The first-ever Outside Festival is less than 10 days from setting up shop in Denver’s Civic Center Park, and tickets to the 3-day festival and summit are still available.

The official line-ups for each day have been finalized as well, with the addition of Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet to speak along side Sen. John Hickenlooper on Friday at the Summit at the Denver Art Museum.

Dozens of outdoor brands will have booths in the park as well.

Here are 6 brands to check out:

• High West Distillery – The Park City, Utah-based distillery was the first ski-in gastro distillery in the nation, and for the Outside Festival, the company is bringing its Whiskey Train — a mobile bar and pouring station serving up the Whiskey of the West.

High West also partnered with snowboarding legend Shaun White to help raise awareness for the company’s “Protect The West” Initiative — a commitment of $1 million over three years to organizations who share High West’s passion for the West, including preventing wildfires, protecting winters and wildland preservation.

• SENIQ – An outdoor apparel brand bringing fashion and form to women. SENIQ’s innovative performance wear excels at being both technical and trend driven and the brand integrates form and functional features across all of their garments to support women for their entire lifestyle from street to trail.

Founded by Madison Poitinger and Valentina Thompson, the two met in high school and reconnected years later when they were both working at Victoria’s Secret. They bring over 10 years of experience in the retail space, specifically in the outdoor apparel industry, having worked across brands including Outdoor Voices and Backcountry. 

• Nutshell – Beginning as a graduate school project to improve local fish packaging in the Philippines, Nutshell became a business that makes and sells biodegradable packaging under the Fortuna Cools brand and sustainable consumer products like the Nutshell Cooler.

Using agricultural waste, Nutshell repurposed the waste to create premium insulation, partnering with coconut fiber processors in rural communities to create jobs and support local business. The company even has a Chief Coconut Officer named Justino ‘Bo’ Arboleda.

• Itacate – Itacate comes from the Nahuatl word Itacatl, meaning food that you take on a journey and also the bundle of food that you are given to take home with you at the end of a family gathering. Itacate founder Martha Y Díaz of Mexico discovered backpacking in college, but lacked the funds initially to participate and was also intimidated by the lack of diversity in the space. Once out on the trails as well, Diaz also found something else was missing; comfort food she could relate to from her home country. Itacate was then born.

The Latin backpacking food comes in four offerings currently: Charge-Up Chilaquiles, Sunset Caldo, Campsite Lentejas and Aventura Arróz con Leche, all sold at REI and on Itacate’s website shop.

• Hootie Hoo – Born from a mom’s love for her children and outdoor industry experience, children’s outdoor wear lacked a brand specifically designed for kids. What founder Claire Zhu saw being offered as kids clothes either was a direct scale-down of adult products — too many features, too expensive — or just not technical enough, leading to wet and cold kids. Hootie Hoo was born to help solve this problem.

Every feature of Hootie Hoo clothes has a purpose, streamline production costs, and have a focus on breathability and water-proofing.​

• Community Gearbox – This digital product is an app for outdoorsy people and organizations to gather, share and co-own gear with people they know and trust while promoting a “consume less” mission by systematically decreasing individual consumption, global waste and mitigate climate change.

How it works:

1. Launch or join a “community” with your friends

2. Link together what you own.

3. Assemble collections for projects & activities.

Community Gearbox said users of the app can be: Friends & Family, Outdoor Groups, Housemates & Next Door Neighbors, Hobby & Game Clubs, Organized Communities, Youth & Student Clubs, Collectives & Nonprofits, Cooperatives & Small Businesses, Farm & Land Projects and Disaster Preparedness Groups.

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• Broadway will be closed between Colfax Avenue and 14th Avenue and 14th between Bannock Street and Broadway will be closed to vehicles and open to foot traffic during the festival due to the Outside Festival occupying Civic Center Park and the Big Gear Show and (r)evolution events occupying Veterans Memorial Park.

• Eleven musical acts will perform at the main stage in Civic Center Park

• 20 films will be shown and 25 speakers will talk at the Denver Art Museum

• Programming starts at 1 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday and runs to 10 p.m.

• Thundercat headlines 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Fleet Foxes headlines 8:30 p.m. Sunday

“Attendees of the inaugural Outside Festival are truly going to be blown away by everything we’ve put together this year,” Robin Thurston, CEO of Outside Interactive said. “This festival is packed with value and inspiration, offering the opportunity to hear from and see 25 outdoor visionaries, this festival is going to be incredible. You won’t want to miss it.”