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Chris Dillmann/cdillmann@vaildaily.com
VAIL In the past, the town’s Vail America Days festivities have seen more than 1,000 cars lined along the Frontage Road after filling the town’s parking structures on the July 4 holiday.
During last year’s pandemic, however, those structures didn’t fill.
This year, Vail was back up to 463 cars on the road, and workers in town said business was steady.
Jon Walters, director of sales at The Sebastian hotel in Vail, said the hotel was nearly full, and many guests had booked early.
“That’s the big difference from last year,” Walters said. “Last year, it all came in fairly short notice, but this year, we’re getting bookings far further in advance.”
John LaConte/jlaconte@vaildaily.com
VAIL The Fourth of July fell on a Sunday this year, and in Vail, that meant both the Independence Day exhibitions and the regular Sunday farmers market were combined into one enormous party.
Crowds spanned from Vail Village to Lionshead, enjoying pocket patriotism displays throughout.
Visiting from Texas, U.S. Military veteran Chuck Utzman and his wife, Jan, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in Vail on Sunday, walking the village and posing for pictures with the stilt-wearing Uncle Sam and Betsy Ross characters.
Utzman, who claimed a birthday of May 15, 1929, on his first military registration card so he could go to Japan with the U.S. Army in 1947, went on to fight in both the Vietnam War and the Korean War, as well. He took part in a winter training in Camp Hale in the 1950s, and returned to Eagle County a little more than a decade later to try out the skiing at Vail.
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As the Colorado Springs Philharmonic plays on the radio, fireworks fill the sky from 10 locations around the Pikes Peak region, from the Patty Jewett Golf Course to Fort Carson, during a social distance celebration of Independence Day in Colorado Springs on Saturday, July 4, 2020. (Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
Chancey Bush The Gazette
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