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Travel Guide – Things for Visiting UMass-Amherst Fans to Do in Colorado

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Here are the Top 11 suggested activities for UMass-Amherst visitors before and after attending the men’s NCAA Soccer Quarterfinal match at Pioneer Field at 1:00 pm MT on Saturday.

  • Homesick UMass-Amherst locals can visit the Denver Museum of Art and be reminded of their campus architecture.
Named by publications The Ugliest Building in Denver, this monochromatic structure would be a ‘diamond in the rough’ on the drab, lifeless Amherst campus.
  • A dishwasher at a Pueblo Red Lobster restaurant rescued a rare (1 in 30 million) genetically mutated orange lobster and sent it to the Denver Aquarium. Western Massachusettsians can visit the Denver Aquarium to see a living crustacean not served on a plate.
  • The number 5,280 represents Denver’s altitude in feet. Visitors will discover that the same number is represented in calories with a single order of sopapillas at Casa Bonita.
  • If you want to visit a REAL Flagship, the Chipotle restaurant on Evans Avenue near the DU campus is the first store opened by the successful chain.
  • The South Park character Topher is a ‘PC Bro from UMass’ (season 19). Visit Fairplay, Colorado, the inspiration for the South Park series. Look around town but you will not find him. Topher is about as real as UMass-Amherst’s chance of victory Saturday.

  • While Denverites spend their time hiking, skiing, and exploring the outdoor wonders of our state, we know the folks in Western Massachusetts spend free time at interstate outlet malls – enjoy the fresh air at the Outlets at Castle Rock, Colorado Mills, and Outlets at Silverthorne.
  • Western Massachusetts hobbyists spend hours hunting and picking mushrooms. In Denver, Bay Staters can visit the International Church of Cannabis and actually smoke them.
Flagshippers ponder. “How is it possible that DU is only one year newer than our highly revered institution?  And, all that, before jet travel.” (exhale)
  • Seeking a Culture fit? Take a ride south down I-25 to Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs, Colorado, ranked as the rudest city in the state of Colorado and the 17th rudest city in the nation with an overall rudeness score of 7.87.
  • Visit Boulder and enjoy Pekoe Sip House on the CU campus. Listen to pseudo-intellectuals opine about the universe and the probability of life on the head of a needle  – just like People’s Organic Coffee at the UMass-Amherst Campus.
  • Destroy your geographical misconceptions. Denver is not in the mountains. so please leave your Après-Ski apparel at home.

  • When you look west from the University of Denver, you see the majestic Rocky Mountains. West of UMass-Amherst are the  Berkshire Hills. The Berkshire Hills are not the Rocky Mountains. Not even close.

One thought on “Travel Guide – Things for Visiting UMass-Amherst Fans to Do in Colorado”

  1. Dunker says good stuff. I actually read somewhere about how ugly the Amherst campus is. Been there. So dreary. Always cloudy and cold.

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