Hidden bars & speakeasies in Denver

Looking for hidden bars & speakeasies in Denver? These 30 are the genuinely strange ones — Lincoln's, Hell or High Water Tiki, Bar Max and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Denver they'd never find on their own.

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Lincoln's There's no sign, no ads, and the owner flat-out refuses to tell you how to get in because 'that takes the mag… LoDo / Union Station
Hell or High Water Tiki Behind an unmarked door on Walnut sits a haunted gay-pirate-ship tiki bar where a shimmering phallic 'Disco D… RiNo (River North Art District)
Bar Max A craft cocktail bar on East Colfax that throws out the menu entirely: instead of ordering a drink, you descr… East Colfax
Vaultaire Beneath La Foret's woodsy dining room on South Broadway, a cellar door drops you into Vaultaire — no sign abo… Baker / South Broadway
Invisible City Behind an unmarked door on Santa Fe Drive is a private immersive lounge stuffed with artifacts the founder ha… Santa Fe Arts District
Alley Brews There is no street door — the only way into Alley Brews is from the alley between 43rd and 44th, tucked behin… Berkeley / Tennyson Street
Fort Greene There's no sign. You'll walk past it, double back, and second-guess which door in this Globeville industrial… Globeville
B&GC (Boys & Girls Club) Beneath the Halcyon Hotel in Cherry Creek — in a former post office — sits a 44-seat cocktail room that does… Cherry Creek
Trybal African Speakeasy There's no sign downtown — you're looking for an African mask on the door, and you won't get in unless you've… Downtown Denver
Retrograde Walk into Sweet Action Ice Cream, ignore the cones, head for the walk-in freezer door, flip the light switch… North Capitol Hill / Uptown
Little Horse Vintage (and the Electric Room) Upstairs it's Mike Price's decades-deep warren of mid-century furniture, rare books, and 10,000-plus records… Louisville (Denver-adjacent, ~25 min NW)
B&GC Built into the bones of the former Cherry Creek post office in the basement of the Halcyon Hotel, B&GC takes… Cherry Creek
Ubisububi Room (at the Thin Man Tavern) Below the narrow Thin Man bar in Uptown there's a 35-seat cave lined with tapestries and Christmas lights tha… Uptown, Denver
The Electric Cure Two service-industry veterans built a rum-and-tiki bar that answers the question 'what if a tropical bar fell… Edgewater
Bernard's Tiki Room The Arvada Tavern is Olde Town's original cocktail bar, but the real secret is upstairs: Bernard's Tiki Room,… Arvada (Olde Town)
Bread Bar Take Exit 226 off I-70, one of the corridor's most-ignored, and you land in Silver Plume, population ~200, wh… Silver Plume
Provision Provision is a genuine 1920s-speakeasy-style craft cocktail bar on Castle Rock's historic Wilcox Street block… Castle Rock
License No. 1 License No. 1 is a dimly lit, Prohibition-era cocktail den in the basement of the historic Hotel Boulderado,… Boulder
The Speakeasy (Imperial Hotel basement) The Speakeasy is a real, operating basement bar tucked beneath the 1881 Imperial Hotel (originally the Zweck… Longmont
The Face on the Barroom Floor In 1936, Denver artist Herndon Davis — furious after a fight with his project director — snuck into the Telle… Central City
12 Spirits Tavern Tucked into the carriage house basement of the 1891 Croke-Patterson Mansion — billed as one of Colorado's mos… Capitol Hill
Rock Rest Lodge Built in 1885 as a stagecoach stop and trading post, Rock Rest Lodge spent its early 20th century as a brothe… Golden
South Park Coney Island Sitting on a grassy riverbank off Highway 285, this 42-foot hot-dog-shaped diner is one of the last surviving… Bailey
Forsythe Canyon Waterfall Trail Everyone funnels into Boulder's marquee trails and never turns up Magnolia Road, which is exactly why this on… Nederland / Gross Reservoir (Boulder County)
Ghost Saloon A speakeasy hidden behind a welcome room in the former Green Russell space, connected to neighboring Disco Pi… LoDo / Larimer Square
Dark Side of Denver Ghost Tours An immersive paranormal walking tour that goes inside some of Denver's most haunted buildings, descends into… Downtown LoDo / Union Station area
Nineteen 25 A hidden 1920s-styled venue in a former brothel-and-speakeasy, with sealed Prohibition-era tunnels in the bas… North Broadway, Denver
Minturn Saloon The back bar came out of Missouri in the 1830s and did time in a Leadville brothel before the railroad hauled… Minturn
The Legendary Silver Dollar Saloon Pouring since 1879, back when it was the Board of Trade and Doc Holliday dealt cards up front — his piano is… Leadville
Smile High Tours Cannabis-Friendly Cheesman Park Ghost Tour This isn't the standard lantern-walk ghost tour: you start inside a licensed cannabis lounge sampling strains… Capitol Hill (Denver)