Name: Vendor Village & Mushroom ID Tent
Start: 2025-06-12T09:00:00-0600
End: 2025-06-12T12:00:00-0600

Welcome to the largest wild mushroom happening in North America, the 44th Annual Telluride Mushroom Festival! A plethora of events ranging from foray and mushroom ID sessions, to hands-on demonstrations, to lectures—all led by regionally-, nationally-, and internationally-known experts, (and we cannot forget the Parade!) there is plenty for everyone each and every day.

On this website, you can filter your search by events, venues, presenters, etc. Each year the Mushroom Festival features many wonderful presentations on “all things fungi.” Presentations on similar topics are grouped together at the same venue so that attendees interested will be able to spend more time learning and interacting, and less time walking between venues. See who else is interested in each event and interact with our extended Mushroom Family. See you soon!

Thursday June 12, 2025 9:00am - 12:00pm MDT

Elks Park & Oak Street Park @ S Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA

Mushroom ID Tent: Located in the middle of Elks Park.

We will have experts helping define and talk to you about all the mushrooms found around the San Juans during the days. These stations will be lead by our lead mycologists, Foray Leaders and some of the festival founders. ID Staffed most days around 12pm and goes until 3pm. It is variable with forays and weather.

Vendor Village: Located under both sides of the main banner in Telluride main street at the town malls. Also, a NEW area of the 100 block of North Oak Street where we will have food vendors. Featured elixir bar in Elk's Park.

Times:
Mushroom ID Tent
Thursday, August 15th - Saturday, August 17th - 9am - 5pm
ID Staff Hours - 12pm - 3pm
Sunday, August 18th - 9am - 12pm
ID Staff Hours - TBD

Vendor Village:
Stop by and shop from local artisans, mushroom businesses, and all things fungi! From medicine, to dried mushrooms, cultivation use, to some cool TMF shwag and a whole lotta unique crafts. Vendor Village is a must stop and shop for all people in and around Telluride.

Vendor Village hours:
Thursday, August 15th - Friday, August 16th, 9 - 5PM
Saturday, August 17th - 9am - 3pm
Sunday, August 18th 10am - 2pm

See you there!

Speakers

Linnea Gilman

Linnea Gillman has been with the Telluride Mushroom Festival from the beginning. She has an MS in mycology from Virginia Tech, is retired from the USDA Forest Service where she worked on mycorrhizal fungi, and is a co-author of Wild Mushrooms of Telluride.

Nickolas Rajtar

Nick Rajtar is a forest pathologist and a mycologist who received his PhD at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities under his advisor Dr. Robert Blanchette in 2024. Rajtar currently is a post-doctoral researcher at UMN where his work focuses on the biosurveillance of invasive forest... Read More →

Andrew Wilson

Denver Botanic Gardens

Andrew Wilson is the Assistant Curator of Mycology in the Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi at Denver Botanic Gardens. For Dr. Andrew the discovery of mycology began back in the late 90’s at San Francisco State University. There he took classes from Dr. Dennis Desjardin, a world renown... Read More →

Thursday June 12, 2025 9:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park

FREE - Open to public, Vendor Village

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45th Telluride Mushroom Festival

Linnea Gilman

Nickolas Rajtar

Andrew Wilson

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