Downtown Woodland Park Picked Up a Weeknight This Year

Downtown Woodland Park went into 2026 as a lunch-and-errands strip. It is ending the year with a Wednesday night. Two new venues within a few blocks of each other opened with the evening as part of the plan. One kept a well-known patio running under new owners, and the other hired a person whose whole job is filling the calendar. October is the first month where their schedules overlap with the city's own fall events. The city's Main Street program will also pay you back for some of it until Oct. 31.

The Patio on the 100 Block Kept Going

The big outdoor patio at 110 W. Midland Ave. didn't sit empty for long. The Woodland Social opened there over Independence Day weekend in the former 110 Reserve space, with food, drinks and live music that first weekend.

The owners, Levi and Miranda Kleeb, already had experience. They run The Salty Cow, a food truck that serves and caters events around southern Colorado, plus Red Beard Coffee Company, a coffee and bagel shop in Pueblo West. They went from signing the lease to serving customers in two weeks. At first they wanted to expand their coffee business farther north. Once they saw the space, the plan became a morning coffee shop that turns into an afternoon and evening hangout, which is close to what 110 Reserve was known for.

"The view is incredible," Miranda told the Pikes Peak Courier in July. "Just the whole vibe, the whole atmosphere of it was something that really made us inquire further."

The menu brought over Salty Cow staples:

• Beer mac and cheese with pulled pork or chicken
• Nachos with birria, pulled pork or chicken
• Elote, which is the vegetarian and gluten-free choice

The soft-opening menu also had burgers, like a pimento bacon cheeseburger, and desserts, like a four-layer chocolate cake.

The July story said the soft opening ran from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. The Kleebs planned to open three hours earlier and add salads, more starters and maybe pizza. They also said hiring in a mountain town was slower than in Pueblo West. At that point it was the two of them plus two employees, and they wanted six or seven more before adding hours. All of that was reported in July, so hours may be different now that it's fall. Check before you plan a morning coffee stop there.

The block itself changed this year too. OneFix, an electronics repair shop that handles phones, tablets and computers and sells accessories, opened across the street at 109 W. Midland Ave. On the east side, the Hungry Bear at 111 E. Midland Ave. closed temporarily after a kitchen grease fire on Aug. 7. A gas-line leak caused the fire. On Aug. 25, the Gazette reported that the owners were waiting for fire-inspection clearance from their insurer before reopening. We haven't found a newer update. If breakfast there is part of your October plans, call ahead.

Tava House Hired Someone to Fill Its Nights

A block off the highway at 120 S. Center St., Tava House opened in spring 2026. It's really several spaces in one building: a Taproom, the Firebrand chophouse, the Bar Above the Clouds, and the River Room for banquets and events.

What's new this fall is a staff member. In August, Melody Campbell became the first special events director for Tava House and its Firebrand Steakhouse and event center. So far she has booked live music with Cari Dell and an office-themed trivia night, and she started music video bingo in the tap room on Wednesdays. She also plans private events like weddings.

"The easy part is coming up with idea," she told the Courier. "More daunting is the execution because there are a lot of moving parts here and having different aspects is the concept of Tava House."

Music video bingo runs Wednesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. It started Sept. 2, so if the schedule holds, October has four bingo nights: Oct. 7, 14, 21 and 28. The events page also lists "Masquerading for Murder" on Thursday, Oct. 22, and live music from Melody Ranch on Tuesday, Oct. 27. Campbell is also planning a line dancing night with a hip-hop fusion theme, led by dancers from Dana's Dance in Woodland Park. No date has been announced.

Where the Evenings Line Up in October

Put the new venues next to the city's fall schedule and October has things going on during the week, not just weekends. On Wednesday, Oct. 14, two downtown events happen at the same hour.

Most of these sit only a few blocks apart. The free Dalton LaFever concert is at UPCC on the east end of Midland, close to the Hungry Bear. The Pumpkin Hike is a short drive away at Mueller State Park, 21045 Highway 67 S. in Divide. It's free with a park pass and has a trail lined with pumpkins. The city put its Halloween events under one name, Hallow-Palooza, which runs from the Pumpkin Dive on Oct. 23 to the full day at Memorial Park and Shining Mountain on Oct. 30.

The Passport Pays You Back Through Oct. 31

The Woodland Park Main Street program's Shop & Dine Passport runs from Sept. 1 to Oct. 31. Here's how it works, according to the city:

1. Shop or eat at locally owned small businesses inside the Main Street boundaries. The city's passport page has the map.
2. Keep legible receipts, and submit all of them from the same phone number.
3. After five valid receipts, the program contacts you to set up your gift card.
4. You get 20% of your receipt total, up to $100, as a gift card to a locally owned small business you choose. Restaurant receipts count at the amount before tip.
5. Gift cards are given out while supplies last.

Since the card is 20% of your total, you hit the $100 maximum at $500 in receipts. Below that, $150 spread across five stops gets you a $30 card. With bingo every Wednesday, several weeknight shows and Halloween on a Friday, a month of evenings can add up quickly.

Before you count on any receipt, check the boundary. We couldn't get the city's current eligible-business list or map, so this post doesn't say which businesses count. The city's Shop & Dine Passport announcement links to the passport page, which has the boundary map. Check it first, especially for places a block or two off Midland. Also, the gift cards are limited, so turning in receipts in early October is safer than waiting until Halloween weekend.

A Week That Uses It

Here's one way to string it together with what's on the calendar. Start Saturday, Oct. 3, at the Creek Week cleanup at Cavalier Park, which ends at 1 p.m. Then have a late lunch on the patio at 110 W. Midland. Wednesday, Oct. 14, means choosing between the free 6 p.m. concert at UPCC and bingo in the Tava House tap room at the same time. If you skip one, bingo is back on Oct. 21 and 28. Friday, Oct. 16, is the pumpkin-lined trail at Mueller. The week before Halloween offers the Oct. 22 murder mystery, Melody Ranch on Oct. 27, and the Pumpkin Dive on Oct. 23. Oct. 30 starts with trick-or-treating at Memorial Park in the afternoon and ends with Costume Cornhole at Shining Mountain at 6.

The Pumpkin Dive, the Creek Week cleanup and Costume Cornhole all need registration, and the Tava House schedule comes from its own events page, which can change.

At Thetford Team Real Estate, we keep up with downtown Woodland Park the way locals do: which patio reopened, which corner is waiting on an inspection, and which Wednesday is busiest. If you'd like to know how this year's changes on Midland might affect the value of your place in town, ask us for a free home valuation and we'll talk it through over coffee downtown.