One Great Christmas Town in Colorado Has 6 Events to Check Out

Christmas in Colorado is something that not only Coloradans love, but people from across America enjoy. Heading up to Estes Park for the 2024 season, we'll find some fun things to make the holidays brighter.

It must be a combination of wonderful and frustrating (at times) to live in Estes Park; folks that live there live in a beautiful town, but also have to put up with all the visitors to their beautiful town.

The 2024 Christmas/Holidays season brings more than a few things for townspeople and visitors to enjoy.

Estes Park, Colorado, Has Four Holidays Activities for 2024

Just under 6,000 people actually live in Estes Park; the number of tourists the town gets is exponentially more. The Estes Park Visitor Center sees about 400,000 each year, but not every tourist stops there, so it must be much more.

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When you visit Estes Park in the wintertime, you get to see the town in a whole new way that's different than spring/summer visits. The snow, the lights, "quaintness" of the little town is fun to see. The town's 2024 plans for the Christmas season will bring many up the mountain.

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Estes Park's 'Catch the Glow' Holiday Schedule 2024

Estes Park's holiday season officially begins November 23, and goes for six weeks, extending into the first week of 2025, with six main things to check out:

• Holiday Lights Driving Tour: [November 23, 2024- January 1, 2025] Self-guided tour through neighborhoods and Downtown.
• Nightly Light Shows: [Beginning November 23, 2024] Bond Park, featuring Colorado's only "Pixel Pine Tree" illuminating to holiday favorites.
• Catch the Glow Parade:  [November 29, 2024] Starting at 5:30 p.m. Over 40 floats brightening Elkhorn Avenue.
• Holiday Wine Festival: [November 30, 2024] 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. at the Events Complex.
• Snowman Festival : [December 7, 2024] 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. at Bond Park. Live ice sculpting, food trucks, beer garden, photo ops with Santa Claus, Princess and other characters, horse-drawn carriage rides and more.
• Sweets Stroll Festival: [December 21-22, 2024] visitors will get their Sweets Stroll punch cards punched at candy stores, ice cream shops, chocolatiers and bakers with free treats at each stop.
• Also with the Sweets Stroll Festival, there will be live ice sculpting, food trucks, beer garden, photo ops with Santa Claus, Princess and other characters, horse-drawn carriage rides and more at Bond Park.

There's even more things happening during the holidays in Estes; which will you be checking out?