What would bring drunk college students from all over to Colorado?

[tamtrible]

Time: modern day

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[oakstone730]

I'd say Red Rocks Amphitheater is a possibility - it is near Denver and they host big concerts.

[calenture]

Yeah, my first thought was some sort of major concert or music festival.

[tamtrible]

A concert wouldn't work, a music festival might.

[tamtrible]

I'm aiming more for some flavor of "people come from around the country, hang out for a few days/weeks, then go home", not just "people come from a few neighboring cities, hang out for an evening, then leave"

[jobey_in_error]

This is either a dumb comment or obviously brilliant. I'm not sure.

But couldn't you set it the same week when the pot legalization went through?

I hear they attracted some young tourists right away, and that particular setting could make a brilliant yarn. ;)

[pyraxis]

Hahahaha, I like that!

My immediate thought was Burning Man, but that's Nevada.

There's the Denver Comic Con, or some other geeky convention.

[tamtrible]

Burning Man would probably be a little far to go, depending on where in Nevada it is. But it would draw the right sort of crowd.

Comic Con? Probably not *quite* as much. Geeks tend not to be quite so much with the drunken revelry and kissing random strangers. Some do, of course, but it's not what Everyone is Doing.

[agdhani]

Also, if the state was lucky enough to have a good snow, skiers and snowboarders descend in droves (lived in CO and worked at a hotel for a number of years...skiers weren't unheard of in March/April)

[tamtrible]

A good snow may be my best bet.

[ficklepig]

If you're going for snow, try the winter holidays. Thanksgiving through the New Year can be nuts at the resorts, but perhaps not as likely to have a high proportion of college students on their own. For spring break, though: http://studenttravel.about.com/od/springbrea1/tp/spring_br_ski.htm

[tamtrible]

It... doesn't *necessarily* have to be college students per se, they're just... disproportionately likely to kiss strangers, I suspect.

[aiwritingfic]

Living in Colorado I can tell you that Vail and Aspen in particular are NUTS during Spring Break. Breckenridge is also up-and-coming (and might be less frou-frou than Vail or Aspen.) Doesn't even have to be Spring Break--people apparently just go in between; a friend recently did Breckenridge with a bunch of her schoolmates (they're all from the East Coast) over a weekend.

[tamtrible]

Ski resorts during spring break, check.

[nineveh_uk]

Ditto. OK, I'm in the UK, but university skiing clubs are notorious for hard partying.

[mindways]

Yeah - when you said "college students" and "colorado", the very next word to pop into my head was "skiing". I've never been myself, but if I were to judge from the number of people who talked about going skiing in colorado for spring break, I'd expect it to be swamped.