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...
