2026 Rocky Mountain JDM Events
🚘 Utah International Auto Expo
📅 Jan 16–19, 2026
More new cars than tuner culture.
🧰 Tri-State Swap Meet
📅 Feb 7–8, 2026
📍 National Western Complex — Denver
Massive automotive swap meet and a good spot for parts hunting for NSX/Supra builds.
🚘 Colorado Auto Show
📅 Apr 9–12, 2026
📍 Colorado Convention Center — Denver
Mostly OEM displays, but good networking and occasional tuner presence.
🏁 SLUSH Motorsport Festival
📅 March 23, 2026
Slush Motorsports Festival is where passion meets performance, a true playground for car enthusiasts. Each festival creates a vibrant atmosphere where amateurs, pros, and fans come together to celebrate every part of car culture. The events feature drifting, drag and roll racing, road course racing, autocross, car show, burnout pit, and 2-step competition. Slush delivers nonstop, heart-pounding action both on and off the track. Spectators can experience the excitement up close, take ride-alongs in real race cars, and explore an impressive lineup of vendors and interactive displays.
🏁 Rocky Mountain Race Week
📅 June 5–12, 2026
📍 Multi-city (includes Pueblo, CO)
Not JDM-specific but strong import presence, drag-and-drive style event with wide performance builds, serious performance builds, road-trip energy.
🏁 The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC)
📅 June 5–12, 2026
📍 Multi-city (includes Pueblo, CO)
Now called The (Broadmoor) Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC) is THE oldest hillclimb race in the world. It's presented by Gran Turismo, and also known as The Race to the Clouds. It's an invitational automobile hill climb to the summit of Pikes Peak – America’s Mountain in Colorado, USA. You get the fastest of the fast here. The days of the dirt sections of road are sadly long gone, so now it makes way for some very fast street oriented vehicles.
The 2026 Race will take place on Sunday, June 21 with the green flag dropping at 7:30am.
Race Day tickets are sold by Spectator Area. The purchase of a Race Day ticket guarantees you parking at the area that you choose at the time of purchase. Movement between spectator areas is prohibited.
Race Day General Admission ticket prices vary based on location and the total number of attendees in a vehicle.
Gates open at 2:30am on Race Day so camping is recommended.
🚗 Colorado Concours d’Elegance & Exotic Sports Car Show
📅 June 7, 2026
📍Arapahoe Community College
The longest-standing and largest Concours in the Rocky Mountain Region. It is a fun-filled day of Automotive Excellence featuring some of the Rocky Mountain Region’s most spectacular automobiles ever built who choose to come together to help raise critical funds for the community’s most vulnerable members.
The event showcases over 300 of the Rocky Mountain region’s most prestigious and prized automobiles. Organized by regional car clubs, this event draws between 8,000 – 10,000 attendees and is the largest and longest running Concours in the Rocky Mountain Region.
Honorable mention
🚗 Rocky Mountain Car Show & Swap Meet
📅 July 25, 2026
📍 Rocky Mountain Metro Airport — Broomfield, CO
Open to customs, classics, and modified cars there should be hundreds of vehicles expected. It's a big Colorado gathering — JDM have a strong showing!
100’s of Antique, Classic and Custom Vehicles and Motorcycles – Aircraft Fly Bys – Great Food – Displays of First Responders and their equipment – Historic Military Air Craft and Vehicles – Collectables For Sale – Swap Meet with Automobile Parts – A Car Corral- Entertainment – War Bird Rides Available For Purchase.
🚘 4th Annual Cherry Hills Village Car Show
📅 September 6, 2026
📍 City of Cherry Hills Village
Vintage cars, exotics, JDM, 4x4 and overland rigs. It's a very Colorado scene
🚘 LEMONS RALLY: Colorado
📅 September 25 - Sep 27, 2026
📍 Denver, CO
Road trips for drivers who aren’t screwing around. Good time, no-shrimp roadtrips with like-minded whackjobs. Any car will do. The junkier the better. Rules are simple: Don't be a douche.
🚘 Mike Maroone Charity Car Show
📅 October 12, 2026
📍 City of Cherry Hills Village
All Hondas!