Arts
Les Misérables at Candlelight Dinner Playhouse
Through Nov 15; see box office for times · Candlelight Dinner Playhouse · Ticketed; dinner included
Weld County, Colorado
Johnstown
An independent guide to Johnstown, Colorado: Parish Avenue, the parks, the sugar-town history, and what it’s like to move to one of the fastest-growing towns in the country.
Photo: Maarten Heerlien, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
This week in Johnstown
What’s on
Family
Music & Movement Storytime
10 am · Glenn A. Jones, M.D. Memorial Library · Free
Mondays at 10
Eat, drink, wander
Where to go
Coffee & Sweets$Old Town, Parish Avenue
Black Sheep Coffee & Crepes
Old Town's coffee house: sweet and savory crepes, espresso, a rotating craft-beer tap and local makers' goods on the shelves. 7 to 2 on weekdays.
VenueJohnstown Plaza at 2534, I-25 and US 34
Candlelight Dinner Playhouse
Colorado's largest professional dinner theatre, a 350-seat house at the 2534 interchange doing Broadway musicals with dinner service; Les Misérables through mid-November, Holiday Inn from late November.
ParkOld Town, 1st Place
Lake Park
The park on the Town's reservoir in Old Town: a walking path, shelters, a playground, restrooms, and permit fishing for bass, trout, catfish and crappie.
VenueOld Town, Charlotte Street
Historic Parish House & Museum
Town founder Harvey Parish's 1914 Craftsman bungalow, kept by the Johnstown Historical Society with the family's furnishings and a piece of the 1924 Johnstown meteorite. Free; Tue, Wed and Sat mornings.
ParkOld Town, Charlotte Street
Parish Park
Old Town's park at Charlotte and Raymond, beside the Parish House Museum: shelters with power, a playground, restrooms, volleyball and walking paths. Home of BBQ Day.
VenueJohnstown Plaza at 2534, I-25 and US 34
Scheels
The 250,000-square-foot sporting-goods store at 2534 with a 65-foot indoor Ferris wheel, a 16,000-gallon saltwater aquarium, a wildlife mountain, an arcade, a candy factory and Ginna's Café.
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History ·
Johnstown history: John's town, sugar town, boomtown
A rancher who bought land at eleven dollars an acre ahead of the railroad and named the town for his sick son, a sugar factory that ran 75 years, a meteorite that interrupted a funeral, and a farm town that doubled in a decade. The short history of Johnstown, with each claim resting on a source.
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Moving here
Thinking of making Johnstown home?
Schools, commutes, what the housing market looks like, and what nobody tells you until you live here.
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