Town festivals in Colorado
Town festivals in Colorado, each compiled from its own sources: the weekend, the parade, and who puts it on. No ratings; every entry carries its status.
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- Aguilar DaysAguilar · Street festival and car showA free one-day street festival and car show held the first Saturday of August in Aguilar, Colorado, opening with a parade down a Main Street closed for the day.
- Akron Crazy DayzAkron · Akron crazy dayz and car showAkron Crazy Dayz is a one-day summer festival on Main Avenue in Akron, Colorado, where two-person teams aim fire hoses to push a hoisted keg toward the other side.
- Arts Walk & Hollyhock FestivalSaguache · Arts walk & hollyhock festivalA free one-day festival in Saguache, Colorado, held the last Saturday in July, joining a walk among local artists to self-guided tours of the town's hollyhock gardens.
- Arvada Harvest FestivalArvada · Annual festivalHeld in Arvada since 1925, the harvest festival retreated in 2026 to its Olde Town meeting hall, where entry cost a food donation and chickens were judged in costume.
- Ault Fall FestivalAult · Annual traditionThe Ault Fall Festival, a first-weekend-in-August celebration on the Weld County plains, where the fire department shoots the Friday fireworks and hosts the Sunday pancake breakfast.
- Bayfield Heritage Days and Sheep TrailingBayfield · Annual eventA one-day fall celebration in Bayfield, Colorado, held since 2000, built around a working flock of about 2,000 sheep that the Brown family drives down Buck Highway toward winter pastures.
- BBQ DayJohnstownBBQ Day, Johnstown, Colorado's free June town celebration, began in 1912 as Dairy Day, when local farmers put up circus tents to judge cattle.
- Beef 'N Bean DayMilliken · Community festival dayBeef 'N Bean Day is Milliken, Colorado's second-Saturday-in-August festival of parade, bean contest, and free supper, which local lore traces to a Presbyterian minister's pot of pinto beans.
- Bennett DaysBennett · FreeBennett Days is a celebration of everything that makes our community special, bringing residents, businesses and visitors together for three days of fun, entertainment and connection.
- Berthoud DayBerthoudBerthoud Day, the first-Saturday-in-June town celebration in Berthoud, Colorado, began as a pancake breakfast called Flap Jack Day and still opens with Boy Scout pancakes.
- Black Forest FestivalColorado Springs · FestivalA one-day August festival at the Black Forest Community Center north of Colorado Springs, with pancakes at dawn, a parade up Black Forest Road, and outhouse races after it.
- Boggsville DaysLas Animas · Annual boggsville days celebrationAn annual living-history celebration at Boggsville Historic Site south of Las Animas, Colorado, held around two 1860s adobe houses that stand near the Purgatoire River.
- Boom DaysLeadville · International pack burro race held at leadville boom daysLeadville's three-day street festival on the first full weekend in August, held at 10,200 feet and closing with a pack burro race toward Mosquito Pass that has run since 1949.
- Bronc DayGreen Mountain Falls · Annual western heritage celebrationA free western heritage festival held the last Saturday in July in Green Mountain Falls since 1939, whose parade once counted 149 horses.
- Broomfield DaysBroomfield · Annual community festivalBroomfield Days is the City and County of Broomfield's one-day September festival at Midway Park, where a children's clown contest follows the parade and dogs compete off a diving dock.
- Buffalo Bill DaysGolden · Golden's largest summer eventGolden's three-day July festival in Parfet Park and on Washington Avenue, begun in 1946 for Buffalo Bill's 100th birthday; the honoree is buried on Lookout Mountain above town.
- Buffalo Days (Grand Lake)Grand Lake · Three-day celebrationBuffalo Days, Grand Lake, Colorado's three-day August festival since 1948, serves buffalo barbecue beside the state's largest natural lake and sends a Cowpoke Parade down Grand Avenue.
- Burning Mountain FestivalNew Castle · Annual town festivalNew Castle, Colorado's two-day September town festival in Burning Mountain Park, held since 1973 and named for the ridge above town where an old mine fire still burns.
