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303 Ramen, gutted by a March 2026 fire in Olde Town Arvada, reopened Sept. 11 at 8025 Sheridan Blvd. The panang curry ramen made it out alive.
14er Fest runs September 25 through 27 in downtown Buena Vista, putting off-roaders and hikers on the same trails to keep them open, all under peak fall color in the Collegiate
A new Aurora home listed around
El Pueblo History Museum sits where the US-Mexico border once ran, and this Hispanic Heritage Month it is turning Avondale's farm families and 58 Latino veterans into public
Ryan Fowler and Erica Dunford just opened Easy's Records + Vintage at 327 N. Tejon St., filling a downtown record-store gap that had stood empty since 2018.
Colorado's HB26-1099 forces developers to pay for a 30-year reserve study before they hand off a new HOA, a direct hit at the special assessments crushing condo owners.
Cedaredge, population 2,279, throws its 49th annual Applefest October 2-4, 2026, drawing over 30,000 people to the Grand Mesa's southern slope for peak color and apples.
Good Girl Cafe and Bookstore opened this week at 2807 S. Broadway in Englewood, where owner Meg Garcia-Jahrman turned two years of loss into a no-rush third place.
Fannie Mae's LL-2026-03 caps condo master-policy deductibles at $50,000, and in hail-country Colorado that gap can sink a conventional loan unless your HO-6 is written right.
Wolf Creek, the Epic-free, Ikon-free ski area on the Continental Divide, runs its preseason pass sale Sept. 26 through Oct. 4, the year's best price to skip I-70.
Colorfest floats over Pagosa Springs Sept. 18-20, 2026, with two free mass balloon ascensions, a night glow, drone show, and international wine downtown.
The average 30-year fixed hit 7.09% on Sept. 18, 2026, the highest in 18 months, and it adds about $316 a month to a $480,000 Front Range loan.
The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum runs a free downtown walking tour Sept. 19 and 26, 2026, marking 150 years of statehood one building at a time.
The inaugural Aspen Restaurant Week Autumn runs September 21 to 27, 2026, with $45, $75 and $95 prix fixe menus landing right as fall foliage hits peak.
The Appraisal Institute Colorado Chapter is teaching appraisers to run ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini at its Sept. 18 Breckenridge summit, with Fair Housing rules built in.
Danny Newman is under contract to sell the Mercury Cafe at 2199 California St. to CoCreate, a Denver collective that says it will revive the poetry and dance, not gut it.
The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum runs free downtown walking tours Sept. 19 and 26, starting at 10 a.m. from Blk Mgk Coffee, framing ordinary Tejon Street as where the city
Denver-metro rent fell back to 2022 levels with a record
Capitol Hill's typical home value dropped to $310,208, down 5.7% in a year, while Cherry Creek held at
The Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate a quarter point to 3.75%-4%, its first hike since 2023, and Chair Kevin Warsh signaled more may follow. What a rate-hike cycle means for Colorado buyers and sellers.
After three years of a flat Front Range market, a small but growing number of Colorado owners owe more than their home will fetch. Expiring buydowns, adjustable-rate resets and thin down payments are the common thread.
Rocky Mountain National Park's rut peaks in mid-September, with 2,000 to 3,000 elk in the Estes Valley. Know the 75-foot rule and the Bustang workaround before you go.
Andrea Bocelli plays Red Rocks Sept. 20-21 while two free Oktoberfests, a Rockies homestand and George Lopez crowd the same Front Range weekend.
La Vie En Rose opened in RiNo the week of Sept. 12, 2026, with over 120 Champagnes by the bottle, one of the largest bubbly lists in Colorado.
In 1929 Emma Crawford's coffin slid down Manitou's Red Mountain. Now thousands pack Manitou Avenue every October to race coffins in her name.
Right now 8,073 homes across the Denver metro are sitting expired or withdrawn - and in the last two weeks almost as many homes failed to sell as actually closed. Here is what is happening and where all those homes go.
High rates, an inflation shock, an energy crunch, Iran in the headlines, and a Carter-to-Reagan-style political turn — the 2020s are rhyming hard with the 1980s. Here is what that rhyme means for anyone still waiting to buy.
First-time buyers fell to a record-low 21% of the market this year while baby boomers climbed to 42%, according to NAR. Here is what that widening generational divide means for buyers and sellers in Colorado.
