Mardi Gras Breckenridge Style

Each year locals, visitors from New Orleans and other areas get out their beads, boas and masks to celebrate Mardi Gras in Breckenridge, CO.  If you love to ski but still want to partake in some good old fashioned New Orleans fun, Mardi Gras in the Mountains will not disappoint.

SATURDAY, March 5, 2011

5TH ANNUAL BACCHUS BALLFeaturing live music by Hazel Miller, great New Orleans style cuisine, dancing, drinking and the crowning of the Rex and Queen.  Luckily you are in Summit County so the attire for the evening is Summit County Formal a.k.a. anything goes!  Come dressed in your Mardi Gras costume, blue jeans, formal ball gown or whatever suits your fancy.
6-10pm at Beaver Run Resort
$45 per person or $85 per couple
Tickets are on sale at the Breckenridge Welcome Center or by calling 970.453.5055

MONDAY, March 6, 2011

LUNDI GRAS FREE CONCERTFree concert at the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge featuring BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet.  Having been crowned one of the best cajun dance bands of our time, this is sure to be a real good time!  Hurricans and full concessions will be available.
6pm at River Walk Center
FREE

FAT TUESDAY, March 8, 2011

TASTE OF NAWLINS PICNIC IN THE PLAZAHarvest Catering is cooking up some amazing flavors of New Orleans right on Main Street in Breckenridge.
11am - 5pm
Blue River Plaza on Main Street

MARDI GRAS PARADE ON MAIN STREETStep out of the store or restaurant you are in to enjoy some amazing floats, free beads being thrown, decorations and fun as the Mardi Gras Parade floats down Main Street Breckenridge.
4:30pm
Main Street Breckenridge

For all your Breckenridge Real Estate needs before and after the Mardi Gras celebrations in Breckenridge, contact Krystal Knott with Ten Peaks Sotheby's International Realty.