Music, Dancing & a Beer Garden Kick Off Boggsville Days This Year

(news release from Boggsville Historic site committee)

Boggsville Days 2025 is ratcheting up to a three-day celebration at the

Boggsville Historic Site.

Festivities kick off on Friday, October 3, with a dance and beer

garden featuring the red-hot country western band, CappTon Reid.

History comes to life on Saturday and Sunday, October 4 and 5, as Boggsville

celebrates its rich multi-cultural heritage with events for all ages!

Experience life at Boggsville in the 1860s: visit the blacksmith, sample some chuckwagon cooking and chat with a few miners on their way to the gold fields. Or you can take a guided wagon ride to learn the history of Boggsville and its residents. Tour the original, restored

Boggs and Prowers houses built in 1866 and 1867 and see the site of Kit Carson’s last

home.

For the young and young at heart, attend class in an 1860s school room, step

into the tipis, or try your hand at laundry on a washboard. Kids can learn the symbols

and sign language of the plains Indians and trappers, play period games, enjoy piñatas

and stick horses and sack races.

Enjoy demonstrations on butter making, cooking tortillas over an open fire,

antique munitions firing and multi-cultural dancers. Kit Carson’s great grandson will be

there to talk about his famous ancestor. Don’t forget the Trade Room and vendors for

souvenirs, books, homemade soap, art and more.

To satisfy your hunger and thirst, on Saturday there is a benefit lunch of pulled

pork, cowboy beans and coleslaw available from 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. for $10.00/plate

and concessions all day. On Sunday enjoy a burrito and green chili benefit brunch

11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. All meals and drinks come with a souvenir cup with unlimited

refills. All proceeds go to the preservation of the Boggsville Historic Site.

Boggsville Historic Site

P.O. Box 68

Las Animas, CO 81054

(719) 456-1358

boggsville@gmail.com

Festivities on Saturday run from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. and Sunday from 10:00

a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Admission is free both days. Friday’s dance is from 6:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Donations are requested for admission.

Boggsville Historic Site is located 2 miles south of Las Animas at 28210

State Hwy 101. Shuttle service is available from the parking area to the site core.

For questions, call Anita at 719-469-9550.

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