Dream Finders is advertising a 3.49% year-one rate in Denver Metro, but that same loan jumps about $466 a month once the buydown burns off. Here is the math.
Lucero's at 3657 Fillmore Street, the walk-to breakfast spot that anchored Denver's Clayton neighborhood for 64 years, closed for good after the building sold. Here is the real
The Tour de Corgi returns to Old Town Fort Collins on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026, with 300-plus costumed corgis, a parade down College Avenue, and a $5 donation that feeds three local
A February 2026 Colorado Division of Insurance study found hail, not wildfire, drives up to 54% of your premium. And a new state roof-grant program could hand you $7,500 to
Dearfield, the Black homesteading town Oliver Toussaint Jackson founded in Weld County in 1910, reopens its 100-year-old filling station Oct. 3 to fight its erasure.
A hot, dry summer has aspens turning brown instead of gold, and CSU's John Murgel says peak color is running about a week early. Timing and elevation matter more than ever.
Front Range buyers are holding out for a Sept. 16 rate cut, but CME data now puts a hike above 50%. The real savings are in builder buydowns, not the headline.
The Longs Peak Scottish-Irish Highland Festival hits 50 Sept. 11 to 13 at the Estes Park Event Complex, drawing up to 20,000 people a day. The downtown parade is gone.
Breckenridge Oktoberfest returns to historic downtown September 25-27, 2026 for its 30th year, and the beer tokens longtime festgoers relied on are officially dead. Bring a card.
Corcoran Perry & Co.'s September 2026 report shows Denver's detached homes at a $649,500 median while attached condos slid to $370,000 and now sit for 45 days.
Jessica Manuszak's Failure Ball returns to Denver on Sept. 19, 2026, a
The Meeker Classic runs 135 Border Collie teams for a
A Coraly study found 10.8% of listing photos on the big portals are digitally altered, and over 90% carry no disclosure. California now bans it. Colorado does not.
A new exhibit at the Ute Indian Museum in Montrose lets the Ute tell their own version of 1923, when 80 people were penned behind barbed wire in Blanding, Utah.
Soda Club opened September 1 inside The Ramble Hotel in RiNo, bringing four straight Michelin Bib Gourmand years and a plant-based menu most diners won't clock.
As of July 1, 2026, replacing 25% or more of your roof in a Front Range wildfire zone can trigger full fire-rated upgrades under Colorado's new statewide code.
DMAR's August 2026 report shows just 3,068 Denver closings, down 17.35% from a year ago, while the median price held at $594,495. The split matters.
Temaki Den's Kenta Kamo and Isaac Woo quietly opened Poor Boys, a Louisiana po'boy pop-up at RiNo's Source food hall, and it may vanish by October 2026.
Sept. 11-13 stacks Global Dance Festival at the National Western Center, three Brandi Carlile nights at Red Rocks and a free 37th Friendship Powwow at the Denver Art Museum.
The $82.1 million Grand Junction Community Recreation Center opens Sept. 25 in Matchett Park, the first the city has ever had after decades of failed attempts.
About 150,000 people crowd Historic Downtown Pueblo Sept. 18-20 for the Chile & Frijoles Festival, where gate admission is $8 and kids 12 and under get in free.
Since December 16, 2024, every single-family lot in Denver can legally add a backyard cottage. No lot minimum, no owner-occupancy rule, no public hearing.
A South Platte River Trail segment closed since 2020 by a failing timber wall is finally back, and it is just the first piece of a $35 million corridor overhaul running through
The Colorado Mountain Winefest just tore up its 6,000-person Palisade formula for its 35th year on Sept. 19. Fewer than 2,000 tickets,
Gov. Polis signed the Colorado American Dream Act in May 2025 to unlock entry-level condos. Eight months in, mostly luxury towers are rising and lawmakers already have to fix a
Colorado Parks and Wildlife euthanized 294 black bears through Aug. 31, nearly triple last year's toll, after a record drought pushed starving bears into towns.
Glass Class Denver hosts the Rocky Mountain Flame Off on September 6, 2026. Over 40 artists, 8 categories, and the public picks every winner. Free, noon to 10 p.m.
a national listing site puts the average Denver rent at
Roadrunner Pizza & Pasta at 3113 N. Hancock closed overnight after 43 years. Its goodbye said it all: "it's rough out there."
