One: Creative District Mural Tour

Take a tour of the side streets and alleyways around downtown Steamboat, to view approximately 20 murals depicting many of the area’s iconic landscapes and interests. Subjects vary from bold sunsets to Colorado Group Realty’s cowgirl to an interactive angel, which has become a favorite photo opportunity. As a certified Creative District, Steamboat is constantly adding to its’ public art through grant funding, donations, and sponsorship. A map of the murals is available at www.steamboatchamber.com/activities/mural-tour

Two: Tread of Pioneer Museum’s Virtual Brown Bag Lunch Series

Ever wondered what it was like to roll into town in the pioneer days or how Steamboat made its mark in skiing history? Join The Tread of Pioneers Museum every Friday from 12-1PM all summer, for their virtual brown bag lunch series. The line-up is a fascinating mix of ranchers, Olympians, artists, and historians with stories to tell from early life in Hahns Peak Village to the start of Nordic Combined. www.treadofpioneers.org

Three: Music on the Green Series

Take an early lunch on a Wednesday every week from 10-10:45AM, until August 18, and head to the Yampa River Botanic Garden. Strings Music Festival brings live musicians to the park all summer with the ever popular Music on the Green series. The eclectic line-up includes the best of Americana and folk, to opera:

Henry Howard, July 21

Pat Waters, July 28

Apple Pie Order, August 4

Opera Steamboat, August 11

Steve Boynton, August 18

www.stringsmusicfestival.org

Four: Steamboat Art Museum

View the work of renowned western artists at the Steamboat Art Museum, located inside the historic First National Bank/Redher Building at Eighth Street and Lincoln Avenue. For those seeking an in-depth look at current exhibits, a free tour is offered every Wednesday at 11AM. On display now is a 30-year retrospective of four of the West’s best known plein air painters: Skip Whitcomb, Dan Young, Matt Smith and Ralph Oberg. The museum is open Tuesdays – Saturdays. www.steamboatartmuseum.org

Five: View Frida Kahlo’s Garden

It’s not every day a national exhibit makes it to a mountain town. This summer Frida Kahlo’s Garden, an adaption of FRIDA KAHLO: ART, GARDEN, LIFE has come to Steamboat through the National Endowment for the Humanities. Thanks to a partnership between Integrated Community, Opera Steamboat, Steamboat Creates, Bud Werner Memorial Library, and Yampa River Botanic Park, locals and visitors get an opportunity to learn about the life and works of the iconic artist from Mexico City. Exhibits can be seen at Bud Werner Memorial Library, The Depot and the Yampa River Botanic Park. www.steamboatcreates.org