Author: Linda Navarro linda.navarro@gazettedev.gazette.com

SATURDAY Enjoy the music in the first America’s Mountain Festival with country music/red dirt stars, noon to 9 p.m. Saturday. Proceeds a benefit for Northeast Teller County Fire Department in Woodland Park. Michael Martin Murphey (“Wildfire”), Ned LeDoux ( son of country legend Chris LeDoux), Curtis Grimes, Jon Wolfe and local musicians. Woodland Station, Bergstrom Park, downtown Woodland…

SATURDAY-SUNDAY An annual high point of the gardening season, the Colorado Springs Garden Tour for 2025 invites guests to Old Farm and Briargate neighborhoods. Outstanding neighborhood yards have been in the spotlight each year since 2011. As visitors stroll through “Farm and Garden: Stories from the Urban Landscape,” Master Gardeners from Friends of Extension, El Paso County Inc.,…

SATURDAY-SUNDAY An always impressive major Pride Week celebration, Denver Pride events cover two full days and regularly draw thousands of people. Their first LGBTQ+ celebration was in 1974 and has grown steadily. At 9:30 a.m. Saturday, with registration 8 a.m., is the opening event, Denver Pride 5K west of the Denver Capitol, 200 E. Colfax Ave., to Cheesman…

FRIDAY Before Sunday’s race up the mountain, downtown Colorado Springs will be filled with race cars and their drivers for the annual Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Fan Fest starting at 5 p.m. Friday. Fans will also be treated to the high-flying FMX Freestyle Motocross riders soaring between tall city buildings on Tejon Street until 9…

SATURDAY-SUNDAY So pretty, the  Denver Cherry Blossom Festival, “Sakura Matsuri,” is a special celebration of Japanese culture and heritage in Sakura Square downtown, 20th and Lawrence Streets. So many things to experience including an excellent marketplace, taiko drumming, a teriyaki chicken plate lunch, manju sweets, live entertainment, sake and Kezurou-kai USA demonstrations of traditional Japanese carpentry.cherryblossomdenver.org SUNDAY Custom lowriders…