La Junta Tarantula Festival

Enjoy a parade, vendors, education pavilion, tarantula tours, live art and much more!

Each fall, large numbers of tarantulas skitter across the landscape in La Junta and southeast Colorado. While this phenomenon has traditionally been called a migration, it is actually an annual mating ritual performed by male tarantulas who roam across the 443,000-plus acres on the Comanche National Grassland looking to mate.