I live about 50 miles north of Denver.
You can look up the official air quality numbers for Denver. I know along the Front Range, there are common issues: ozone, dust, and smoke from wild fires. Ozone is related to elevation and human factors. There really is ozone. It is semi-arid here. That causes a brown haze to appear. It is real. Wild fires in the Summer and early Fall can be horrible. I have lived in Colorado for 24 years. During that time accept for one of those years, I would say there has only been a few weeks where we wouldn't go outside. I think it was 2020 that was really bad for a month or two. We had the two largest fires in state history at the same time just west of us. It was really bad.
If you like the area and do not have respiratory issues, I would not let air quality stand in your way.
You can look up the official air quality numbers for Denver. I know along the Front Range, there are common issues: ozone, dust, and smoke from wild fires. Ozone is related to elevation and human factors. There really is ozone. It is semi-arid here. That causes a brown haze to appear. It is real. Wild fires in the Summer and early Fall can be horrible. I have lived in Colorado for 24 years. During that time accept for one of those years, I would say there has only been a few weeks where we wouldn't go outside. I think it was 2020 that was really bad for a month or two. We had the two largest fires in state history at the same time just west of us. It was really bad.
If you like the area and do not have respiratory issues, I would not let air quality stand in your way.
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