Getting people inside Invesco over the course of several hours was one thing. Getting people out all at once was another.
Rather than lifting the gates around the stadium and letting everyone find their best way home, Denver police chose to keep the departure equally as controlled as the entrance. Denver’s Colfax Street, a main thoroughfare that travel East/West was closed off to traffic from Invesco to downtown and became the default exit for those traveling on foot.
After climbing a fairly steep and treacherous hill at the foot of a viaduct, thousands of event-goers took the mile and a half walk down the dimly-lit Colfax toward the Denver Convention Center and to points beyond. Others took hotel shuttles or filed out on the stadium northeast end to the $80 private parking spaces.