The annual Highlands Street Fair took place this past Saturday in that historic Denver neighborhood. I love attending this festival. It is always well-attended, especially with people from the neighborhood, and seems more like a social gathering than a street fair. As with other festivals, there are booths from local businesses and artisans, food vendors, and music. The Highlands was founded around the same time as Denver, filled with Victorian-era homes, and located west of the Platte River, overlooking downtown. When I first moved to Denver, it was being marketed by real estate agents as the "affordable alternative to Washington Park," one of Denver's most popular neighborhoods. Since that time, the Highlands has become quite trendy, not to mention unaffordable, but it is still a fun place to visit. And by the way, the booth in the photograph above was offering accommodations in Breckenridge, a really popular and quaint Colorado mountain town, starting at $49 and has a presence at most Denver area festivals. Years ago, I entered a raffle at this booth for a free weekend in "Breck." I didn't win the raffle, but I did wind up getting phone calls about "special vacation offers" for the next five years. Since then, I have avoided raffles for free vacations like the plague. You should too.
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