Colorado Online Voting Contests

Colorado Baseball Player of the Week

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Weekly spring fan vote from High School on SI at si.com/high-school/colorado/baseball, confirmed live in May 2025 as a "top hitters" format: a rotating list of standout CHSAA batting performances rather than one all-around nominee per school. Free to vote, no account required; no per-device cap or results archive is publicly documented.

Colorado Boys Basketball Player of the Week

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Weekly winter fan-vote poll from High School on SI, running January through March alongside SI's confirmed Colorado boys basketball rankings at si.com/high-school/colorado. Nominees are pulled from CHSAA member schools statewide; no account is needed to vote, and the winner runs in a dated feature article.

Colorado Football Defensive Player of the Week

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Weekly fall fan-vote poll from High School on SI at si.com/high-school/colorado/football, splitting a defense-only ballot off Colorado's combined weekly poll, a structure mirroring Georgia and Maryland's 2025 offense/defense divide. Draws from all six CHSAA classes, 1A through 6A. Free to vote, no account required.

Colorado Football Offensive Player of the Week

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Weekly fall fan-vote poll from Sports Illustrated's High School on SI network at si.com/high-school/colorado/football, spotlighting one standout Colorado prep offensive performer each week of the CHSAA season, a split modeled on Georgia and Maryland's confirmed 2025 offense/defense ballots. Free to vote, no account required; the hub doesn't publish an exact per-device cap.

Colorado Football Player of the Week

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Weekly fall fan-vote poll from High School on SI at si.com/high-school/colorado/football, open to every CHSAA football program from Class 1A through Class 6A across an August-to-November season. No account is required to vote, live totals show through the week, and the winner runs in a Monday feature article.

Colorado Girls Basketball Player of the Week

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Weekly winter fan-vote poll from High School on SI, published on the same si.com/high-school/colorado hub that covers every CHSAA sport statewide. Nominees are pulled from Colorado girls basketball programs across the state; no account is needed to vote, and the winner runs in a dated feature article separate from the boys' ballot.

Colorado High School Athlete of the Week

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Statewide weekly fan-vote recognition run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com — covering all CHSAA member schools from Class 1A through 5A, every sport, every season. Voting closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m.; no account needed.

Colorado High School Baseball Player of the Year

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Annual fan-vote honor from High School on SI, published on the general si.com/high-school/colorado hub once Colorado's CHSAA spring baseball season ends. The ballot follows a separate weekly "top hitters" poll confirmed live in May 2025. Free to vote; no account, and no per-device cap is publicly documented.

Colorado High School Football Player of the Year

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Annual fan-vote honor from High School on SI, published on the general si.com/high-school/colorado hub rather than the weekly poll's dedicated address. Nominees are drawn from CHSAA's full six-class football field, 1A through 6A, once the postseason ends. Free to vote; no account, and no per-device cap is published.

Colorado High School Girls Basketball Player of the Year

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Annual statewide fan vote from High School on SI at si.com/high-school/colorado, crowning one Colorado girls basketball standout each year from CHSAA programs statewide. Distinct from the weekly Player of the Week ballot on the same hub: nominees are judged on a full season, and no account is needed to vote.

Colorado High School Player of the Year

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Annual end-of-season fan-vote recognition at si.com/high-school/colorado, run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive), crowning a statewide Colorado POY per sport each year across all CHSAA member schools. Free vote, no cap stated.

Colorado High School Softball Player of the Year

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Annual end-of-fall-season fan poll at si.com/high-school/colorado, run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive), crowning the top Colorado girls softball player statewide. Voting is free with no hourly cap; winner decided by fan-vote total at close.

Fort Collins Blue FCU Athlete of the Week

Fort Collins · The Coloradoan (USA Today Network)

The Coloradoan's Blue Federal Credit Union–sponsored weekly fan vote for the top prep athlete in the Fort Collins metro. Two parallel ballots run every week — Boys and Girls — each with five nominees, voting open Monday through Thursday, closing Thursday at 11:59 a.m. sharp.

Pueblo Chieftain Athlete of the Week

The Pueblo Chieftain's weekly fan-vote poll for a standout Pueblo-area high school athlete, open to every sport rather than football only. There is no stated vote-limit restriction, and the ballot closes at midnight Friday, a full two days ahead of the Sunday-night close used by Colorado's statewide SI poll.

