Fred Hood

Argo has roots in Aurora's ill-fated Science Fiction Land

Argo's fake movie started out real, and was supposed to include a theme park in...Aurora?

Science Fiction Land could have been huge. Proposed in 1979, the idea was to build a huge theme park in Aurora with a holographic zoo and a 1,000-lane bowling alley attended by robots. The park was to also serve as the set of a $50 million sci-fi flick called Lord of Light. The movie never happened, ... More >>

Science Fiction Land could have been Aurora's biggest tourist trap, if its backers weren't crooks

Tomorrow, the Colorado Economic Development Commission will hold its first public hearing on the six projects vying for big-bucks sales-tax rebates under the state's Regional Tourism Act. They include a 1,500-room hotel and conference center in Aurora. The hotel would be the city's biggest tourism d ... More >>

Aurora's not exactly a tourist trap, but you might just visit it anyway