The tour starts with a short bus ride from a parking lot adjacent to the brewery through the main entrance to a reception center. Here, your age is checked and you are given a wrist band allowing beer tasting on the tour and at the tasting room at the end of the tour. Since the tour is self-guided, you are given a listening device with recordings explaining about the brewery and the brewing process at various stations along the tour route. About half way through the tour you are given a taste of either Coors or Coors Light beer and at the end of the tour there is a tasting room where you can sample the various beers Coors and its associated labels brew. The tour is very well done and efficiently run. A tour guide said that during the summer they often run over a 1,000 people a day through the facility.
After the tour, we traveled a few blocks into town and had a great lunch at the Golden Hotel's Bridgewater Grill . We then walked around town a little and along parks and pathways on each side of Clear Creek. The creek runs through the center of town and has numerous sculptures, benches and access points in a well maintained park setting. There were also lots of trees and landscaping along the creek. The town has a population of about 18,000 and is at about 6,000 feet in elevation. Golden is a very popular tourist destination, especially in the summer and has a very active and vibrant downtown area. It is a relatively small mountain town that seems like a great place to visit and spend some time.
We then returned to the RV and settled in for the evening. There is a lot of severe weather all around the area but all we got at the RV park tonight was a little light rain.
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