The Colorado Chautauqua is located in southwest Boulder, at the foot of Green Mountain. Chautauqua’s grounds, cottages and public buildings comprise the Chautauqua Park Historic District, an area of 40 acres bordered on 3 sides by City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks land. The historic district has a spectacular national setting at the base of the Flatirons, some of the dramatic massive uplifts along the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. The district contains the Auditorium, the Dining Hall, the Community House, Missions House Lodge, Columbine Lodge, the Academic Hall, more than 100 cottages and landscaped parks.

DID YOU KNOW:

More than 50,000 annual visitors enjoy Chautauqua’s programming - concerts, films and lectures.

This year, nearly one million hikers passed through the trailheads.

The Colorado Music Festival has been a partner for over 30 years.

We enjoy over 4,000 annual lodging guests, including 400 children.

Our guests arrive from all over the world but Colorado takes the lead with Texas and California following.

We are renting the oldest cottage built in 1899.

The Chautauqua Auditorium was built in 45 days with derricks from Denver lifting the six 80-foot-long cross trusses weighing three tons each, 56 feet in the air. The construction cost $6,600. It opened July 4th, 1898.

Gulf Railway advertised a low rate in the summer of 1898 to passengers within a radius of a hundred miles of Ft. Worth: round trip fare, all boarding and lodging, admission to all six weeks of programming for $75.00. (Equivalent to $2,000 today.)

WHAT WE DO

Colorado Chautauqua Association serves as a steward of the Colorado Chautauqua National Historic Landmark

Our mission is to preserve, perpetuate and improve the site and the spirit of the historic chautauqua movement through cultural, educational, social and recreational experiences.

• Preservation, maintenance and improvement of 26 acres of historic landscape for active use
• Preservation, maintenance and improvement of historic buildings for active use - 60 cottages, two lodges, Auditorium, Dining Hall, Community House, and Academic Hall
• Year-round programming in unique historic venues
• Year-round lodging in 60 cottages, the Missions House Lodge and Columbine Lodge
• Venue rentals for business, group and other private events in the historic Chautauqua buildings and grounds
• The Colorado Chautauqua fosters unique experiences of respite and enrichment
• The Colorado Chautauqua is a place where memories are made

Come to Chautauqua and explore.