Monument spent years being described as the quiet stop between Colorado Springs and Castle Rock. That description no longer holds up on a Wednesday night in June. Between the free concert series at Limbach Park downtown and the 8,000-seat Ford Amphitheater twelve minutes south at Polaris Pointe, Tri-Lakes residents now sit inside one of the densest small-town live-music footprints on the Front Range. The rest of the summer, including the food and the taproom and the parade, arranges itself around those two stages.
Here is how to actually use the season if you already live here.
The thesis: Monument is a two-venue town now
For most of its history, Monument's summer calendar meant one thing on Wednesdays and something entirely different on Saturdays. That is still true. What changed is scale.
