How’s your aim? As games tend to do, the Taxidermy Toss has evolved quite a bit over time. What started out as a way for kids to pass time in Victorian-era Colorado became a game of chance alongside Faro, poker, Chuck-a-Luck and Three-Card Monte. After a wave of bubonic plague struck the town, it was determined that it would be more sanitary to chuck taxidermized animals instead of plain ol’ roadkill. Of course, this made it very easy to cheat as gamblers could pay off the the town taxidermist to weight down the critters. This remained a problem until 1978, when the town taxidermist was granted a governing role (and has since been a position of great honor).  

Each year the Town gets together to participate in the Taxidermy Toss to test accuracy and strength and honor this nearly century-old pastime.