Larkspur Colorado August Events Happening Around Town

On August 2, the last joust of the season ended at the Colorado Renaissance Festival grounds on West Perry Park Avenue, closing out the 49th year of a run that had pulled more than 100,000 visitors through eight weekends since June 13. By the following Monday, the turkey-leg smoke had cleared and the highway shoulders that fill with overflow parking every Saturday and Sunday in June and July were just shoulders again.

Then, on August 8, the same grass at Larkspur Community Park filled back up for another local gathering: the Hot Rods in the Park Car Show, hosted by the Larkspur Chamber of Commerce with help from the Vintage Car Club of Castle Rock. The show featured classic cars and drew a crowd that mostly parked their own vehicles and walked over.

The schedule for the week of August 10 gives a fuller picture of Larkspur in August: after the ticketed festival come smaller, unticketed gatherings organized by local groups.

The Week of August 10

As of Monday, August 10, the following seven days were scheduled to include these events:

The five events involve four organizations and use four listed venues across the Larkspur area. None of them require a ticket. None of them draw a crowd big enough to need shuttle buses. That's the point.

The Market Outlasted the Festival Before It Even Started

The Larkspur Farmers Market opened for its 2026 season on June 3, ten days before the Renaissance Festival's first weekend, and it runs every Wednesday from 3 to 7 p.m. through September 2, a full month after the festival's last joust. The market sits at Larkspur Community Park on Spruce Mountain Road, the same park that hosts the car show and the Friday concerts, and it deals in organic produce, locally sourced meats and eggs, artisan oils, and handcrafted goods.

Set those dates side by side and the market's window is longer than the festival's on both ends. The festival is the thing tourists plan a summer trip around. The market is the thing that was already running before those tourists arrived and will still be running after they've gone home.

Two Fridays Left

Larkspur Music in the Park runs six free concerts a summer, on the second and fourth Fridays of June, July, and August, at Larkspur Community Park from 6 to 8 p.m. The season opened back in June with Delta Sonics on blues and WireWood Station on country, moved through Skytown Rockers on reggae and ska in July, and closes out with two dates left on the books: Mid Life Crisis playing classic rock this Friday, August 14, and Looking Back closing the season on August 28, also classic rock.

Admission is free, food trucks handle dinner, and each show carries a suggested ten dollar donation that goes to a different local nonprofit. It's a small operation by design, run by the Larkspur Chamber of Commerce rather than a ticketing platform, and it's the kind of thing that shows up on a town calendar precisely because nobody's trying to sell it to anyone outside a fifteen-mile radius.

Local Businesses Around Larkspur

Walk the actual commercial strip of Larkspur, separate from the festival grounds, and the businesses that carry the town's day-to-day social life are a short list: Spur of the Moment Bar & Grill, the Corner Market, Larkspur Pizzeria, and Charitos House Mexican Restaurant, which runs both dine-in and drive-through. Add in the two golf clubs, Perry Park Country Club and the Golf Club at Bear Dance, and that's most of where a Larkspur resident actually spends a Tuesday night or a Friday lunch.

Larkspur's businesses are part of the town's day-to-day life. The festival keeps its own concessions inside its own gates, including turkey legs and mead. The town's restaurants and bars are part of the local scene during festival season and in September.

The Unglamorous Part That Actually Runs the Place

Not everything on this week's calendar is entertainment. On Thursday, the Perry Park Metropolitan District holds its regular board meeting at Perry Park Country Club, the kind of meeting where road conditions, water rates, and district budgets get decided by people who live four miles down Highway 105 from the festival gates. The following two days, MR Hauling runs Junk Dump Days at the Perry Park Slash Site, giving residents a place to drop off yard waste and debris that isn't glamorous but is exactly the kind of infrastructure a small unincorporated community has to organize for itself.

These aren't the events that show up on a tourism website. They're the ones that keep a place like Perry Park, the golf community and residential area west of town on Route 105, functioning between Renaissance Festival seasons.

What This Actually Tells You About Larkspur

The Colorado Renaissance Festival is, by a wide margin, the most visible thing associated with this town. Its season is one part of Larkspur's August calendar. That calendar also includes a farmers market that opened before the festival and runs after it, two concerts still on the books, a car show held earlier this month, and district meetings and dump days.

If you've lived here a while, none of this is a surprise. If you're new, it might be the first sign of the local events and routines beyond festival season.

Larkspur's calendar looks different by the week, whether it's a Wednesday market or a Thursday district meeting, and knowing which one is which tends to matter more once you've settled in here for good. If you're weighing a move within the Tri-Lakes corridor, or just curious what a home near Perry Park or the Larkspur town core is actually worth this year, Colorado's Choice Homes knows this stretch of Highway 105 well enough to walk you through both the festival months and the quieter ones that follow. Get a Free Home Valuation or Relocation Plan whenever you're ready to talk.