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Mesa Verde Entrance Fee-Free Day Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Mesa Verde Entrance Fee-Free Day Select dates from Jan 9 – Nov 11, 2025Select dates from January 9 through November 11, 2025 Mesa Verde National Park • Mile .7 Headquarters Loop Road, Mesa Verde National Park, CO81330 Map Event Description Mesa Verde waives it’s entry fee several times each year. This is due to efforts to encourage everyone to visit their national park, and applies to all national parks. Complete...
Pondering Pines Maker’s Market at Vallecito Lake Nov 8-9, 2025 • 11:00 am – 9:00 pm
Pondering Pines Maker’s Market at Vallecito Lake Select dates from Nov 8-9, 2025 • 11:00 am – 9:00 pmSelect dates from November 8 through November 9, 2025 at 11:00 am JW Vallecito Resort • 13030 Co Rd 501, Bayfield, CO81122 MapEvent Website Event Description Join us for a magical weekend at the Pondering Pines Holiday Maker’s Market, a two-day indoor event supporting Vallecito community members affected by the...
Downtown Children’s Halloween And Events
Downtown Children’s Halloween Friday, Oct 31, 2025 • 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Downtown Durango • Durango, CO Event Description Join the fun in downtown Durango on October 31 from 4:00 – 6:00 PM for a safe, festive Halloween experience for kids. Little ghosts and goblins will roam Main Avenue and East 2nd Avenue, trick-or-treating at participating businesses (about 75–100 locations) handing out candy and non-candy items to children 10...
Halloween Bike Parade and Powerhouse Party Thursday, Oct 30, 2025 • 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Halloween Bike Parade and Powerhouse Party Thursday, Oct 30, 2025 • 4:00 pm – 6:30 pmThursday, October 30, 2025 at 4:00 pm Animas River Trail • Durango, CO Event Description Get ready for a ghoulishly good time at the Devo Halloween Costume Parade and Party! All Ages – Wear your costumes! All members of the public are welcome! Join us for a parade along the picturesque Animas River Trail, ending at the Powerhouse for an epic...
The Billionaire Oligarchs Are Coming for Your Pets
The billionaires know you love your furry family members, and they’d like profit from your affection. Have you had to seek veterinary attention for a beloved pet in recent years? Have you noticed higher costs for vaccines and routine exams? Do you occasionally need a pet-sitter and wish to purchase services from an on-line service? I’ve got bad news for you: the billionaires have fixed their sights on you and on every corner of the...
What Does It Mean to Be on the Spiritual Path?
I often hear people say, “I’m not religious, but I am spiritual.” The first part of that sentence is clear enough, because organized religions have been declining in attendance for decades. It is also true that the number of people who declare that they are atheists remains very small. But it isn’t so clear what it means to be spiritual. My mother was both religious and spiritual. There was no distinction in her mind. She prayed at...
The Rocky Horror Show
Event Description Come and be a part of the Rocky Horror experience at the DAC. Sing and dance the “Time Warp” along along with Brad and Janet as they discover the wonders “over at the Frankenstein place” as they learn about love, life, and transvestite aliens. One fateful night, Brad Majors and his fiancée, Janet Weiss — a wholesome, well-behaved, utterly normal young couple in love — innocently set out to visit an old professor....
Mercury Retrograde Dates for 2025 and 2026
What Is Mercury Retrograde and What Does It Mean for You? Mercury Retrograde will begin once again on November 9, 2025, and end on November 29, 2025. These periods of the year are thought to significantly influence your mood and actions. Learn more and find the 2025 and 2026 Mercury Retrograde dates below. Discover what Mercury Retrograde means for communication, travel, technology, and how it might impact your daily life....
Animas Valley Balloon Rally
Event Description The Animas Valley Balloon Rally hosts a full weekend of events each October. The event this year takes place October 17 – 19, 2025. The event kicks off with the Downtown Balloon Glow on Friday evening, where spectators will see multiple hot air balloons light up. The event also features a few candlesticks (baskets without their balloons.) This is a great opportunity to meet the pilots and get up close to the...
The Question That Changes People’s Lives
By Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, FRCP Whether you see yourself on a spiritual path or not, there’s a powerful way to raise your experience of life. It consists of a single question, ‘Who am I?” If you ask this question seriously, it has a tremendous impact. You might find yourself making a personal breakthrough, turning a corner in your life, or even experiencing a transformation. My own breakthrough is a case in point. It occurred in the...
