Our Best Bets for Your Summer
Every Friday on City Cast Denver, our newsletter editor Peyton Garcia joins the crew to offer some event recommendations, and we collectively pick the Official City Cast Denver Maybe For Your Weekend — aka the one weekend event where you’re most likely to see us. So for this second installment of our summer entertainment guide, City Cast editor Adrian González returns to help Peyton, host Bree Davies and producer Paul Karolyi pick City Cast Denver’s Ultimate Summer Maybe. Because there’s a zillion cool things happening around Denver this summer, and we narrowed it down to one rock solid recommendation.
Here are all the events Peyton recommended:
Arts
- Colorado Native: A Native American Comedy Showcase, August 24 (Highland)
- REVEALED: John Fielder’s Favorite Place, July 22 (Golden Triangle)
- Desert Rider: Dreaming in Motion, July 9 (Golden Triangle)
Food
- Strawberry Days Festival, June 16-18 (Glenwood Springs)
- Olathe Sweet Corn Festival, August 4-5 (Olathe)
- Blues and BBQ Festival for Better Housing, July 15 (Edgewater)
Mountain Adventure
- Fibark, June 15-18 (Salida; Paul wants you to know that the pizza place he likes in Salida is Moonlight Pizza & Brewpub)
- Crested Butte Wildflower Festival, July 7-16 (Crested Butte)
- Mushroom ID Foray, July 8 (TBD)
Misc.
- Pollinator Palooza Festival, June 25 (Westminster)
- Georgetown Loop Old West Days, August 19-20, 26-27 (Georgetown)
- Scandinavian Midsummer Festival, June 23-25 (Estes Park)
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