Stapleton International Airport
Airport in DenverWikipedia
6
MENTIONS
5
EPISODES
5
PODCASTS
Search complete. 6 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Stapleton International Airport".
Sep 3, 2026
Gabby HazeHOST
Well, Denver had one for years.
Gabby HazeHOST
It was called Stapleton Airport.
Gabby HazeHOST
They had parallel runways.
Gabby HazeHOST
And if anybody older drove out to Colorado to Denver, you drove under the runways as they made an approach.
Gabby HazeHOST
I mean, it's enormous.
Gabby HazeHOST
It has four parallel runways, two offset to the northwest and two offset to the southeast.
Gabby HazeHOST
Well, when you get those two on final approach at Denver, when you were back at the old Stapleton Airport, they came in east to west or west to east, and the prevailing winds come off the Rockies out of the west.
Gabby HazeHOST
Now, let's see.
Chris BianchiCORRESPONDENT
in the 90s.
Chris BianchiCORRESPONDENT
You know, Kyle, for those of you who've been here in Colorado for 30 plus years, you remember we've had some mega, mega snowstorms in September and especially late September in the 80s and even the mid 90s, ones that shuttered the old Stapleton Airport.
Chris BianchiCORRESPONDENT
But in Denver in the last 25 years, last 23 years, we picked up measurable snow You might remember when that was back in 2020.
Chris BianchiCORRESPONDENT
We went from 101 to snow in less than 72 hours.
Eric BainesGUEST
And I was around when that airport was being built.
Eric BainesGUEST
And so when I was a kid, it was Stapleton Airport, which was still sort of far.
Eric BainesGUEST
I grew up in Broomfield.
DevonHOST
It was still
NickHOST
Because mind you, it was a new airplane type, so a lot of these were brand new off the manufacturing line in 1958.
NickHOST
This was a flight from Los Angeles, or LAX, to Denver's Stapleton Airport.
ChristyHOST
Hey.
NickHOST
Hey.
Alexander CartwrightGUEST
Not the case whatsoever.
Alexander CartwrightGUEST
This property is across the street from what was Stapleton Airport.
Alexander CartwrightGUEST
And the Denver airport relocated to where it is now.
Alexander CartwrightGUEST
So you have a 310 room hotel that is no longer across the street from an airport.