The following airports serve the area around Denver, Colorado

Colorado

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, USA:

• Denver International Airport
  Denver International Airport
  Denver International Airport , often referred to as DIA, is an airport in Denver, Colorado. By land size, at , it is the largest international airport in the United States, and the third largest international airport in the world after King Fahd International Airport and Montréal-Mirabel...
  
   (KDEN) - Primarily commercial airport
• Centennial Airport
  Centennial Airport
  Centennial Airport is located in Dove Valley, an unincorporated portion of Arapahoe County near Denver, Colorado. The airport’s runways also extend into neighboring Douglas County. The airport opened on May 12, 1967 as Arapahoe County Airport, and was renamed on July 13, 1984...
  
   (KAPA)
• Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (KBJC)
• Front Range Airport
  Front Range Airport
  Front Range Airport is a public airport located on the northeastern edge of Aurora, Colorado, 19 miles east of the city's central business district and three miles southeast of Denver International Airport. It is owned by the Front Range Airport Authority, and serves the Denver area...
  
   (KFTG)
• Boulder Municipal Airport
  Boulder Municipal Airport
  Boulder Municipal Airport is a public airport located three miles northeast of the central business district of Boulder, a city in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. It is owned by the City of Boulder.Although most U.S...
  
   (KBDU)
• Erie Municipal Airport
  Erie Municipal Airport
  Erie Municipal Airport is a public airport located three miles south of the central business district of Erie, in Weld County, Colorado, United States. Owned and operated by the Town of Erie, it is a general aviation airport with no scheduled passenger service. It was formerly a private airport...
  
   (KEIK)

Recently closed airports:

• Stapleton International Airport
  Stapleton International Airport
  Stapleton International Airport was Denver, Colorado's primary airport from 1929 to 1995. At different times it served as a hub for TWA, People Express, Frontier Airlines and Western Airlines as well as a hub for Continental Airlines and United Airlines at the time of its closure.In 1995 Stapleton...
  
   - Closed 1995
• Aurora Airpark - Closed 2004
• Fort Collins Downtown Airport
  Fort Collins Downtown Airport
  Fort Collins Downtown Airport was a public use airport located east of the central business district of Fort Collins, a city in Larimer County, Colorado, United States. The airport closed on November 1, 2006.- History :...
  
   - Closed 2006

Stapleton International Airport served as Denver's main commercial airport until 1995, when it was replaced by the current Denver International Airport.

Nearby airports with airline service:

• Colorado Springs Municipal Airport (KCOS)
• Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport
  Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport
  Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport is a public airport located nine miles southeast of Fort Collins and northeast of Loveland, both cities in Larimer County, Colorado, United States. The airport covers and has two runways...
  
   (KFNL)

Denver International Airport is the major airport for scheduled airline service in the Denver Front Range

Front Range Urban Corridor

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. Colorado Springs' Petersen Field has occasionally served as a lower-cost alternative for Denver's southern suburbs, apart from its primary focus on the Colorado Springs MSA

Colorado Springs Metropolitan Statistical Area

The Colorado Springs Metropolitan Statistical Area is a United States Census Bureau defined Metropolitan Statistical Area located in the Colorado Springs region of the State of Colorado. The Census Bureau estimates that the population was 647,758 in 2010, a 20.48% increase since 2000. The...

. Additionally, Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport has airline service and is occasionally used by those living in the Denver area.