Star Local Media Colorado Athlete of the Week

Star Local Media's suburban Denver Athlete of the Week: same weekly format as the publisher's North Texas edition, five to six county nominees, ballot resets every Monday at 10 a.m.

2024 Name A Snowplow Contest

Two confirmed editions of the Name A Snowplow Contest exist, 2024 and 2025, run by the Town of Parker on its own Let's Talk Parker engagement site in Parker, Colorado. The 2024 cycle accepted community name submissions from July 8 to 26, then put finalists to a public vote from August 5 to 16. Supporters named a snowplow truck for each of the town's snowplowing zones ahead of the 2024/2025 winter season. This page sets out the dates, the winning names and how the ballot works.

Aspen Times Best of Aspen Snowmass Basalt

Aspen Times Best of Aspen Snowmass Basalt is The Aspen Times' readers'-choice ballot for Aspen, Snowmass and Basalt, Colorado, run at aspentimes.com. Five editions are confirmed, 2022 through 2026. For the 2023 cycle the page's own wording reads "VOTING IS COMPLETE" with winners announced December 1; no category roster and no per-voter rule are published for any cycle, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Best Ice Cream Grand Junction (kekbfm)

99.9 KEKB asks its Grand Junction listeners to settle a food question on the station's website: who has the best ice cream in town. The ballot runs on kekbfm.com, closes on Sunday, July 7th at midnight for the cycle the station page describes, and has appeared in 2019, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The station prints no start date and no voting rules on that page.

Best Lunch Grand Junction (kool1079)

KBKL, the Grand Junction radio station behind kool1079.com, runs a best-of lunch ballot for its Colorado market. The vote lives on kool1079.com itself, and the deadline is 11:59 p.m. Thursday, June 17. Editions are confirmed for 2021 through 2025, the ballot is tied to National Take Back the Lunch Break Day, and the station prints no opening date, no ballot roster and no per-person voting rule.

Best Marching Band On The Western Slope Poll

KEKB, a country radio station serving Colorado's Western Slope, runs the Best Marching Band On The Western Slope Poll on kekbfm.com. The live ballot is the Round 2 poll, and the voting window falls in October. Editions are confirmed for every year from 2022 to 2026. The station's page does not print the specific days each round begins and ends, so supporters should read the ballot itself before planning a voting routine.

Best of Boulder (Boulder Weekly)

Boulder Weekly, a Colorado newspaper, runs Best of Boulder directly on its own site at boulderweekly.com/special-editions/best-of-boulder/, with no separate voting-network platform involved. Five editions are confirmed, 2018, 2019, 2024, 2025 and 2026, with nothing published for 2020 through 2023 in between. An August 4, 2026 update from the paper said voting was about to open; the exact opening and closing dates stay off that page, confirmed on the live ballot each cycle.

Best of Denver

Westword's annual Best of Denver readers-choice poll reaches its 43rd edition in 2026, with online voting at westword.com/best-of-denver-readers-choice-poll. The alt-weekly has run the program since the early 1980s, though Westword hasn't published this cycle's specific category list, ballot format, or vote cap.

Best of NOCO

NOCO Style Magazine's annual Best of NOCO readers-choice program serves Northern Colorado, with public voting at nocostyle.com/best-of-noco and results published every December issue. The magazine hasn't confirmed a category list, voting window, or vote cap for this cycle, so the live ballot page is the only current authority.

Best of Summit County

Summit Daily News' annual readers-choice ballot for Colorado's I-70 resort corridor — nearly 200 categories across Breckenridge, Frisco, Silverthorne, Dillon, and Keystone, with results announced each October in Silverthorne.

Best of the Boat

Steamboat Pilot & Today's reader-vote awards for Steamboat Springs, a single 140+ category ballot with First, Second, Third, and Top-5 results published per category.

Best of the Springs

Colorado Springs · Colorado Springs Gazette

The Colorado Springs Gazette's annual Best of the Springs readers-choice awards, voted at thebestofthesprings.com. The 2026 cycle has already closed, with winners set to appear in an annual print book instead of a live results page; the category list, vote cap, and 2027 dates aren't public yet.

