Featured Happenings
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6:00pm / Durango Public Library
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6:30pm / The Durango Collective
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7:30pm / Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College
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5:00pm / Ska Brewing
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9:00am / Toh-Atin Gallery
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4:00pm / Toh-Atin Gallery
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5:00pm / The Subterrain, Durango Winery
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5:00pm / Durango Public Library
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1:00pm / Durango Public Library
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6:00pm / Animas City Theatre
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8:30pm / Durango Arts Center
Events on this Day
Snowdown Hot Air Balloon Rally Brunch Train
8:00am / Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge RR
Enjoy a hot brunch, champagne, live music, and Snowdown trivia games. Watch the D&SNG-sponsored mass ascension of the hot air balloons!
Snowdown Balloon Rally & Mass Ascension
8:00am / Hwy 550 N, N. side of Hermosa Meadows Rd
Up, up and away in my beautiful balloon! This spectacular event features a totally tight display of rad hot air balloons ascending in the early morning...
Triton's Underwater Adventure
9:00am / Durango Community Recreation Center
Hosted by Splash Down Diving. r
Join us for our 5th Annual Underwater Adventure. Way cool games await you underwater. A trained PADI Professional...
Totally 80s Preschool Dance Party
9:30am / Durango Public Library
Young children and families can dance the
morning away to their favorite 80s dance music. Boogie down at the Library! Open to toddlers, preschoolers,...
Durango Nature Studies' Tassel Eared Squirrel Workshop
10:00am / Haviland Lake/Chris Park
Learn about Abert Squirrels from the nation’s expert while on snowshoes. Explore their habitat and learn about their adaptations.
Snow Games
10:00am / Santa Rita Park
Hosted by McDonald’s.
This choice SNOWDOWN event is now entertaining second-generation locals! I kid you not! Crazy fun games for your...
Doggie Olympics
10:00am / Creature Comforts
Hosted by Creature Comforts & Durango Kennel Club.
Doggie Olympics - where all of the fantabulous canine friends of Durango’s righteous...
Metropolitan Opera in HD - Puccinis Turandot
10:30am / Vallecito Room of the Student Union at Fort Lewis College
Christine Goerke, Lise Lindstrom, and Nina Stemme, three of opera’s greatest dramatic sopranos, take turns in the title role of the proud princess...
Spam Carving
11:00am / Durango Welcome Center
Hosted by Fort Lewis College.
Ace, come and carve a fantabulous creation based on an 80s theme. You are welcome to bring bling for your creation....
Paint up Snowdown Award Ceremony
11:00am / Durango Arts Center
Entries are due 10AM Saturday Jan 29 at the Fairgrounds Extension Hall. Paintings will be judged at Noon and exhibited until 3PM. Entrant's paintings will...
Snowdown 9 ball tournament
11:00am / Pongas
Now in its 20th Year! Double Elimination, the number of entries will determine format, up to 64 players. Doors open at 10 AM. Commemorative T-shirts will...
Snowdown Book Games
12:00pm / Maria's Bookshop
Partake in such events as speed alphabetizing, book-on-the- head relay, literary trivia, and backwards walking and reading
Snowdown Chili Cook-off
12:00pm / La Plata County Fairgrounds Exhibit Hall
Hosted by Sunnyside Farms Market & The Durango Bootleggers Society.
Make sure you’re ready to chow down on some gnarley red and green...
Snowdown Bloody Mary Contest
12:00pm / La Plata County Fairgrounds Exhibit Hall
Hosted by Vodka 360.
Those who lay claim to Durango’s Best Bloody Mary can show off their goods at this bloody good time! The Bloody...
Cowabunga Wipepout: A teen Snowdown event
12:30pm / Buckley Park
Join the fun at Buckley Park for the free Cowabunga Wipeout, a wild and challenging obstacle course for kids 8-18 years old on Saturday Jan 30th. Teams...
Snowdown Broomball Tournament
12:30pm / Chapman Hill Ice Rink
This coed single-elimination tournament is the bomb! The City of Durango hosts this 6-on-6 tournament. “Official Broomball†equipment is required....
16th Annual Outhouse Stuffing
1:00pm / Gazpacho’s
Hosted by Gazpacho’s New Mexican Restaurant, Durango Auto Detail, Lou’s B&B.
SNOWDOWN presents the 16th annual Outhouse Stuffing...
11th Annual Snowdown Belt Sander Drag Races
1:00pm / Kroeger’s Ace Hardware
Just when you think you’ve seen everything…each contestant will race their belt sander down a two-lane, 50-foot track. The first sander to...
Cornhole Tournament
1:00pm / American Legion
Attention all wannabe cornstars! The totally awesome cornhole tournament is back again! Try to sink four bean bags through the hole in the wooden platform!...
Lecture on the History of Skiing in La Plata County
1:30pm / Animas Museum
On Saturday, January 30 at 1:30 PM at the Animas Museum, former Director and long-time Purgatory ski patroller Robert McDaniel will reprise his talk “Long...
Long Boards and Rope Tows
1:30pm / The Animas Museum
Long time ski patrolman and former Museum Director, Robert McDaniel, will present a lively lecture on the history of skiing in La Plata County between...
Snowdown "Eighties Prom" Gala Benefit Event
6:00pm / Sorrel Sky Gallery
Come enjoy an evening of winter madness at this ‘like totally rad’ event that hangs tight to this year’s Snowdown theme, Back to the...
Movie Night at the Library
6:30pm / Pine River Library
Golden Globe winning movie The Martian will be shown. Matt Damon stars as a NASA botanist who becomes stranded on Mars and the efforts to rescue him.
Lady F's Lunacy - Finals
7:30pm / Lady Falconburgh’s Barley Exchange
Back for the 21st year in a row, the most venerable Lady Falconburgh hosts this display of intrepidity, smarts, cool brains and 80s wits. Jeopardy and...
