Colorado Springs keeps its happy hour downtown. Tejon Street, north and south of Pikes Peak Avenue, carries more listings than any other street in the city, and Old Colorado City on West Colorado Avenue is the second cluster. over 200 bars run windows across the metro, opening at 3 and 4 PM in equal measure, and $5 is the number that keeps coming back: $5 wells, $5 drafts, $5 cocktails, $5 wine flights.
This guide covers over 200 bars in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with over 60 listed happy hour deals. All data is from Happy Hour Map, updated regularly.
Downtown's Tejon Street is the walk — Zocalo's $5 drafts, District Elleven's $6 old fashioneds, The Post's $5 draft pints, Ephemera's $5 wells, and Vine and Wheel's half-off bottles all within a few blocks, with Shame & Regret's $4 house drinks on E Bijou and Phantom Canyon's $4 flagship pints on E Pikes Peak a corner away. Old Colorado City runs west along W Colorado Avenue — Alchemy's $6 Jameson, 503W's $5 wells, Gratitude, Pub Dog on Bott Avenue. Ivywild and the south side sit on S Cascade around the Principal's Office, and the newer north-side and Powers-corridor listings spread out along Academy Boulevard, Interquest Parkway, and Barnes Road.
The classic happy hour move. Here are some of the best well drink specials in Colorado Springs:
Draft deals are everywhere. Here are standout spots:
Downtown is the only genuinely walkable stretch — better than 30 listings sit on Tejon Street alone — so start there and keep it on foot. Two local habits are worth planning around: weekend and every-day schedules are more common here than in most cities (about four in ten of the over 60 listed deals include a Saturday, Sunday, or daily window, with Phantom Canyon and The Control Room both going all day Sunday), and there is a real late shift, with Worker's Lounge running to 1 AM most nights and 2 AM on weekends. At 6,000 feet, pace yourself — the altitude does half the work.
$5 wells, drafts, and cocktails, the Tejon Street downtown walk, Old Colorado City, weekend and Sunday windows, and late-running taprooms.
This article covers the highlights, but there are over 200 happy hour spots in Colorado Springs total. Download Happy Hour Map to browse them all on a map with live hours, "happening now" filters, and one-tap directions.
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