Best Of The West (Boulder County)

Yellow Scene Magazine runs Best of the West, a write-in readers poll for Boulder County, Colorado. The ballot sits at yellowscene.com/best-of-the-west/ on the publication's website, with no drop-down menus, so supporters type each community favorite by name. The 2026 poll is open, the 2025 edition closed with polls closing January 17th, 2025, and winners in the 2023 cycle were announced in February. Confirmed edition years are 2023, 2025 and 2026.

Best of the West (Grand Junction Daily Sentinel)

Grand Junction · Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

Annual Grand Junction Daily Sentinel readers-choice awards for the Western Slope, with a public vote across 162 categories in 8 category groups, a winners gala, and a print winners magazine.

Best of the West (Yellow Scene Magazine)

Boulder County, Colorado's Best of the West runs at yellowscene.com/best-of-the-west, published by Yellow Scene Magazine. Confirmed editions land in 2023, 2025 and 2026, and the 2026 poll is confirmed open on the live page, a straight write-in ballot with no drop-down menus. The ballot page lists no category roster and no per-supporter limit; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Best of the West 2026 (gjsentinel)

Best of the West 2026 is the Grand Junction readers' choice ballot run by Grand Junction Media through the Daily Sentinel. Nominations and voting both ran from April 3 to June 16, 2026 on a Second Street ballot, and the program has held editions in eight separate years since 2018. This page collects the confirmed dates, the platform, the ballot address and what the organizer has not printed, so supporters and businesses know exactly where things stand.

Best of Vail Valley

Vail Daily's annual reader vote across 140+ categories spanning skiing, dining, and local services in the Vail Valley, with winners celebrated at the Vilar Performing Arts Center.

Best Places to Work 2025

Grand Junction Media runs Best Places to Work 2025, a business ballot for Grand Junction, Colorado, hosted on Second Street at gjsentinel.secondstreetapp.com. The 2025 window ran from January 14 to February 20, 2025, and that round is now closed. Editions also ran in 2024, which makes this an annual programme rather than a one-time promotion. The page does not spell out which workplace categories are on the ballot or how often a person may vote, so a supporter should read the rules shown on the live ballot each cycle before rallying coworkers.

Best Veterinarian in the Grand Valley (Mix 104.3)

Grand Junction · KMXY / Mix 104.3 (mix1043fm.com)

Best Veterinarian in the Grand Valley is Mix 104.3's (KMXY) fan-vote award for veterinary practices around Grand Junction, Colorado. Archived pages show the ballot live every September from 2020 through 2026, missing only 2022. The station's own page gives a Tuesday, September 22 close time from a past year without stating which one; exact dates, categories, and a vote cap all require checking the live mix1043fm.com ballot.

Broomfield Snow Fighter Name Contest

The City of Broomfield invites residents to name its residential snowplow trucks through the Snow Fighter Name Contest on the city's own Broomfield Voice platform. The 2026 cycle collected 556 name ideas for 10 new trucks, and the community vote on 20 Council-selected finalists ran from Jan. 27 to Feb. 12, 2026. Confirmed editions ran in 2021, 2025 and 2026. This page explains who runs the vote, how the ballot works and what the city has and has not published.

Colorado Springs Parade of Homes People's Choice

Colorado Springs · Colorado Springs Parade of Homes

One confirmed edition, 2026, backs Colorado Springs Parade of Homes People's Choice at springsparade.com. The Home Tour itself runs September 11 through 27, 2026, and its People's Choice vote sits inside that same window. Past those dates, a category list, a per-voter rule, and the organizer's own name are whatever the live page says, confirmed fresh each cycle.

Colorado Springs Top of Town

Colorado Springs · Colorado Springs Magazine

Colorado Springs Magazine's annual Top of Town readers-choice contest, voted at coloradospringsmag.com/tott. The magazine hasn't published a category list, vote cap, or fixed dates on the record checked for this guide, and the name echoes 5280 Magazine's separate Denver contest closely enough to cause real confusion.

Colorado's Best

The Colorado Sun runs Colorado's Best, an annual voting hub at coloradosun.com/colorados-best. The nonprofit newsroom's public record confirms only the yearly cadence and that single hub URL; no category list, vote cap, ballot structure, or close date is published anywhere The Colorado Sun has made public.

