Merry Christmas from the Mayor
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas, and may your New Year be filled with many fine Colorado adventures. Sincerely, Heidi & Ryan
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Last minute Colorado Christmas gifts
In general, I’m a planner, but every year Christmas sneaks up on me and I’m always floundering to find the perfect gift at the last moment. I know that you enjoy buying Colorado-related gifts, because we live in the most awesome state in the union, and keeping it local is what we’re all about around here. So I thought I’d share a few of my favorite Colorado things that would
HeidiTown Gives Back: ColoRADogs, a better world for dogs
Before I introduce you to this month’s recipient of HeidiTown Gives Back, I want tell you a story. When I was a little girl we lived in a rural area of southern Oregon. Our house and our neighbor’s house were the only homes on a quiet, dead end street. My little brother and I spent our days exploring the nearby sand dunes (probably a sand pit) and playing in our
Things to do at Colorado ski resorts when you’re not skiing
As some of you know, I have retired from skiing. My career was short and not very sweet. I learned as an adult and despite having amazing instructors at several Colorado resorts, I could never learn to get off the chairlift without falling. This little chairlift problem kept me up at night for weeks before I had a scheduled ski trip. I wanted to love the sport of skiing –
A Colorado fall to remember
I have lived in Colorado for more than 14 years and I cannot recall a fall as beautiful as this one. I decided that it needed documented and so I’m dedicating this blog post to Colorado Fall 2014. After setting a record for number of likes on a photo I posted on HeidiTown’s Facebook page – the photo below is creeping up on 100 likes – I decided to do
Featured Festival: Fall Back Beer Fest, Estes Park
Think the beer festival season is over? Think again. Beer festivals have become a year round tradition here in Colorado and there’s a great one just around the corner. When I preview a beer event, I try to find something unique about the festival. After all, beer events are, on the whole, quite similar. You go, you taste beer, you chat up the brewers and taste more beer and that’s
Hotel de Paris Museum, a gem hidden in plain sight
We stumbled into the Hotel de Paris while on a trip to Georgetown for my birthday five years ago. As readers know, I’m a fan of museums and we try to patronize as many as possible in our travels around Colorado. An hour and a half later, Hotel de Paris was my favorite museum in Colorado. Our docent had brought the place alive for me (evidence that a good museum
On top of the world with Alpine Scenic Tours
With snow falling in the high country, the scenic tours season will quickly be coming to an end, so I’m going to write another blog post about our adventure with Alpine Scenic Tours in Ouray early next spring as this company will be part of the HeidiTown Festival package in May. However, I do want to share a little about our experience on this trip as well as some of
Featured Festival: Loveland Art Studio Tour
Loveland has been a Mecca for art and artists since the 1970s, and while sculpture has been the traditional medium of choice in the town, a shift towards other art mediums has occurred over the last several years. This isn’t to say that Loveland’s sculpture community is going way – that practice has deep, strong roots, but today, Loveland is a place where many different sorts of artists to hone
Church Basement Ladies at BDT serves up laughs & life lessons
“The Church Basement Ladies” is back on stage at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre. The show was so popular last fall that BDT director, Michael J. Duran, decided to produce the sequel this fall. There are five Church Basement Ladies sequels, and listening to the crowd’s response to this one, I have a feeling Colorado will eventually be treated to them all. Boulder’s Dinner Theater has repackaged their venue as the BDT