45th Telluride Mushroom Festival: Full Schedule

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!

4:00pm MDT

PARADE + DRUMMING + DANCING

Wednesday June 11, 2025 4:00pm - 6:30pm MDT

Telluride Main Street

"Each year hundreds of Festival attendees, visitors and extraterrestrials dress up like mushrooms and parade down Main Street in Telluride exclaiming "WE LOVE MUSHROOMS" / "AMAMOS A LOS HONGOS!" to hundreds of onlookers.
This year the parade will include an African Drum Crew. Bring your own drum to join in on the fun."

Sign Making @Elks Park starts at 2:00pm-4pm

Festival attendees don’t take the parade lightly, and many spend months planning their elaborate costumes.

The parade will start at 4pm and march all the way down Colorado Ave. to Town Park where then fungi fanatics will join in dancing and drumming until sunset.

Speakers

Britt Bunyard

Dean of Faculty, Telluride Mushroom Festival

Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal FUNGI. Britt has worked academically (and played very amateurishly) as a mycologist his entire career, writing scientifically for many research journals, popular science magazines, and books... Read More →

Tradd Cotter

Mycologist, Blue Portal

Tradd Cotter is a microbiologist, professional mycologist, and retired landscape designer, who has been cultivating mushrooms both commercially and experimentally for more than thirty years.Tradd is the author of the best-selling book Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation (2014... Read More →

Giuliana Furci

Fungi Foundation

Giuliana Furci is a Chilean-British-Italian field mycologist, speaker, author, and founder of the world's first non-profit organization dedicated to fungi, Fundación Fungi or Fungi Foundation. She is a Harvard University Associate, National Geographic Explorer, author of a series... Read More →

Art Goodtimes

Festival Steward and Poet-in-Residence, Telluride Mushroom Festival

Art Goodtimes is an Italian-American poet, activist, basketweaver, non-profit administrator and politician in Colorado, as well as a driving force of the Telluride Mushroom Festival since its beginnings in 1981. He grew up in California where he was a member of the Mycological Society... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 4:00pm - 6:30pm MDT
Telluride Main Street

Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), Parade and Costumes