Colorado's Best Denver Metro

The Colorado Sun runs Colorado's Best Denver Metro, an annual regional sub-edition of its statewide Colorado's Best program, voted at coloradosun.com/colorados-best-denver-metro. The public record confirms only the annual cadence and that single URL, and this edition lands in the same Denver-metro market Top of the Town and Best of Denver already serve.

Colorado's Best Northeast

The Colorado Sun runs Colorado's Best Northeast, an annual regional sub-edition of its statewide Colorado's Best program, voted at coloradosun.com/colorados-best-northeast. The newsroom has made public only the annual cadence and that single URL; no category list, vote cap, ballot format, or close date appears anywhere on its site.

Colorado's Best Southwest

The Colorado Sun's Colorado's Best franchise now runs a Southwest Colorado sub-edition, voted annually at coloradosun.com/colorados-best-southwest. Beyond that URL and an annual cadence, the newsroom hasn't published a category list, vote cap, ballot format, or close date here, so the live site is the only real authority once a cycle opens.

Colorado's Best Western Slope

The Colorado Sun runs Colorado's Best Western Slope, an annual regional sub-edition of its statewide Colorado's Best program, voted at coloradosun.com/colorados-best-western-slope. The public record confirms only the annual cadence and that single URL; no category list, vote cap, ballot format, or close date has been published anywhere online.

CommunityVotes Arvada

CommunityVotes runs a readers'-choice ballot for Arvada, Colorado, at arvada.communityvotes.com. Two editions are confirmed, 2023 and 2026, and the 2026 results were posted in June after voting closed. Categories, a per-voter limit, and day-level 2026 dates stay off the published page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Boulder

Boulder, Colorado's outpost of the CommunityVotes readers-choice network, voted at boulder.communityvotes.com in two stages, a nomination stage first, then a finalist vote. What sets it apart from Denver's ballots is the city's tech-corridor business base. No published category list, close date, or vote cap exists for this program yet.

CommunityVotes Fort Collins

CommunityVotes' Fort Collins readers-choice ballot at fortcollins.communityvotes.com runs in two stages, a nomination round followed by a finalist vote, separate from the city's own YourChoiceAwards program. No category list, vote cap, or fixed nomination-to-close calendar has been published yet for either one; check the live site each cycle.

CommunityVotes Pueblo

CommunityVotes' readers'-choice ballot for Pueblo, Colorado, runs at pueblo.communityvotes.com. Two editions are confirmed, 2023 and 2026, and the 2026 site itself states results were posted in June once voting closed. Categories, a vote limit, and day-level dates for the current cycle stay unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

For Colorados Next Drivers License Design

KDBN, the radio station behind 95rockfm.com, invites Colorado listeners to pick the image that will appear on the state's refreshed driver's license. Voting in the 2021 cycle ran February 1 through February 5, 2021, a span the station itself described as only a few days. Ballots from 2021 through 2025 are confirmed. The vote runs statewide on the station's own site, not on a third party ballot platform, and the design Coloradans choose is the one they will carry in their wallets every day.

For Grand Junctions Sexiest Man Poll

KEKB, a Colorado country station, puts For Grand Junctions Sexiest Man Poll on its own website, where listeners cast a public vote for Grand Junction's SEXIEST Man. Confirmed editions ran from 2022 through 2026, and the voting window falls in November. Day-level open and close dates, the ballot's category structure and any per-supporter vote rules are not printed on the page, so supporters should confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The ballot sits beside other Colorado best-of programmes such as Best of Denver and Top of the Town, but it answers to KEKB alone.

For Januarys Teacher Of The Month

KMXY, the Grand Junction, Colorado radio station behind Mix 104.3, runs a January teacher of the month vote on mix1043fm.com itself. Supporters nominate a teacher first, then vote on the ballot page. Confirmed editions span 2018 through 2021 and 2023 through 2026, though the station leaves the opening and closing dates of the window off the page, so supporters watch the live form once January begins.

For Marchs Teacher Of The Month Well Come Surprise Them

KDBN, the Colorado radio station behind 95rockfm.com, invites listeners to vote for March's Teacher of the Month on the website it publishes itself. The station then visits the winning teacher with a stack of prizes from local sponsors. The voting phase sits inside March, the program has run in seven separate years since 2019, and the station leaves the precise open and close days off its published page.

