New hotels in Denver

We track 20 new hotels in Denver, opened or confirmed between 2015 and 2028, spread across twelve neighborhoods: from LoDo's ballpark blocks and RiNo's converted warehouses to a Gilded Age mansion in North Capitol Hill and a shuttered jazz-district landmark in Five Points. First-time visitors and business travelers do best downtown or in LoDo; design-focused and nightlife-minded travelers should look at RiNo; couples wanting architectural character point to North Capitol Hill or Five Points; longer stays and conference bookings cluster south in Belleview Station. The most recently opened is AC Hotel Denver RiNo, which debuted on Brighton Boulevard in June 2026 after a construction timeline stretched out by the pandemic.

What to do

A weekend in Denver

Base yourself downtown or in LoDo to keep everything within walking distance. Start at the Denver Art Museum and Civic Center Park, both a short walk from Populus, then wander into Larimer Square and the historic warehouse blocks around Union Station for dinner and cocktails. On day two, catch a Rockies game at Coors Field if the season allows, or simply take in the ballpark energy around McGregor Square, before an afternoon in RiNo's galleries, breweries and street-art alleys. Two nights are enough to hit the museum district, LoDo's restaurant scene and RiNo's creative corridor without ever needing a car.

A full week

With more time, spread out across the city's newer pockets. Spend your first two or three nights downtown or in LoDo covering the Art Museum, Union Station and Coors Field, then relocate to RiNo for a couple of nights to dig into its gallery scene, breweries and The Source Market Hall. From there, head south to Belleview Station and the Denver Tech Center for a change of pace (a quieter, more residential base with easy light-rail access back downtown) or east along Colfax Avenue toward City Park, the Denver Zoo and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Finish with a day trip into the Rockies (Red Rocks Amphitheatre or the foothills west of the city are both under an hour away), using a downtown or LoDo hotel as your return base.

Neighborhoods

LoDo (Lower Downtown)

Denver's historic warehouse district, now one of the city's densest hotel corridors, sits steps from Coors Field and Union Station. The Rally Hotel at McGregor Square opened in March 2021 as the hospitality anchor of a mixed-use block built by the Colorado Rockies organization directly next to the stadium, its design leaning on ballpark nostalgia and a year-round heated rooftop pool. Thompson Denver followed in February 2022 on a former surface parking lot on Market Street, a twelve-story new build styled as a modern take on a mountain chalet, with a ground-floor restaurant from chef Ludo Lefebvre and a sixth-floor sunroom bar.

Downtown & Civic Center

The civic heart of the city, home to the Denver Art Museum, the Performing Arts District and Civic Center Park. Populus, which opened in October 2024 at the corner of 14th Street, anchors this area: a 265-room tower designed by Studio Gang with an aspen-inspired facade of eye-shaped window openings, marketed as the first carbon-positive hotel in the United States and built with no guest parking, a first for a hotel of its size in Denver.

Central Business District & Convention Center

Denver's convention-trade core carries four of the 20 hotels we track. The Slate Denver, Tapestry Collection by Hilton opened in May 2022 directly across from the Colorado Convention Center on Welton Street, inside the century-old former Emily Griffith Opportunity School (a vocational school that operated until 2014) with school-themed meeting rooms and original staircases kept intact. Hyatt Centric Downtown Denver opened in October 2021 on one of the last infill sites in the Historic Civic and Entertainment District, its two facades designed to echo the massing of the landmarked buildings next door, close enough that the contractor ran structural vibration monitoring throughout construction. At 15th and California, Le Méridien Denver Downtown and AC Hotel Denver Downtown both opened in September 2017 as two legally distinct hotels sharing a single 20-story tower: Marriott's first collaborative dual-brand project following its 2016 merger with Starwood, and AC Hotels' first Colorado property.

