Walking through the 38th annual Vail Arts Festival this past weekend meant passing by an enormous variety of mediums of art paintings, jewelry, drawing, photography, metalworks, furniture, and more each tent station featuring a sign that indicated the.
Vail’s annual Fourth of July celebration, Vail America Days, returns this summer with a parade and an evening fireworks display, weather permitting. The town is accepting applications from nonprofit organizations and businesses, as well as children’s.
If you can’t find something fun to do this holiday weekend, you aren’t trying. From a July 1 drone show in Gypsum to a revived Vail America Days parade July 4 to plenty of music.
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Love is one of Eagle County’s underappreciated economic drivers. Specifically, people who get married bring bunches of guests and money every summer.
The wedding business took a COVID-mandated break in 2020. This wedding season roughly June through October is already busy, between canceled events from 2020 and ceremonies that were planned for this year. keeps a close eye on state and national trends. Moore said that in the couple of years before the pandemic, the U.S. saw roughly 2 million weddings per year. For 2022, that number is expected to surpass 3 million.
There’s plenty of local business this summer, but there are only so many venues, caterers, musicians and officiants to go around.
It may not look like much, but this modest pedestrian bridge in Gypsum has quite a history. It was initially located over Interstate 25 in Denver and a community effort brought it to Gypsum following a fatal pedestrian accident in 1992.
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The modest makeover underway at the Gypsum Creek pedestrian bridge along U.S. Highway 6 in Gypsum probably draws only passing interest from passing motorists.
It will, of course, improve the visuals along Gypsum’s most-traveled roadway by removing aged chain link fencing in favor of more aesthetically pleasing steel handrails. The bridge has already been painted to match the nearby railroad underpass, covering up its faded green exterior.