Red Rocks Amphitheater is an open-air amphitheater built into a rock structure in the western United States, ten miles (16 km) west of Denver, Colorado. There is a large, tilted, disc-shaped rock behind the stage, a huge vertical rock angled outwards from stage right, several large outcrops angled outwards from stage left and a seating area for up to 9,525 people.
The Red Rock Amphitheatre is higher than Niagara Falls and is part of the geological Fountain Formation, deposited approximately 280 million years ago. Believe it or not, the Rolling Stones weren’t around yet, and, in fact, Red Rocks didn’t get its start as a music venue until the early 1900s, when Renaissance man John Brisben Walker set up a makeshift stage among the rocks. A famous opera singer came to perform and declared it “acoustically perfect,” and it’s been revered by musicians ever since.
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