Mile High Stadium is one mile above sea level
The sea is at a particular level compared to land. Most land is above sea level (or it would be under the sea or very far inland). If you are a mile above sea level, then you are a mile above where the sea would be if there was no land there.
Denver, Colorado, is one mile above sea level.
Denver is the capital city in Colorado. Denver's elevation is 5280 feet above sea level. It is nicknamed the Mile-High City because its elevation is exactly one mile above sea level.
Type your answer here... Yes. The steps to the Denver capital building are exactly 5,280 feet. which is equal to one mile. Which is why Denver is refered to as the mile high city. Because we are exactly 1 mile above sea level.
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Apparently Denver is almost exactly a mile above sea level.
Mile High Stadium is called so because it's in Denver. Denver is nicked named that because its elevation is exactly one-mile above sea level, thus a mile high.
1 mile = 5280 feet
One mile above sea level
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