Making sure all is set for the big night. Jeff Bellingson, Curator of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum, inspects Christmas trees decorated inside the Museum on Friday morning as part of the Festival of Trees celebration, one of many Noel Night activities.

Leah Conrad from Westminister paints holiday designs on the windows of the Durango Tourism Center on Main Avenue Friday morning as part of a fundraiser she is doing for Austin and Emberleigh Keils of Durango who were injured in a Thanksgiving day car accident. Storefronts up and down Main Avenue were preparing for Noel, in which local retailers will offer various specials and sales until 9 p.m.