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Indoor skydiving is a vertical windtunnel that blows hard enough to simulate the free fall effect of actual skydiving.   I first tried this novel sport twenty years ago in the tourist mecca known as Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.    Back then, they used a large aircraft propeller hooked up to a diesel engine to produce a column of air necessary to levitate a person.

In 2005, I tried Skyventure in Orlando Florida, another town that has a few tourists here and there.    I wasn't startled to learn that there would be a Skyventure location opening in the Denver area, but I was a little surprised where put it.

 I am no real estate expert, but it would seem to me the hordes of tourists passing through Denver would could have been snatched off I-70 on their way to and from the mountains like a bear catching salmon going upstream.

 Instead, SkyVenture Colorado is located in the town of Lone Tree, near the Park Meadows shopping mall, 20 miles south of I-70 and downtown Denver.

 Location asside, indoor skydiving is a treat.    Other than actually skydiving, there really is no way to describe the feeling of floating on a collumn of air.   I took my father, the ultimate man who has everything, there for his birthday, and he loved it.

While jumping out of an airplane costs $200, and requires many hours of preparation, a trip to Skyventure can cost as little as $48 and take less than an hour.   To look at it another way, the smiles per dollar ratio is sky high.