CLEAR CREEK COUNTY Join Colorado’s premier nature photographers, W. Perry Conway and Gary A. Haines, for a 2-day Workshop photographing Wildlife and Wild Places in and around Clear Creek County. This workshop offers a well-rounded and highly resourceful educational experience, appropriate for any level of outdoor photographer, but especially for beginners and intermediates. The program … Continue reading
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‘Pikas in the Park’ scavenger hunt begins
ESTES PARK In honor of Estes Park’s Centennial, the Town of Estes Park is unveiling a new downtown scavenger hunt, Pikas in the Park. This new activity includes 12 bronze sculptures of pikas, the small mountain-dwelling relatives of rabbits, placed throughout downtown. Following a May 4 kickoff with the donors who funded the sculptures, the … Continue reading
Longmont Museum announces Summer Film Series for adults, kids
Weekly $2 kids’ films + Cult Classics & Cocktails for adults LONGMONT The Longmont Museum announces its summer film series, featuring both programs for adults and children. All films are hosted in the Museum’s 250-seat Stewart Auditorium. Starting in May, the Museum’s popular film program Views & Brews continues with a series for adults called … Continue reading
Spring arrives in Colorado Ski Country
COLORADO Spring has officially arrived at Colorado Ski Country USA ski areas and resorts with longer and warmer days and spring skiing conditions. Extended ski season, parties, races, concerts and pond-skimming will be in full-swing at resorts in the region. Below is a roundup of springtime celebrations happening at CSCUSA ski areas near the Front … Continue reading
COVER: Estes Park’s 100 years of hospitality
Estes Park has been welcoming visitors since before it became a town ESTES PARK After celebrating the 100th anniversary of Rocky Mountain National Park and the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service these past couple of years, this year—April 17 to be exact—marks the 100th anniversary of the Town of Estes Park. All year … Continue reading
Acting out to preserve history in Silver Plume
By Jennifer Pund SILVER PLUME Silver Plume’s annual melodrama, which opens for its 40th run at the end of April, is a town-wide, generational-spanning, family affair. Everyone gets involved. The Plume Players’ latest production, Slipping Beauty, or Even Villains Get the Blues, was written by local George Downing, and is a reprise of 1994’s melodrama. … Continue reading
Eat, drink, help send a kid to camp
By Jeffrey V. Smith EMPIRE Easter Seals Colorado is once again teaming-up with Tommyknocker Brewery, Raquelitas Tortillas and Food Services of America Loveland for the annual “A Perfect Pairing” event, April 22 from 6-9 p.m. at Rocky Mountain Village in Empire. The casual event includes six stations with food prepared by local chefs and paired … Continue reading
Sage Cook is ‘living the dream’
By Jeffrey V. Smith NEDERLAND Back in 2015, Sage Cook wrote a difficult, but heartfelt, note to Elephant Revival fans. After eight years, he was leaving the Nederland-based, gypsy folk band he helped form and moving to the Kansas-Oklahoma border to begin a new adventure in subsistence farming. It was an enormous leap of faith, … Continue reading
April 2017 Mountain Mix – The Best of All the Rest
APRIL 1-MAY 13 ‘Creative Youth of Gilpin’ Exhibit Gilpin Arts’ current Visitors Center Showcase Gallery exhibit, “Creative Youth of Gilpin,” is a new annual event featuring oil and watercolor paintings, pencil drawings and other art from 18 Gilpin County School students. The exhibit hangs at the gallery in the Central City Visitors Center, 103 Eureka … Continue reading
Food & Drink Calendar – April 2017
Summit County • April 8: Moonlight Dinner Series – A Polynesian Luau, Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, 6pm, SOLD OUT • April 14: 6th Alley Bar & Grill Supper Club Fish Fry, Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, 6pm, $20 Silver Plume • April 1: Long I Pies Pop Up, Bread Bar, 5pm, $ Georgetown • Thursdays: Mussels … Continue reading
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