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Today is the last day the Telluride Ski Resort is open for the 2011-2012 season. Make sure to get out to make a few last turns!

LINK:  tellurideskiresort.com/tellski/index.aspx

Started in 1979, Mountainfilm in Telluride is one of America’s longest-running film festivals. Through the years, in and out of trends and fads, the festival has always been best described by one unchanging word: inspiring. Far more than any other adjective, that’s how festival audiences describe their experience.

In addition to screening leading independent documentary films from around the world, the festival includes a full-day symposium on a critical contemporary issue, art and photography exhibits, early morning coffee talks, a book signing party, an ice cream social, student programs and a closing picnic/awards ceremony. Presentations and panels are scheduled throughout the Memorial Day weekend event with a wide diversity of special guests, ranging from artists to adventurers and academics to activists.

TEL:  970-728-4123

The 29th Annual Telluride Balloon Festival takes place June 1-3, 2012.  We’re looking forward to some great flying and balloon wrangling here in the beautiful town of Telluride in Southwest Colorado.  We hope you join us!

LINK:  www.tellurideballoonfestival.com/

THE 39th ANNUAL TELLURIDE BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL

Telluride Wine Festival

Come on out for Cajun Fest at the base of Chair 8!

“America’s Race” is coming to Telluride. The second annual USA Pro Cycling Challenge will take place August 20-26, 2012. More than 1 million spectators are expected to once again line the route to see if Levi Leipheimer can defend his title as winner of the 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge.

Telluride will provide a breathtaking backdrop for the stage one finish on Monday, August 20, 2012. Join us as we cheer on Olympians, World Champions and Tour de France podium winners as they race through the majestic Rockies, enduring more mountain passes than any other race in North America.

Call our Destination Concierge at 888.605.2578 to book lodging for the USA Pro Cycling Challenge.

USA Pro Cycling Challenge – Stage 1 Finish in Telluride

Each Labor Day weekend, the tiny mountain village of Telluride, Colorado triples in size. Swells of passionate film enthusiasts flood the town for four days of total cinematic immersion, embarking on a viewing odyssey, blissfully spending entire days in flickering dark rooms. With only an appreciation of celluloid to guide them, these devotees flock to the show, year after year. Why? Blind faith. They don’t reveal the program until everyone lands in town. Yet the Telluride family trusts that a unique experience will unfold.

The Telluride Film Festival is not just a picture show. It is Tributes to luminaries who’ve propelled the medium forward; it is candid discussions with a film’s creator or the historian who champions it; it is discovering that the person in line behind you made the film you just enjoyed; it is engaging in lively debate with every manner of film lover in the summer sun of a Colorado afternoon, always minutes away from a new exhibition. Telluride Film Festival audiences were the first in the world to laugh with JUNO, to observe THE LIVES OF OTHERS, to visit BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, to learn the secret of THE CRYING GAME, to experience BLUE VELVET, and to witness THE CIVIL WAR. They resurrected the silent epic NAPOLEON, and highlighted the genius of animator Chuck Jones.

The Telluride Film Festival take great pains to remain not a competition, but a celebration of the best in film — past, present and future — from all around the world. This is one weekend immersed in an unabashed carnival of film: viewing, breathing, eating, and talking cinema. This is The SHOW.

Telluride Film Festival