VegFest Colorado 2025 will be held at Auraria Campus over two weekends: SPRING June 8 and FALL September 28.

The festival will be outside on the beautiful Tivoli Quad with a NEW more accessible layout, inside the Turnhalle event space for speaker presentations, & in the Study Hall for additional vendors & indoor seating!

All attendees must have a wristband to enter.

You can order your ticket online now at their lowest price here, or purchase them at the door. All preorder ticket holders will receive an email confirmation with a QR code that you will scan at entry. If you lose your email, please let us know.

No refunds will be permitted, but you are welcome to give your QR code to a friend if you are unable to attend.

If you need to replace your physical wristband for any reason, there will be a $5 fee for a new one, and you must trade in the old one to prevent re-use. If you lose your festival wristband, we will not be able to offer a replacement. You must get back in line to purchase a new wristband.

All wristband holders can enjoy:

• entry into the festival for the day

• free morning yoga (presale tickets only)

• free water refills from Eldorado

• free presentations with speakers from around the country (taking place inside the Turnhalle speaker room)

• free samples given out by some of our vendors & sponsors

• free live music from multiple local artists

• free kid’s activity area

• free book swap (more info below)

• & more!

VegFest Colorado has always been a ticketed event, long before Indoor Cat Events took over ownership. There are many costs associated with putting on such an extensive event, including but not limited to: venue rental (indoors & outdoors), insurance, security, speaker fees & ASL interpreters, marketing, portable restrooms, musicians, kids’ activities, parking meters, composting & trash services, other rentals (such as tents, barricades, signage, etc.), street closures, ticket platforms, paying event staff, etc.

Indoor Cat Events hosts up to 18 FREE vegan events throughout the year in both Denver & Boulder. These events help contribute to make VegFest possible every year by fostering community, and through other event specific revenues like raffle prizes, merch, and more.

In addition, your purchase of a ticket to VegFest Colorado not only helps support our largest event, but also allows us to keep our smaller monthly events free of charge to attendees. Thank you for your support! 

Free morning yoga is available to all presale ticket holders!

Classes will be in a shaded area from 9:30am-10:30am both days. All levels are welcome!

If you have your VFCO ticket already, can you sign up for yoga starting May 1.

We strongly encourage Lyft/Uber, public transit, carpooling, & bikes/scooters to avoid parking & lower your carbon footprint from start to finish (as well as save you a few bucks!)

Biking: Denver and the surrounding suburbs are bicycle-friendly. You can take advantage of RTD bike and ride by bringing your bike on the light rail or buses. Read more about biking on campus.

Parking: Parking fees for the garages & lots are determined exclusively by AHEC Parking, and not by VegFest Colorado nor Auraria Campus Events. Metered parking is available but limited. Please see the parking map here for more info!

Sunscreen, chapstick, small bags, cameras, empty cooler bags (recommended) & totes. VegFest will also have totes available for purchase at the VegFest tent if your hands get too full. All bags will be subject to search upon entry.

Items not allowed at the fest: NO Guns, Knives, or Weapons of any kind, No outside food/beverages, Air Horns, Aerosol Products, Drugs, Fireworks or other explosives, Glass Water Bottles, No bicycles, rollerblades, skateboards, scooters inside the festival grounds.

We encourage you to leave your pets at home as this is a summer event and will be hot & crowded.

Make sure to check out the Kid's Zone at the fest for fun, sustainable activities & crafts presented by Art Garage!

Children under 12 are welcome to attend at no cost, but please add a Free Kids ticket to your order so that we can keep track of our attendance numbers.

Strollers are welcome, but as this is a busy event please be considerate of other guests and our vendor’s tables and tent spaces.

Please bring your gently used books (vegan cookbooks, fiction, non-fiction) to the event and swap them at our book swap table at the back of the Speaker Room!

Family friendly books for all ages, please. Please do not bring more than 2 books per person.

Any books not scooped up by the end of the event will be donated.

VFCO is excited to be partnering with The Curtis Hotel again for 2025! The Curtis is a 10 minute walk from door to festival entrance, and is a “unique place to stay in Denver where life is colorful and experience is anything but ordinary.” Please use this link for 15% off automatically applied to your stay for both VegFest weekends!

Other options within a 10 minute walk of the festival grounds are:

Spring Hill Suites Marriott

Aloft Downtown Denver

Yes. This is an indoor & outdoor event, and there is a large indoor area if you need to take shelter from weather, but the event will take place rain or shine.

Correct. There will be no animal products of any kind being sold/served/sampled.

Only service animals are allowed inside the campus buildings.

We strongly encourage all other pets to be left at home as this will be a hot and crowded event.

ADA Accessible ramps and elevators are available on campus.

Indoor restrooms are ADA compliant.

We will have ASL interpreters for some of our speaker presentations. More information coming soon.

Accessible parking is available in nearly all lots on the Auraria Campus. Parking spaces are marked and reserved for vehicles that have a state-issued or campus-issued hangtag. See requirements below:

Permit lots and spaces: an Auraria-issued permit is required.

Daily-fee lots and garages: a state-issued hangtag for persons with disabilities is required.

All accessible parking on campus follows the standard Auraria Campus fee schedule. Daily-fee lots require payment at the time of parking.

For more ADA compliancy information, please reach out to the Auraria info desk at 303-556-6330.

There will be first-aid kits & electrolyte pouches located at the VegFest tents.

You can get relief from the weather under the tent or inside the two air conditioned rooms located inside the Turnhalle, drink plenty of water throughout the day, refill your water bottles at the Eldorado tent & inside by the restrooms.

Wear sunscreen, bring a community-minded attitude, alert a Security Officer if you need help.

Most, if not all, vendors will be accepting cards & cash payment.

Lost & Found will be located at the VegFest tents outside. Neither VegFest Colorado/Indoor Cat Events LLC nor Auraria Campus are responsible for any lost or stolen items. We will do our best to reconnect you with your lost item if it is found!