Colorado is known for many things including it’s pristine ski slopes/gorgeous mountains, fresh spring water and beer. But did you also know that Colorado, Boulder County’s very own Nederland, is also known for it’s own little bit of Colorado – a cryogenically frozen Norwegian immigrant.

Every year Nederland puts on a 3-day festival (going on this weekend) celebrating the fact that there is a frozen dead guy in a shed. Literally on ice. The festival known as Frozen Dead Guy Days (seriously) started when someone complained that a family was keeping a frozen dead guy. Colorado then wasted no time in creating a law that stated that frozen dead people are not to be kept on property. However, since new laws cannot effect prior existing conditions, the dead guy was grandfathered in.

Noah and I heard about this festival last year but didn’t make it up the canyon to check it out, nor were we sure we wanted to. This year we seriously considered going but the thought of sleeping in and avoiding drunken crowds won over our plans. So, maybe next year we’ll head up the hill to check out a frozen dead guy kept in a shed.

For more information on the festival and some additional background information on why there is a frozen dead guy and who he is exactly. Check out the Nederland Chamber of Commerce’s website.