Become a participating business
Join the 1% program — restaurants, retail, lodging, services. Customers contribute a voluntary 1% on purchases, and every dollar stays in Kittredge to fund crosswalks, sidewalks, and safety projects.
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How to get involved.
Visit Kittredge is being built for the people who live here, work here, and visit here. Wherever you fit, there’s something simple you can do today.
Business owner? Kittredge resident? Support our local businesses
Eat, shop, and hire local. Some businesses participate in the 1% program — when they do, that 1% line item on your bill goes straight back into Kittredge for sidewalks, crosswalks, and town beautification. Always optional, never a tax. Ask your favorite spot whether they're in.
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What is this?
One place for everything Kittredge.
Visit Kittredge is being built by neighbors, for neighbors — a single home for events, businesses, outdoors, history, and the news that touches life here in Bear Creek Canyon. Today you’re looking at the start of that. More is on the way.
We’re kicking things off alongside the Great CO74 Trail Run on May 9, 2026 — our annual community fundraiser. Race proceeds support local infrastructure projects through the Kittredge Improvement Fund. Sign up to the email list to hear what’s next.
Events
Trail runs, farmers markets, music nights, town meetings, and the moments that bring us together.
Local businesses
A directory of the restaurants, shops, services, and makers who are the lifeblood of our town.
Outdoors & trails
Bear Creek, Mount Glennon, the trails behind your house — a guide to getting out here.
Plan a visit
Where to stay, where to eat, what to see — for travelers, day-trippers, and folks coming home.
History
The Kittredge story — from Charles Kittredge to the resort era to the community we are today.
Community
KIF projects, town updates, ways to volunteer, and the announcements that matter to neighbors.
Events
See the full calendarWhat’s happening in Kittredge.
The next thing on the calendar — plus a peek at what’s coming up.
First Friday · Art opening
“Howdy Y’all” Opening Reception at Western Exposure Fine Art — First Friday
Kittredge’s First Friday kicks off with the “Howdy Y’all” opening artist reception at Western Exposure Fine Art — a brand-new exhibition featuring more than 20 contemporary Western artists. Free and open to the public. Walk over to Piney Wine & Spirits for an evening tasting next door. Exhibition runs through July 30, 2026.
- Date
- Friday, June 5, 2026
- Time
- 4 – 7 PM
- Category
- First Friday · Art opening
In cooperation with: Western Exposure Fine Art, Piney Wine & Spirits
Recently in Kittredge
See the full archive →Trail run · Benefit The Great CO74 Trail Run
Saturday, May 9, 2026 · Kittredge Park
In cooperation with: CO74, Kittredge Improvement Fund
Businesses
The locals who make it Kittredge.
A full business directory is on the way — restaurants, shops, lodges, services, and the makers around Kittredge and the canyon. Until then, here’s a roll-call of the local businesses that keep our town running.
Adobe Creek Framing Ambary Gardens Amano Coffee + Plants Bear Creek Healing Arts Black Hat Cattle Co Blackbird Cafe Blue Spruce Chocolates By the Creek Tans and Stuff CO74 Colorado Hot Tub LLC Edge of the Image Flower a Hair Studio Foothills Professional Park Happy Day Highway Queen Katie Kimball Coaching Kittredge Animal Clinic Kittredge Auto Rebuilder Kittredge Civic Association Kittredge Community Bible Church Kittredge General Store Pine Grove Excavating Piney Wine & Spirits Printers Haven Sabella Pizzeria Switchback Smokehouse Tom’s Auto Clinic Western Exposure Fine Art Yanasi Endurance
Are you a Kittredge business?
Get listed in the upcoming directory and learn how to join the 1% program with KIF. We’d love to have you.
Every dollar stays in Kittredge.
A community fund collecting voluntary 1% contributions to invest in sidewalks, crosswalks, and safety infrastructure right here in town.
Kittredge Improvement Fund
A locally-led fund for the streets we walk.
Kittredge and Evergreen are unincorporated — classified as “rural” — which means we don’t automatically get the sidewalks, crosswalks, bike lanes, or paved shoulders that incorporated towns do. KIF was formally formed in April 2026 to close that gap, neighbor by neighbor and dollar by dollar.
Participating businesses across town — restaurants, retail, lodges, health and beauty, and other professional services — collect a voluntary 1%contribution from customers on their purchases. It’s never a tax, and it’s always optional: if a customer doesn’t want to participate, the line item is simply removed from their bill.
Funds are held and professionally managed by the Evergreen Legacy Foundation (ELF), a Colorado 501(c)(3), and directed entirely by the local KIF committee. ELF’s Legacy Fund reserves the first $90,000 of donations each year as cash-match grants for KIF infrastructure projects, which means roughly 80% of every dollar donated is recycled multiple times.
As donations exceed our infrastructure needs, excess funds support softer projects too — marketing, beautification, and other community investments.
- Voluntary
- 1%
- Annual cash-match
- $90k
- Recycled
- 80¢
Your KIF committee
- Molly NelsonCO74
- Evan JeffriesBlack Hat Cattle Co.
- Alli MuellerEvergreen Legacy Foundation
- Jonathan McAfeeWestern Exposure Fine Art
- Terry VaryuBlackbird Cafe
Documents & resources
Everything KIF, in one place. All PDFs — tap to view in a new tab or download.
- KIF Fact SheetHow the 1% voluntary donation works, where the money goes, and the KIF committee.157 KB · PDF(opens in a new tab; downloadable)
- Participating Business Welcome LetterWhat's included when your business joins the 1% program, and how to remit funds monthly.276 KB · PDF(opens in a new tab; downloadable)
- 1% Employee Reference SheetQuick answers your team can use at the register when customers ask about the 1% line item.188 KB · PDF(opens in a new tab; downloadable)
Around the canyon
What’s going on in the community.
Updates from in and around Kittredge — road work, county and state projects, fire mitigation, neighborhood news, and the slower-moving stuff that doesn’t fit on the events calendar but still matters if you live or pass through here.
- Road work · CDOTUpcoming
CO 74 resurfacing through Bear Creek Canyon
The Colorado Department of Transportation is repaving State Highway 74 — the canyon road that runs straight through the heart of Kittredge and connects us to Morrison and Evergreen. Expect occasional lane closures, flaggers, and short delays while crews work. The new surface is a real upgrade for everyone who lives, works, drives, runs, or bikes the canyon.
CDOT project page(opens in a new tab)
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Be the first to know.
We’ll send a friendly note when the full Visit Kittredge website goes live, plus occasional announcements about events around town and what’s new in Kittredge. No spam, no fluff.
Contact
Say hello.
Got a question, a story idea, want to volunteer, or have business to discuss? We’d love to hear from you. Pick the topic that fits and we’ll route it to the right person.
- kittredgefund@gmail.comGeneral questions, KIF, partnerships, or just to say hi.