{"id":1357772,"date":"2023-11-28T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/photos-hotel-colorado-illuminates-the-night-with-holiday-lights\/"},"modified":"2023-11-28T13:00:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T20:00:55","slug":"photos-hotel-colorado-illuminates-the-night-with-holiday-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/photos-hotel-colorado-illuminates-the-night-with-holiday-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: Hotel Colorado illuminates the night with holiday lights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With holiday lights, live performances, booming fireworks and more, Hotel Colorado\u2019s Annual Lightning Ceremony is a cherished tradition of the Roaring Fork Valley. <\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s because the famous hotel adorns its halls and walls with half a million Christmas lights. Or, perhaps it\u2019s the talented artisans competing in the gingerbread competition. Whatever it is, Friday\u2019s 33rd Annual Lighting Ceremony made for another magical night.<\/p>\n

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Children look at an ice sculpture at the Hotel Colorado on Friday. <\/figcaption>
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Singers perform at the Hotel Colorado during the lighting ceremony on Friday.<\/figcaption>
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Santa and his reindeer at the Hotel Colorado on Friday. <\/figcaption>
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A sign noting the annual gingerbread competition held at Hotel Colorado on Friday.<\/figcaption>
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Fireworks boom above Hotel Colorado on Friday.<\/figcaption>
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People look on at a fireworks display at the Hotel Colorado on Friday.<\/figcaption>
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Hotel Colorado\u2019s outdoor Christmas tree illuminates the night on Friday.<\/figcaption>
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People gather in front of the Hotel Colorado on Friday.<\/figcaption>
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Children pose in front of a Hotel Colorado ice sculpture during the lighting ceremony on Friday.<\/figcaption>
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With holiday lights, live performances, booming fireworks and more, Hotel Colorado\u2019s Annual Lightning Ceremony is a cherished tradition of the Roaring Fork Valley. Maybe it\u2019s because the famous hotel adorns its halls and walls with half a million Christmas lights. Or, perhaps it\u2019s the talented artisans competing in the gingerbread competition. Whatever it is, Friday\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1357772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 13:24:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}