Hospitality & Tourism  March 7, 2019

Frozen Dead Guy Days healthy, but prognosis unclear

NEDERLAND — A quirky annual festival is gearing up to bring tens of thousands of visitors to this town high in the mountains of Boulder County this weekend. But what happens next year is as much up in the air as a rider on a ski lift at Eldora.

Participants cheer during the coffin race at the 2018 Frozen Dead Guy Days in Nederland. Courtesy Grow Design

The 18th annual Frozen Dead Guy Days, which sprang from a Norwegian immigrant’s efforts to keep his deceased grandfather packed in cryogenic freeze in…

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Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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