For those that are new to Denver, it may take a second or two to figure out that 5280 Magazine takes its name from the city's mile-high elevation. The magazine began in 1993 with the simple but unprecedented step of asking 75,000 area residents what they wanted to read about in a magazine about the Mile High City. Denver, they told us, is a place of contrasts and the magazine has worked hard to represent the stories rooted inside of that contrast.