Estes Park Adds New Adventure/Games Holiday Festival for 2025

Christmastime in Colorado can include gathering with friends/family, eggnog, big meals, and gifts. In Estes Park, for 2025, they're throwing in a festival weekend of all sorts of games and competitions. The competitions include a fierce snowball fight based on Japanese competition that's been happening since 1988.

With the stress that the holidays can bring, the thought of "blowing off some steam" before Christmas may be "just what the doctor ordered." A trip up to Estes Park for one or two  days, competing in some fun games, having a few cocktails/hot chocolates, and just letting loose, can get you "back to good" to finish up the holidays.

A company that has producing events since 2002 is bringing a brand new event to Estes Park: "Sleigh the Games." The two-day festival will include an assortment of winter-themed competitions/activities. You've heard of summer events like Tough Mudder, or Warrior Dash; think of those, but with even more things to do. One of the big events that weekend will be the "Snowball Battle Championship," based on the Japanese competition, Yukigassen.

How Will the Big Snowball Fight in Estes Park Work?

• Two teams of 5 go head-to-head.
• 35 regulation snowballs for each team.
• Capture the flag to win.
• Get hit with a snowball and you're out.
• 4-minute matches.
• $500 for 1st Place, $300 for 2nd Place, $200 for 3rd Place.
• $60 per team member (includes Sunday games pass.)

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Other Events During 'Sleigh the Games' in Estes Park:

• Capture the Elf.
• Indoor Snow Tubing.
• Log Throw.
• Ice Skating.
• Human Curling.
• Team Sled-Pull Racing.
• Beer.
• Cocktails.
• Hot Chocolate Bar.
• Much More.

For the Sleigh the Games weekend, December 13-14, 2025, you can get a full weekend pass to participate in the completely different games they'll have set up for each day (about $80,) you can get a daily pass for just Saturday or Sunday (about $45) or you can get a daily spectator pass to just watch the competitions (about $24.) Kids Zone passes are also available for about $13 for kids 5 and under.