Where to Stay Near Coors Field

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The Rally Hotel at McGregor Square is the closest stay, directly across the street from Coors. The Crawford at Union Station is the historic premium pick, about a 10-minute walk the other direction. The Oxford Hotel, which opened in 1891, is the boutique-historic pick in LoDo, also about a 10-minute walk. The Brown Palace is one of Denver’s best-known landmark hotels, a longer walk to the park. Hyatt Place Denver Downtown is the safe mid-range chain. Some of the boutique walkable picks in between are the Maven at Dairy Block, Kimpton Hotel Monaco, and Hotel Indigo at Union Station.

McGregor Square: the closest stay

McGregor Square is the entertainment complex directly across the street from Coors Field, named for late Rockies team president Keli McGregor. Its hotel is The Rally Hotel, with 182 rooms.

Some corner suites look toward Coors Field, but don’t count on watching the game from your room. Pricing is generally premium.

You’re paying for the convenience. You walk out of the hotel lobby, cross 20th Street, and you’re at Gate D. After the game you walk back. You don’t need a cab, you don’t pay for parking, and you don’t deal with rideshare surge pricing. For a special-occasion trip or a multi-game stretch where you want to sleep at the park, the Rally pays you back.

The plaza, more than the room

The hotel is fine, and the plaza is the better reason to come. McGregor Square has a 66-foot screen on the plaza showing live games and a 35-tap self-pour beer wall inside its food hall. You don’t need to stay at the Rally to use it, but if you do, you skip the cab, the parking, and the walk back to a hotel after a 7th-inning rain delay. That convenience is what you’re paying for at this price tier. You can find more about the plaza and its taps in our Around the Park section.

The Crawford Hotel at Union Station

The Crawford is built into the upper floors of Denver’s renovated historic Union Station, about a 10-minute walk west of Coors. Polished, historic, with multiple room style categories that nod to the building’s history.

The Crawford works for two reasons. First, the hotel itself is one of the more interesting historic stays in any MLB city; the great hall lobby below it is one of the prettier urban spaces in the country, full of restaurants and bars whether or not you’re a hotel guest. Second, the location puts you on the RTD A Line that runs straight to DIA, which makes airport mornings simple.

For a multi-day Denver trip with one or two Rockies games, the Crawford is the better base. For a one-game, sleep-near-the-park trip, the Rally is closer.

The Denver classic: The Oxford Hotel

The Oxford Hotel at 1600 17th Street opened in 1891, and the hotel calls itself Denver’s most historic. About a 10-minute walk to Coors. The hotel sits just outside the immediate McGregor Square / Union Station core but still well within walking range on game day.

The Oxford was bankrolled in part by brewer Adolph Zang and designed by Frank E. Edbrooke, the architect behind much of late-19th-century downtown Denver. The building has been through multiple major renovations (most recently 2009) without losing the period detail in the public spaces. The lobby, the staircase, and the original fixtures throughout the building are the reasons to choose this over a newer comparable boutique.

Two on-site spots are worth a visit even if you’re not staying:

• The Cruise Room. Art Deco martini bar opened in 1933, the day after Prohibition was repealed. One of the more historically interesting bars in any MLB city.
• Urban Farmer. Steakhouse and farm-to-table restaurant on the ground floor.

For a multi-day Denver trip where you want to stay in a historic building, the Oxford is the strongest pick at this tier.

The Denver landmark: The Brown Palace Hotel

The Brown Palace at 321 17th Street is one of Denver’s best-known hotels. It opened in 1892 and was designed by Frank E. Edbrooke (the same architect behind the Oxford). The triangular building sits on a triangular block at the intersection of Broadway, Tremont, and 17th Street, and wraps around an eight-story atrium topped by a stained-glass ceiling and skylight.

The vibe is upscale Western. The period detail of an 1890s Denver luxury hotel is still intact through multiple renovations. Theodore Roosevelt visited in 1905 and came back in 1912, Woodrow Wilson was the first president to stay here, and the Beatles stayed during their 1964 Denver tour stop.

The downside compared with the LoDo cluster is the distance to the park. The Brown Palace is roughly a 20-minute walk to Coors. For a more comfortable game-day trip, take a short rideshare, or ride RTD’s free 16th Street FreeRide bus along 16th Street to Union Station, which covers most of the distance.

For a multi-day Denver trip where you want a landmark hotel and you’re willing to trade some game-day proximity for the experience, the Brown Palace is worth it.

Other boutique walkable picks

Several boutique hotels are an easy walk from Coors and don’t require committing to either the convenience tier (Rally) or the historic-premium tier (Crawford, Oxford):

• The Maven at Dairy Block. Boutique, about a 5 to 7 minute walk to Coors. The Dairy Block is a redeveloped alley-and-plaza concept with restaurants, bars, and a Michelin-starred tasting menu (Brutø) on site, which makes the Maven a strong pick if you want food and drinks downstairs from your room.
• Kimpton Hotel Monaco Denver. Boutique with the standard Kimpton polish (free wine hour, pet-friendly, design-forward rooms). Walkable to both Coors and Ball Arena, useful if your trip is multi-sport. About a 15-minute walk to the park.
• Hotel Indigo Denver Downtown - Union Station. A more recent boutique addition near Union Station, walkable to Coors in about 15 minutes. Predictable IHG-tier service with boutique-design rooms.
• Limelight Hotel Denver. Modern, owned by the Aspen Skiing Company. Walkable to both the Coors gates and the McGregor Square plaza. It’s a strong pick for travelers who already know the Limelight brand from Aspen or Snowmass.
• Hotel Teatro. Across downtown in the Theater District. A longer walk to Coors (about 18 to 20 minutes) or a short rideshare. It’s a polished boutique with a different neighborhood feel from the LoDo cluster, useful if your trip also includes a show at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

Mid-range and chain options

This tier isn’t the Four Seasons. The picks here are reliable: clean rooms, predictable service, a 20 to 30 minute walk to the park, and rates that let the trip stretch toward the experiences outside the hotel (the game, the food, Colorado itself). If you plan to spend most of the trip out exploring and only sleep in the room at night, this tier fits.

• Hyatt Place Denver Downtown. Solid mid-range, predictable Hyatt service, about a 30-minute walk or a short rideshare to the park. It’s the right pick when you want a familiar chain experience without the resort-priced rates of the Rally, Crawford, or Brown Palace.
• Holiday Inn Express Denver Downtown. Standard IHG mid-range, about a 20-minute walk to Coors. Works well for short trips where the hotel doesn’t need to be the experience.

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Booking tips

If your dates fall on a big home stand, such as the opening series or a series against the Dodgers or the Yankees, book early at any tier.

Stay close if you can. Saving on a room a 20-minute drive outside downtown usually means paying for a rideshare every game day, and the trip is worse for it.

Airbnb and VRBO

Denver allows short-term rentals, but hosts have to carry a city license and the rental has to be the host’s primary residence, which keeps the legitimate inventory smaller than a pure tourist market. For a Rockies trip, a vacation rental mostly pays off for larger groups or longer stays, where a multi-bedroom place in or near LoDo beats booking several hotel rooms. For one or two nights close to the park, the LoDo hotels are simpler.

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