17th Annual Apple Days Festival
17th Annual Apple Days Festival DESCRIPTION Join the Good Food Collective for the 17th Annual Apple Days Festival brought to you by EsoTerra Ciderworks. The festival celebrates our region’s apple abundance, helps feed our community, reduces waste, and saves the bears! We invite you to join us for daily community harvests from September 20-October 9 and then on Saturday, October 11, from 9 am-12 pm at the Durango Farmers Market...
West Slope Startup Week 2025
West Slope Startup Week 2025 DESCRIPTION This is the third year for West Slope Startup Week in Durango! Five days of ideas, connection, and collaboration – all celebrating rural entrepreneurs and the communities they call home. This ‘conference’ is unlike any other! It is FREE and ‘a la carte’, meaning you get to choose your own adventure; come to as much or as little as you like. Sessions are hosted in...
Why Everyone Needs a New Identity
Why Everyone Needs a New Identity By Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, FRCP The possibility of renewal and transformation is held out to people who are on the spiritual path or contemplate being on it. But it is rarely seen that this entails some radical choices, going deep into who you think you are. We all have to use the same words to communicate, and one of the terms we share is “self.” Myself, yourself, himself, herself. This...
Durango Cowboy Gathering October 1-4, 2025
Durango Cowboy Gathering October 1-4, 2025October 1 through October 4, 2025 Downtown Durango • Durango, CO MapEvent WebsiteEvent Schedule Event Description The Durango Cowboy Gathering is a fun filled five-day event that captures the true spirit of the American cowboy through song, music and stories. Cowboy poets and musicians from all across the country will perform in various venues throughout Durango including the...
Four Corners Photo Expo Saturday, Oct 4, 2025
Four Corners Photo Expo Saturday, Oct 4, 2025 • 1:00 pm – 5:00 pmSaturday, October 4, 2025 at 1:00 pm Sky Ute Casino & Resort Hotel • 14324 Hwy 172 North, Ignacio, CO81137 MapEvent Website Event Description Join photography enthusiasts and gear lovers on October 4, 2025, from 1:00 to 5:00 pm at the Sky Ute Casino & Resort Hotel in Ignacio, Colorado (14324 Hwy 172 North). This is your chance to test and compare...
How to Document Your Pet’s Milestones Without Missing the Moments That Matter
How to Document Your Pet’s Milestones Without Missing the Moments That Matter Image via Pexels There’s a rhythm to life with pets that doesn’t announce itself—it just happens. A first clumsy tail wag. The day they finally sit without a bribe. The weird thing they do every time you say “banana.” You blink and weeks go by. That’s why documenting your pet’s milestones isn’t just sentimental—it’s how you stay present in the chaos....
Autumn Arts Festival September 20-21, 2025
Event Description Join us in beautiful, historic downtown Durango to celebrate the Annual Durango Autumn Arts Festival. A regional destination event held on quaint Second Avenue, the festival is just one block away from Main Avenue, surrounded by hotels, shops, and locally owned restaurants. Organized as a benefit event by and for the Durango Arts Center, the region’s premiere non-profit arts organization serving Durango and...
Purgatory Oktoberfest Sept 14th 2025
Tickets are $15 in advance. $20 at the door if still available. Tickets are limited. Buy tickets Come on up and try out the flavors of the season at our Purgatory Oktoberfest celebration on Sunday, September 14th from noon to 4:30 pm. With great brews, beautiful views, live music and a festive atmosphere it will be a blast! When you arrive, check-in at the ticket tent and receive your 19.5 oz custom beer mug and a ticket for your...
The 7th annual Devo Film Fest September 12, 2025
We are looking for excellent, short, entertaining content for the Durango Devo Film Fest (DDFF)! Durango Devo is a Colorado 501[c][3] Youth Non-Profit. We provide outdoor mountain bike programs to 4-corners youth, ages 2-19, with the mission of developing lifelong cyclists by engaging kids with nature on their bikes. The DDFF is a fundraiser for Durango Devo, with 100% of proceeds benefiting Devo’s riders. Your film contribution will...
Four Corners Motorcycle Rally
Four Corners Motorcycle Rally August 28-31, 2025 Durango, CO MapEvent Website Event Description Save the date and join us for the 2025 Four Corners Motorcycle Rally in Durango, Colorado! Enjoy the best riding rally in the United States with a weekend full of bikes, live music, motorcycle giveaways, stunt shows, racing, bike shows, great food and drinks and more! Ride on the world famous Million Dollar Highway, attend the...
