This week on the Western Slope
Arts & Events
August 31 – September 7, 2026
Not a calendar. A curated read on what is actually worth your evening across Palisade, Grand Junction, and Fruita this week. Updated weekly.
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Palisade
August 31 – September 7, 2026
Salsa, Seth Walker, Sunday Oysters and a Saturday That Asks Too Much
Peach Festival is over and Wine Festivus has not arrived. In between sits the week Palisade spends harvesting fruit without an audience — two quiet Mondays, two winery Fridays, a Sunday market, and one Saturday that appears to have been scheduled by four people who were not speaking to each other.
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Grand Junction
August 31 – September 7, 2026
Market on Main, Two Fridays at Once, and Grieg Twice in One Weekend
The busiest week in the valley by a comfortable margin — and almost none of it needs planning further ahead than that morning.
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Fruita
August 31 – September 7, 2026
A Burger, a Market, Trails, and the Week the Food Trucks Left Town
The food trucks rotated to Grand Junction this round. What is left is a market, a burger, and eighty miles of singletrack starting a few minutes from downtown.
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Deciding where on the Western Slope to land?
Weeks like this are the fun part. I can help with the rest, from neighborhoods to homes.
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