AvonLIVE!

Harry A. Nottingham Park in Avon, Colorado, sits at 7,400 feet on the south bank of Nottingham Lake, an 11-acre reservoir in the heart of Avon’s town core that has become the definitive gathering point for the Vail Valley’s full-time community of residents. AvonLIVE!, the park’s summer concert series, runs every Wednesday from June 10 through August 19, 2026, with the grounds open at 5:30 p.m., music beginning at 6:00 p.m. and running through 9:00 p.m. The lineup rotates between award-winning national acts and established regional artists across genres broad enough to reflect the valley’s genuinely international residential and visitor community. Local food trucks provide dinner service through the evening; the Hahnewald Bar operates on-site with canned beverages that reflect the event’s commitment to minimizing single-use plastic. Free, public, no reservations required throughout the series.

Nottingham Lake’s proximity to the concert stage, visible from every position on the park’s open lawn, gives AvonLIVE! its specific visual atmosphere: the lake’s reflection of the evening light and the surrounding Beaver Creek and Arrowhead mountain ridgelines creates a backdrop that the Vail Mountain Resort’s summer concert infrastructure across the valley cannot match from its positioned stages. Attendees are encouraged to bring picnic blankets and low-back chairs rather than full-height seating, which preserves the sightlines for the audience behind. Dogs on leash are welcome throughout the park grounds. Water filling stations operate through the event as part of the series’ sustainability orientation.

Avon Between the Concerts

Avon, positioned midway between Vail and Beaver Creek on US-6 in Eagle County, has developed an independent commercial and cultural identity that the resort’s shadow has historically obscured. The Avon Performing Arts Center on Beaver Creek Boulevard hosts gallery and performance programming through the summer in a purpose-built cultural space that predates AvonLIVE!’s current popularity and continues to operate independently alongside it. Beaver Creek Resort’s summer programming, accessible by free gondola from the resort’s base village, includes lift-accessed hiking and mountain biking terrain with views of the New York Range and the Gore Creek drainage that justify the gondola trip independently of any activity at the top.

If You’re Going with Kids

Nottingham Lake’s fishing pier, open through the summer season, provides catch-and-release angling access for children while the concert audience gathers on the surrounding lawn. The combination of a functioning lake edge with supervised fishing, a food truck row, and live music from the park stage makes AvonLIVE! one of the more comprehensively multi-activity family events in the Eagle County calendar. Children who lose interest in the music have the lake, the fishing pier, and the park’s open play areas as an immediate alternative without any vehicle required.