- Burro DaysFairplay · CelebrationBurro Days in Fairplay, held each July since 1949, is built around the World Championship Pack Burro Race, in which runners and burros climb to the 13,185-foot top of Mosquito Pass and back.
- Calhan Summer FestCalhan · Annual community eventCalhan Summer Fest is a free one-day July fair 35 miles east of Colorado Springs, where cars line 8th Street and a mayor once resigned over the band money.
- Cañon City Music & Blossom FestivalCañon City · Community-run school music competition and paradeCañon City's May festival of school band, orchestra, choir and jazz competitions and a Main Street parade, descended from an 1890s Fruit Day that gave fruit away by the plateful.
- Cedaredge ApplefestCedaredge · Annual fall harvest festivalThe Town of Cedaredge's harvest festival at the foot of Grand Mesa, which a local historian traces to a 1904 Harvest Home Festival put on by the Women of Woodcraft.
- Chile & Frijoles FestivalPueblo · FestivalThe Pueblo Chile & Frijoles Festival fills Union Avenue in downtown Pueblo, Colorado, the third weekend after Labor Day, with growers roasting Pueblo chiles by the bag.
- Cortez Rendezvous Balloon RallyCortez · FestivalAn August hot air balloon rally in Cortez's Parque de Vida, run since 2004 by an Albuquerque ballooning family, with dawn launches and a Friday night glow.
- Covered Wagon DaysDel Norte · Family-oriented multi-day community eventCovered Wagon Days, a summer festival in Del Norte, Colorado, held since 1972, whose Saturday parade has opened with a re-enactment of a miners' biscuit fight.
- Crawford Pioneer DaysCrawford · OrganizationCrawford Pioneer Days is a three-day June celebration in Crawford, Colorado, held for 47 years, that ends with the volunteer fire department's fireworks over Crawford Reservoir.
- Dash Around the World Culture FestivalFort Morgan · Cultural exploration dayA free annual family culture festival at Morgan Community College in Fort Morgan, Colorado, where local Folklorico dancers perform and the notice runs in English, Spanish, and Somali.
- Days of '92 and Fourth of July Mining FestivalCreede · Street festival & vendorsCreede's Fourth of July weekend in Mineral County, Colorado, where working hard-rock miners from across the Southwest drill, muck, and drive spikes before a grandstand in Basham Park.
- Dinosaur Stone Age StampedeDinosaur · FestivalA two-day September festival in Cady Park, Dinosaur, Colorado, with Raptor Crap Bingo, a free headline concert, and an OHV poker run that crosses into Utah.
- Donkey Derby DaysCripple Creek · Annual three-day festivalDonkey Derby Days is a free three-day June festival on Bennett Avenue in Cripple Creek, Colorado, that pays for the town's donkey herd, which is believed descended from gold-camp stock.
- Eagle Flight DaysEagle · CelebrationEagle Flight Days, a two-day June celebration in Eagle, Colorado, dating to 1922, ends its Saturday parade on Broadway with firefighters hosing down the crowd.
- Early Settlers DayLa Junta · Annual community celebrationEarly Settlers Day in La Junta, Colorado, is a one-day parade, park fair and street dance that began in Rocky Ford in 1915 and has been held in La Junta since 1934.
- Eaton DaysEaton · FestivalA three-day July celebration in Eaton, Colorado, held the weekend after the Fourth, that began as Farmer's Appreciation Day and whose underground barbecue pit dates to 1956.
- Elbert Day FestivalElbert · Annual festivalElbert Day Festival is a free July Saturday in downtown Elbert, Colorado, run by Town Committee volunteers, opening with a Woman's Club breakfast and a flyover before the parade.
- Elevation Celebration (Conifer)Conifer · Two-day mountain street faireA free two-day street faire on Sutton Road in Aspen Park, Conifer, Colorado, known locally as El Cel and opened by a trail race averaging 8,200 feet.
- Emma Crawford Coffin Races & FestivalManitou Springs · Coffin racesThe Emma Crawford Coffin Races in Manitou Springs, Colorado, held since 1995, run wheeled coffins with a helmeted "Emma" riding inside along Manitou Avenue each October.
