Straight answers about this directory

A free, researched directory of 455 Colorado event venues — searchable by capacity, region, venue type, outside-AV policy, catering policy, lodging, and on-site activities. It exists because most venue lists skip the two answers that change budgets: whether you can bring your own AV team and whether you can bring your own caterer.

Free, no login, no paywall, and venues never pay to be listed. The business model is disclosure, not a catch: the directory is built by Earth Coast Productions, a Colorado event production company. If you end up needing AV, staging, or broadcast at the venue you pick, they'd like to quote it. That's the whole model.

Use the headcount filter on the home page — enter your guest count and the finder shows venues whose published capacity range fits. Venues without a verified capacity figure show "Capacity — ask us" and stay visible under a separate note, because an unpublished number is not a zero.

It classifies each venue's stance on outside production teams. Open: the venue confirms outside AV is welcome. Flexible: outside teams work there in practice — confirm terms. In-house preferred: house AV is the default and outside teams usually pay a fee. In-house exclusive: an exclusive mandate is likely, which can add a five-figure line item — raise it in the first call. Unknown: we haven't confirmed it yet, so ask.

Anti-fabrication rule: the directory publishes square footage, capacity, and pricing only where there's a real published figure or first-hand knowledge. Missing numbers are omitted rather than guessed — an honest gap beats a confident guess that blows up a floor plan three weeks out.

Two tiers. Roughly a third of the venues are individually vetted — researched directly, in many cases from first-hand production experience in the room. The rest are listed from public sources and marked accordingly, with capacity/AV/catering left as "unknown" rather than scraped or invented. Data is maintained continuously in a single master system and republished to the site, so every page reflects the same dataset version (shown in the footer).

6 venues carry it. It marks rooms Earth Coast Productions has produced events in, or actively recommends from direct experience — and the badge names the production that backs the claim. It is earned, never sold, and kept scarce on purpose: a badge everyone has tells you nothing.

The directory lists role titles to ask for — Director of Sales, Event Services Manager — rather than scraping individuals. Named contacts appear only where a venue has published that person or told us directly. It's the useful half of the answer without putting anyone's direct line on the open internet.

Send it over — listings are free and always will be. Include your event spaces, real capacity numbers, AV and catering policy, and a proper logo. See the For Venue Managers page for exactly what to send. Corrections to an existing listing work the same way and usually publish within days.

No. There are no paid placements, no sponsored slots, and the ECP Preferred badge cannot be bought — it's earned through production experience in the room. The directory is only useful if its recommendations are trustworthy, so that line stays hard.

Earth Coast Productions, an event and media production company in Broomfield, Colorado that produces conferences, broadcasts, and corporate events across the Front Range and mountains. The venue notes read like production notes because they are — load-in, power, rigging, ceiling height.

Colorado only, by design — Front Range and mountain venues are what the team knows first-hand, and first-hand is the standard. If coverage expands, it will expand the same way: researched, not scraped.