Colorado Festivals
With summer in full swing, Colorado prepares to celebrate its bold flavors through a series of food and beverage festivals and events. Guests are invited to sample Colorado’s signature offerings from sweet corn and spicy chilies to crisp apples and flowing wine. Below is a sampling of events where visitors can experience Colorado’s finest homegrown food and drink offerings.
Colorado Homegrown:
- 1. Strawberry Days (July 16-19). Glenwood Springs invites visitors to enjoy free strawberries and ice cream during a three-day celebration featuring arts, crafts, live entertainment, food and beverages at the 115th Annual Strawberry Days Festival.
- Steamboat Wine Festival (August 1-5). Experience more than 100 food artisans, wineries, breweries, distilleries, epicurean purveyors and locally-made products at this ultimate food and wine experience.
- Olathe Sweet Corn Festival (August 3-4). Olathe’s hot days, cool nights and glacier-fed fields are said to produce some of America’s sweetest corn. Enjoy all the signature “Olathe Sweet” corn you can eat at the town’s renowned festival.
- Rocky Ford Watermelon Day (August 18). Celebrates the world-renown cantaloupes and watermelons produced in Rocky Ford, home to some of the most fertile soils in the nation.
- Telluride Mushroom Festival (August 16-19). Shroomfest celebrates all aspects of the fungal world, from gourmet wild edibles to medicinal mushrooms grown in Telluride. The San Juan Mountains that surround the town are famous for the bounty of fungal species grown in the region.