- Erie Town FairErie · Annual town fairA one-day May street fair in Old Town Erie, Colorado, with more than 280 booths on the downtown streets and the Garage Rats car show in Coal Creek Park's lot.
- Escalante DaysDolores · Community celebrationDolores's town celebration in Flanders Park, held each August since 1976 beside a tribute noting that Father Escalante slept on that spot Aug. 13, 1776.
- Fiesta Day ParadePueblo · Cultural paradePueblo's Fiesta Day Parade, held each Labor Day weekend since 1967, carries floats, charros and marching bands about two miles down Northern Avenue through the Bessemer neighborhood.
- Fiesta de Santiago y Santa Ana (San Luis)San Luis · Multi-day historic festivalThe July feast of St. James and St. Anne in San Luis, Colorado's oldest town, where the parish's mission churches feed the crowd in the church yard after Sunday Mass.
- Fleming Fall FestivalFleming · Fall festivalFleming's fall festival in northeastern Colorado joins high school homecoming to a September Saturday of class floats on Main Street, a firemen's pulled-pork lunch, and a pet pageant.
- Florence Pioneer DaysFlorence · Pioneer day celebrationFlorence Pioneer Day fills Main Street and Pioneer Park in Florence, Colorado, each September, crowning a pioneer king and queen at a celebration that began as a women's club picnic.
- For Peetz Sake DaysPeetz · Annual celebrationThe 2026 parade marshals are Dale and Bonita Dickinson, Peetz Lions members who used to live in Peetz in the 80's when Bonita was the math teacher at Peetz.
- Fort Morgan Hispanic Heritage CelebrationFort Morgan · Community celebrationA free noon-to-ten celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month in Fort Morgan's Glenn Miller Park, where the public picks the best homemade salsa and the loudest cheer wins the grito.
- Fountain Valley Fall FestivalFountain · Fall festivalFountain, Colorado's Labor Day festival, now past its fiftieth year, where the Chamber of Commerce raffles a handmade quilt and children sell what they have made.
- Fraser Fire and IceFraser · Fire and ice festivalFraser Fire and Ice is a free February evening at Cozens Ranch Open Space in Fraser, Colorado, where donated Christmas trees feed a bonfire and an ice sculpture is set alight.
- Fruita Fall FestivalFruita · Two-day festivalFruita's downtown street festival, run each September for more than a century, where on Friday evening teams race outhouses on wheels down Aspen Avenue.
- Gold Rush Days (Buena Vista)Buena Vista · FestivalBuena Vista's three-day August festival in Chaffee County, Colorado, built around a pack burro race run annually since 1979 and a toilet-seat derby propelled by plungers.
- Granada-Bristol DaysGranada · Community celebrationGranada Bristol Days is a June weekend in Granada Park in southeastern Colorado, timed to the town school's alumni reunion, when a pilot drops streamers to the children.
- Grand Old West DaysCraig · Colorado's annual kick off to summerA Memorial Day weekend festival at the Moffat County Fairgrounds in Craig, Colorado, begun in 1990 to steady a boom-and-bust town and now built around the state high school rodeo finals.
- Grand Valley Days (Parachute)Parachute · Annual summer celebrationGrand Valley Days is Parachute, Colorado's four-day August run of parade, CPRA rodeo and ice cream social, and its 2026 parade on Second Street was billed as the 118th annual.
- Gunnison River FestivalGunnison · River festivalAn annual June river festival at Gunnison's whitewater park on Highway 50, where dogs launch for distance and costumed racers ride anything that floats but is not a boat.
- Gypsum DazeGypsum · Community eventGypsum Daze, a three-day July celebration in Gypsum, Colorado, whose Valley Road parade ends with fire and airport trucks hosing down the crowd.
- Haxtun Corn FestivalHaxtun · Annual eventThe Haxtun Corn Festival, a harvest day held the last Saturday of September on Colorado Avenue in Haxtun, Colorado, reached its 105th edition in 2026.
- Hay DaysWiley · Annual festivalWiley Hay Days is a June celebration in the Prowers County town of Wiley, Colorado, where the Lions Club runs the parade and serves the sloppy Joes.
