the details on the venue page before you head out.

The terrace has outdoor seating, and the venue takes reservations. It serves coffee, beer and wine. The listed price is expensive, and the rating is 4.5 of 5 on Google (El Five). A reservation and an expensive price point suit a planned evening, the sort of plan that begins with a booking and ends with the check, rather than a quick stop on the way home.

Parking has three listed options: free street parking, paid street parking and valet parking (El Five). El Five is the only venue in this guide that lists valet, which is worth knowing before you decide where to leave the car.

Brunch is a separate service, listed as Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Bar Dough). If you want the patio in daylight, the weekend brunch window is the one to plan around. The evening window covers the other days.

The patio has outdoor seating. The venue takes reservations and serves coffee and beer (Bar Dough). The price is listed as moderate, and the rating is 4.4 of 5 on Google. Of the three, Bar Dough is the easiest to fit into an ordinary calendar.

Its listed hours are Sunday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and those hours were checked on 2026-09-08 (Highlands Square Rooftop). A window that closes at 1 p.m. makes this a late-morning or early-afternoon stop rather than an evening one. A rooftop with a single listed window is less a habit than an appointment with the calendar, so check the date before you set off.

The price is listed as moderate, and the rating is 4.7 of 5 on Google, the highest of the three venues in this guide. The entrance is wheelchair accessible (Highlands Square Rooftop).

The table gathers the figures from the three sections above, so the schedule reads at a glance.

El Five Rooftop Terrace lists free street parking, paid street parking and valet parking (El Five). Valet is the option to weigh if the evening includes a reservation and you would rather not look for a space afterward.

Bar Dough Patio Highland lists free street parking as its option (Bar Dough). If you are driving to the patio, the free street spaces are the listed choice.

Highlands Square Rooftop lists free street parking and paid street parking (Highlands Square Rooftop). Because Sunday is its listed day, a Sunday visit is the trip where parking matters most, and the free street spaces come first on the list.

The days sort these three quickly. El Five's listed hours run Monday through Saturday, and the Highlands Square Rooftop's listed hours fall on Sunday, so the two never overlap on the same day. Bar Dough's listed hours run every day, which makes it the one that works on either side of the week.

Price is the second filter. Bar Dough and Highlands Square Rooftop are both listed as moderate, which suits a casual stop. El Five is listed as expensive and takes reservations, which suits an evening planned around a table. Bar Dough also takes reservations, so a set table is an option there too.

The last hour on each listing is the one to plan around: 10 p.m. at El Five and Bar Dough, and 1 p.m. at Highlands Square Rooftop.

For rooftop drink deals across the city, the Denver rooftop happy hours guide covers mountain views and specials beyond the Highlands. The Lower Highlands events guide covers what is on in LoHi, and the Denver Happy Hours guide sorts deals neighborhood by neighborhood. Those pages carry their own dates, so check each venue page before you plan a specific stop.

Updated 2026-10-11: removed unsourced prices, deal hours and statistics; added three venues with sourced hours and parking.