RiNo (River North Art District)

A former industrial corridor turned arts district of galleries, breweries and murals, RiNo carries four tracked openings, more than any other Denver neighborhood. The Ramble Hotel, a Member of Design Hotels, opened in May 2018 as the first hotel in RiNo, when the district was still a raw industrial pocket (its 50 rooms built around 17th-century French salon interiors and Death & Co's first cocktail bar outside New York. The Source Hotel followed in September 2018, 100 design-forward rooms stacked directly above The Source Market Hall, an artisan food hall built into a former iron foundry. Catbird Hotel opened in July 2021, a modular new build wrapped around a preserved 1890s house) restored as the four-bedroom Klee House suite, with every one of its 165 rooms carrying a full kitchen for longer stays. AC Hotel Denver RiNo, the neighborhood's newest, opened on Brighton Boulevard in June 2026 after a construction timeline stretched by the pandemic since the site was acquired in 2019.

North Capitol Hill

On the edge of downtown, North Capitol Hill is home to Urban Cowboy Denver, which opened in October 2024 inside the 1886 George Schleier Mansion: a Queen Anne–style landmark designed by architect Frank Edbrooke that spent its last three decades as office space before this 16-suite conversion. Original gargoyle- and Bavarian-swan-carved staircase balusters were preserved alongside new hammered-copper soaking tubs in every suite, and the property's carriage house became the Urban Cowboy Public House, a bar now doubling as a neighborhood gathering spot.

Belleview Station & the Denver Tech Center

A fast-growing, walkable mixed-use district south of downtown within the Denver Tech Center, Belleview Station now has two tracked hotels. Kimpton Claret Hotel opened in July 2024 as the neighborhood's first boutique property, a 19-story new build with mountain views from its rooftop bar. Apiary Hotel followed in February 2026, an all-suite, beehive-themed lifestyle hotel billed as South Denver's first extended-stay lifestyle property, its 175 suites each carrying a kitchenette.

Globeville & Fox Park

Globeville, a historically industrial neighborhood north of downtown, is being redeveloped as Fox Park around the relocated World Trade Center Denver campus. Virgin Hotels Denver, confirmed for 2026 after slipping from an initially discussed 2025 date, will be the brand's first Colorado property and the district's first hotel of note, a 241-room new build still under construction as of this writing.

East Colfax

The historic East Colfax corridor, within reach of City Park, the Denver Zoo and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, had gone without a new hotel for decades before The All Inn Hotel opened in April 2026. A $22 million restoration brought back the same 54-room count the building carried when it opened in 1959 as the Fountain Inn, a mid-century International Style motor hotel listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020: its neon sign, exposed rock wall and patterned vertical windows preserved through several later identities, including a stretch as the All Inn motel.

Gateway Park & the airport corridor

Near Denver International Airport, the Gateway Park submarket is a fast-growing cluster of hotels and offices off I-70 and Peña Boulevard. AC Hotel Denver Gateway Park, targeted for late 2026, closed its construction financing in mid-2025 (a roughly 75,000-square-foot, seven-story building) though no source has confirmed progress more recent than a January 2026 roundup, and it should not be confused with the unrelated AC Hotel Denver RiNo or AC Hotel Denver Downtown elsewhere in the metro area.

Golden Triangle Creative District

Denver's museum quarter, home to the Denver Art Museum, the Clyfford Still Museum and more than a dozen galleries, has one tracked hotel: The Art Hotel Denver, Curio Collection by Hilton, which opened independently in June 2015 with each guest-room floor themed around a different artist's work, joining Hilton's Curio Collection in 2020 without altering that original concept.

Cherry Creek

Denver's upscale shopping and residential district has one boutique address: Halcyon, a hotel in Cherry Creek, an eight-story independent property that opened in 2016 to give the neighborhood a standalone luxury base rather than relying on downtown's hotel stock, built around a rooftop pool and a dog-friendly policy.

Five Points

Five Points, historically known as the "Harlem of the West," is where The Rossonian Hotel is being reborn. Built in 1907 and renamed the Rossonian in 1929, the building's lounge hosted major jazz musicians during the era of segregation, when other Denver hotels turned Black travelers away; it has sat vacant since 1998. Developer Palisade Partners is converting it into a 126-room boutique hotel spanning the restored historic structure and new adjacent construction, backed by $15.5 million in city tax-increment financing approved in June 2026, with a target opening of 2028.