For Our Radio Stations Theme For Halloween (kool1079)

Eight confirmed editions, 2018 through 2026, of For Our Radio Stations Theme For Halloween, a public vote run by KBKL, the Kool 107.9 radio station in Colorado. The vote sits on KBKL's own website, kool1079.com, where listeners pick the theme the station will dress up for at Halloween. A past ballot closed at the end of Tuesday, October 23. The current cycle's exact voting dates are not published.

For Palisade Basecamp In U S Today Top 10 Best Poll

KEKB, the Grand Junction country station broadcasting as 99.9 KEKB, runs a public vote page urging listeners to back Palisade Basecamp in the U.S. Today Top 10 Best Poll. The ballot is hosted at kekbfm.com on the broadcaster's website, and the printed deadline reads Monday, October 12th. Edition years run from 2020 through 2026. The exact open date, any per-person vote limit and eligibility wording are not printed, so supporters should confirm on the live ballot each cycle before planning a push.

For The Best Barber In Grand Junction (kool1079)

Kool 107.9, the KBKL radio station serving Grand Junction, Colorado, invites its listeners to name the best barber in town on a ballot hosted at kool1079.com. The vote has run in 2020 and then 2022 through 2026, and the live cycle is anchored to January. This page collects what the station publishes about the contest, what it leaves off the ballot page, and how a supporter takes part.

For The Best Cheeseburger In Grand Junction (kool1079)

KBKL, the Grand Junction radio station behind kool1079.com, runs a public vote for the best cheeseburger in Grand Junction, Colorado. The ballot sits at a dedicated address on the KBKL website, with confirmed runs in 2019, 2020 and 2022 through 2026. The station ties the vote to National Cheeseburger Day. Exact window dates and any voting limits are not printed, so check the current ballot before planning anything.

For The Best Mexican Restaurant In Grand Junction (kekbfm)

KEKB, a Grand Junction radio station, invites the public to name the best Mexican restaurant in Grand Junction, Colorado. The vote runs on the station's website, kekbfm.com. Confirmed editions ran in 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The ballot page prints a close of 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, July 9. The exact open date and any per-supporter limit are not printed; check the live ballot before voting.

For The Best Personal Trainer In Grand Junction (kekbfm)

99.9 KEKB, a country radio station in Grand Junction, Colorado, invites listeners to vote for the best personal trainer in Grand Junction at kekbfm.com, a domain the station runs itself. The ballot page prints a deadline of 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, January 26. Editions have appeared in 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025, which marks the trainer vote as a recurring winter feature of the station's contest calendar rather than a single promotion.

For The Best Pumpkin Spice Latte In Grand Junction (kool1079)

This page documents For The Best Pumpkin Spice Latte In Grand Junction, a best-of business ballot hosted on kool1079.com for coffee drinkers across Grand Junction, Colorado. Confirmed editions ran annually from 2020 through 2026. The ballot page publishes no exact voting window dates, no vote cap and no eligibility text, so the live page at kool1079.com is the authority on all three. Everything below comes from the published ballot page and its confirmed edition years, with gaps stated plainly.

For The Best Veterinarian In The Grand Valley

KDBN, the station behind 95rockfm.com, invites its Grand Valley listeners in Colorado to name the veterinarian they trust with their pets. Ballots have been confirmed for 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. In the latest edition, voting ended at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, September 22. Unlike the large readers' choice surveys elsewhere in the state, this is a single-subject vote carried on 95rockfm.com itself.

Grand Junction Sentinel Best of the West

Grand Junction · The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction Media)

Grand Junction Media, publisher of The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, runs the Grand Junction Sentinel Best of the West on Second Street at gjsentinel.secondstreetapp.com. Eight confirmed editions run 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025, and 2026, and the 2026 combined nomination-and-voting ballot opened April 3 and closed June 16, already over. Categories and any vote cap go unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Grand Junction Sentinel Ride Photo Contest

Grand Junction · The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction Media)

Grand Junction Media, the Second Street account tied to The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, runs the Ride Photo Contest for Grand Junction, Colorado at gjsentinel.secondstreetapp.com. Eight editions are confirmed, 2019 through 2026, and the most recent window ran January 8 through February 1, 2026, already closed. How many categories run, and how often one person may vote, is not stated; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

MileSplit Colorado Boys Performer of the Week

MileSplit Colorado runs a weekly Boys Performer of the Week poll for high school track and field and cross country across Colorado. The ballot sits on poll.fm under Crowdsignal, listing nominated athletes by school and showing the running percentage for each option. Seasons have run in 2024, 2025 and 2026, with ballots dated between March and October. The publisher has not printed a season calendar with precise dates, so supporters check the newest ballot on poll.fm.

