Denver’s Meow Wolf is an Otherworldly Experience
A Six-armed pizza thing from inside the Pizza Pals Playzone at the Convergence Station site in Denver, CO.
Experimentation, we’ve all heard that term used before. The idea of experimentation invokes a sense of the unknown, wonder, curiosity, and the drive to seek out a new experience, one that has lingered in your mind, begging you to fulfill its every need.
In our world, various experiences of experimentation exist; some are of a sexual nature, such as satisfying that urge to intertwine with someone of the same sex romantically, or to rebel against heteronormative dating. For others, it can involve food, eating a unique international meal, full of foreign spices, proteins, and ingredients that break from the tradition of your own cultural palate, leading you down the rabbit hole to savor the flavors native to other places.
Drugs, especially psychedelics, are often what comes to mind when one mentions the term experimentation. I can still remember my first time inhaling cannabis, or better yet, devouring “magic mushrooms”, an eighth or more, and then drifting off to Neverland.
I came back to my senses, wandering alone in Turnbull Canyon, returning as a 19-year-old, my mind full of new concepts and ideas, hungrier for life than the day I was born. Only to swiftly forget what I conceptualized on those dusty canyon roads. Drugs will do that to you, kids.
This is the beauty of life. To experience existence to the fullest, every breath, every emotion, our physical touch, exotic tastes, beautiful sights, and to be one with our own bodies, wherever the winds may take us.
The streetview side entrance of Meow Wolf Convergence Station in Denver, Colorado.
Creativity is another form of engaging with our world. It compels us to build from our own imagination, a world of possibility into existence. Through this creative process, we can materialize an internal idea into a physical space. By this very act, Meow Wolf was born.
While visiting Denver at the end of 2025, I met up with a good friend for a few days. For their own privacy, let’s call them Rick. Feeling like a couple of explorers, Rick and I decided to check out Meow Wolf: Convergence Station. I had been thinking about visiting Meow Wolf: The House of Eternal Return ever since I learned about them opening their first site in Santa Fe, New Mexico, back in 2016; so when I learned that the Convergence Station had opened in 2021, I knew this was an experience to add to the top of my priority list.
A wondrous creature created by artists and designers and placed inside Meow Wolf in Denver, CO.
Meow Wolf’s Convergence Station in Denver is a treasure to behold. It is many things everywhere all at once: it’s a maze, it’s a museum, an exhibit, an art installation, a destination, a playground for both kids and adults, it’s full of puzzles and interactive artifacts, it’s bizarre and whimsical, wonderous and chaotic, but importantly, it is an escape from the ordinary, and a place to get lost in a world of pure imagination.
Today, there are exactly 5 Meow Wolf locations: Santa Fe, NM, Las Vegas, NV, Denver, CO, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Houston, TX. A sixth location is planned for Los Angeles, and a 7th at Pier 17 in New York City that will likely open between 2027 and 2028.
Sips (with a Z) is a thematic and interactive cocktail lounge inside the Meow Wolf, Convergence Station.
If you visit Meow Wolf Convergence Station in Denver, you will wander into a site that offers a full-immersion experience. From the moment you enter, staff members in character will help transport you to another plane. Once you arrive at your port of entry, you will find yourself inside a multilevel art installation that was developed and curated by a full team of artists to bring you an otherworldly experience.
There are many sights to see, puzzles to solve, and side quests to follow. The philosophy comes down to this — you get out of it what you put into it, and this is true. The adventure comes from your willingness to engage fully with different missions and exhibits. Whether you fully immerse yourself in the experience or do a quick run-through to observe each artistic display, you will have a fantastic time. You can even step into a thematic cocktail lounge and hang out for a drink if that’s your thing.
At a time when our lives are surrounded by cellular obsessions, streaming service fatigue, and excessive corporate slop bowls, finding refuge in an imaginative otherworldly type experience is a good way to unplug from this dismal reality for a moment.
