SATURDAY

The Rockies, the Cubbies and brews at the 11th annual Colorado Rockies Brew Fest, 4 p.m. before Saturday’s 6:10 p.m. Coors Field game. Special tastings from top breweries for the adults and you can vote for your favorites. Then cheer for your favorite team. Buy Brew Fest package: mlb.com/rockies/tickets/specials/themes/brew-fest

FRIDAY-SUNDAY

Colorado is bursting with lively Oktoberfest celebrations, but possibly the most iconic is this weekend in Breckenridge and this is year 28. Steins of Breckenridge Brewery beer, German food, Bavarian wear, accordions, pretzels and so much more. New this year, drinks in sustainable r.Cups.gobreck.com.

SATURDAY

Other fun, tip the cold steins Octoberfests include the 1800 block of Denver’s Old South Pearl St., 2-10 p.m. Brews and brats and music. Try some stein hoisting or sausage eating contests. Even more Oktoberfests on Saturday and there are lots of them this weekend. Check out these: Lone Tree Brewery & Taproom has one and a Craft Market, 11 a.m.-8 p.m., 8200 Park Meadows Drive, Suite 8222. lonetreebrewingco.com. The Highland Park Oktoberfest is in Town Center South with German food, music and brews, 1-9 p.m. tinyurl.com/2v2cpfs4.Vail Village Oktoberfest is Friday-Sunday, oktoberfestvail.com/events-activities/september-13-15

THURSDAY-SUNDAY

Vail Concours is one of those IYKYK world-famous events. It’s a chic, classy, exclusive three-day gathering of legendary automobiles all in one place. Contemporary and vintage cars, collector vehicles and motorcycles. Owners will be treated to gatherings and scenic drives through Colorado’s mountains before the show. vailautomotiveclassic.com

SATURDAY

Agriculture Festival invites everyone out to Aurora’s far east to 1,100 acres of short-grass prairie at the Plains Conservation Center, 21901 E. Hampden. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. programs by the city and Denver Botanic Gardens. Hayrides, guided tours, food trucks. Hike the trails to see eagles and hawks and pronghorn  at the nature preserve and an educational center with a homestead village and tipi camp showing what life was like for pioneers and plains Native Americans in the 1800s. Map at the visitor center. No dogs, bikes or horses. Tickets: auroragov.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=16242704&pageId=18693459

FRIDAY-SATURDAY

Dinosaur Stone Age Stampede is “Dino-might” they say, in the tiny town just outside  Dinosaur National Monument. Town name was changed from Artesia in 1966 because of the monument. The Stampede includes exhibits of Off-Highway Vehicles and time to try trails, Dinosaur Dark Skies, Army National Guard Rock Wall, antique tractors and cars, cornhole tourneys, watermelon spittin’ contests, and a concert. dinosaurstoneagestampede.com.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY

Snowmass Balloon Festival is breathtaking and the perfect mountain location for beautiful photographs for 49 years. This weekend, three days and evenings of more than 30 hot air balloons. Sunrise launchings and, on Friday, the Night Glow with the colorful panorama on the ground, Town Park, Snowmass Village. Also a weekend wine festival. gosnowmass.com/events

SUNDAY

One of the amazing area offerings for fall opens Sunday. Visit Fritzler Farm Park in LaSalle for its Fall Festival running through the month and then adding scary Scream Acres. At Farm Fest find your way through the Corn Maze, play tetherball, ride the barrel train, play barnyard games and visit the pumpkin patch and there’s a pumpkin cannon. Festival fun at 20861 CO Road 33, La Salle. For tickets and passes: shop.beyonk.com/b7j2nloo/passes/mb_pm8htuiz

FRIDAY-SUNDAY

Put on your dancing shoes as social dancing and jazz fill the weekend’s Denver Jazz Festival with “vintage jazz and blues of the 1920’s, 1930’s & 1940’s.” Bands: Eyal Vilner & His Hot 5, The Eyal Vilner Swing Band, Jeremy Mohney & His Band, and Ian Hutchison’s Colorado Band. Performances, dance lessons and theme nights. The Studio Loft at Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 980 14th St. cmdance.org/cmevents/djf2024

WEEKENDS THROUGH SEPTEMBER

Happy early Halloween in the scariest of ways. 13th Floor Haunted House is open through Nov. 9. Get ready to scream at Shriekeasy, ‘The Sacred Skull: A Tiki Tarot Experience,’ Class Axe Throwing, Behind-The-Screams tours, Zombie Shooting Gallery, and No Name’s Curtain Chaos. Three new ones: Crimson Night, Nautical Nightmare and Macabre. New Mini Escape Games. 3400 E. 52nd Ave. 13thfloorhauntedhouse.com