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a national listing site launched RealAssist AI on Oct. 6, 2026, built on Google Gemini to walk Denver buyers through a search. But buyer trust in AI just dropped to 16 percent.
On October 15, 2026, the museum at 1200 Broadway dropped a name it carried since 2012 and reclaimed the one Coloradans actually used from 1987 to 2012.
The 6th annual Witch Paddle hits Chatfield Swim Beach on Oct. 17 with hundreds of costumed paddlers, a 264-person waitlist, and free viewing from shore.
DMAR's September report shows metro sales down 4.96% year to date, but Denver's
Cherry Creek's 80246 was named the Denver metro's hottest housing market for Q3 2026, with a
For Your Boca opened October 12 inside Avanti in LoHi, and its cinco leches cake soaked in five dairies is the $5 reason to climb the stairs.
Ball Arena hosts Oktoberfest and Gorillaz, 40,000 people flood South Broadway, and the Denver BAZAAR closes out the season, all between Oct. 16 and 18, 2026.
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At 630 S. Federal Blvd., the Nguyen sisters reopened their parents' legendary New Saigon space as Rễ Tre on July 3, 2026. Denver's Little Saigon has its anchor back.
Boulder's Ballot Issue 2J would charge $4,000 a year on homes lived in 183 days or fewer, the first residential vacancy tax in Colorado. The revenue math is shaky.
Demolition crews tore into the Dark Horse at 2922 Baseline Road on Oct. 7, ending a half century of CU memories for a wall of student apartments.
Oktoberfest, The Denver Wiesn debuts free at the National Western Center Oct. 16, with a 108-foot wheel and a Hofbräu brew you cannot get outside Germany.
A Kenna Real Estate analysis run at October's 7.28% rate found renting beats buying by
Meyer Ranch Park near Conifer closes October 19, 2026 through spring while Jeffco thins 185 acres. This is the old P.T. Barnum winter quarters.
Nước mía, fresh-pressed sugarcane juice, has quietly become South Federal's next big thing, with Vita Cane and NovaCane both pouring it at 1000 S Federal Blvd.
Colorado's senior property-tax workaround under SB 24-111 ends after 2026, and Gov. Polis signed the kill switch on June 3. Front Range seniors have a closing window.
Arapahoe Basin and Keystone are both promising an "ASAP" October opening, and A-Basin is doing it in its 80th season after Colorado's worst snow drought in memory.
Edwin Zoe's San San opened at 2014 10th St. with chop suey, a Friday prime rib, and no tipping. 5280 just named it one of fall's best new spots.
Denver, Jeffco, Douglas County and Littleton schools all put mill levy overrides on the Nov. 3 ballot, and the hit ranges from about $72 to nearly $400 a year.
Colorado Asian Pacific United wants $500,000 to turn a loading alley off 16th between Wazee and Blake into a Chinatown memorial. Denver's own code is in the way.
Tupelo Honey at 1650 Wewatta St., across from Union Station, closes Oct. 16, 2026, just shy of 10 years and part of a run of Denver Southern-food shutdowns.
AI can stage an empty Denver room in 15 seconds for about $0.24 a photo, and no Colorado law makes sellers say when a listing shot is fake. Only REcolorado and Realtor ethics do.
A year after fire took 20 businesses at Caribou Village, Tebo Properties is finally filing rebuild plans. The Carousel of Happiness next door never stopped turning.
The Georgetown Loop Railroad runs Pumpkinfest October 9 to 11, a 50-minute drive from Denver where every kid's ticket comes with a pumpkin and a ride over a 95-foot trestle.
DMAR's Friday report shows Denver's median home price fell to $575,000 from $594,000 in a single month, and overpricing now costs sellers 47 days and 7% of their price.
Metro Denver's median detached home price slid to $635,000 in September, the first real hit for the one segment that kept climbing all year while condos cracked.
Holm, an American bistro from the Michelin-starred Beckon team, opens in October 2026 in the former Table 6 space, with à la carte dinner and dishes like pike quenelle ravioli.
After 40-plus years indoors, the Great American Beer Festival moves outdoors to Levitt Pavilion in Ruby Hill Park on Oct. 10 and 11, headlining the busiest Front Range weekend of
Castle Rock's 681-acre Lost Canyon Ranch Open Space is now fully open with 15 miles of hikers-only trail, minutes off I-25 Exit 181. No dogs, no bikes, permanently.
áyA Con runs Oct. 8-11, 2026 at the National Western Center, and its Black Light Powwow is the only one on Earth. A full weekend pass is $30.
A new analysis of a national listing site data found 32% of Colorado listings had a price reduction in August 2026, the highest share in the country. Denver metro ran even hotter at 36%.
Jevon Taylor won $4.3 million in city money to fill a whole 16th Street block with local shops. In October 2026, he admitted the full block was not happening.
Den Thai Street opens at 800 Sherman Street this month in the old Reckless Noodles space, trading Five Points tapas for grandmother's recipes and a potato-shaped curry.
An anonymous buyer matched the $42.5M asking price for Boulder County's San Lazaro Mobile Home Park. Now 800 residents have until Dec. 8, 2026 to counter and own the land
Carpio-Sanguinette Park opened Sept. 26, 2026, turning 80 acres of arsenic-tainted Globeville riverfront into the largest natural area in Denver's parks system.
Casa BOOnita runs Sept. 29 through Nov. 1, 2026 at the Lakewood landmark, and the cliff divers and puppeteers a strike kept away last year are back, no extra ticket required.
