What was on the Tava property last December? According to the City of Woodland Park's 2025 parade notice, the Lights Above the Clouds finale fireworks were launched from there. This December the same parcel holds a finished building with four venues, a community mural, and a branch of the town's art gallery. The free run of holiday art events from Nov. 28 through Dec. 6 now passes through it more than once.

That changes how the week works. Tava House at 120 S. Center St. is where Artists Sunday takes place, where the Woodland Park Art Gallery has added space, and where you can get breakfast, dinner, or a drink between the other stops on the schedule. Here is how those nine days line up and where the building fits into each one.

What Opened on the Woodland Station Parcel

Tava House opened in May 2026 and held its official grand opening on Oct. 17. The Greater Woodland Park Chamber of Commerce did a ribbon-cutting, and the building unveiled the Tava House Community Mural Project, which turns a large exterior wall and an interior focal piece into a display of local artwork. In March, The Gazette reported that the restaurant is Phase I of a 6.62-acre Woodland Station development, on a parcel that had long been vacant.

The building holds four venues:

• Tava House Taproom, the casual pub downstairs, with self-serve beer and cider, cocktails, and an outdoor patio
• Firebrand Chophouse, upstairs, serving steaks, seafood, and butcher-board and chef's-table selections that change daily
• Bar Above the Clouds, also upstairs, a cocktail, wine, and spirits bar with a food menu
• The River Room, an event space available to book for weddings, meetings, and private gatherings

In its grand-opening press release, issued through EIN Presswire, the company said Tava House served about 50,000 plates of food, poured 14,500 beers, and cooked 8,000 steaks between its May opening and mid-October. It also said the building employs roughly 35 to 55 people, with 12 to 15 of them from Woodland Park. The same release quotes owner Derek Waggoner on what the group set out to build:

"Our vision has always been to make Tava House the Community Hub of Woodland Park. A place where lasting memories are made."

For the holiday art week, the most important line in that release is about the River Room. The Woodland Park Art Gallery has expanded into it, giving local and regional artists another place to show work. Gayle Gross, who runs the gallery, led that effort.

Why the Art Week Now Runs Through Tava House

Gross also writes the Mountain of Art column for the Pikes Peak Courier. Her Nov. 2 column lists the free events for this year's post-Thanksgiving stretch, and Tava House comes up again and again.

On Saturday, Nov. 28, the column names three main stops for the art fairs, maker's markets, and art shows: Our Lady of the Woods Catholic Church, Tava House, and the Ute Pass Cultural Center.

On Sunday, Nov. 29, Artists Sunday is hosted by Reserve Our Gallery. It is part of an international effort to recognize art during the holiday shopping season. This year it is paired with "Small Brew Sunday," and the column says all of the activities happen at Tava House. Reserve Our Gallery brings artists, a pop-up gift shop, and a gallery to 120 S. Center St., and everything starts at 11 a.m. The column describes it as one stop for both beer and artist demonstrations, and makes the case that brewing is a craft too.

So the gallery has a permanent room in the building, and the main day of the art week takes place in that building as well. The rest of the week still happens across downtown and along US 24.

Two Weekends, Event by Event

Thanksgiving is Thursday, Nov. 26, so the art week starts that Saturday and covers two weekends. Gross's column lists the following, all free:

1. Saturday, Nov. 28. Art fairs, maker's markets, and art shows, with Our Lady of the Woods, Tava House, and the Ute Pass Cultural Center as the main stops.
2. Sunday, Nov. 29. Artists Sunday and Small Brew Sunday at Tava House, starting at 11 a.m., with Reserve Our Gallery's artists and pop-up gift shop.
3. Friday, Dec. 4. First Friday Art Walk, themed "Elf on the Shelf." Each stop has a hidden elf, and finding it earns an extra entry in the door-prize drawing. The column says it is also the City of Woodland Park's annual tree-lighting night.
4. Saturday, Dec. 5, morning. Ute Pass Kiwanis hosts its pancake breakfast with Santa, which includes art activities for kids.
5. Saturday, Dec. 5, 2 to 4 p.m. The "Value of White Art Celebration" at Reserve Our Gallery, described in the column as an afternoon of "snowballs," both sweet and spirited.
6. Saturday, Dec. 5, 6 p.m. The Lights Above the Clouds Parade on US 24.
7. Sunday, Dec. 6, 4 p.m. The Woodland Park Wind Symphony's holiday concert at the Nazarene Church.

The parade itself

The column describes more than 50 floats and an hour-long parade, with "Warm Your Bum Fires" set up along the route to help with a December evening at this elevation. The awards ceremony afterward is at the Ute Pass Cultural Center, with singing and cookies, plus a crazy-hat contest. This year's hat theme is America's 250th anniversary, so a decorated hat is how you enter.

For reference, the 2025 parade ran on US 24 from Highway 67 to E. Grace Avenue, and US 24 closed in both directions just before the 6 p.m. start. The city published those 2025 details in a news notice on the City of Woodland Park's website.

If you come into town from the north for the parade, the drive is different this year. KRDO reported on Oct. 26 that CDOT finished its CO 67 project north of town. About two miles were widened from two lanes to four, with a center turn lane and pedestrian improvements. The city also finished repaving Fairview Avenue from US 24 to the town limit and replaced a third of a mile of cobblestone on Thunder Ridge Drive.

Matching Tava's Hours to the Schedule

Each of Tava House's venues keeps its own hours. Here is how the posted schedule lines up with each day of the art week:

Two details matter for planning. Firebrand's weekend brunch runs Saturday and Sunday from 7 to 11 a.m., so on Nov. 29 it ends just as Artists Sunday starts in the same building. The brunch menu, dated Oct. 22, includes breakfast tacos, biscuits and gravy, chicken and waffles, and rum-banana French toast. Also, Firebrand serves dinner Thursday through Sunday and Bar Above the Clouds is open Wednesday through Sunday, so on Friday, Dec. 4, both upstairs rooms are open from 4 to 9 p.m. while the art walk and tree lighting are happening.

The Taproom is the only venue open every day from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., so it covers any day of the week. That includes the weekdays between the two weekends, when the art schedule takes a break. The River Room has no public daily hours because it is a space you book, so the gallery's presence there is the main reason to check what's showing when you stop by.

Woodland Station is also something we watch as investors. A new anchor that brings people downtown on both holiday weekends affects how guests spend a stay in town, from the first Saturday after Thanksgiving through the parade. If you're hosting family for the art week, or wondering what a place like Tava House means for a property near South Center Street, Good Neighbor Realty can walk you through the numbers. Get a free valuation and investment plan, and we'll show you how downtown activity like this factors into rental demand and long-term value in Woodland Park.