Find your own way through Denver.

Fly: drag to look, use W A S D or arrows to move, Q / E to descend / rise. Scroll to move forward or backward. Hold Shift for speed. Walk: the camera stays at 1.72 m with building collision checks. Drag to look and use the same movement keys. On a phone, use the left joystick and drag elsewhere to look.

The guided tour visits six destinations; use its Pause, Previous, Next or Explore freely controls. Layers & light adds route, boundary, distance and height overlays, history notes and atmosphere. Spire crown is a virtual elevated camera, not a publicly accessible rooftop. Choose a landmark to arrive at its street approach or aerial view. Click the minimap to relocate. Click a building to see its height source. R returns to Spire; Esc closes a panel or stops the tour.

What is accurate?

The model contains 530 building groups and 1,916 roof sections across about 2.6 km². City roof outlines and height records preserve real scale, placement, and true north. Spire has the most architectural detail, including its podium, stepped crown, floor slabs and approximate balcony modules.

Materials & light

Photographed concrete, asphalt and brick; afternoon environment lighting; baked geometric ambient shading; and reflections of the modeled district. Spire mullions, window surrounds and curbs have physical depth. Close-range architectural modules are inferred, not surveyed.

What is approximate?

This is an explorable GIS reconstruction, not a perfect photogrammetric replica. Facades, balconies and some trees and lamps are procedural or inferred. Ground is level. Detailed sculptures, interiors, current storefronts, street furniture and the rebuilt 16th Street Mall are not fully reconstructed. Aerial imagery is from September 2023 and contains shadows and building lean; it is not a current survey.

Real Street View opens Google's own photography at the current camera location in a separate tab or app. It requires no API key from you. Google may show its own consent screen; coverage and date vary. No Google, Instagram or commercial map imagery is copied into this model.

Free sources & tools

• City and County of Denver building outlines — roof geometry and height data, principally 2022 mapping.
• OpenStreetMap contributors — streets, paths, landmarks, parks and mapped trees, ODbL. The source extract reports July 15, 2026.
• USDA NAIP 2023, via Planetary Computer — public-domain 30 cm source imagery, photographed September 25, 2023. Resampled for the viewer; downloaded September 9, 2026.
• Poly Haven · CC0 — Asphalt 02, Concrete Pavement 02, Brick Wall 001 and Kiara 6 Afternoon. Generic surface and lighting references, not Denver facade photographs.
• Blender 4.5.3 LTS · Three.js 0.180.0 (MIT). No paid tiles, keys, accounts or runtime map service.

The offline download embeds the model, imagery, code and source credits. External photography links need internet. Open GIS data remains subject to its source terms and attribution.

Take the city with you.

Share the website link, or download a self-contained HTML file. The downloaded explorer opens in a modern desktop browser without a server, account or internet connection.

For the most reliable offline viewing, open the file in desktop Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari. Mobile file preview apps may not run its 3D code.

See the city your way.

Search names recorded in the source data; unnamed buildings remain inspectable in the scene.

Current landmark: statistical neighborhood.

. Routes follow OSM paths and streets; street centerlines may be used. Not verified for pedestrian access, closures or accessibility.

100 / 250 / 500 / 1,000 m radii in the local geodesic projection. Straight-line distance, not walking time.

Purple: City of Denver statistical boundaries, clipped to the modeled area. These are not informal cultural-district outlines.

Colored roofs use the model’s height values, including documented estimates. Click a building to inspect its source.

Dated source notes for each landmark. No fictitious historical reconstruction.

Atmosphere

Lighting and seasonal color are illustrative, not live weather or a solar study.

Road extract: · aerial photography: September 2023 · roof mapping principally 2022. Different source dates can disagree.

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