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Annual Events in the Pikes Peak Region

We've all missed an event and thought "jeepers, I wish I'd known about that sooner!" Our Annual Events Guide ensures you never feel that way again, featuring many of the major community events that happen every year across the Pikes Peak region. From the Great Fruitcake Toss in January to the Festival of Lights Parade in December, this is a great list of some of the big events you can't miss this year!

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The Great Fruitcake Toss

Manitou Springs Memorial Park · January 30, 2027

Yes, this is exactly what it sounds like – join local Manitoids to enjoy this old-fashioned event of flying those leftover fruitcakes!

Starting in 1996 with locals throwing fruitcakes in the park, the tradition continues all these years later. Events will be pure feats of strength, talent, balance, and taste! There will be old fashioned games of tossing fruitcakes, costume competition, libations, and a fruitcake bake off!

Lunar New Year Festival

Ent Center for the Arts · February 7, 2026

Besides the traditional lion dance and Taiko drummers, attendees will also enjoy martial arts demonstrations, Chinese dances, unique Chinese musical performances, and Chinese films. Plus, the Chinatown Marketplace will offer unique new year jewelry, dragons, shirts, and more.

Manitou Springs Carnivale Parade

Downtown Manitou Springs · February 14, 2026

Join the city of Manitou for the Mumbo Gumbo Jumbo Cook-Off and the Carnivale Parade! Dress up in your Mardi Gras best and don’t forget to don your feathered masks while you enjoy all that Manitou Springs has to offer.

The Cripple Creek Ice Festival

Downtown Cripple Creek · February 14-22, 2026

The Cripple Creek Ice Festival is a spectacular event held for a duration of two weekends. Acclaimed carvers from near and far will go chainsaw to chainsaw to carve ice into beautiful works of art that will amaze you!

The Broadmoor Winter Polo Classic

Norris Penrose Event Center · February 21, 2026

The Broadmoor Winter Polo Classic brings winter polo to residents across the Pikes Peak region at the Norris Penrose Event Center – brought to you by Los Hermanos Ranch and Colorado Springs Sports Corporation.

The match will once again feature top polo players from around the country, adhering to most of the standard, traditional polo regulations with the exception of the tournament taking place in a dirt arena instead of a grass field. Teams will be comprised of three players and play will consist of four 7-min chukkers (periods).

Meadowgrass Music Festival

Black Forest · May 22-24, 2026

MeadowGrass is a three-day music fest over Memorial Day weekend with over 20 local and national bands at the secluded La Foret Conference and Retreat Center in Black Forest, Colorado.

On-site camping, spectacular scenery, a variety of top area food caterers, kids activities, and award-winning artists make MeadowGrass a unique, fun, and family-friendly festival!

Territory Days

Old Colorado City · May 29-31, 2027

Territory Days is held every Memorial Day weekend, in historic Old Colorado City located on the west side of Colorado Springs. Enjoy over 180 food and craft booths, live music, a kids’ play area and petting zoo and much more! See performances by Native American dancers, Wild West gunfight re-enactments, and live blacksmith demonstrations. Territory Days has plenty of food and entertainment for the entire family.

From its humble beginnings, Territory Days has grown from a small neighborhood craft fair into a three-day street festival which now hosts over 180 booths. Between 80,000 and 150,000 guests enjoy this event every Memorial Day weekend.

Summer Music Festival

Colorado College · June 5-25, 2027

The Colorado College Summer Music Festival provides the highest caliber, inclusive educational experience for pre-professional musicians, connecting them with preeminent performance faculty as they prepare to launch rewarding careers, while simultaneously providing vibrant and diverse concerts celebrating legacy, contemporary, and underrepresented classical music and thereby enriching the community of the Pikes Peak region.

Pikes Peak Pride

Downtown Colorado Springs · June 13 & 14, 2026

Pikes Peak Pride is a community event expected to gather thousands of visitors together from across the state and Pikes Peak Region into downtown Colorado Springs.

