QUICK ANSWER Confirmed: RTD’s regionwide service changes take effect September 27, 2026, and several adjustments hit the exact routes Sundance 2027 visitors are likely to use, including the Denver airport to Boulder buses and a brand new hourly Denver airport to Longmont route through Lafayette. Separately, RTD’s board has advanced $20 million in systemwide service…
QUICK ANSWER Confirmed: the City of Lafayette, roughly 20 to 30 minutes from Boulder, has published its own official Sundance 2027 visitor page. It confirms a Lafayette Park-n-Ride with RTD service into Boulder and points residents toward the standard short-term rental license process, but several visitor-facing pieces, including a citywide Welcome Guide and a downtown…
QUICK ANSWER Confirmed: on September 14, 2026, the Michelin Guide named Casa Juani, a Spanish seafood restaurant on Pearl Street, a Michelin Recommended pick as part of the guide’s first ever statewide expansion across Colorado. The recognition has no official tie to Sundance, but the restaurant sits inside the festival’s downtown footprint, which makes it…
QUICK ANSWER CU Boulder’s Muenzinger Auditorium, one of four campus venues on Sundance 2027’s official list, has completed a renovation adding a new screen, an immersive sound system, a new masking system, curtains, and expanded accessible seating. The upgrades were shown to the public for the first time on August 31, 2026, at a free…
QUICK ANSWER Boulder runs its own film festival too, and it is not going anywhere. The Boulder International Film Festival, known locally as BIFF, will hold its 23rd edition April 8 to 11, 2027, about ten weeks after Sundance wraps up its January 21 to 31 Boulder debut. BIFF moved from its traditional late February…
QUICK ANSWER NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center issued an updated winter outlook on September 17, 2026, and it places Boulder and most of central and northern Colorado in the “equal chances” category for both temperature and precipitation this winter, while a strengthening El Nino is favored to bring wetter conditions to the southern half of the…
QUICK ANSWER Sundance’s own 2027 ticketing FAQ confirms screening tickets are fully transferable, so you can send an extra ticket to a friend for free through your Festival account, and you do not have to be the one who attends. Commercial resale, buying or selling above or below face value through a third party, is…
QUICK ANSWER Boulder and Xcel Energy have scaled back a plan that once threatened to dig up much of the Pearl Street Mall right before Sundance 2027. Instead of replacing an aging gas line beneath the mall, a project Xcel said would have required tearing up the pedestrian mall, the utility will retire the line…
QUICK ANSWER Sundance Institute’s volunteer program is housing many festival staff and volunteers in Longmont, roughly 15 miles from Boulder, not in Boulder itself. A Rocky Mountain PBS report refers to this housing hub as a Volunteer Village and says out-of-state and international volunteers are prioritized for it, while local Boulder and Denver residents are…
QUICK ANSWER Sundance Institute and CU Boulder have confirmed the partnership goes well beyond a name on a press release. At least 100 CU Boulder students will volunteer during the 2027 festival, at least 30 will sit on a Student Advisory Board shaping the campus experience, at least 8 will join a new paid internship…