MileSplit Colorado Girls Performer of the Week

MileSplit Colorado runs a weekly public vote naming a girls performer of the week in Colorado high school track and field and cross country. The vote itself takes place on a Crowdsignal ballot reached through poll.fm, the series dates to 2023, and confirmed seasons cover 2024, 2025 and 2026. A recent ballot closed Thursday, September 25th at 11:59pm MT, and each week's deadline is printed on its nominations article.

Now For Februarys Teacher Of The Month

KMXY, a Colorado radio station, runs Now For Februarys Teacher Of The Month, a public vote that lets listeners pick which local teacher wins the station's February honor. The voting form sits at mix1043fm.com, the station's web home. Editions are confirmed for 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The winner is announced with a surprise at the winner's school, and the station coordinates that moment with the principal.

Now In Mesa County Senior Mags Best Of Poll (kool1079)

A local best-of ballot for Mesa County, Colorado, run by KBKL, the radio station behind Kool 107.9, and carried on kool1079.com itself. Confirmed editions are 2019 and 2020. The 2019 ballot stayed open through December 31, 2019. The ballot asks readers to pick local favorites in everyday categories, from food to home services. The station does not print per-day opening and closing times, vote limits or eligibility rules ahead of a cycle.

Now Your Teacher Deserves To Win Teacher Of The Month (kekbfm)

KEKB, a Colorado radio station, invites listeners to vote for December's Teacher of the Month on its own site at kekbfm.com. The ballot page states that voting ends on Thursday, January 7 at 11:59 p.m. The station has run the program across 2021 through 2026, selecting a winning teacher each month during the school year.

Ride Photo Contest 2026

Grand Junction Media runs the Ride Photo Contest 2026, a public-vote photo ballot for Grand Junction, Colorado, hosted on Second Street at gjsentinel.secondstreetapp.com. The 2026 voting window ran January 8 through February 1, 2026 and is closed. Eight editions are confirmed, 2019 through 2026, so the program is annual. This page covers the organizer, the confirmed dates, the voting mechanic and the rules the ballot does not spell out.

Special Editions Best Of Boulder

Best of Boulder is the readers-choice ballot Boulder Weekly publishes as a special edition each year. The 2026 voting window runs through August, and confirmed editions go back to 2018, with the most recent runs in 2024, 2025 and 2026. The vote is hosted on the newspaper's own site. A nominated business that wants a plan for the window can start with the ballot itself and the steps laid out below.

Springs Magazine People's Choice Awards

Springs Magazine's annual Colorado readers-choice program, with public voting at springsmag.com/peoples-choice-awards. The inaugural edition ran in 2025, making 2026 its second cycle. The magazine has not published a category list, ballot format, or vote cap anywhere public; confirm cycle specifics directly on the live page.

Tag Mail

Tag Mail is the Colorado Sun's mail ballots tag page, not a category readers' choice ballot like its Colorado siblings. Hosted on the newspaper's own site at coloradosun.com, it gathers the paper's coverage of voting by mail in Colorado. Confirmed editions run in 2020, 2021 and 2024, with the proven window falling in October. The paper publishes no category list, no vote limit and no day-level dates for it.

The Colorado Girls XC Performer of the Year

Colorado Girls XC runs The Colorado Girls XC Performer of the Year, a girls cross country honor decided by fan voting in Colorado. The ballot lives on the Crowdsignal service through its poll.fm domain and asks one question about the season's top performer. Voting has fallen in November, with 2023 and 2024 the confirmed cycles. Exact dates, the next edition year and any per-supporter rule are not printed by the organizer.

The Readers' Choice Award

Partners in Literacy runs The Readers' Choice Award as the public vote inside the Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award. Students and youth patrons choose among nominated young adult titles on the website the literacy group maintains itself. The confirmed editions sit in 2025 and 2026, and the 2025-2026 ballot stayed open from February 9 until April 10. Teachers can bring the vote into a classroom through book talks, a show of hands or paper ballots.

