Things to Do
Just some of the local wineries in the area:
Amber Ridge Vineyards Canyon Wind Cellars Carlson Vineyards Colorado Cellars Winery Colorado Wine Room Confre Cellars De Beque Canyon Winery Garfield Estates Winery Grande River Vineyards Graystone Winery Meadery of the Rockies Mesa Grand Vineyards Plum Creek Cellars Ptarmigan Vineyards Reeder Mesa Vineyards St. Kathryn Cellars Two Rivers Winery Whitewater Hill Vineyards
Here are some other things to do in the area:
Metro Movie Playhouse Dinner Theater and Atomic Theater 970-255-0999
The Metro Playhouse dinner theater offers a variety of mainstream productions and some quirky new works.
The Cabaret Dinner Theatre 701 Main Street Grand Junction, CO 81501 phone: 970-255-0999 Web: www.thecabaret.net
The Cabaret is Grand Junction's only year round dinner theater, offering a variety of mainstream productions as well as a children's theater with performances by paid adult actors.
Museum of the West 970-242-0971
Discover area history from the mid-1880s to present day. Historical exhibits include a turn-of-the-century schoolroom replica.
Dinosaur Journey Museum 550 Jurassic Ct. Fruita, CO 81521 phone: 888-488-DINO toll free: 888-488-DINO Web: www.dinosaurjourney.org
Dinosaur Journey Museum features Colorado's best robotic dinosaurs. Visitors can examine real dinosaur fossils, dig into hands-on exhibits, experience a simulated earthquake and see a working paleontology laboratory. The gift shop offers an array of unique dinosaur items.
Cross Orchards Historic Farm 3073 F Road Grand Junction, CO 81501 phone: 970-434-9814 / 970-242-0971 Web: www.wcmuseum.org/crossorchards.htm
Experience life as it was on an early 1900s Grand Junction orchard farm, operated by the Museum of Western Colorado. Authentically costumed guides demonstrate farm life through tours of the original bunkhouse, barn and apple orchards. Train enthusiasts and Western history buffs will enjoy the largest collection of Uintah narrow-gauge railway cars on the Western Slope and the "Boots" Corn heavyequipment collection.
Rimrock Adventures P.O. Box 608 Fruita, CO 81521 phone: 970-858-9555 fax: 970-858-9465 toll free: 888-712-9555 Email: info@rradventures.com Web: www.rradventures.com/horses.htm
Rimrock Adventures features something for everyone - horseback rides, raft and canoe trips and a free wildlife museum. Weekly rodeos are featured in the summer. On Highway 340 between Fruita and the west entrance to the Colorado National Monument.
The Glacier Ice Arena 2515 River Road Grand Junction, phone: 970-242-RINK Web: www.theglacier.net
The Glacier Ice Arena is a multi service state-of-the-art ice skating facility consisting of a regulation NHL size sheet of ice, locker rooms, snack bar, arcade and party rooms. The Glacier Ice Arena offers ice skating, hockey leagues, figure skating, broomball and more.
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