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
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.
ShopI-25 and County Road 48
Buc-ee's
Colorado's only Buc-ee's, 74,000 square feet at I-25 and County Road 48, open 24 hours with 116 fuel pumps, the jerky counter and the beaver nuggets.
VenueSouth Parish Avenue
Johnstown Town Hall
The Town's offices and Council Chambers at the south end of Parish Avenue; fishing permits, utility billing and the first-and-third-Monday Council meetings.
- Black Sheep Coffee & Crepes Coffee & Sweets
- Candlelight Dinner Playhouse Venue
- Lake Park Park
- Historic Parish House & Museum Venue
- Parish Park Park
- Bad Daddy's Burger Bar Restaurant
- Cassidy's Sports Grill Restaurant
- Clearview Park Park
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From the guide
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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