- Hayden DazeHayden · Annual celebrationHayden Daze is a free two-day July celebration at Dry Creek Park in Hayden, Colorado, descended from a 1978 appreciation day, where costumed crews float cardboard boats across the park pond.
- Hayden Harvest FestivalHayden · Harvest festivalA free autumn afternoon of straw bales, caramel apples and bluegrass in Hayden, Colorado's Dry Creek Park, begun by a garden-center owner whose son inspired it.
- Heritage DayEvans · Community heritage festivalHeritage Day in Evans, Colorado, is a free one-day September festival that begins with pancakes and a parade in the city's oldest park and ends with fireworks above the South Platte bottoms.
- Hot Sulphur DaysHot Sulphur Springs · Town festivalA three-day June town celebration in Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado, held since 1965, where Friday-night pies are auctioned whole to pay for next year's festival.
- Kersey DaysKersey · Vendor fairKersey Days is the Town of Kersey's August weekend in Weld County, Colorado, and it opens on a Friday night with modified lawn mowers racing on a dirt track.
- Kiowa Colorado Day Ice Cream SocialKiowa · FairFree ice cream, live music, food, family activities and a commemorative drone show.
- Kremmling DaysKremmling · Annual eventKremmling's festive and rural character shines during Kremmling Days, an annual event that draws residents and visitors to the town square and surrounding streets for a parade, firefighter games, cliff golf, a class reunion, the Mustang Mile race and other activities.
- La Veta OktoberfestLa Veta · Nonprofit community eventA free one-day street festival on Main Street in La Veta, Colorado, each first Saturday in October, whose proceeds pay for scholarships, eyeglasses and propane across Huerfano County.
- Lamar DaysLamar · FestivitiesLamar Days kick-off barbecue at the Chamber
- LaSalle DaysLaSalle · 45th annual celebrationLaSalle Days is a two-day July celebration in the Weld County railroad town of LaSalle, Colorado, where parade entries may perform only in front of the Fire Department.
- Limon Heritage DayLimon · Annual heritage dayLimon's annual Heritage Day fills the town's Heritage Museum and Railroad Park on Colorado's eastern plains, and its 2026 edition ended with 500 drones over the rail cars.
- Lochbuie Fall FestivalLochbuie · Fall festivalThe Town of Lochbuie's free September street festival on Bonanza Blvd, closing with a drone light show, in a town that began as a mobile home subdivision nicknamed Space City.
- Logger DaysSouth Fork · ScheduleSouth Fork celebrates the area's culture and history during the Annual Logger Days Festival.
- Loveland Corn Roast FestivalLoveland · Annual community festivalA two-day corn roast at Fairgrounds Park in Loveland, Colorado, with roots in an 1894 town feast. Volunteers roasted and buttered 12,000 ears for the 2026 festival.
- Madam Lou Bunch Day and Famous Bed RaceCentral City · Annual town celebrationThe long-running tradition mixes bed races, vendors, music, cabaret dancers, local historical displays, and performances by the Wild Bunch.
- Manassa Pioneer DaysManassa · EventAnnual Western heritage festival held in Manassa; one of the oldest festivals in Colorado with a century-plus tradition. Carnival rides, main street parade (so prized it runs the route twice), Miss Pioneer princesses, demolition derby, fair food, an old-time bandstand, and rodeo competitions; population of the town roughly doubles during the celebration.
- Mancos DaysMancos · Annual event68th Annual Mancos Days Celebration; July 24, 25, 26 2026; Theme: Mancos Ever After - Myth, Magic & Fairy Tales.
- Mead Community DayMead · Annual celebrationMead Community Day is the Northern Colorado town's largest annual celebration, a free evening in Mead Town Park that ends with fireworks over the park.
- Miners DayFrederick · Premier community eventFrom gold panning to burro racing, Miners Day is a celebration of Frederick's community and history. Miners Day is the biggest annual event for Frederick, a town that also holds a hot air balloon festival and chainsaw carving contest every year.
- Missouri DayFowler · CommunityRanch rodeo with returning teams, youth teams and public spectators.