There will be two full days of vendor booths, food trucks, beer garden and high energy entertainment to include a fabulous parade on Sunday. The festival desires to foster a festival where people feel safe, accepted, and supported while raising awareness for issues facing LGBTQ+ people living in the Pikes Peak region.

Colorado Springs Western Street Breakfast

Downtown Colorado Springs · June 16, 2027

The Colorado Springs Western Street Breakfast is one of Colorado Springs’ most iconic celebrations of its deep-rooted western heritage. The Street Breakfast has also become an annual fundraising event that supports our local military and their families.

Mark your calendar and set your alarm for early morning so you can join us for this fun, festive, and family-friendly event. The streets of Downtown Colorado Springs close down, hay bales come out, and soldiers from Fort Carson cook up a tasty, hot breakfast for you to devour while you listen to great local music and watch talented Native American dancers.

Victor Gem & Mineral Show

Downtown Victor · June 19-21, 2026

The annual Victor Gem & Mineral Show presented by the Southern Teller County Focus Group (STCFG) in Victor, Colorado will be held the third weekend in June. The event will be held in downtown historic Victor and is open and free to the public. The show will include vendors from across the state selling Colorado dug minerals. Items for sale will include polished gems, hand-crafted jewelry, rough slabs, specimens, cabochons, geodes, and more. There will also be gold and gem panning at the Victor Lowell Thomas Museum.

Oddities Alley

Downtown Victor · June 19-21, 2026

Oddities Alley is Colorado’s only locally based oddities and curiosities exposition! Held on the same weekend as the Victor Gem and Mineral Show, Oddities Alley is produced by artists and vendors, for artists and vendors!

Southern Colorado Juneteenth Festival

Norris Penrose Event Center · June 19-21, 2026

The Southern Colorado Juneteenth Festival is the biggest celebration of inclusion to ever be held at America the Beautiful Park in Colorado Springs. The festival’s mission is to bring together people from every background and community for a time of celebration, music, and family fun.

Pikes Peak International Hill Climb and Fan Fest

Pikes Peak and Downtown Colorado Springs · June 19 & 21, 2026

The Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC), also known as The Race to the Clouds, is an invitational automobile and motorcycle hill climb to the summit of Pikes Peak – America’s Mountain.

Fan Fest is Colorado Springs’ largest and most popular street festival, action-packed with stunts and more fun for everyone! Held annually on the Friday before Race Day, more than 30,000 people gather in the heart of Downtown Colorado Springs to experience this 10-block street party.

Donkey Derby Days

Downtown Cripple Creek · June 25-27, 2027

For more than 80 years, Donkey Derby Days has topped the list of favorite Cripple Creek events. People from all over the world descend on downtown, drawn by a chance to watch a race inspired by the town’s resident donkey herd, believed to be distant relatives of the original donkeys from the town’s Gold Rush days.

Enjoy games, live entertainment, heritage competitions, and other fun family activities that will make your visit one to remember!

Family Fourth

Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site · July 4, 2027

Bring your family and celebrate the Fourth of July Rock Ledge style. Listen to historic music and a dulcimer band. Play carnival games with your kids and learn how to play “Chicken Bingo”. Enjoy some watermelon, and go on a wagon ride around the ranch. Enjoy some delicious gelato or perhaps participate in a pie-eating contest. Witness historic speeches as well. Bring a picnic blanket and feast upon some Fourth of July favorites like hotdogs, lemonade, and apple pie (available for purchase). Refresh yourselves with old-fashioned soda and popcorn from the Pop Shed and grab a souvenir from the General Store. There’s something fun for the whole family all day long!

Star Spangled Symphony

Ford Amphitheater · July 4, 2027

The Star Spangled Symphony & Fourth of July Fireworks continues the beloved nearly 50-year tradition of musical offerings from the Colorado Springs Philharmonic. Celebrate Independence Day with a free concert. Gather in the comfort of the Pikes Peak Center and hear an exhilarating array of patriotic favorites and fanfares that resonate with the spirit of America.

