It’s Fall!

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Apples on Tree

Heading up to the mountains anytime soon? The high country is in prime form for viewing the changing of the leaves. Gorgeous yellows, oranges and bursts of red are candy for your eyes. Many routes to take, go short or long. Keep in mind Guanella Pass is still closed from Georgetown over.

Want to know where to go for Apples, Pumpkins and Corn Mazes? You came to the right place!

U Pick Pumpkins

May Farms offers a Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch, that runs October 2nd – October 31st, they are open every day, 10 am – DUSK
They also have a farmers market and flower market open now, every day. 64001 US Highway 36 Byers, Colorado 80103

YaYa Farm and Orchard offers apple and berry picking, hay rides and nighttime rides with a bonfire! They also offer a dinner club, what a great date night. Plus October feast, with activities, cider making and more! They are open now through October 24th. Friday: 10:00 – 6:00, Saturday: 2:00 – 5:00, Sunday: 10:00 – 3:00. 6914 Ute Highway, Longmont, 80503

The Lakewood Cultural Center located at Ohio and S. Wadsworth in Lakewood is hosting the 35th Annual Cider Days.  To include, Apple Pie Baking Contest, pie eating contest, petting zoo, organic cider, demonstrations, and more. It runs Saturday and Sunday, October 2nd and 3rd, 10AM -5PM.  Admission is 303-987-7850

If you feel like going on a day trip and maybe even taking a weekend you should go to the Happy Apple Farm in Penrose.  Penrose is just before Canon City, you could spend the weekend and also visit the Royal Gorge.   The Happy Apple Farm has berries, 14 varieties of apples, potatoes and more.  You can choose to pick it yourself, too fun!  1190 1st St. Penrose, Colorado 81240.

Apples Falling out of Bucket

Rocky Mountain Pumpkin Patch offers a Fall Festival through October.  For only $7 they let you in for the day to enjoy a self-guided tour.  The kids get to paint a pumpkin, use the bouncy obstacle course, feed the animals, corn maze, hay bale maze and they can also observe a honey bee colony.   Tours are offered M-F 9-5.  RMPP 9057 Ute Hwy / CO 66, Longmont, CO 80503

Festival of Mountain and Plain – Come “Taste” Colorado

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Festival of Mountain and Plain … A Taste of Colorado is a community celebration that is put on by Downtown Denver Events, Inc., a Downtown Denver Partnership organization. The Festival is an opportunity for people throughout the region to come together to experience and appreciate our diverse cultural traditions, and to learn more about our state’s Western heritage. The Festival highlights visual and performing arts in addition to featuring educational programs and culinary demonstrations.

Food from every corner of the state, diverse and delicious. Plenty of music and fun! Big Bad Voodoo Daddy headlines and Bret Michaels is also in the house!

  • Festival runs: TODAY 11:30AM – 10PM, Saturday and Sunday 10:30AM – 10PM and Monday 10:30AM – 8PM
  • Admission is FREE, tickets for food available for purchase
  • Located at Denver’s Civic Center Park, Downtown off of Broadway and 14th

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Friday night 7:30


Taste of Colorado

New $2 Million Project Complete at Denver Botanic Gardens, OPENS AUGUST 16th

Filed under Events, Places by on August 12, 2010 at 11:22 am {no comments}

Did you know something big has been going on at the Denver Botanic Gardens, York Street location?  Thanks to Janet Mordecai the Gardens have built a fantastic learning and play garden for children.  Complete with areas to explore, dig, climb, learn, a child’s wonderland.  This new feature opens Monday, August 16th, gates open at 9AM.

Mordecai GardenFor more information visit:  http://www.botanicgardens.org/content/mordecai-childrens-garden

The Denver Botanic Gardens

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Denver Botanic Gardens—Congress Park
1005 York Street
720-865-3500

9:00 am—9:00 pm Daily

Closed July 4,On several occasions during the summer, York Street will close earlier than 9 p.m. to host a Gardens special event:
• $12.50 for adults $9.50 for seniors 65+ / military with ID
$9.00 for youth 4-15 / students with ID Free for children 3 and under.

Denver Botanic Gardens at York Street presents a wide range of gardens and collections that illustrate an ever-widening diversity of plants from all corners of the world Celebrates our Western identity. The gardens are models of drought-tolerance and showcase native and adapted plants that thrive in Western gardens.

Currently Showing at the Denver Museum

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Denver Museum of Nature and Science-City Park
2001 N. Colorado Blvd.
303-322-7009
303-370-6000-reservations
www.dmns.org

Current Exhibit: Body Worlds & The Story of the Heart
Four years after BODY WORLDS 2 brought record crowds to the
Denver Museum of Nature & Science, a new exhibition will open to the public. BODY WORLDS & The Story of the Heart, will reveal how the heart nourishes, regulates and sustains life.

$25.50-adults – Kids (3-18) – $16 (plus $2 phone or Internet fee )
Price includes Museum admission

What I love about Denver

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Ahhhh Denver, born and raised here, maybe I am biased.  Hundreds of miles of bike trails, the most parks per capita than any other city, mountains just minutes away, more days of sunshine than any other US city… Denver is a great town.  My mothers family has origins in Southern Colorado, the San Luis Valley, that predate Colorado’s statehood.  Colorado has a rich heritage and it should be treasured.

Besides the outdoor options there is so much to do in Denver.

For those of you who don’t mind walking and enjoy being outside:  Walk the 16th Street Mall, head to South Pearl Street, Cherry Creek Farmers Market, DU neighborhood, Washington Park

For Family Fun:  Elitch Gardens, Water World, Boondocks, Childrens Museum, Denver Aquarium, Firefighter Museum

Want to take a short drive up I-70 into the gorgeous Rocky Mountains: Buffalo Bills Grave @ Lookout Mountain, Evergreen, Idaho Springs, Georgetown, Dillon and Breckenridge

Like to gamble:  Head up to Central City, Blackhawk or down to Cripple Creek

Like to climb:  Colorado has over 50 14ers!  That’s right there are over fifty – fourteeners!  Which are mountains over 14,000 ft. Here is a link to an excellent Colorado 14er list.

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