The Cheapest Places to Fly from Denver

Denver is the best city in America to hold a GoWild™ pass, and it isn't close: DEN is Frontier's fortress hub, with more nonstop Frontier routes than anywhere else on the network. More routes means more flights, more unsold seats, and more pass inventory on any given morning. Here's how to actually find the cheap ones.

First, the GoWild reframe

On the pass, "cheapest" changes meaning. Every GoWild fare is the same near-zero base plus taxes and fees — a $15–60 range where the differences come from airport fees and route taxes, not demand pricing. So the question stops being "which destination is cheapest?" and becomes "which destinations have open seats tomorrow?" — a question about flight fullness, not fares.

That's exactly what an Anywhere scan answers: one search sweeps every Frontier destination from DEN, sorted cheapest-first, with the fullness gauge showing which flights actually have room. Run it the night before; book in the morning.

Where the cheap seats usually are

Patterns from watching Denver's board (verify any given day on the radar — this is a compass, not a quote):

• The short-haul west: Las Vegas, Phoenix, Salt Lake City — high frequency, quick hops, and the taxes-and-fees floor stays at the low end. These are the classic "decided at dinner, flying at dawn" GoWild runs.
• Midweek anywhere: Tuesday and Wednesday departures run emptiest across the network. The same destination that's stuffed Friday is wide open Wednesday — the fullness gauge makes this visible per flight.
• The counter-seasonal play: beach cities in summer's off-peak, mountain-adjacent routes after ski season — demand troughs are pass-holder feasts.
• Cash-fare hunting: paying cash instead? Frontier's promo fares from DEN regularly dip aggressively on competitive routes. The fare calendar shows a whole month's lows per route at a glance, and a fare watch emails you when your route drops under your number.

The Denver advantages stack

1. Route breadth — more nonstops = more chances something is empty tomorrow.
2. Frequency — popular routes fly multiple times daily, so a full 7 AM doesn't kill the day; the 2 PM might be half-empty.
3. Recovery depth — the veteran's quiet reason: when a standby-style plan wobbles, DEN has more alternate routes home than anywhere. Your bailout options are simply better here.

The weekly rhythm that works

• Sunday night: glance at the calendar for the week's shape.
• Any evening: Anywhere scan → shortlist three destinations with empty-looking flights.
• Next morning: book the emptiest good option, personal item only, morning departure.
• Always: know the flight home before you leave — the first-flight playbook covers the full loop.

Denver pass holders aren't hunting cheap flights. They're standing at the center of the network, picking which nearly-free one sounds good today.

No pass yet? Start with is GoWild worth it? — spoiler: living in Denver is the strongest single argument for yes.