As 2025 comes into its final months it is also time for the most exciting time of the year to begin. The holidays have arrived, and for many travelers, their holiday plans include visiting Estes Park and staying in our Voyago Vacation Rentals seasonal sanctuaries! Offering crisp and cold weather, snowy days and nights, and all of the beauty that accompanies the holiday season, you may wonder however, what you should pack to ensure that you stay cozy and warm while also remaining the stylish icon that you have always been considered. Our guide to what to pack for a holiday getaway in Estes Park will ensure that no wrong steps will be taken during your unforgettable Colorado trip of a lifetime!
Snoopy Has the Right Idea
We will start with a list of outerwear that will help keep you warm, dry, and comfortable during your outdoor adventures, and if you have visited any home décor store over the last year or so, you will absolutely understand what we mean when we say Snoopy has the right idea. Puffer Jacket Snoopy is all the rage in holiday décor, and in Estes Park, it is also all the rage in outdoor clothing! Somehow managing to be warm while also managing to be light and easily packed, this miracle piece of clothing comes in all colors, including a simply adorable metallic green that we caught sight of during our recent travels.
If you are going to be hiking or doing some cross-country skiing, it is also important to pack snow pants, waterproof boots, hats, and gloves. Micro spikes are another important accessory, slipping over your boots and helping provide traction that will enable you to stay on your feet.
Christmas Sweaters Are Always Fun
Feeling jolly over the Christmas season is even easier when you pack your favorite Christmas sweater or sweatshirt, and we sincerely believe that not all Christmas sweaters are ugly ones, but even the ugly ones can be fun! Daytime life in Estes Park is casual—who dresses up to play outside, after all?—and if your Elf sweater is your favorite and is warm and comfy, we definitely believe you should pack it. This is also a great time of year to pull your favorite corduroy pants out of storage, and yes, if you are planning on spending on any time at all outside playing, don’t forget your long underwear, a cold weather essential that has come a long way in terms of style. Olympic skier Kari Traa Rose offers an extremely warm set that comes in many colors and is adorned with such cute graphics, you may be tempted to wear the top on the outside! Wool or wool blend socks can help ensure that your feet stay nice and toasty, no matter how low the mercury plunges.
Holiday Events to Consider
We’ve already discussed tossing some of your favorite Christmas sweaters in your suitcase, but as the Estes Park Holiday Wine Festival takes place on November 29th, you might want to pack some of your cuter winter clothes as well. Honestly, anything goes in the style department at this exciting festival, but we know you want to look cute, so pack that wine-colored silk blouse, tuck your Ralph Lauren jeans into those brand new knee-high boots you found that offer a square chunky heel that is comfortable to walk in! You will be the belle of the wine festival, without looking like you tried to hard!
And although there isn’t a fancy New Year’s Eve soiree held in Estes Park, Charle’s Dicken’s Conjuring is a special magic show offered at Aiden’s Sinclair’s Underground, and you may want to include some nice going out wear if you are planning to attend the New Year’s Eve show! Boots (with chunky, not spike heels) are going to be your best choices for footwear, as sidewalks can get slippery after night fall.
What to Wear While Hanging Out at Home in Your Voyago Vacation Rentals Holiday Hideaway
There is something wonderful about spending a snowy night at home, especially when your rental offers a fireplace, so be sure to pack comfy at-home clothes, including cozy and colorful pajamas. Maybe you will gather around the dining room table to play Candyland with your toddlers at Christmas, and everyone knows that the best dressed families are always wearing matching pajamas. Or maybe your idea of a beautiful winter evening at home will involve Irish coffee, a roaring fire, and a Hallmark Christmas movie playing on the big screen television. Our winter Estes Park cabin rentals offer all of the above (and so much more), and your cozy jammies that you wear will take up very little room in your luggage. Reach out to us to reserve your favorite holiday hideaway today!
Easter is just a few short weeks away and this is the year that you decided to make your vacation dreams come true, planning a trip to the mountains of Estes Park and of course you have already booked your accommodations with Voyago Vacation Rentals. And for some, the difficult part is what comes next, planning an itinerary that will help you keep your old traditions while encouraging new ones and we can assure you there is better place on earth to do both than right here in our hometown. This guide to planning an Estes Park Easter getaway you will never forget may be the first step in starting a new tradition, traveling to Estes Park every Easter.
Traveling Unencumbered
Celebrating the holiday with your family is the most important part of Easter, but we can almost hear your children’s reaction to the news that you were spending the holiday in Estes Park. Tears may have threatened, feet may have stomped and demands about how the Easter Bunny was going to find them would have left their sad little mouths. You, of course, would have reassured them that the hopping bunny knows all, and made a mental note to remember to pack the baskets in your luggage. But Voyago knows a few things too, and one of those things is the fact that baskets don’t travel well, and kids are little detectives, often finding out all the things we try to keep hidden. So, leave the basket at home and when you arrive in town, run over to Dollar General at 451 Stanley Avenue or Dollar Tree at 461 E Wonderview Avenue, and pick up a basket, the colorful grass, and maybe a few trinkets to put inside; spending less on the basket ensures that you won’t feel bad about leaving a brand new basket behind.
Easter Egg Hunt
Easter is a holiday that is celebrated all weekend long here in the mountains with the YMCA of the Rockies Dorsey Museum offering an Easter egg hunt on the Saturday before Easter. (Easter falls a little later this year, on April 20.) A craft center on the premises will also offer arts and crafts sessions that will build the anticipation for your kiddos and add color to your holiday. Also offering snacks and perhaps even a visit with the big bunny himself, the pre-holiday activities offered in Estes Park truly make this area a family friendly vacation destination spot.
