Events in Tennyson Street, Denver

Tennyson Street in Denver is a corridor of independent boutiques, restaurants and art galleries, and it holds events through the year, according to Explore Tennyson. This guide follows that calendar: the monthly First Friday Cultural Walks, the Annual Fall Fest and the Tennyson Street Fair, along with the food, drink and book stops the district names. It is written to help you plan one visit around a programmed event and the places between them. The monthly walk and the yearly fall event return on their own schedules, which gives a reader a reason to come back to the street more than once a year.

The street's most regular event is the First Friday Cultural Walk, which the district holds once a month. Because the walk is tied to the first Friday of each month, a visitor can check the calendar for the coming month and plan the evening around it. Explore Tennyson lists the walks alongside the district's other annual events, so the monthly and yearly calendars sit on one page. A monthly date is a fixed point, and a return visit can be built around it. Make the walk the reason for the trip, and use the boutiques, restaurants and galleries on the street to fill the hours before and after.

The district also lists an Annual Fall Fest, which Explore Tennyson places among its yearly events beside the monthly walks. The Tennyson Street Fair is a separate event with its own program. The Tennyson Street Fair schedule gives two separate spans of blocks on Tennyson Street, each with its own hours, and it lists ceramics, dance, drinks and music for Friday and Saturday. A visit on either of those days lines up with the fair's program. A reader who wants the fair should check which span covers the part of the street they plan to walk. Keeping the fair and the Fall Fest apart on the calendar helps, since the two are listed as separate events.

Hops & Pie serves wood-fired pizza and keeps a rotating selection of draft beers, as Explore Tennyson describes the restaurant. The rotating list means the draft selection is not fixed from one visit to the next, so a regular should not expect the same taps each time. Tennyson's Tap is the beer stop on the district's list, with 40+ Colorado craft beers on draft in a welcoming neighborhood setting, per the same listing. The two stops cover the pizza and draft beer side of a visit to the street, and they can anchor a meal before or after a walk or a fair program.

Five Quarters Bookshelf hosts regular author readings, book clubs and a variety of literary events, according to Explore Tennyson. It is a different kind of stop from the restaurants and bars the district lists, which makes it the listed place on the street for literary programming. A visitor who comes for the monthly walk can add the bookstore to the same route, since its readings and book clubs are events the listing places on the same street. A reader who wants a quieter stop than a fair or a walk can plan the bookstore as the middle of the evening.

Begin with the green spaces the district lists along the street if the day is still light, then move to the food and drink stops once the walk or the fair is ready to start. The parks in the Parks Along the Street section below can take the first hour of a daytime route before the evening begins. From there, Hops & Pie covers wood-fired pizza and Tennyson's Tap covers Colorado craft beer, with Five Quarters Bookshelf as the stop for readings. If the Tennyson Street Fair is running on your date, its schedule page gives the blocks for each span, so check it before you set the order of stops. A visit timed to a First Friday Cultural Walk puts the monthly event at the center of the evening, and the other stops are arranged around it.

The district's listing names three parks along the corridor: Historic Elitch Gardens, César Chávez Park and Berkeley Lake Park, as Explore Tennyson lists them. Each one gives a visit a stop away from the bars, restaurants and shops, which is useful on a day that combines a walk with a meal. The three parks appear in the same listing as the walks and the fall event, so one source covers the street's events, its food and drink, and its green spaces.