Off Highway 17 near Hooper, the UFO Watchtower has logged 163 sightings since 2000. With federal UFO files dropping in 2026, this
HB26-1426 took effect August 12, 2026, requiring a signed compensation agreement before a Colorado agent writes an offer for you. Here is what it means on the Front Range.
Bruz Off Fax closes at 1495 York St. on September 24, 2026, after six years on Colfax, while owners Ryan and Rachel Evans bet big on a new Golden flagship.
The free Steampunk Soiree returns to Victor, Colorado's best preserved ghost town, on Sept. 5 and 6, 2026, with a parade, aerialists, and Tesla's ghost.
The Nob Hill Inn at 420 E. Colfax has poured drinks under that name since 1954. Now BRT construction and repair bills could close it by the end of September.
On Sept. 5-6, 2026, Wings Over the Rockies parks genuine WWII aircraft on the Centennial Airport ramp, and yes, you can actually buy a seat.
a national listing site ranks Denver-Aurora-Centennial among the top 10 metros where builders are cutting new-home prices, but a metro-district mill levy can quietly erase the savings.
Front Range homeowners who lost their 2025 reassessment appeal get one more shot at the county Board of Equalization, but in Jefferson and Boulder counties that window slams shut
Denver artist Olive Moya finished a 47,000-square-foot mural at Welton and Tremont on Aug. 31, 2026, one of the largest in Colorado and a $300,000-plus bet on saving 16th Street.
Phish takes over Dick's for three nights, Maná stacks two at Red Rocks, and Denver Summit FC hosts Gotham on CBS. Here is the Labor Day plan that never leaves town.
Chicago Mike's Beef & Dogs at 11405 E. Briarwood Ave. closed in August 2026, weeks after owner Giles Everist died, ending a 28-year run for south-metro Italian beef.
The Caveman Music Festival returns to Monument Lake Resort near Weston on September 4-6, 2026, with 20-plus bands, two stages and camping on 368 acres in the Sangre de Cristos.
A Mile High Title Guy analysis says Denver Metro sellers have about eight weeks from Labor Day to Halloween, and a Denver brokerage's pending contracts just logged 14 straight
Denver's Boettcher Concert Hall, the first symphony venue in America built in the round, is finally getting a
The Labor Day Lift Off hits its 50th year September 5-7 at Memorial Park with 80-plus balloons, free admission and a festival that started for the price of a six-pack.
Denver metro pending contracts just finished a record 14th straight week below last year's pace, and inventory is actually lighter than 2025. This one is on demand.
Denver's AVA Presents is pouring $3.5 million into Colorado Springs' 1923 City Auditorium, aiming for events by early 2027 after a collapsed $87 million plan.
History Colorado hauls 500-plus of Colorado's weirdest artifacts out of storage for Creeporado on Friday, September 25, 2026, and tickets are selling now.
A Q2 2026 look at 12,029 metro Denver closings found 62.9% closed with a seller concession at a median of
Vail Resorts just set tentative dates for five Colorado mountains, and Keystone is aiming to open in October and beat all of North America for the second year running.
The fifth renewal of the Great Colorado vs. Texas Tomato War hits The Meadows in Buena Vista on Aug. 29, 2026, with over 2,000 pounds of Pueblo tomatoes for a fight.
Colorado Regulation 5-1-28 locks in October 1, forcing home insurers to hand every owner their wildfire risk score, mitigation discounts, and a real appeal right.
Grace Chapel is turning the 85,000-square-foot Boot Barn at 8500 E. Orchard Road into a 1,000-seat worship center, and Greenwood Village council spent the night fighting over a
Patty Calhoun co-founded Westword in September 1977 and edited it for nearly half a century. Now she is writing 50 columns for the paper's 50th, and there is a History Colorado
Colorado's SB 26-189 and the federal UAD 3.6 rollout both land within about two months, giving Front Range homeowners the right to know when a machine helped decide their housing
Buc-ee's is back before El Paso County commissioners today, and the whole fight over Monument Hill comes down to one word: convenience store.
Right now thousands of male tarantulas are marching across the Comanche National Grassland near La Junta, three hours from Denver, hunting for love before winter.
Denver condo values have fallen 14.3% from their 2022 peak, and new Fannie Mae rules taking effect this summer are quietly locking whole buildings out of conventional financing.
Denver Metro homeowners are opening escrow-shortage letters this summer showing
Mission Foods is shutting its Pueblo tortilla plant at 2110 Santa Fe Dr., cutting 90 union jobs at a factory Candy and Sadie Estrada started in 1957.
