Downtown Aquarium: 700 Water St., Denver, Colorado, 303/561-4450
There are few places where aquaphiles can snorkel and dive with sharks in the middle of a major city. There are fewer yet that sit 1,000 miles from the nearest ocean. The odd exception is Denver’s Downtown Aquarium. The largest aquarium between Chicago and Monterey, California, this is one of the only such facilities outfitted to allow the public to get up close and personal with its resident fish. In the 300,000-gallon tank—the aquarium’s largest—certified divers can drop in on the resident sharks (there are 21 members of non-aggressive species like nurse, sand tiger, and zebra sharks) and go eye to eye with a Pacific green sea turtle. Snorkelers can explore the 200,000-gallon “Under the Sea” exhibit, home to more nurse sharks, as well as green moray eels (with mugs that only eel mothers could love), and a whopping 300-pound Queensland grouper.
There are few places where aquaphiles can snorkel and dive with sharks in the middle of a major city. There are fewer yet that sit 1,000 miles from the nearest ocean. The odd exception is Denver’s Downtown Aquarium. The largest aquarium between Chicago and Monterey, California, this is one of the only such facilities outfitted to allow the public to get up close and personal with its resident fish. In the 300,000-gallon tank—the aquarium’s largest—certified divers can drop in on the resident sharks (there are 21 members of non-aggressive species like nurse, sand tiger, and zebra sharks) and go eye to eye with a Pacific green sea turtle. Snorkelers can explore the 200,000-gallon “Under the Sea” exhibit, home to more nurse sharks, as well as green moray eels (with mugs that only eel mothers could love), and a whopping 300-pound Queensland grouper.
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