A Visit Estes Park panel offered few firm plans for Sundance 2027, but did highlight future opportunities for local businesses and venues.
The Sundance Film Festival is coming to Boulder Jan. 21-31, 2027, but Estes Park’s role in that first year remains more possibility than plan. That was the central takeaway from Visit Estes Park’s April 28 panel discussion at the Historic Park Theatre, where more than 60 people gathered to hear how the festival’s Colorado move could affect Estes Park and the surrounding region.
The meeting, which lasted just under an hour and 20 minutes, built on a Sept. 30 community roundtable that introduced many of the same questions: Could Estes Park benefit from Sundance? Could visitors be drawn up the mountain? Could future events connect to the Stanley Film Center? The answer, for now, is yes, maybe, and not yet…