Saint Joseph Polish Parish in Globeville, built in 1902, serves free-admission pierogi and hunter's stew August 29 and 30, with dancers flown in from Poland and Chicago.
The Denver Food + Wine Festival packs 50-plus Colorado restaurants into the Tivoli Quad August 26-29, and it is fighting Dave Matthews, Goose and the Broncos for your Friday.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife logged 6,129 bear reports through August 24, 2026, nearly double last year, with six attacks so far and the worst feeding stretch still ahead.
Cherry Groove brings nine Colorado bands, free yoga, and Every Little Thing food to Fillmore Plaza on Aug. 28 and 29, 2026. The whole thing is free.
Topo Designs, the Denver pack brand born in a basement in 2008, is now a courtroom deadlock away from a receiver, and jobs on Larimer Street hang on it.
The state seized Denver's 25-year-old Truffle Cheese Shop over back taxes in October 2025. Now it is coming back inside the Golden Triangle's Evans School, run by a guy who cannot
Lakeside opened May 30, 1908, and it is the last White City park left in America. The 2026 season ends September 7, so your window is almost gone.
The Bureau of Reclamation's new two-year plan, finalized Aug. 21, spares Colorado from mandatory cuts while Arizona loses 760,000 acre-feet. Here is what it means.
The Book Rack at 4061 E. Wesley Ave. in University Hills closes Sept. 13, 2026, ending a 49-year run as Denver's oldest continuously operating used bookstore.
The Breckenridge International Festival of Arts wraps Sunday, Aug. 23, with free inflatable sea creatures, Beats Antique and a bike-powered stage across downtown.
Denver laid off 169 workers in August 2025, and now the Tejon Street bike lane where a cyclist died is being rebuilt as paint, not protection. City officials say 2027 offers no
A state bond issuer paid $400 million for the Stanley Hotel, and the Blumhouse horror museum is now running months ahead of its 2028 opening in Estes Park.
The Leonardo da Vinci Museum of North America opened June 12, 2026, along Pueblo's Riverwalk, the only permanent one on the continent and one of just six in the world.
Tejon Street's protected bike lane, where a cyclist named Koç was killed, is being downgraded to paint because DOTI says protection costs too much. That is the 2026 budget on the
Stumpy's New York Style Pizza at 138 S. Wilcox has fed Castle Rock for 26 years. Rivers Church bought the building, and the lease runs out end of August 2026.
Kebler Pass near Crested Butte holds one of Earth's largest living things, a single aspen root system that turns gold in one week. In 2026 that week comes early.
On August 19, Colorado's PUC approved another Xcel electric increase. It is the eighth since September 2023, and all 1.6 million customers pay, with no way to switch.
Morrison, population 396, rejected annexation of The Fort and a 50-home plan from Denver heavyweights Revesco and City Street on Aug 18, 2026, after a packed, angry meeting.
Denver Zoo's seventh Flock Party lands August 22, a 21-plus flamingo bash marking 130 years. Tickets ran
Aurora needs about 12,000 affordable units, the Housing Authority told city leaders on Aug. 18, 2026, right as Colorado lawmakers pulled housing grant dollars into the general
In September 2024 the San Luis Valley's aquifer hit its lowest recorded level ever. Now Sarah Jones and Heather Dutton are betting a water-thin grain can keep the farms alive.
A record-low snowpack means Colorado's aspens will peak sooner than usual in 2026, with the high country above 10,000 feet turning gold by mid-to-late September.
The Big Bounce America hauls a 24,000-square-foot bounce house to the Denver Coliseum lot Aug. 22-23, and it is one of 51 concerts and a global rugby tournament all fighting for
History Colorado is putting nearly $6 million into 33 preservation projects, and the biggest stories are in Raymer and Pueblo, not Denver.
Archangel Michael Greek Orthodox Church throws its annual Greek Festival Aug. 21-23 at 2215 Paseo Road, and the loukoumades money is literally building a new church under Pikes
Denver prices rose 5% in May 2026, second only to Urban Hawaii among 12 major metros, while Colorado's labor force shed nearly 65,000 people year over year.
