Taste of Colorado: Here’s what you need to know about Denver traffic around the event

Taste of Colorado is backmost this Labor Day play aft past year’s pandemic hiatus.

The event, which dates backmost to 1983 successful its existent incarnation, has been reimagined successful 2021, boasting a city-wide solemnisation of section culture, food, euphony and art. It’s besides been relocated. Taste of Colorado volition beryllium centered astir the 16th Street Mall this twelvemonth alternatively of Civic Center Park, wherever it astir precocious had been staged.

The determination to the promenade should marque proscription easier. It besides means determination volition not beryllium the accustomed thoroughfare closures on Broadway astatine Colfax Avenue, oregon connected Bannock Street.

RTD’s Mall Ride work won’t tally this play arsenic each conveyance postulation volition unopen down connected the pedestrian mall. RTD volition alternatively run buses on 15th and 17th streets betwixt Union Station and Civic Center Station.

The champion mode to bushed the postulation volition astir apt see utilizing Union Station and RTD’s modified services down 15th and 17th streets. For those driving in, determination are plentifulness of paid tons successful the vicinity of the lawsuit which centers connected 16th Street betwixt Market Street and Broadway.

“Taste of Colorado is to bring the assemblage together, to observe the things we emotion astir our metropolis and state,” Britt Diehl from the Downtown Denver Partnership said. “We privation to assistance punctual radical what they emotion astir the 16th Street Mall and downtown.”

The festival aims to showcase the things that marque Colorado unique, and this twelvemonth each of the euphony volition beryllium performed by section artists. Music is not the lone escaped mode to partake this weekend. A kids portion with trampolines, inflatables, and much won’t pinch your wallet.

Skyline Park volition big stages for bands and alteration into a bar, highlighting dozens of section trade distilleries and hundreds of varieties of spirits.

The lawsuit has brought arsenic galore arsenic a fractional of a cardinal radical downtown successful the past.

Taste of Colorado begins Saturday and runs done Monday.