As the Sun Rises
There is a quiet beauty found in the sun rising over the mountains that surround Estes Park, and we can’t think of a better way to start your celebration of Easter. Maybe you are used to rising this early, participating in your own sunrise services back home, or maybe this will be your first Easter sunrise, but either way, no other sunrise will hit like ours. The way the sky cycles through all the colors before settling on golden sunshine and blue. The cold air, so fresh and clean, filling your lungs as you snuggle deeper in your winter clothes, or the blanket you wrapped around your shoulders before stepping out on the balcony or patio of your Voyago Vacation Rentals holiday hideaway. The anticipation of what you are about to witness, the quiet hush of a world that hasn’t awakened, and the knowledge that you can climb back under the covers of your warm and cozy bed for a couple more hours of sleep makes your sunrise in Estes Park an adventure you will cherish forever.
Easter Brunch
You could create your own feast at home in the fully equipped kitchen of your vacation retreat, but an Easter brunch at Brunch & Co, located at 333B East Wonderview Avenue D is an Estes Park tradition that we can’t wait to experience every year. Offering a three-course prix fixe menu filled with holiday inspired brunch dishes, we tend to make piggies of ourselves each time we attend, but a good Easter hike later in the day always helps to counteract all the extra calories. Because you know we are eating every bite of all three courses and are sneaking treats from the Easter baskets throughout the day!
Hop on Over to Our Estes Park Easter Cabins
Your favorite moments may be the ones you enjoy in our holiday hideaways, relaxing in front of a fire, watching holiday movies on state-of-the-art televisions, and hosting your own private egg hunt for your favorite tiny travelers. Easter in Estes Park brings a beautiful blend of excitement and tranquility to the table and an Easter spent in our Voyago Vacation Rentals escapes adds comfort and luxury to the mix. Reserve your favorite holiday Estes Park vacation rental today and start a new family tradition of enjoying a Colorado vacation every year!
The holidays can be a mixed blessing as we enjoy the excitement, the activities, and the intensive time spent with family, but we also dread the excitement, the activities, and the intensive time spent with family, and with Thanksgiving peeking around the corner, you may be already planning to run away. Families are wonderful, but they can make us crazy, and Thanksgiving, a holiday in which we are supposed to be thankful, can sometimes make us resentful, but a vacation in Estes Park during this stressful time can make all the difference. Offering peace and tranquility, the perfect shops for starting your Christmas shopping, and all the comforts of home in our Voyago Vacation Rentals holiday hideaways, Estes Park is the perfect Thanksgiving destination, and this guide will explain it all in more detail.
Stay Out of the Kitchen
Just because our holiday retreats offer fully equipped kitchens that bring the joy back to your cooking experiences, it doesn’t mean you have to utilize them. It’s a holiday after all, and you deserve a break, and many restaurants in downtown Estes Park will be offering holiday meals that will be prepared, served, and cleared away by someone who isn’t you! Restaurants such as Twin Owls Steakhouse, located at 3110 S St Vrain Avenue Suite B, which is offering your favorite Thanksgiving dishes, and The View, located at 300 Riverside Drive, which has a traditional Thanksgiving Buffet, will ensure that your stomach will be full, your taste buds will be happy, and thankfulness will be back on the table.
Pie Is a Must
Whether you are preparing the meal in your holiday hideaway or are dining out at local restaurants, let us be perfectly clear about something: Pie is a must, and we aren’t talking about a single slice you can enjoy with your meal. You Need Pie!, found at 509 Big Thompson Avenue, is famous for its pies in dozens of flavors that will make it impossible to choose a favorite. Of course, they sell pumpkin pie, and their bourbon pecan pie will make your mouth water, but if you haven’t tried peanut butter & jelly pie or their black forest pie, can you really consider yourself a connoisseur of pie? Their mocha decadence pie will change your world, and because there are no calories on vacation in Estes Park (That’s our story and we are sticking to it!), you can eat as much as you like and not worry about your pants getting too tight.
Christmas Begins
It doesn’t seem right that you have barely finished your last bite and it will already be time to start celebrating Christmas, but that is the way of the world, and with the chances being high that it will be snowing or will have already snowed, you have to admit it will feel kind of festive. Participate in Black Friday shopping at cute shops such as Trendz at the Park (100 E Elkhorn Avenue), Mountain Vault (300 E Elkhorn Avenue), and Rocky Mountain Majesty (215 W Elkhorn Ave) to get a head start on your holiday shopping.
Catch the Glow Parade, Elkhorn Avenue, Day After Thanksgiving at 5:30 PM
A light parade helps welcome the Christmas season, and with over 40 entries, the Catch the Glow Parade makes us look forward to the crush of the next few weeks even more. Offering marching bands, fire trucks, and floats that sparkle and shine, downtown Estes Park comes alive with this parade, and kids will get the chance to meet Santa while parents enjoy the opportunity to do a little shopping on Black Friday. This small-town parade may not pack the punch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade does (which you can watch on the state of the art televisions in your Voyago Vacation Rentals retreat), but it is a heartwarming one that will bring a sparkle to your children’s eyes and the feeling that the simple life might be one you could get used to.
Celebrate at Home with Voyago Vacation Rentals
Just think about it for a minute. When was the last time you truly enjoyed Thanksgiving? You spend so many hours of your time cleaning, shopping, cooking, cleaning, and when the meal is on the table, it takes about 10 minutes to devour, and your grumpy Uncle David will still complain that your turkey is dry and your pie isn’t sweet enough. In Estes Park, your lodgings will already be sparkling clean, shopping won’t be necessary, and your uncle will not be seated at the table. And you get to enjoy stunning views, comfortable surroundings, and a peek into Christmas that may have you starting to think about a return trip to Estes Park in December! Reserve your favorite holiday haven today and learn for yourself why Estes Park is the perfect Thanksgiving vacation destination.