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Frozen Dead Guy Days

APR 9–11, 2027 · ESTES PARK, CO

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Relive 2024–2026 while 2027 thaws.

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Play: Frozen Dead Guy Days 2026: Official Aftermovie

Photo Archive

  • Two coffin teams race side by side under a huge Colorado sky: a ship-captain team carrying a Titanic coffin and a team in red shirts.
  • Two coffin teams sprint off the start side by side, one in colonial costumes with an "RIP" coffin, under dramatic clouds.
  • Coffin racers in horror-movie costumes, one in a red mohawk helmet, charge across the course under a huge sky.
  • A leprechaun team and a colonial-costumed team carry their coffins over a row of hay bales, side by side.
  • Two costumed coffin teams sprint toward the camera under a vast stormy sky, a crowd lining the course.
  • Racers in white wedding dresses and helmets carry a coffin across the dirt course beneath dark clouds.
  • A coffin team carrying a bull-horned coffin charges straight at the camera, faces straining, clouds overhead.
  • Two coffin teams, one in pigeon-head helmets, leap a row of hay bales mid-race.
  • Racers dressed as a pink pig, a cow and a rooster sprint with their painted coffin across the course.
  • A coffin comes apart mid-race as a racer in a checkered suit lands on the dirt.
  • Racers in black-and-white convict stripes and eye masks run with an orange "Smooth Criminals" coffin.
  • A team in black jumpsuits and pale corpse makeup races a "Cryo Crypt Deadites" coffin under cloudy skies.
  • Pigeon-helmeted racers rush an open coffin past the Frozen Dead Guy Days stage and giant green hands.
  • Racers in denim overalls carry a green coffin with a skeleton passenger past hay bales and mountain peaks.
  • Costumed racers throw their arms up and cheer behind a black casket under a bright, cloud-streaked sky.
  • Dozens of costumed coffin-race teams gather with their coffins for a group photo, mountains behind.
  • Racers dressed as penguins carry a crowned coffin down the course past cheering spectators.
  • A racer in overalls hurdles a teammate who has gone face-first into the dirt, their coffin tipping beside them.
  • Helmeted racers carry a coffin painted like a beer case at full speed.
  • A coffin team in tie-dye shirts and painted skull masks poses around a coffin carrying a skeleton, a mountain behind.
  • A team in blue hockey jerseys carries a coffin over a snowbank as a skeleton prop waves in front.
    2024
  • A tie-dye-costumed team walks under the Frozen Dead Guy Days arch on a snowy day.
    2024
  • Fans laugh and wave at the race rail, a woman in a bright windbreaker and face gems up front.
  • A smiling woman in blue body paint and glasses stands with a friend in a bear costume at the race rail.
  • A fan in a sequined skull mask and a green-haired fan with ice-blue face paint lean on the race rail.
  • A packed grandstand watches the races with rocky peaks behind.
  • A team in bright Truffula-tree wigs and bee-striped suits laughs on a barrier holding a hand-painted sign.
  • A grinning man in a purple robe rests his hand on a giant skull prop in front of a Frozen Dead Guy Days banner.
  • Fans throw their arms up and cheer at the course fence.
  • Spectators line the course fence in front of the Events Complex barns and mountains.
  • A smiling couple at the race rail, the man holding a fluffy gray poodle.
  • Four friends in matching white wigs and ice-queen costumes pose in the crowd.
  • A crowd presses against the course fence beside sponsor banners, peaks in the distance.
  • Spectators crowd the rail along the coffin course beside sponsor banners.
  • A packed indoor crowd dances under string lights at a night concert.
  • An indoor stage glows blue and purple over a crowd, giant snowflakes hanging above.
  • Festival-goers gather in the snow with a mountain peak and blue sky behind.
    2024
  • A guitarist in a headband plays under pink and blue stage lights before the Frozen backdrop.