- Moffat County Hot Air Balloon FestivalCraig · FestivalA free three-day hot air balloon festival at Loudy-Simpson Park in Craig, Colorado, where the Saturday night glow is timed to burn behind the headlining band.
- Monte Vista Crane FestivalMonte Vista · FestivalA three-day March festival in Monte Vista, Colorado, built around the sandhill crane stopover in the San Luis Valley, begun in 1984 under the name of a different crane.
- Morrison CiderfestMorrison · Fall festivalA free one-day fall festival on a nursing-home lawn in Morrison, Colorado, where the woman who proposed it in 1989 still turns the cider press as Apple Annie.
- Mountain Mining DaysWalsenburg · Annual heritage festivalWalsenburg's Labor Day weekend heritage festival in Colorado's old coal country, where fire trucks lead the Main Street parade and children race mining carts on Sixth Street.
- Naturita DaysNaturita, CO · Annual holidayAnnual Naturita community celebration that was once held every year, stopped for a period, and is now being revived by a group of citizens.
- North Park DaysWalden · Community celebrationAnnual Walden town days held on the front lawn of the historic Jackson County Courthouse; over 137 years of community history.
- Nucla Water DaysNucla · Annual community holidayAnnual town celebration organized by the Water Days Steering Committee; in 2026 the theme is "Celebrate."
- Nunn DaysNunn · Fall festivalNunn Days, the Town of Nunn's one-day fall festival in Veterans Park, opens with a parade, and at two o'clock its program sets aside time to plant a tree for Arbor Day.
- Oak Creek Labor DayOak Creek · Labor day weekendPancake breakfasts, live music, family activities, a car and motor show, cornhole, bingo, food, vendors, museum events and contests, with a Labor Day parade.
- OktoberfestKeenesburg · Fall celebrationKeenesburg's Oktoberfest is a town-run fall gathering on North Main Street in a Weld County town whose motto is "Home of 500 Happy People and a Few Soreheads."
- Old Fashioned Saturday NightHaxtun · CommunityClassic cars, roaring engines, family fun and small-town tradition will once again take center stage as the Haxtun Chamber of Commerce hosts the 39th Annual Old-Fashioned Saturday Night on Saturday, July 18, with a full day of activities planned throughout downtown Haxtun.
- Old Settlers' PicnicEckley · Annual old settler’s dayAn annual Labor Day weekend celebration in Eckley, Yuma County, Colorado, reaching its 137th edition in 2026, where lawn mowers run barrels and the fire department serves free barbecue.
- Ovid DaysOvid · CelebrationA two-day summer celebration in Ovid, Sedgwick County, Colorado: a Friday Home Run Derby, then a Saturday of softball, a Main Street parade, duck races, and goat roping.
- Paonia Cherry DaysPaonia · Community festivalPaonia's Fourth of July festival in Colorado's North Fork Valley, begun by the Lions Club as a fundraiser for football-field lights, with a parade, a pit spit and a coronation.
- Parker DaysParker · Family festivalA free festival that closes Mainstreet in Parker, Colorado, each June, with a fenced carnival on Carnival Hill and a free Sunday pancake breakfast served from the main stage.
- Penrose Apple DayPenrose · Annual apple day celebrationResidents and tourists fill the streets each October to celebrate apples, including a free slice of pie.
- Pioneer DayNorwood · Pioneer festivalNorwood's Pioneer Day, held the last Saturday of September on Wright's Mesa in San Miguel County, Colorado, crowns its royalty and carries them in an old Telluride stagecoach.
- Pitkin DaysPitkin · Annual celebrationPitkin Days, held each July in a former Gunnison County mining camp, runs from a free alpine footrace to a melodrama where the audience throws popcorn at the villain.
- Plateau Valley Heritage DaysCollbran · Heritage days celebrationPlateau Valley Heritage Days is a three-day Fourth of July rodeo celebration in Collbran, Colorado, where cowboys herd the bucking horses down Main Street to the arena.
- San Ignacio FiestaIgnacio · Annual fiestaA two-day July fiesta in Ignacio, Colorado, on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation, held by St. Ignatius parish for its patron saint, counted in 2026 as its 126th year.