Green Box Arts Festival

Green Mountain Falls · July 2-17, 2027

Green Box’s hallmark event since 2009 is their annual Arts Festival – a multi-week, multi-disciplinary cornucopia of arts performances, exhibitions, classes, camps, conversations and parties.

Want to catch every performance they have on tap, or only want to take a class? Whatever your interest and for however long you want to engage with Green Box during the festival, check out the whole schedule and plan a day, weekend, or attend the entire 2-week festival. Dozens of unique events are available for you to participate in each summer. The festival thrives on offering intimate opportunities, so be sure to sign up for your favorite events early…before they sell out!

NFR Open at the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo

Norris Penrose Event Center · July 14-18, 2026

Championship rodeo is coming to town this summer at the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo. The top talent in professional rodeo will be invited to this PRCA-sanctioned event, competing in seven standard events including bareback, saddle bronc, bull riding, tie-down roping, steer wrestling, team roping, and barrel racing.

The Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo has been a Colorado Springs tradition since 1937, showcasing top rodeo talent and action, while providing wholesome entertainment for area residents, as well as visitors to the region. Fans come from far and wide to enjoy top rodeo action and tons of family fun, all while honoring our local military and their families.

Gold Rush Days

Downtown Victor · July 17-19, 2026

Gold Rush Days in Victor – where the spirit of the Wild West comes alive! Nestled in the heart of Colorado’s historic mining country, this lively weekend celebration brings together the gold of the past with the gems of today: live mining demonstrations, colorful parades, toe-tapping music, and mouthwatering food that’ll make you want to stake a claim on seconds. Whether you’re panning for adventure, dancing in the street, or just soaking in the small-town charm, there’s family fun for all ages at every turn. Grab your boots, tip your hat, and join us in Victor, where history, hilarity, and hometown pride shine brighter than gold!

Bronc Day Festival

Green Mountain Falls · July 25, 2026

The first Bronc Day was held July 1, 1939 as the ‘”Official Opening of the Tourist Season” and to honor the Vertical Mile Marathon Racers who were training for the race up Pikes Peak while staying in Green Mountain Fails. A parade with horses, a clown, and a parade queen, met the marathon racers in Cascade and escorted them to Green Mountain Falls for a day of fun including saddle relay races, trick riding, sack races, ceremonial Indian dances, and evening fireworks. The modern editions of the festival continue much of that history.

Rocky Mountain Flower Fest

Venetucci Farm · August 8, 2026

The festival combines a music festival with a farm full of flowers! There will be live music from incredible bands, flower installations for photos, flowers to pick, flower crowns to wear, food trucks to enjoy, craft beer from OCC Brewing, artisan market, line dancing and more! Come enjoy an evening with music and flowers at the farm.

Mountain Arts Festival

Woodland Park Memorial Park · August 8 & 9, 2026

Find a variety of high quality and unique artwork from artists from all across the nation. Booths will feature jewelry designers, woodcarvers, photographers, painters, potters, and much more.

There will also be plenty of delicious food vendors to satisfy your taste buds while browsing the beautiful art pieces. With the picturesque backdrop of Pikes Peak, the Mountain Arts Festival in Woodland Park is a beautiful piece of art itself.

Colorado Springs Comic Con

Broadmoor World Arena · August 21-23, 2026

Get ready, Colorado Springs, for the biggest and best pop culture convention in the Springs. This 3-day event features celebrities from all genres of TV, movies and cartoons, some of the best names in the comic art community, as well as some the greatest vendors in the area with those hard to find toys, comics, and collectibles. Be sure to stop by and finish that wish list and even meet some of your favorite celebrities and get their autographs and have your picture taken with them at this amazing event!

Labor Day Lift-Off

Colorado Springs Memorial Park · September 5-7, 2026

The mornings start with a hot air balloon mass ascension of over 70 balloons accompanied by breakfast and drinks from local vendors.