Sage Wirth wants a Boulder judge to appoint a receiver over Liberty Puzzles, the 130-employee Pearl Street maker of
The Eagle Mushroom & Wild Food Festival runs August 21-23, 2026, with free ID all weekend, $80 forest forays, and a
A new Common Sense Institute report pegs Denver's government-imposed cost per new home at over $40,000, more than double the peer-city average, before a single nail goes in.
Rock Bottom Brewery started at 16th and Curtis in downtown Denver in 1991. As of August 2026, the only one left in Colorado sits in Loveland.
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science just parked a life-sized 60-foot Mamenchisaurus inside, and "The World's Largest Dinosaurs" runs through Sept. 7, 2026.
Denver's HOST is asking City Council to shrink a voter-backed housing pledge from 1,300 units to 959, killing 290 promised homes in west Denver.
On Dec. 9, 2017, a Cortez couple found the last known Colorado Orange apple tree on a Cañon City farm. Now they are racing to save the rest before the fruit vanishes for good.
The Colorado Dragon Boat Festival returns free to Sloan's Lake Aug. 29-30, 2026, with 50-plus racing teams, two Taste of Asia food courts, and a 2,000-year-old tradition.
Weeks after Colorado approved nearly
La Veta, a town of under 1,000 at the foot of the Spanish Peaks, watched the Cucharas River go bone dry on Aug. 7, 2026. The reservoirs have about 150 days.
Chicken Fight & Burger Brawl hits Elitch Gardens on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, with 40-plus restaurants, four titles, and your vote deciding the winners.
As of Aug. 12, Colorado towns can sell public land to affordable housing builders. The state is short 136,000 rental units for its lowest earners.
The Colorado Fourteeners Initiative counted 256,000 hiker days in 2025, the fewest since tracking began in 2015. Director Lloyd Athearn says that is about access, not interest.
The 154th Colorado State Fair runs Aug. 28 through Labor Day at 1001 Beulah Ave. in Pueblo, with
CU's regents closed on Independence Plaza at 1050 17th St. on Aug. 10, 2026, for
Fishers Peak State Park opens 9 new miles of trail on Aug. 15, 2026, pushing its system past 20 miles and pulling more riders and hikers down to Trinidad.
Built on West Colfax in 1966, the giant Coney Island hot dog stand has moved twice, dodged the wrecking ball, and now sits on Roark Creek in Bailey pulling South Park fans off
For two nights at Coors Field the Savannah Bananas turn baseball upside down, while LCD Soundsystem takes Red Rocks and Golden throws a free art fest. One weekend, one plan.
When Painted Tree closed in Colorado Springs, its own vendors reopened the same space as The Collective Boutiques. Grand opening is August 29, 2026.
Seven Keys Lodge at 4900 South Hwy. 7 above Estes Park holds keys to Mozart's wine cellar, the Pentagon, and Hitler's bunker. It opens for its 2026 summer season.
Terra CO2 broke ground in June on a 30,167-square-foot lab at 1341 Avery St. near Golden, keeping 32 high-skill jobs in the metro while chasing cleaner cement.
Jamestown has one restaurant, The Merc, built in 1892. Now the town of 250 is trying to raise
Western Daughters Wine Bar just opened at 3326 Tejon St. next to the butcher shop that has put over $5 million back into local ranchers since 2013.
The Denver DDA is putting $63 million behind two projects, including its biggest office-redevelopment loan yet, to convert empty Upper Downtown towers into places people actually
Rocky Mountain National Park closes the Kawuneeche Valley August 24-30, 2026 to poison out invasive brook trout and hand the greenback cutthroat back its headwaters.
The World's Wonder View Tower outside Genoa, dark since 2013, reopens May 1-2, 2026 with a $3 million restoration timed to Colorado's 150th birthday.
Cargill locked out 1,700 Fort Morgan meatpackers on May 20, and on Aug. 3 the workers rejected the deal meant to end it. The town is bleeding millions.
Nearly 70 self-supported cyclists left Waterton Canyon at 4 a.m. on August 2 for the 528-mile Colorado Trail Race. The leaders are finishing in Durango this week.
The Feast of St. Rocco returns to Potenza Lodge Aug. 14 to 16, 2026, with a live auction for the honor of carrying a saint's statue through North Denver.
Native Roots is closing its Denver grow at 4990 N. Dahlia St. and laying off 141 people by Oct. 2, a marker of how far Colorado cannabis has fallen since 2021.
The Manitou Springs Heritage Center's free "Manitou Rails!" exhibit at 517 Manitou Avenue runs through Aug. 31, 2026, and tells the story of a lost line.
