Willie Ripple Events

The Wings Over the Rockies exhibits allow you to explore and transport yourself to a different time and place. You can get up close and personal with historic aircraft, artifacts, and memorabilia and immerse yourself in the future of aviation and space through realistic flight simulators and events. Wings Over the Rockies is more than just a museum. It's a community organization that strives to unlock visitors' dreams of flight. With exhibitions, events, and educational programming at two locations, Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum and Exploration of Flight, the organization welcomes approximately 160,000 visitors from across the United States and around the world every year.

Experience an incredible immersive journey with Beyond, which combines guided meditation with a stunning audiovisual masterpiece projected onto the ceiling mural of a 125-year-old restored church. The visual effects are created with 3D mapping technology and painted by renowned Spanish artists Okuda and Miguel. This experience is designed to take you on a spiritual voyage, encouraging self-discovery and exploration of your thoughts in an enlightening and uplifting way. The Beyond laser light show features a 360-degree audiovisual immersive and has been featured in numerous newspapers, magazines, and television shows, including TruTV's "101 Places Before You Die." Apart from the Beyond experience, you will have unrestricted access to a retro arcade lounge, an art gallery, a movie theater, and Gandhi's Graffiti Garden, which boasts over a dozen of Denver's most well-known Instagram spots. Moreover, you can explore the arcade lounge, featuring numerous vintage arcades and emulators with more than 10,000 video games available for free, and the movie theater has a 26ft. wide screen that is ideal for playing Mario Kart. Additionally, the art gallery showcases works from world-renowned artists.

If you're an animal lover, consider visiting the Wild Animal Sanctuary. This sanctuary is home to various rescued animals, such as leopards, cougars, wolves, bobcats, and foxes, all living in species-specific habitats on 320 acres of open grassland. As the largest and oldest nonprofit sanctuary in the United States, the Wild Animal Sanctuary provides a haven for these beautiful creatures, many of whom were rescued from dangerous or abusive situations. The animals, staff, and volunteers at the Wild Animal Sanctuary appreciate your interest in their work to help solve America's captive wildlife crisis.