Top of the Town

5280 Magazine runs Top of the Town, its annual Denver readers-choice program, with public voting at 5280scene.com across the city's consumer business categories. Winners are celebrated each July at an in-person event, separate from the magazine's peer-nominated Top Doctors and Top Lawyers lists.

Candy Cane Pets Contest

Colorado Springs, Colorado's Candy Cane Pets Contest is a holiday pet photo fundraiser staged by Colorado Springs Ladies Events, inc at GoGo Photo Contest. The ballot benefits Harley's Hope Foundation, and the top 12 vote-getters are featured as a Pet of the Month. Voting in the 2025 edition closed at 2:30 PM Mountain Time on Sunday, December 14, 2025, and editions are confirmed for 2025 and 2026.

Dumb Friends League Calendar Photo Contest

Dumb Friends League, the Colorado animal-welfare organization now also presenting itself as Humane Colorado, has run its Calendar Photo Contest for twelve confirmed years straight, 2014 through 2025, at gogophotocontest.com/dumbfriendsleague on the GoGo Photo Contest network. Voting falls in August each cycle; the confirmed page does not fix an exact day. A category breakdown, a repeat-voting rule, and platform-listed round dates all go unpublished. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle. No single Colorado city is named on the confirmed page.

dumb-friends-league-pet-photo-contest

Denver, Colorado's Dumb Friends League Pet Photo Contest is an annual shelter calendar fundraiser hosted by GoGo Photo Contest at gogophotocontest.com/dumbfriendsleague. Pet owners enter photos of cats, dogs, horses and small pets, and supporters convert donations into votes at a dollar apiece. The leading vote-getters appear as monthly models in the shelter's printed calendar, and the 2024 cycle closed in early August.

NoCo's Cutest Dog

NoCo's Cutest Dog is KKPL's (99.9 The Point) dog photo contest at 999thepoint.com, a Colorado radio station. Archived pages show a September contest running from 2019 through 2026. No day-level dates, category list, or vote cap are published; confirm both on the live 999thepoint.com page.

The Real House Pets of Colorado Calendar Contest

Colorado Pet Pantry built The Real House Pets of Colorado Calendar Contest on GoGo Photo Contest's system, found at gogophotocontest.com/coloradopetpantry. The confirmed 2026 voting window ran May 6 through May 28, alongside a separate May 18-25 entry period and a June 5 deadline for winners to claim their prize. An entry with at least 100 votes by that May 28 close earned a bonus drawing for a pair of tickets. Category rules and a vote limit stay unpublished; confirm both on the live ballot each cycle.

The Real House Pets of Colorado Calendar Contest

Colorado Pet Pantry organizes The Real House Pets of Colorado Calendar Contest, a pet calendar fundraiser hosted through GoGo Photo Contest. Voting for the 2026 cycle opens 8:00 AM Mountain Time on Wednesday, May 6, 2026 and closes 8:00 PM Mountain Time on Thursday, May 28, 2026. Each dollar counts as one vote with a five dollar minimum transaction. The top thirteen entries by votes claim calendar spots and winners must claim prizes by June 5th, 2026.

Ark-Valley Humane Society Feline & Fido Calendar Contest

Salida · Ark Valley Humane Society

Ark Valley Humane Society raises money for the animals in its care through the Feline & Fido Calendar Contest, a $1-per-vote pet-photo fundraiser at gogophotocontest.com/avhs that fills the shelter's 2027 wall calendar. Confirmed editions run 2016 through 2024, and 2026. The current window opened September 27, 2026, with photos open to public voting through 9:00 PM Mountain time on Sunday, October 11, 2026, at $1 per vote with a $5 minimum. Beyond that window, confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Ark-Valley Humane Society Feline & Fido Calendar Contest

The Ark-Valley Humane Society Feline & Fido Calendar Contest is a paid public-vote pet photo fundraiser on GoGo Photo Contest, with its ballot at gogophotocontest.com/avhs. The 2026 edition is the 11th annual, opening September 27, 2026 at 8:00 AM Mountain Time, with voting closing at 9:00 PM Mountain Time on Sunday, October 11, 2026. Votes cost $1 each with a $5 minimum, and top vote-getters appear in the shelter's annual pet calendar. The shelter is based in Buena Vista, Colorado.