Metroji clue #96

Denver in five emoji

United States

Everyone files it under mountains, and the city itself is flat. The clue is really about altitude and what people do with the range that starts west of it.

What each emoji refers to

The Rockies are the backdrop rather than the setting. The Front Range begins about twenty kilometres west of downtown.
The Great American Beer Festival has been held here every year since 1982.
Vail and Breckenridge are a couple of hours west on I-70, which is why the airport fills with skis in January.
The Broncos play at Mile High, and the thin air is a genuine complaint from visiting teams.
One step of the Colorado State Capitol is marked as exactly one mile above sea level.

Denver at a glance

Country
United States
Coordinates
39.74° N, 104.99° W
First played

Nearest cities in the game

Distances are great-circle, the same measure the game reports after a wrong guess. The arrow is the direction you would need to travel from Denver.

City Distance Direction
Las VegasUnited States 970 km
DallasUnited States 1,070 km
Los AngelesUnited States 1,340 km
San DiegoUnited States 1,340 km
HoustonUnited States 1,410 km
CalgaryCanada 1,440 km

Nearest cities we have written up

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