Denver’s Latest Lodge Has a Putting Tree-inspired Design and a Rooftop Bar with Spectacular Metropolis Views — See Inside

Sustainability is a buzzword in lots of industries, together with hospitality. Whereas carbon neutrality is usually the final word aim, one Denver lodge is taking it a step additional by turning into the nation’s first carbon-positive lodge.

Populus, opening its doorways right now on the intersection of West Colfax Avenue and 14th Road throughout from Civic Heart Park, is likely to be the Mile Excessive Metropolis’s most cutting-edge hospitality mission not solely due to its modern sustainability-focused method but in addition for its placing structure, helmed by the award-winning Studio Gang. 

“Denver has all the time been famend for its lovely panorama and nature actions, and in recent times, has emerged as each culinary and cultural hotspot and a pacesetter in sustainability – all of that are dropped at life at Populus,” George Prine, the property’s normal supervisor, advised Journey + Leisure.

The lodge’s spectacular white-washed facade, impressed by Colorado’s native Aspen tree (or Populus tremuloides), is punctuated by home windows and openings in over 65 completely different shapes, permitting visitors to take pleasure in uninterrupted views of the close by State Capitol in addition to the Rocky Mountains. On the within, many home windows prolong into curved hammock-like benches, including one other memorable design component to the interiors, characterised by serene minimalism of earthy hues, pure textures, and recycled supplies. (Many headboards have been comprised of fallen pine bushes.)

Each element within the lodge delivers an immersive sensory expertise. For instance, visitors will hear pure sounds and hen songs within the elevators recorded in Rocky Mountain Nationwide Park, whereas pressed native wildflowers adorn the partitions within the 265 visitor rooms and suites.

The lodge’s meals and beverage program contains the bottom ground. (Or, because the lodge calls it, the “forest ground.”) Pasque restaurant, the place patrons take pleasure in contemporary seasonal fare in a brightly lit eating room awash in a heat palette of browns and woods. A rooftop restaurant, Stellar Jay, serves shareable plates of untamed sport, contemporary produce, and seafood cooked over reside hearth and paired with handcrafted cocktails and breathtaking metropolis views from its grassy out of doors terrace.

“Not solely does Populus add vibrancy to the Denver skyline, however its impressed eating places and aware experiences deliver individuals collectively in a approach that is genuine to Colorado and provides again to the surroundings we love and admire a lot,” Prine defined. 

As a part of its many sustainability initiatives, the property has planted over 70,000 bushes in Gunnison County and plans to plant a further tree for each evening’s keep. The lodge additionally makes use of 100% renewable electrical energy and is dedicated to zero-waste eating, which incorporates composting all of its meals waste and delivering it to native farms. 

You possibly can e-book your keep at Populus on populusdenver.com, the place nightly charges begin from $299 for visitor rooms and $499 for suites.