Posted on 5/23/2018 by Alyssa Schnarsky

We Are One Month Away from the Bacon & Bourbon Festival at Keystone!

Summer festival season starts in just one month! The first Keystone summer festival is the Bacon & Bourbon Festival, happening on June 23 & 24 at Keystone Resort in River Run Village.  If you've never experienced this festival, this is the year to try it! Not only do you get to taste UNLIMITED strips of bacon, you can wash it down with delicious bourbon samples and listen to some great tunes! Two long-time festival favorite female cover bands, Lez Zepplin and Hell's Belles will be back on site both days, rockin' away the weekend with you! Other bands playing over the weekend include Tiffany Christopher and Christof Brownell.   Bacon & Bourbon Festival at Keystone Resort Colorado Start the day with a delicious Bacon Bloody Mary and cruise around tasting many varieties of bacon strips from some of the best bacon purveyors in the country. Did we mention you'll receive unlimited bacon strip tastings with any ticket package!? Work up an appetite and move on to the bacon cuisine, everything with a bacon theme!  You can seek out bacon tacos, bacon ice cream, bacon pasta, salads with bacon and more... we're getting hungry just thinking about it! Want to learn more about bacon? Take part in the free Bacon Education Center Events where you'll learn all about bacon... how to cook with it, the history, how to pair it with bourbon and so on! There will of course be fun for the kids too, with a KidsZone and tons of free activities. You can even buy a kids ticket that includes bacon tastings and lemonade.  Adult ticket packages include the Samplin' Swine package with unlimited strip samplings, 2 beers or non-alcoholic drinks, a commemorative hat and 4 'cuisine' tasting tickets or you can go all-in with the Hungry Hog package which includes unlimited strip samplings, 2 beers or non-alcoholic drinks, a commemorative hat, 8 'cuisine' tasting tickets and entry to the festival's Jim Beam Bourbon Tour. You can also purchase food and drink a-la-carte if you decide not to purchase a ticket package.  The festival itself is free to attend.   If two days of bacon is too much, spend day two relaxing or going on a hike.  The Keystone Gondola runs all summer long and takes you up to the top of Dercum Mountain where you can soak up the sun and incredible views.  Enjoy a mountain top lunch and hike around or let the kids enjoy the yard games and multiple slack lines.   SummitCove Lodging offers some awesome deals when you purchase your festival tickets and lodging together.  Check out our summer festival deals page here and get your Bacon & Bourbon weekend on the summer schedule!


About The Author
Alyssa Schnarsky

Alyssa Schnarsky is the Marketing Director at SummitCove Vacation Lodging in Keystone and has worked in the vacation lodging industry for over 15 years. When she's not delivering exceptional content on all-things Keystone, you can find her hiking in the mountains, skiing the trees, enjoying a live concert, spending time with her tuxedo cat or planning her next adventure.

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