Скачать или смотреть Tarantulas bring tourism to rural La Junta

La Junta, a rural town with a population of about 7,100 people, is home of the Tarantula Festival, an annual event that started in 2022 to celebrate the yearly mating season of thousands of tarantulas in southeastern Colorado.

Every year since the start of the festival in 2022, the La Junta tourism board has recorded an increase in tourists from around the country. In the first year, an estimated 50 people boarded the city’s tarantula bus tours; this year, about 150 participated in the bus tours, said Pamela Denahy, the director of tourism and economic development. The festival nearly doubled its number of vendors since last year, she said.

Production by Chelsea Casabona
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