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Telluride Mushroom Festival
Festival
A genuinely unusual Colorado festival built around wild mushroom foraging, identification and cooking in the San Juan Mountains.
20 AUG
Telluride, Colorado, United States
The San Juan Mountains around Telluride are rich foraging ground for wild mushrooms, and this festival — running since the 1980s — draws mycologists, foragers and chefs for guided forays, identification workshops and cooking demonstrations built entirely around fungi.
What began as a fairly niche gathering has grown a genuine following among serious foraging enthusiasts, and the festival's mix of scientific rigour and hands-on cooking makes it one of the more distinctive food events on the American calendar.
Highlights
- ✓Running since the 1980s
- ✓Guided wild mushroom forays
Getting In
🎟️Ticket required
Some recipe photos courtesy of Openverse and Wikimedia Commons contributors, used under Creative Commons licenses.