Denver is a very beautiful city except when it gets smoggy. I found it worst than Los Angeles in terms of smog when the pollution gets backed against the Rockies because of a certain wind pattern.
It had some excellent bicycle trails back in the mid 1980s when I was there.
Denver University is a rich kids school for the most part unless you are there on Scholarship. It was very expensive even back in 1983-1984. I could only afford it through a Stipend Grant. It was like
Northern Exposure's doctor's grant which required him to go find work in Alaska as a physician for a certain amount of time. Mine was for Librarianship in Nevada though.
http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/c...l?schoolId=693 Cost of attendance of DU this year (2012) is around $54,470. It is probably more for the Graduate Schools there.