Which hotel for your trip

Design-focused travelers

Populus is the clear pick: Studio Gang's aspen-inspired facade is Denver's most talked-about piece of new hotel architecture, and its downtown location puts the Denver Art Museum on your doorstep. AC Hotel Denver RiNo and Kimpton Claret Hotel both offer a more contemporary, design-forward alternative in their respective neighborhoods.

Couples wanting atmosphere over amenities

Urban Cowboy Denver's sixteen suites, copper soaking tubs and Gilded Age detailing make it the most romantic and characterful option on this list, best suited to a short stay. The Art Hotel Denver's floor-by-floor artist themes and Halcyon's Cherry Creek rooftop pool are two further options for a couple prioritizing atmosphere over convention-center convenience.

Baseball fans and LoDo nightlife seekers

The Rally Hotel at McGregor Square puts you steps from Coors Field with a rooftop plunge pool and multiple bars under one roof: book here for a Rockies weekend, with Thompson Denver a short walk away as a quieter, chalet-styled alternative.

Longer stays and business trips

Catbird Hotel and Apiary Hotel both build around kitchen-equipped, suite-style rooms aimed at multi-night comfort: Catbird for RiNo's arts-district energy, Apiary for a quieter, more residential base in Belleview Station near the Denver Tech Center's corporate campuses. The Slate Denver and Hyatt Centric Downtown Denver both sit within walking distance of the Colorado Convention Center for a shorter conference stay.

History & heritage travelers

The Rossonian Hotel, once open, will be the strongest heritage story on this list: a restored jazz-era landmark in Five Points. Until then, The All Inn Hotel's mid-century motor-lodge revival on East Colfax and The Slate Denver's converted vocational school both give travelers a genuine adaptive-reuse stay today.

Frequently asked questions

What is the newest major hotel to open in Denver?

As of mid-2026, the most recent opening is AC Hotel Denver RiNo, which debuted on Brighton Boulevard on June 18, 2026. Apiary Hotel, in Belleview Station, opened four months earlier, in February 2026, and The All Inn Hotel opened on East Colfax that same April.

Is there a carbon-positive hotel in Denver?

Yes. Populus, which opened in downtown Denver in October 2024, is marketed as the first carbon-positive hotel in the United States, with a Studio Gang-designed facade inspired by aspen trees.

What is the best new hotel near Coors Field?

The Rally Hotel at McGregor Square, which opened in March 2021, is built directly into the McGregor Square development next to Coors Field and is themed around Rockies baseball and ballpark culture.

Are there any historic-building hotel conversions in Denver?

Several. Urban Cowboy Denver converted the 1886 George Schleier Mansion in North Capitol Hill; The Slate Denver occupies the century-old former Emily Griffith Opportunity School downtown; The All Inn Hotel restored a 1959 motor lodge on East Colfax; and The Rossonian Hotel, targeted for 2028, is reviving a 1912 jazz-district landmark in Five Points that has sat vacant since 1998.

Which new Denver hotels are good for extended stays?

Catbird Hotel in RiNo and Apiary Hotel in Belleview Station both offer kitchen-equipped suites designed with multi-night and extended stays in mind, distinguishing them from more conventional new-build hotels like Thompson Denver or the Kimpton Claret Hotel.

Is Virgin Hotels Denver open yet?

Not as of mid-2026. The 241-room property at the Fox Park development in Globeville has an announced target opening of 2026, after slipping from an initially discussed 2025 date, but construction was still underway as of the most recent reporting.

How many new hotels does this guide track in Denver?

Twenty, opened or confirmed between 2015 and 2028: The Art Hotel Denver, Halcyon, The Ramble Hotel, The Source Hotel, Le Méridien Denver Downtown, AC Hotel Denver Downtown, The Rally Hotel at McGregor Square, Catbird Hotel, Hyatt Centric Downtown Denver, Thompson Denver, The Slate Denver, Kimpton Claret Hotel, Populus, Urban Cowboy Denver, AC Hotel Denver RiNo, Apiary Hotel, The All Inn Hotel, Virgin Hotels Denver, AC Hotel Denver Gateway Park and The Rossonian Hotel. Each has its own fiche with opening details on this site.