It's always a good idea to get VFR Flight Following. Even if you are soloing in the practice area or anytime flying in Class Echo airspace. Especially if you are flying over your local city.
Look what happened outside Cincinnati yesterday Just be ready to get give your accurate location and ready to enter the squawk code as they give it to you.

I fly around Denver, and if their approach controllers are willing to help you, just about anywhere would be willing to help you in my opinion just because Denver is a very busy Class Bravo with Center Controllers and Class Echo area under the shelf over a good part of the Denver area. They are also always very helpful in giving us vectors for practice Instrument Approaches into our Class Delta airport (BJC) on the outskirts of Denver.