For over 30 years, 5280 magazine has served its readers as an essential guide to life in the Mile-High City and beyond. Throughout those three decades, the publication has stayed true to its original mission: proudly locally owned and strongly committed to delivering award-winning journalism that tells Denver’s story with authority and style. Each month, 5280 covers the greatest and latest in dining, culture, wellness, travel, and adventure content.

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Urgent Care • Denver’s nurses are confronting compassion fatigue—through dance.

In The Land Of Women • How a so-called “hippieartist-builder” helped foster a female-first ethos in one small southern Colorado town.

PICTURES PERFECT • This year, resolve to give that wall—you know, the one you stared at all of last year—an update. One easy strategy? A curated constellation of art called a gallery wall, a versatile style that’s become a decorating favorite. Interior designer Rachel Vanek of Littleton’s Inside Stories shows us how to nail the look.

Growth Potential • Can a transplanted program help Longmont’s Latino residents achieve entrepreneurial success?

Getting Hooked • It can be tough to make it outdoors during a typical winter, let alone one when a pandemic is limiting space on the slopes. Enter ice fishing: a social-distance-friendly diversion that can be done on 616 bodies of water—all of them on public land—in Colorado. Wondering how to get started? We answer a few questions you might have about the frigid sport.

Movable Feast • A Longmont private chef wants to feed you all weekend long—wherever you may be.

Grocery Games • 5280’s food critic searches four Front Range markets for tasty ingredients to enliven his home cooking—and yours.

Stay in the know on all things Denver business.

Making Weed Less White • Inside the burgeoning movement to bring racial equity to the cannabis industry.

101 THINGS TODOIN COLORADO THIS YEAR! • Sure, 2020 sucked. But it also taught us lessons about adapting to a socially distant lifestyle and helped us appreciate features of our state we’d taken for granted. So instead of wallowing as we wait for a (widely available) vaccine, turn the page to find more than 100 ways to make lemon drop martinis out of this past year’s lemons.

MOVEON • Sales for everything from bicycles to roller skates soared during quarantine as Coloradans searched for excuses to escape their homes. We asked local outfitters about the best places in the region to take our new outdoor hobbies to the next level.

CLASSIC PURSUITS • Certain Centennial State activities may seem as permanent as the Rocky Mountains themselves, but as 2020 showed us, nothing is certain. As the world opens back up, check off some of these bucket-list items—with the ideal adventure buddy.

ROLLOUT • Jason Schirato, co-owner of Aspen Custom Vans (a company that rents and builds sleep-capable vehicles) saw a tenfold increase in rental requests in summer 2020. If you’re still nervous about flying, make like your favorite #vanlife blogger by using our seasonal itineraries as your road maps.

GO MOBILE • Where to try or buy your portable hotel.

RISING FORTUNES • That concert at the Mission Ballroom? Canceled. Your trip to Puerto Vallarta? Postponed. But—if you were lucky enough to stay employed—reduced leisure spending might mean you have some extra dough to treat yourself to a little (or big) something for making it through 2020.

CONTINUING EDUCATION • No worries if you (purposely) missed the sourdough train. You’ve got a whole year ahead of you to learn something new.

Digging Out • What can a fatal backcountry skiing accident on Jones Pass teach us about Colorado’s snowcat outfitters? And can these quintessential Centennial State adventures ever truly be...