We, along with our regional partners, have a variety of wonderful resources in development and programs planned for America’s 250th and Colorado’s 150th celebrations in 2026! Click on the images above to learn more about what is going on and gain access to resources from across the region, state, and nation.
Want to get a head start? Enjoy the Mountains and Mesas: A Southwest Colorado Regional Reading List
More to Commemorate – Here in Montezuma County, we will also be celebrating Cortez’s 140th and Mesa Verde National Park’s 120th anniversary!
This reader’s theater performance, featuring fifteen local adults and children, was inspired by a 1920s poem, In Memory of Pioneers, by early Yellow Jacket homesteader Augustus “Gus” Stevenson. The script was developed from oral histories, memoirs, letters, and more from the museum’s archives.