- San Luis Valley Potato FestivalMonte Vista · Annual harvest celebrationA one-day September harvest festival at Chapman Park in Monte Vista, Colorado, put on by the state's potato committee, with a 5K called the Tater Trot and a Mashed Potato Dunk Tank.
- Santa Fe Trail DayLas Animas · Town celebrationAn April town day in Las Animas, Colorado, started by high school students in 1934 and still sponsored by the student council, with square dancing in the gym.
- Santa Fe Trail DaysTrinidad · FestivalSanta Fe Trail Days is a free street festival in downtown Trinidad, Colorado, and its 2026 edition was scheduled to carry a state drone show for Colorado's 150th and the nation's 250th.
- SeptemberfestRangely · Annual labor day celebrationSeptemberfest is Rangely, Colorado's Labor Day weekend festival, running from a fire-station pancake breakfast to choirs singing inside a 65-foot water tank.
- Sheridan CelebratesSheridan · Annual parade and festivalSheridan Celebrates is a one-day September parade and festival on the City Hall lawn in Sheridan, Colorado, begun in 1990, where parade candy must be handed out by walkers.
- Silt HeydaySilt · Annual silt heydayLive Music: The Colorado Currys
- Simla DaysSimla · CelebrationThe Labor Day weekend celebration of Simla, an Elbert County High Plains town on U.S. 24, where $10 buys a taste of every barbecue entry and a vote.
- Strasburg Hometown DaysStrasburg · CelebrationStrasburg Hometown Days, an August weekend festival on the Colorado plains, began in 1970 to fund the museum near where Kansas Pacific crews closed a coast-to-coast railroad in 1870.
- Strawberry Days (Glenwood Springs)Glenwood Springs · Free community festivalGlenwood Springs' free festival on the third weekend of June, begun in 1898 by a farmers union, where Kiwanis still hand out strawberries and ice cream after the parade.
- Sugar Beet DaysSterling · Annual festivalSugar Beet Days is a two-day September festival on the Logan County Courthouse Square in Sterling, Colorado, where visitors can see and taste a real raw sugar beet.
- Tarantula FestLa Junta · Annual tarantula festivalAn annual two-day festival in downtown La Junta, Colorado, timed to the fall walk of male tarantulas across the Comanche National Grassland, with city buses carrying visitors out at dusk.
- Tomato Festival at Trapper DaysFort Lupton · Tomato festival at trapper days!Fort Lupton's September festival on the Colorado Front Range, begun in 1908 as Tomato Days and named since 1976 for the trappers of Lancaster Lupton's adobe trading post.
- Ullr FestBreckenridge · Annual celebration of winter and snowBreckenridge's festival for Ullr, Norse god of snow: a Main Street parade, a bonfire of old Christmas trees, and roots in the town's 1963 mock secession.
- Victor Gold Rush DaysVictor · CommunityAnnual Victor Gold Rush Days festival: live mining demonstrations, colorful parades, live music, and guided tours celebrating Victor's mining heritage.
- Walsh DaysWalsh · Nonprofit organizationCommunity-organized annual day reviving Walsh Days as a celebration of community pride.
- Wheat Ridge Carnation FestivalWheat Ridge · Community celebrationA free three-day August festival at Anderson Park in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, begun in 1969 for a city that once sent carnations to the White House every Monday.
- Wiggins Day Fall Harvest FestivalWiggins · Fall harvest festivalWiggins Day, the free late-August harvest festival in Wiggins, Colorado, fills Teets Park with food trucks, a live band and visiting square-dance clubs; 2026 brought the 52nd.
- Wild Horse DaysDe Beque · Annual community eventParade, live music, vendors, poker run, corn hole tournament, mud run, burnout and bump n jumps.
- Windsor Harvest FestivalWindsor · FestivalWindsor, Colorado's Labor Day festival of balloons, booths and a Monday parade, which began in 1921 as a carnival celebrating Weld County's first paved street.
- Wray DazeWray · Fair weekendWray Daze, the fair weekend of Wray, Colorado, runs from a Friday market on Main Street to a Sunday mud volleyball tournament behind an accounting office.
Town Festivals in all eleven states; next door in Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona.