12 Feb Telluride Mushroom Fest: “Rewild” in 2026! Passes Now on Sale!
Calling all mycophiles, myconauts, and mycocrazies to come to Telluride this summer and “Rewild!” Each year Telluride, Colorado is the epicenter for the largest wild mushroom happening in North America and plans are now set for the 46th Annual Telluride Mushroom Festival (TMF). This is your official invitation to Rewild, August 12 – August 16 , 2026.
The internationally-famous festival features a plethora of events ranging from foray and mushroom ID sessions, hands-on demonstrations and workshops, panel discussions, and lectures—all led by regionally-, nationally-, and internationally-known experts, the quirkiest parade you will ever see, and pretty much “all things fungal.”
Go here for more on the history of the Telluride Mushroom Festival. (Back to 2009.)
Go here to buy your pass now.
Please scroll down to check out a note from the TMF team about the upcoming happening.
Dr. Britt Bunyard, director, Telluride Mushroom Festival.
Interested in forays and wild mushroom identification? The forays are a great way to learn from local experts, as well as to get up close and personal with nationally famous field mycologists. For IDs head to the big tents in Elks Park. Along with learning how to “know your mushrooms,” why not try tasting a few—there are many culinary events. Each year many attendees want to learn about growing mushrooms at home, some on a small scale for fun, others have dreams of ramping up and going commercial. Festival experts can teach you how.
This year’s theme, according to Festival Program Director, Dr. Britt Bunyard, Editor-in-Chief of Fungi magazine, will be “Rewild.” On deck will be a raft of myco-luminaries including Mark Plotkin, world-renowned ethnobotanist best known for his work with Indigenous peoples of the Amazon and for popularizing the idea that rainforest conservation must center Indigenous knowledge. His book, “Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice,” is still one of the most influential works in the field.
Founder/director of Chile’s Fundación Fungi, Giuliana Furci, Mushroom Mountain’s Tradd Cotter, Eugenia Bone (author of “Mycophilia” and the recent best-seller “Have a Good Trip”), and the weed and shroom-loving Wise Woman of the San Juans, Katrina Blair.
And we are absolutely thrilled to announce that two relative newcomers who have burst onto the scene with best-selling books recently, “Chaotic Forager” Gabriele Cerberville (“Gathered: On Foraging, Feasting, and the Seasonal Life”) and Maria Pinto (“Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies,” and “Black Survival:), will also be featured in this year’s very full lineup of more than 50 presenters.
So, what is rewilding, you ask? Rewilding has emerged as one of the most imaginative movements in global conservation, built on the intuitive idea that ecosystems can regain vitality and self-direction when the processes that once shaped them are restored. Rather than protecting single species, it revives relationships—migration, predation, grazing, disturbance, succession—that let landscapes function as dynamic, resilient systems. Though the term is new, its roots echo Indigenous stewardship, and today five broad models offer distinct visions shaped by local histories, ecologies, and cultural values.
As in recent years, the Sheridan Opera House will lynchpin Telluride Mushroom Festival headquarters downtown across from Elks Park’s central Mushroom Identification Tent. Several other venues around town will host workshops and lectures, with the Palm Theatre serving as venue for evening Keynote addresses, as well as some daytime presentations.
Britt A. Bunyard
Program Director, Telluride Mushroom Festival
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