Spices near the Littleton/Downtown Station (light rail)

Did you know that the cinnamon that we buy in the store is not really cinnamon? I didn't. I learned this on my trip to the Savory Spice Shop in downtown Littleton.

Most of what we buy as cinnamon is really cassia. If you have a piece of cinnamon bark that looks like a scroll that is cassia. If you have a piece of cinnamon bark that looks like a piece of bark, that is cassia. Ground cassia includes both the inner and outer bark which may be why it is cheaper than true cinnamon. Savory Spice Shop specializes in telling you exactly what you are getting, including multiple kinds of cinnamon and cassia. (I like locally owned shops.)

Downtown Littleton is a five minute walk from Littleton/Downtown Station.

Of Interest: Spices, downtown, locally-owned shops, Littleton Town Hall Art Center, court houses, historic buildings

Restrooms: No

Tourist Office: No

Other transit: local buses, bus stops are at both ends of the station

Grocery Store: no, but there is a coffee shop in the light rail station that is open until 5pm.

ATM: Don't all old downtown's have a bank. (Littleton was incorporated in 1890 and several buildings downtown date from the 1920's.)

Computer Access: Five minutes away at Englewood Civic Center in the library.

Downtown is northwest of the station, left when you leave the train. If you head left when you leave the station area, you should run into Main Street. Once you are on Main Street, walk toward the mountains to get to Savory Spice Shop. Note that you will walk past another spice shop. They are not locally-owned, and their spices are not as good, so keep walking. You also turn left to get to the courts, but you will have to walk east over the tracks to get to them. Littleton Municipal Court is right next to the bridge, and Littleton County Court is further along Littleton Boulevard.

Turn right to get to Arapahoe Community College and most buses.

Be careful and watch for cars when entering or exiting the station are and ParknRide.

The Littleton/Downtown Station is served by lines C and D of the Denver Metro light rail system. This is the second to last station; the end of both lines is three minutes south at the Mineral station which is still within Littleton's city borders. Downtown Englewood is five minutes away to the north. This is the station you want to go to if you are looking for a library. Trains heading north meet other lines in the system twelve minutes away at the I-25 and Broadway Station. This is the first station Change here to go to southwest Denver and suburbs. It is also where you need to start paying a higher fare for travel. Please note that even if you are traveling back into the zone where you started, if security checks your ticket here and you have not paid enough to get to this station, you will be fined.

You are now in the city of Denver. The C and D lines continue on together for two more stations until the 10th and Osage Station. From here the C line continues past Auraria Campus (three colleges), the football stadium and the Pepsi Center (basketball, concerts, other sports) before arriving at Denver Union Station which is twenty-eight minutes from Littleton. The D lines curves slightly to the south. It passes a different side of Auraria Campus before going through the middle of downtown. Some trains end here a half an hour after leaving Littleton and some continue on to the historic Five Points neighborhood which is another 8 to ten minutes further along.