Denver Story Trek — Five Points Phone Audio Tour

Free and almost invisible: you dial up audio recordings tied to spots in Five Points that look like nothing as you walk past them. Stops surface the ghost of the old Voters Club where Black voters were organized in the 1930s, the Deep Rock artesian well still pulling water from hundreds of feet under 27th & Welton, and Fern Hall (1886), which cycled through being a ballroom, a bootleg bar, a bakery, and a boxing gym. No app store, no ticket, no guide — just your phone and a neighborhood that's been quietly hiding its layers in plain sight. Run by Historic Denver, so it's legit, not a tourist-trap gimmick.

The move: Pick three stops, walk them at dusk sharing one set of earbuds, and let each recording be the prompt for the next block of conversation — basically a free, self-paced history scavenger hunt for two.

• 📍 Five Points
• 💸 Free
• ⚡ Low-key
• 🌗 Outdoors

Where: Self-guided; begins around 27th & Welton St, Five Points (stops scattered across the neighborhood — see denverstorytrek.org/places)

Hours: Always available — self-guided by phone; best in daylight/early evening for walking safety and reading the sites.

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Verified 2026-06-07.