Matt Hoisch

Over the last several years, many Telluride nonprofits have seen reductions in lodging opportunities to house the guests and seasonal staff they bring to the region. Many of those organizations are now coming together to raise awareness about the issue and the impact it is having on their programming.

The annual Telluride Mushroom Festival looks at the medicinal, culinary, and ecological facets of fungi. But it also focuses on the artistic elements of the mushroom world, including through an annual mushroom poetry performance.

Festivarians start camping days before the festival kicks off.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is impacting people all over the world—including folks in rural western Colorado.