Activities will continue throughout each day with skydiving demonstrations, wake boarding exhibitions, paddle boarding, live entertainment, chainsaw carving, and donut eating competitions. Wrap up your visit at Memorial Park over the Labor Day weekend with a hot air balloon glow at dusk.

Commonwheel Arts Festival

Manitou Springs Memorial Park · September 5-7, 2026

Commonwheel Artists Labor Day Art Festival is a juried three-day event filled with high quality artwork, talented musicians, and fabulous food in Manitou Springs’ Memorial Park. For years Commonwheel Artists Co-op has helped create an awareness of American-made original fine art and contemporary craft by bringing over 100 quality artists to their annual art festival. Each year a jury of professional artists selects which artists will be shown.

Commonwheel also offers a line-up of local musicians playing original music in a variety of music styles on our stage. Art and music patrons can sit and listen (or dance) to their favorite entertainers while enjoying a tasty treat and a cold drink, including beer and wine options.

Victor Celebrates the Arts

Downtown Victor · September 5-7, 2026

We are excited for you to visit Victor this year to help us celebrate as “Plein Air” artists from around the country gather to paint on location in our historic town. Professional and emerging artists participate in painting various scenes in and around the City of Victor and many nearby legendary 1890’s gold mining sites. Our show is judged by an established and respected professional artist, and original works produced for the show will be available for sale in the gallery.

All paintings in the VCTA Show & Sale will be painted en plein air – on site, directly from life – within a 10-mile radius of Victor City Hall during the week before the show and sale.

Vintage Baseball

Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site · September 7, 2026

One of the highlights of Labor Day is the annual vintage baseball match featuring the Camp Creek Cloud Busters (your home team). The Cloud Busters is no “farm team,” but needs your support to cheer them on to victory!

This game is vintage rules: no spittin’, no swearin’, no gloves! “Cranks” (that’s you, the spectators) can influence the umpire’s call in your team’s favor! You can also view the on site historic homes.

Fiestas Patrias

Downtown Colorado Springs · September 12, 2026

Fiestas Patrias occurs at the start of Hispanic Heritage month. Each year, Americans observe National Hispanic Heritage month from September 15 – October 15 by celebrating the histories, cultures, and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central, and South America. To celebrate, Fiestas Patrias is a family festival in the heart of downtown Colorado Springs, bringing people from diverse Hispanic origins to create a cultural fusion! This full-day event will host live music, dancing, vendor booths, national acts, and plenty of local food vendors.

Pikes Peak Ascent & Marathon

Manitou Springs · September 19 & 20, 2026

The Pikes Peak Ascent is a grueling 13.3 mile race from Manitou Springs, Colorado, to the 14,115 foot summit of Pikes Peak. With a vertical climb of 7,800 feet up the historic Barr Trail, this is NOT your typical half marathon!

Rock Ledge Ranch Annual Powwow

Rock Ledge Ranch · September 19, 2026

Everyone is invited to the Rock Ledge Ranch Powwow. The powwow celebrates and honors Native American cultures and history through song, dance, and traditions. It is a gathering that brings people together to see old friends and make new ones. Before the grand entry of dancers, a storyteller and dance troupe will perform. Enjoy an Indian taco, or other delicious food, and explore the vendors who will sell an assortment of items, mostly homemade.

Harvest Festival

McAllister House Museum · September 26, 2026

Come celebrate autumn and the historic apple harvest at the McAllister House Museum’s Annual Harvest Festival. There will be local vendors, antique cars, crafts for kids, food and drink, tours of the oldest house in Colorado Springs and great live music.

The McAllister’s took a leading role in the development of fruit culture through experimentation with apples, grapes and strawberries right on their grounds on Cascade Street. They started as soon as they moved here and gathered data for 10 years. Their work is included in the publication “Fruit Culture in Colorado” by William Pabor.

Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival

Colorado College · October 16-18, 2026

The Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival is the longest running women’s film festival in North America. The festival showcases documentary, narrative shorts, and animated films that are thought-provoking and enriching, and that encourage global awareness and personal growth.

The festival honors films and filmmakers that present the world as women experience it and that inspire curiosity, educate, entertain, and stimulate conversation.

Emma Crawford Coffin Races & Festival

Manitou Springs · October 24, 2026

In 1995, the Manitou Springs Chamber of Commerce started the first coffin races in the nation, in memory of a beloved member of the community – Emma Crawford.

In the years since, the races have grown into an often copied but never equaled Manitou Springs tradition. Each year more than 10,000 people come to Manitou Springs for the fun and festive Coffin Races. Teams of five, one Emma and four runners, push their coffins 195 feet down Manitou Avenue to the finish line. The fastest times earn trophies as well as a chance to win Best Emma, Best Entourage, and Best Coffin.

Arts Month

Pikes Peak Region · October 1-31, 2026

Each October, arts & culture takes center stage throughout Colorado Springs and across the Pikes Peak region, as our creative community celebrates Arts Month. Orchestrated annually by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region, Arts Month elevates the visibility of arts & culture across El Paso and Teller Counties by showcasing local talent, providing opportunities for arts advocacy, supporting innovative cross-sector community collaborations, and creating new avenues for arts engagement and cultural enrichment.

Festival of Lights Parade

Downtown Colorado Springs · December 5, 2026

Festival of Lights is a series of events to celebrate the December holiday season, highlighted by the Festival of Lights Parade. The events include cultural and artistic programs, performances and other festivities for the enjoyment and education of the general public.

Up to 60,000 spectators will crowd the streets for the parade to watch participants put on a dazzling display of lights, sounds, and performances. Bands, floats, horses, and all kinds of special entries compete for top honors in their class.

Are you visiting the Pikes Peak region from out of town?
Make sure to check out our friends at VisitCOS for additional visitor information!

Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble - Voices of a New World. October 16, 2026.

Bananacat Bar Crawl in Downtown Colorado Springs. October 11, 2026.

Manitou Springs Memorial Park · January 30, 2027

Ent Center for the Arts · February 7, 2026

Downtown Manitou Springs · February 14, 2026

Downtown Cripple Creek · February 14-22, 2026

Norris Penrose Event Center · February 21, 2026

Black Forest · May 22-24, 2026

Old Colorado City · May 29-31, 2027

Colorado College · June 5-25, 2027

Downtown Colorado Springs · June 13 & 14, 2026

Downtown Colorado Springs · June 16, 2027

Downtown Victor · June 19-21, 2026

Downtown Victor · June 19-21, 2026

Norris Penrose Event Center · June 19-21, 2026

Pikes Peak and Downtown Colorado Springs · June 19 & 21, 2026

Downtown Cripple Creek · June 25-27, 2027

Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site · July 4, 2027

Ford Amphitheater · July 4, 2027

Green Mountain Falls · July 2-17, 2027

Norris Penrose Event Center · July 14-18, 2026

Downtown Victor · July 17-19, 2026

Green Mountain Falls · July 25, 2026

Venetucci Farm · August 8, 2026

Woodland Park Memorial Park · August 8 & 9, 2026

Broadmoor World Arena · August 21-23, 2026

Colorado Springs Memorial Park · September 5-7, 2026

Manitou Springs Memorial Park · September 5-7, 2026

Downtown Victor · September 5-7, 2026

Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site · September 7, 2026

Downtown Colorado Springs · September 12, 2026

Manitou Springs · September 19 & 20, 2026

Rock Ledge Ranch · September 19, 2026

McAllister House Museum · September 26, 2026

Colorado College · October 16-18, 2026

Manitou Springs · October 24, 2026

Pikes Peak Region · October 1-31, 2026

Downtown Colorado Springs · December 5, 2026

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