Hospitality & Tourism  March 20, 2023

Dead Guy Days post-mortem: Let’s do it again

ESTES PARK — Frozen Dead Guy Days’ first venture into Estes Park attracted overflow crowds on a mild, sunny weekend — and now its promoters are dying to do it again.

“I’m so happy, I don’t even have the words,” said Kara Franker, CEO of Visit Estes Park, the tourism-promotion agency that took on managing the quirky festival after Stanley Hotel owner John Cullen bought it in December for $250,000 from two women in Nederland who had run the event there until it outgrew the small Boulder County town.

The three-day version in Estes Park hadn’t even concluded Sunday before tales of…

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With BizWest since 2012 and in Colorado since 1979, Dallas worked at the Longmont Times-Call, Colorado Springs Gazette, Denver Post and Public News Service. A Missouri native and Mizzou School of Journalism grad, Dallas started as a sports writer and outdoor columnist at the St. Charles (Mo.) Banner-News, then went to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before fleeing the heat and humidity for the Rockies. He especially loves covering our mountain communities.
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