Card Shops in Colorado

Colorado's 72 independent shops sit in 28 cities, and the state's largest concentration is not its capital. Colorado Springs carries 11 independent listings to Denver's 6, with Aurora (5), Longmont (5), and Castle Rock (5) filling in the Front Range behind them.

The chain count is 41 — 38 GameStop and 3 EntertainMART locations — which makes Colorado one of the states where a brand other than GameStop shows up in the grouped block at the bottom of this page. 4 cities here have only chain listings.

90 of the state's listings are classified trading card games and 29 sports cards; 6 carry both labels. Hours are posted for 92 shops, 66 of which show a seven-day week — a high share, and one worth checking against the shop's own page before a mountain drive.

Every Colorado entry carries an address and a map link; 107 carry a phone number, 92 post hours, and 85 link to a website. 65 have a Google rating attached, which is what the ranking on each list page is built from. Stock, buy prices and event nights are not fields in this dataset, so nothing here can tell you what is in a case today. The top of the rating-weighted ranking is Eclectic in Grand Junction (5.0 stars from 543 reviews), The Hobby Source in Denver (4.9 stars from 1,251 reviews), and Monkey Paw Toys in Aurora (4.9 stars from 377 reviews).

Coverage is good on the fields that matter for a trip: 107 of 113 listings carry a phone number and 85 a website. Ratings are the gap — only 65 of the 113 have one, the lowest share of any state in the mountain west — which means the Colorado best-shops ranking is drawn from a smaller pool than its shop count suggests.