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What’s on in Golden

Events

What’s listed in Golden: the next two weeks, then further out, and the weekly regulars.

Just the weekend? · Refreshed

When

What

Highlights

A few from the next two weeks; the full list is below.

Next 14 days, by day

Family

The Polar Express Train Ride

Colorado Railroad Museum · Standard seats $100 ages 16 and up, $80 ages 2–15, 10% off before Thanksgiving; First Class tables of four $475–$505

Several evenings a week from November 6, nightly after Thanksgiving, through December 23

Music

Sunday Swing

Buffalo Rose

Sports

Mines Football vs. New Mexico Highlands

Marv Kay Stadium, Colorado School of Mines · $15 adults, $10 non-Mines students, $5 seniors 65+, children 7–18 and military; $25 reserved seats

Music

Crazy Diamonds

Buffalo Rose

Mark the calendar

Big dates ahead

After the next two weeks

Further out

Outdoors

Yoga With a Ranger

Lookout Mountain Nature Center and Preserve · Free; registration required

Market

Holiday Art Market

Foothills Art Center, Astor House · Free

Daily, November 21 to December 29

Arts

It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play

Miners Alley Performing Arts Center

Wednesday to Sunday, November 25 to December 20

Sports

The Great Turkey Chase

Parfet Park

Music

Lies or Lullabies and Rebel Souls

Buffalo Rose

Food & Drink

WhiskeyFest 2026

Buffalo Rose

Family

The Story of the Nutcracker

Miners Alley Performing Arts Center

Wednesday to Saturday, November 28 to December 19

Arts

Who's Holiday

Miners Alley Performing Arts Center

Wednesday and Friday to Sunday, December 2 to 20

Arts

Ugly Sweater Party

Foothills Art Center, Creative Campus · $15; $5 for Catalyst members and above

Festival

Olde Golden Candlelight Walk

Washington Avenue to Parfet Park · Free

Music

Sunday Swing

Buffalo Rose

Music

Hot Lunch and Dotsero

Buffalo Rose

Music

Jason Eady

Buffalo Rose

The regulars

Every week in Golden

The regulars, once each: storytimes, trivia, markets, classes. Each links to its page, with the next date and the organizer’s own listing.

Wednesdays

What’s on in Golden, every Thursday

One email a week: the weekend’s events, places new to the guide or closed, and a new article when there is one.

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November 6–8

Nearby this weekend

Clear Creek Idaho Springs and Georgetown on one guide

Family

ISPL Pajama Storytime

· Idaho Springs Public Library

Clear Creek

Music

Open Pick Night

· Bread Bar