Best bets this weekend include the Durango Cowboy Gathering Parade and Apple Days.
The 31st annual Durango Cowboy Gathering Parade will take place at 10 a.m. Saturday at the railroad depot and proceed up Main Avenue to 12th Street. The parade is free to enter and open to any entrant that is not motor-propelled. Right before the parade start, there will also be an Old West gunfight just north of the Strater Hotel.
A chuckwagon breakfast will be offered before the parade from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. on the corner of Fifth Street and Main Avenue. Biscuits, gravy, scrambled eggs and black coffee will be available. Tickets are $10, children 5 and younger can eat for free. Tickets are available at the wagon or in advance.
Live music will begin at 9:30 a.m. in front of the Main Mall. For more information, visit www.durangocowboygathering.org or call (404) 376-6392.
The Good Food Collective and Fenceline Cider will host the 11th annual Apple Days Festival with a community apple harvest Saturday and an apple-pressing festival from 11 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Buckley Park, 1200 Main Ave.
Events will feature a local apple juice and cider tasting, an apple pie-eating contest, live music and more. Apples of any shape, flavor or variety are welcome.
Those who have apples growing and would like to donate them for harvest may register trees online at bit.ly/2mpDW6N.
For more information, email info@goodfoodcollective.org or call 403-5347.
The Purple Fox Conundrum, 5 p.m., $20, Sacred Song Farm, 6982 Road 41, Mancos.
ELHI Harvest Festival, 5 p.m., free, ELHI Community Center, 115 Ute Drive, Ignacio.
Merely Players Presents “The Humans,” 7 p.m., $26, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave.
Cars and Coffee at PJ’s Market, 8 a.m., Trimble Crossing and U.S. 550 north. Bring something interesting.
Journey of Hope 5K Run/Walk, 8 a.m., free, Mercy Regional Breast Care Center, 1010 Three Springs Blvd.
Aztec Highland Games and Celtic Festival, 9 a.m., $12-$22, Riverside Park, 500 S. Light Plant Road, Aztec.
The Revolutionists, 7 p.m., $8-$12, Little Theatre, San Juan College, 4601 College Blvd., Farmington.
Aztec Highland Games and Celtic Festival, 9 a.m., $12-$22, Riverside Park, 500 S. Light Plant Road, Aztec.
Four Corners Slow Money Potluck, 4 p.m., free, Manna, 1100 Avenida del Sol.