  • A band plays the outdoor stage between two giant green zombie hands as the crowd watches.
  • A couple swing-dances hand in hand in front of a glowing stage with string lights, one in a rose-print jacket.
  • A band performs under red and blue lights to a packed indoor crowd.
  • Two smiling friends, one throwing a peace sign and one in a cowboy hat, under blue concert lights.
  • A packed indoor concert under red stage lights and hanging snowflake decorations.
  • View from behind a string band toward a packed indoor crowd under snowflake inflatables and string lights.
  • A DJ in a top hat and skeleton suit plays in front of a red Frozen Dead Guy Days backdrop.
  • Two women throw their arms wide inside a glowing blue ice-cave inflatable, one in a polar bear onesie.
  • A guitarist plays to a crowd from an indoor stage washed in blue light.
  • A crowd in winter coats watches the outdoor stage framed by giant zombie hands.
  • An outdoor stage with a giant skull-badge banner, snow on the ground and mountains behind.
    2024
  • A Viking in blue face paint and an Ice Queen in white stand on snowbanks before a Frozen Dead Guy Days banner, a snowy peak behind.
    Estes Park era
  • A Grandpa Bredo look-alike with a frosted beard and top hat and a frozen bride in a white fur stole pose on the festival stage under blue lights.
  • A beaming Ice Queen in frosted blue face paint, an icicle crown and glowing wings at The Frozen Blue Ball.
  • A laughing bride in a tiara and veil and a frosted, bearded ice groom at The Frozen Blue Ball.
  • A performer on stilts in a flowing ice-queen costume towers over the indoor crowd.
  • Two festival characters, one in blue face paint, a crown and a blue suit, the other an Ice Queen in white, stand in the race arena under a huge blue sky.
  • A costumed couple with blue skull face paint and white wigs pose on the festival grounds.
  • A face painter brushes icy blue skull makeup onto a green-haired woman wearing a spiked crown.
  • Costumed performers in white and black stroll past the crowd along the course fence.
  • A performer in a white feathered gown gestures across the race course beside a giant mirrored wheel.
  • A festival-goer in white poses in front of giant inflatable ice-blue "FDGD" letters.
  • A performer spreads shimmering iridescent wings under colored lights.
  • A fire performer spins a flaming hoop in front of illuminated FDGD letters.
  • An LED hoop dancer performs on a glowing stage.
  • Spectators pack the coffin-course rail beside an Alcor flag and hay bales, rocky peaks and wide sky behind.
  • Aerial view of the coffin race course lined with spectators at the Estes Park Events Complex.
  • Aerial view of the Estes Park Events Complex and town with mountains beyond.
  • A giant skull sculpture on the festival grounds at sunset, mountains silhouetted behind.
  • Two skeleton props and a coffin beside a "Frozen Dead Guy Days" sign in deep snow.
    2024
  • A giant inflatable skull glows under blue lights inside the festival hall.
  • Aerial view of a snowy coffin course and crowd beneath the Frozen Dead Guy Days arch.
    2024
Photo credits
  • The Stanley Hotel (Home, Lodging): Carol M. Highsmith, 2015. Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Public domain.
  • The Stanley Hotel at dusk (Story): "Stanley Hotel Estes Park Colorado evening" by David Shankbone (Flickr), 2014, licensed under CC BY 2.0. Resized.
  • Coffin team in tie-dye: photo by John Berry.
  • Look-alikes on the festival stage (Home, Photos & Video): photo by John Berry.

More Video

A drone show forms a Colorado 150 and America 250 emblem in the night sky over the festival. Play: Stories in the Sky: the 2026 Drone Show

The Colorado Tourism Office Drone Show

In 2026, the Colorado Tourism Office's 250–150 initiative (America's 250th, Colorado's 150th) gifted Estes Park its first drone show of this kind: Stories in the Sky, at 8:40 PM on festival night.

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Official Merch

Official Frozen Dead Guy Days merch: hoodies, beanies, patches and more (2026 designs).

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