Wild West Excursions in Cortez sends sure-footed pack goats down the Dolores River Canyon carrying your fly rod, watercolors and riverside picnic while you just walk.
The fourth annual Olde Town Whiskey Fest hits 57th & Olde Wadsworth on August 8, 2026, with 14 half-ounce pours for $45 and proceeds staying local.
Rockmount Ranch Wear at 1626 Wazee St. invented the snap-button cowboy shirt in 1946. In 2026 it turns 80 and welcomes its fourth generation.
Charlotte Hot Springs west of Buena Vista pairs three geothermal pools with an indoor jungle of iguanas, fish and resident macaw parrots. Nothing else in Colorado does this.
The 42nd Sculpture in the Park runs August 7 to 9 at Benson Sculpture Garden in Loveland, with 2,000 works and 160 artists. Gate admission is ten bucks.
For four days in late August 2026, the Georgetown Loop Railroad runs Wild West Days trains with reenactors, a staged robbery, and a Faro game in the saloon.
Scr3am & Sugar at 1974 South Acoma in Overland serves gore-themed lattes inside a horror oddity shop, and City Cast just named it a Summerween stop.
The Rocky Mountain UkeFest runs August 7-9 across Durango's Strater Hotel, Fort Lewis College and five downtown venues. All-Access passes are
South Park City Museum in Fairplay stages Living History Days August 8 and 9, 2026, with gunfights, gold panning, and Faro, a game outlawed for money nationwide.
Adventure Time Bar at 101 S. Broadway rebuilds its entire room and drink menu every quarter. You buy a 90-minute ticket, and right now you walk into a cyberpunk city.
Uptick, an Aussie fire-inspection software company, opened its North American HQ at 1774 Platte St. after weighing San Diego and Austin. The reason it landed here matters.
Beanstalk Music Festival returns to Rancho Del Rio in Bond August 6 to 8, 2026, and it is the Magic Beans' final run as a band. Camping included.
Walden, population 513, is the only town Colorado's legislature ever named Moose Viewing Capital. Its Moose Fest hits State Forest State Park on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026.
The Pasty Republic serves a Cornish hand pie that fed Colorado's 1800s tin and gold miners, now sold hot at 4166 Tennyson Street and 2615 East Third Avenue.
Baker holds the highest concentration of Queen Anne Victorians in Denver's historic center, and on Aug. 8 residents open the doors. Tickets start at
Colorado Brazil Fest lands in Boulder Aug. 6-8 with a free Samba on the Mall show at the Historic Courthouse, plus Carnaval bands and Afro-Brazilian dance classes.
By August most Colorado whitewater parks run dry. Montrose's Uncompahgre keeps flowing, and FUNC Fest turns it into a free two-day river party on August 7 and 8, 2026.
The Saigon Azteca Night Market returns to Westwood Aug. 7-8, 2026, where lion dancers face off against Aztec dancers and lowriders battle JDM cars, all free.
On August 1, 1876, the 9th Cavalry raised the flag at Fort Garland for Colorado statehood. History Colorado's new "O Say Can You See" pairs that era's original 37-star flag with
Colorado Gators in Mosca started as a 1977 tilapia farm, bought 100 baby alligators to eat fish scraps in 1987, and became the world's only high-altitude gator farm.
Two artists turned the century-old Roof & Dick Building in downtown Walsenburg into the Museum of Friends, a 1,600-piece contemporary art collection you can visit for $8.
The Hungry Moose Caboose in Jefferson, a walk-up window at the base of Kenosha Pass, just landed The Colorado Sun's Best Burger crown for 2025.
The free Cruisin' Colfax Summer Art Crawl rolls into Lakewood's 40 West Arts District on Friday, Aug. 7, 2026, from 5 to 9 p.m. with car shows, live bands and Beat poetry.
On July 28, 2026, RTD's board voted 9-6 to move ahead with
The Arkansas Valley Fair in Rocky Ford has run every year since 1878, and on Watermelon Day the Rotary Club gives away 30,000 pounds of melon for free.
The Wheat Ridge Carnation Festival hits Anderson Park August 7 to 9, 2026, marking 57 years and honoring the town that once grew more carnations than anywhere on Earth.
The North Pole in Cascade has been spinning rides on the slopes of Pikes Peak since 1956. Its 70th season runs through December 24, and summer entry is free.
