HOME BLOG

41 straight nights of holiday drone shows start in Denver this week

Nov 23, 2025, 11:46 AM

If you’ve yet to see a professional drone show, you have to put it on your to-do list. The technology is mind blowing, and you’ll have plenty of chances in Denver this holiday season.

Mile High Drone Shows will happen for 41 nights, starting Friday and going through Dec. 31.

The 11-minute shows will start at 7 p.m. and be visible for free, west of downtown Denver, with the best viewing areas being from Tivoli Quad at Auraria Campus and Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex.

The shows – which first came to Denver last year – will feature 200 more drones this year for a total of 600 and have been expanded in size and height, reaching 500 feet in the air and 500-feet wide.

Denver-based Brightflight Drone Shows designed the show to feature holiday-themed animations, Denver icons, winter moments and mountain activities.

The drone shows are part of Visit Denver’s Mile High Holidays program, which also includes Zoo Lights, Blossoms of Light, Denver Christkindlmarket, Mile High Tree and Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ holiday shows.

Home Blog

(Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)...

Kathie J

Dolly Parton ranks fifth on 2026 Highest paid dead celebrities

She has only been dead 10 weeks, but Dolly is making money in her afterlife. Yahoo says Dolly Parton ranks fifth on Forbes’ 2026 highest-paid dead celebrities list with an […]

13 hours ago

Tammy's Furever Friends...

Tammy Oakland

Cookie Sue | Tammy’s Fur-ever Friends

Cookie Sue is a little love bug who deserves a fur-ever home for her senior years. She is a 9-year-old lab mix who is full of affection to give. She’s […]

15 hours ago

(Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)...

Tammy Oakland

Golden Gate Canyon offers Christmas tree cutting permits, applications open through Nov. 15

If your holiday movie moment includes flannel, fresh mountain air and the smell of a real Christmas tree, Golden Gate Canyon State Park may have your perfect December adventure.  Colorado […]

16 hours ago

(Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)...

Kathie J

Justin Timberlake’s special visit to Denver Saturday and what to expect from his new tell-all docuseries

Justin Timberlake is getting ready to share a more personal look at his life—the Superbowl, his Lyme Disease and even Britney Spears. But, before that, he’s headed to Denver for […]

1 day ago

Marmot...

Shawn Patrick

Colorado marmot hitchhikes down from mountains and shows up in Longmont school parking lot

Some kids beg to go to the mountains. One marmot apparently wanted to see what school was all about. Staff and neighbors spotted a yellow-bellied marmot wandering the grounds of […]

2 days ago

(Photo by Sgt. Joseph K. VonNida/U.S. National Guard via Getty Images)...

Kathie J

1-in-1000 year flood hits southern Colorado

It is being described as a “1-in-1,000-year” flood. That doesn’t mean it happens only once every thousand years. It means a flood of that magnitude has about a 0.1% chance […]

2 days ago

41 straight nights of holiday drone shows start in Denver this week