575 Circle Drive in Country Club listed at
After 26 years at the Colorado Convention Center, the Great American Beer Festival moves outdoors to Ruby Hill Park on Oct. 10 and 11, 2026, and over half of one beer group's poll
Johnny Curiel is making his summer pop-up Tequilería Alteño permanent at 233 Clayton Street, dropping a party-forward cantina into a Cherry Creek space that keeps killing
a national brokerage, founded in Denver in 1973, is now part of a Miami company called Real REMAX Group after an $880 million deal closed August 24, 2026. Here is what it means locally.
Rocky Mountain National Park closes Old Fall River Road to vehicles October 6, 2026, ending the season on Colorado's first high-country auto route, which opened in 1920 and climbs
Rōmyō opened September 10, 2026 at 1401 Larimer, Denver's first restaurant built entirely around itameshi, the Japanese fusion of Italian food, from Frank and Jacqueline Bonanno.
Lenders now auto-clear 70 to 75 percent of mortgage files with no human touch. Colorado's new AI law, effective January 1, 2027, forces them to tell you why.
The Denver Art Museum landed the exclusive US run of the V&A's DIVA, 250 objects and 58 costumes from Maria Callas to Taylor Swift, opening October 4.
Colorado foreclosure filings jumped 57% and everyone is asking the 2008 question. Freshest data (August, via ICE): delinquency 3.53% and serious delinquencies up 19% in a year - versus a 10.1% crisis peak and 26% of homes underwater in 2009. The honest distance between then and now.
Victorian Death Experiences returns to the Byers-Evans House at 1310 Bannock all October, with an empty coffin, hair jewelry, and a black mourning wedding dress.
Metro Denver active listings hit 13,179 the week ending September 19, 2026, the most since August 2025, while buyer showings ran 14.8% below last year.
a national listing site's Sept. 30 report puts Denver first in the nation with 30.9% of sellers cutting prices this fall. Here is what that means if you are listing.
The Oddities & Curiosities Expo hits the Colorado Convention Center Oct. 3 and 4, 2026, and Denver is one of two original cities where the whole thing started back in 2017.
Denver's first PorchFest puts 193 acts on Baker porches Saturday while Estes Park's Elk Fest celebrates the rut. Here is your Oct. 1 to 4 plan.
Downtown Denver Partnership CEO Kourtny Garrett told the Colorado Sun the city's core is 'overperforming' on nights and weekends, even as foot traffic sits at 90% of 2019.
After more than a year dark, the Longmont Museum reopens Oct. 17 with a free all-day party, 98 rare Frida Kahlo photos, and a 17-foot dragon for the kids.
On Sept. 15, 2026, Denver approved a $6.3 million contract to build 82 income-capped for-sale condos near the Golden Triangle, with one-bedrooms starting under
Fire on the Mountain took over the shuttered TAG Burger Bar space in Central Park one day after it closed, and flipped the whole thing in about six weeks.
Colfax Canvas turned Aurora's East Colfax pawn shops into a permanent open-air gallery. Nearly a dozen murals now stretch from Dayton Street to Florence, free to walk anytime.
Through August 2026, 495 Denver properties got a notice of election and demand, up from 426 a year earlier. Here is who is getting caught.
Joyl Watkins served his last hot dog at 19th and Wynkoop on Sept. 24, closing a 31-season run that started the year Coors Field opened in 1995.
The Long Dog Derby's final 2026 heat runs Sunday, Sept. 27 at 12:30 p.m. on Larimer Street, free to watch, with a Best Dressed Dog contest right after.
Denver Water's 2026 Stage 1 drought caps watering at two days a week, and the numbers say turf removal pays back through home value, not water bills.
Trail Ridge Road's average closing date is Oct. 23, but last year it stayed open until Nov. 14. Here is the closure calendar that keeps you from getting stranded.
The final Havana Street Night Market of 2026 hits Aurora tonight, September 26, from 6 to 10 p.m. outside Leezakaya. Free to walk in, Korean BBQ to African plates, all in one lot.
More than 67% of Colorado Springs homes that closed in August 2026 came with a seller concession, median value
Eagle Trace Golf Club at 1200 Clubhouse Drive closes for good Oct. 3, 2026, after its owner sold the irrigation water rights for $4 million in 2024.
The inaugural San Juan Songwriters Festival hits Durango Sept. 24-27, 2026, with the writers behind hits by Aerosmith, Carrie Underwood and Gwen Stefani playing rooms you can walk
Nearly half of Americans planning to buy in the next year say they will use AI, but off-market home estimates in Colorado run about 5.3% off, and worse in the mountains.
Doors Open Denver runs Sept. 24 to 27 under a 'Destination Downtown' theme, letting you walk inside the 16th Street rebuild instead of just reading about it.
Morrison Ciderfest runs free with no gates Saturday, September 26, from 10 a.m. to dark at Morrison Park, with antique cider presses, a New Belgium beer garden and
Colorado's FAIR Plan opened to homeowners in April 2025. By September only 51 people had signed up, and most owners have no idea how little it actually covers.
A 210-unit, seven-story building just topped out at 1040 E. Colfax, right as Denver's
History Colorado's 'Moments That Made US' gathers 50-plus national artifacts in one Denver room through Oct. 18, 2026, most never shown here before.
Panda Fest makes its Denver debut Sept. 25-27 at Civic Center Park with 60-plus vendors, and it is one of six big things crowding the same weekend.
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