The West Elks Wine Trail runs July 31 through August 2, 2026, around Paonia and Hotchkiss. One $45 ticket gets you 14 wineries, a glass, and a tote.
The Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden is spotlighting Mexican trackworkers in its "Traqueros" exhibit, and Coloradans have a narrow window to catch it.
Since June 20, 1955, Estes Park's aerial tram has climbed 2,630 feet with zero support towers, counterweighted by 50,000 pounds of bricks. No park pass needed.
Chef Johnny Curiel put an 18-course,
The International Pack Burro Race launches down Harrison Avenue at 10 a.m. on August 9, sending runners and donkeys 21 miles toward Mosquito Pass and over 13,000 feet.
The Denver Gazette counted nine via ferrata routes across Colorado, from a beginner gorge at Cave of the Winds to Ouray's 60-foot helix ladder and a literal leap of faith.
The Olathe Sweet Corn Festival hits Cerise Park in Montrose on Aug. 22, 2026, serving free unlimited roasted corn from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
The 46th Telluride Mushroom Festival runs August 12 to 16, 2026, with guided forays, mushroom-infused beer, and a costumed fungi parade down Main Street.
In 1975 a young Boulder County Clerk named Clela Rorex issued America's first headline-making same-sex marriage licenses, then calmly denied a cowboy's request to wed his mare.
Shea Properties gutted a vacant office at 4340 S. Monaco to the studs and turned it into Lofts on Monaco, 143 income-restricted apartments that opened in July 2026.
On the quiet west side of Rocky Mountain National Park, scientists built 30 artificial beaver dams in the Kawuneeche Valley. You can walk right in and see it.
When the Underground Music Showcase left South Broadway for RiNo, seven local artists launched Blucifer's First Rodeo. 260 bands, 40 venues, sold out in July heat.
The Carriage House opened July 28 at 1290 N. Williams Street behind the historic Tears-McFarlane House, and owner John Goscha plans to donate every dollar of profit to local
Colorado Springs opened seven miles of new trail at Blodgett Open Space on July 17, 2026, including 2.5 miles of downhill bike-only runs, with seven more coming by year's end.
The free Everybody Welcome Festival hits Colorado College Saturday, August 1, honoring Fannie Mae Duncan, whose Cotton Club integrated the Springs when almost nothing else did.
King Dumpling II opened in late June at 2160 S. Broadway, where a three-woman team starts rolling wrappers at 9:30 a.m. and regularly sells out by lunch.
Summit Canyon opened July 16 at Water World in Federal Heights, a 2.5-acre,
The Larimer County Fair and PRCA Rodeo runs July 31 through Aug. 4 at The Ranch in Loveland, with free parking and a carnival built for 100,000 people.
Buried at Hiwan Heritage Park on July 31, 1976, Evergreen's bicentennial time capsule comes back up Friday afternoon, exactly 50 years later. Free, one afternoon only.
Rancho Durazno's Gwen Cameron says peak peach season landed almost a month early in Palisade, and the cherries already came and went. The sweet window is right now.
The 3,000-square-foot Grand Spirit Makerspace just opened in downtown Grand Lake, teaching boot-cobbling, silversmithing and boatbuilding, plus nine live-work apartments next door.
The Mighty Argo Cable Car climbs 1,300 vertical feet from an 1893 gold mill to an 8,800-foot overlook, and it just turned Idaho Springs into a real day trip.
ACCO Engineered Systems chose Monument over Peoria, Arizona for a $36 million plant and 135 jobs averaging $87,037, roughly 133% above El Paso County's average wage.
On Aug. 1, Cheyenne Mountain State Park hosts a free Adventure Day for Colorado's 150th birthday, and the guest of honor is Goldie, the goat with 2.5 million views.
Sadboy Creamery is taking over the old French for Sugar space at 1502 N. Marion St., with a September 2026 opening that could quadruple its 700-pints-a-week output.
Bright Nights returns to Four Mile Historic Park for a fourth year, spreading giant lantern sculptures across 12 acres from Aug. 8 through Nov. 8, 2026.
History Colorado pinned down an 1853 daguerreotype of a Cheyenne village near Lamar as the oldest known photo taken on Colorado soil, 23 years before statehood.
Rōmyō opened in mid-July 2026 at 1401 Larimer St., dropping lobster ramen and uni-garlic pasta into a storefront that sat empty for three-plus years.