Colorfest Hot Air Balloon Rally 9.20-9.22.2024
A sincere thank you to everyone involved in the 2024 Colorfest event! We could not do this without all of our volunteers, pilots, locals, and guests! See you next year!
Colorfest Weekend is brought to you by the
Pagosa Area Chamber of Commerce!
This fun filled weekend is full of activities for the whole family!
Sept. 20-22, 2024
Passport to Pagosa Wine and Food Festival
Description
Annual wine and food festival highlighting delicious domestic and international wines with some of Pagosa's best restaurants and food vendors. Included with the ticket price comes seating, wine and food tickets, and a VIP gift. Wonderful live entertainment with crooner Maxwell Miller will enhance the evening.
This is a 21+ event.
Guests are invited to participate in the People’s Choice by voting for their favorite sample!
Time
Friday, September 20 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Location
Town Park
Pricing
Tickets are $100 per person.
Tables of 8 may be reserved.
This event has sold out in the last few years, get your tickets before they are gone. This event is only for those 21 and over.
Musical Entertainment will be Maxwell Miller Jazz!
Bands & Brews Festival
Description
Colorfest Weekend is brought to you by the Pagosa Springs Area Chamber of Commerce! This fun filled weekend is full of activities for the whole family. Bands & Brews Festival (Available to all ages).
Enjoy a complimentary beer tasting glass with your purchase of a Beer Tasting Ticket. Along with your glass, you will be given a wristband that will allow you to try the beer during the festival. If you don't have a wristband you will not be served beer.
LIVE MUSIC: Bands include: CW Ayon and Sol Over Luna! 
Food Trucks: Food will be available for purchase
BANDS & BREWS TICKETS
Beer Tasting $35
General Admission (no tasting) $10;
Wine by the glass available for purchase.
*Must be 21+ to purchase a Beer Tasting ticket*
General Admission: Ticket purchase required for ages 15+ , all kids under the ages of 14 are FREE
Dogs are allowed, but MUST be on a leash
(Available to all ages)
Night Glow starts at 7-7:30 (dusk) Town Park
FREE SHUTTLE Friday & Saturday
Courtesy of the Pagosa Springs Chamber in partnership with Wilderness Journeys.
The shuttle runs constantly on Friday from 5:30 - 9 pm and Saturday from 3:30 - 8 PM.
Pick up locations: Parking lot at the base of Rez Hill & Mary Fisher park
Colorado Craft Distributors - pouring:
Mother Earth Brew Co.
Finkel & Garf Brewing
Original Sin Cider
Crispin Cider, Minneapolis, MN
HOP WTR - Non-alcoholic Hop Infused Sparkling Water
Riff Raff Brewing Co., Pagosa Springs
Ska Brewing
Turtle Mountain Brewing Company
Breweries from throughout Colorado and Northern New Mexico compete for “People’s Choice” along with “Brewers Choice” awards in this event.
Enjoy tasting some unique new brews while listening to great live music all day long in Town Park/Athletic Field. Food vendors and kids activities make this a day for the whole family. As the sun sets we will be surrounded by hot air balloons for the annual “night glow.”
Mass Balloon Ascension
Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd
8 AM both mornings
Over 40 balloons fill the sky each morning for the mass balloon ascension! On Saturday morning, watch them lift off from downtown Pagosa Springs, and on Sunday, see them float over the uptown area ( Park Ave.) Free to the public.
5K Color Run/Walk
Aspen House Color Run
Saturday, September 21st
Yamaguchi Park
Colors will be flying everywhere during the Color Run! Wear your most colorful costume and join friends and family for our fun run under the sky filled with hot air balloons! Your registration gets you a Color Run t-shirt which will be blasted with color at each one of our color stations around the route.