Planning Your Trip
Every JASNA AGM has a distinctive approach to enhancing our core conference with a unique mix of special sessions, in-house amenities and activities, and excursions. This page highlights some of the distinctive aspects of this AGM and provides tips on scheduling your travel and activities.
The AGM Site
The 2023 AGM will be one where you can settle in and relax in a self-contained resort. We will, of course, have tours to some of Colorado’s top-notch natural and cultural sites, and we have made special plans to help you enjoy the best of downtown Denver—but at our temporary home at the Gaylord Rockies Resort, there will be activities from morning until late night and lots of comfortable spaces in which to socialize with fellow Janeites.
Dining
After welcoming their sisters, they triumphantly displayed a table set out with such cold meat as an inn larder usually affords, exclaiming, “Is not this nice? is not this an agreeable surprise?”
- The Gaylord’s restaurants include Vista Montagne (Italian), Monte Jade (Asian), Mountain Pass Sports Bar, a new Mexican cantina, and the Cocoa Bean coffee stand. Rockies Marketplace offers grab-and-go, and room service is also available.
- We are planning “an agreeable surprise”: our own dining room in JASNA’s meeting space, where you can enjoy pay-as-you-go light meals, snacks, and beverages from the “inn larder.”
- AGM registration includes continental breakfast on Saturday, the Saturday evening banquet, and Sunday brunch.
Relaxation and Recreation
“I am glad you are come, for there is such fun here!”
Shopping in the Emporium, games, relaxing on the terrace, and other informal activities complement the program of sessions, workshops, and tours. What’s more, the Gaylord offers hotel guests numerous recreational opportunities:
- Use of hotel bicycles
- Daily fitness class offerings (water aerobics, yoga)
- Use of basketball, tennis, and pickleball courts
- On-site mini-golf and other outdoor games
- Heated pool and whirlpool
- Fitness center with Peloton bikes
- Relâche spa, offering treatments and therapies in a luxurious setting.
Getting Out and About
“What are men to rocks and mountains? Oh, what hours of transport we shall spend!”
During your time in Colorado, you can indeed see rocks and mountains—and much more. AGM tours include spectacular scenery and fascinating cultural sites telling the story of the west and some of its notable personalities. Complete details will be posted soon. In the meantime, this list will help you plan:
- Thursday Tours
- Rocky Mountain National Park (full day)
- Molly Brown House Museum
- Denver Art Museum and Clyfford Still Museum
- Colorado Chautauqua National Historic Landmark in Boulder
- American Museum of Western Art and Brown Palace Tea
- Rocky Mountain Foothills
- Sunday Tours
- Denver Art Museum and Clyfford Still Museum
- Colorado Chautauqua National Historic Landmark in Boulder
- Molly Brown House Museum
- Monday Tours
- Pike’s Peak and Garden of the Gods (full day)
- Brown Palace Historical Tour
- Denver Capitol Hill Walking Tour
Downtown Denver
“When I am in the country . . . I never wish to leave it; and when I am in town, it is pretty much the same. They have each their advantages, and I can be equally happy in either.”
Like Pemberley, the Gaylord hotel sits majestically on its own. You’re assured of plenty of fresh air and beautiful views while staying there, but if you feel your visit to Colorado would not be complete without spending some time in downtown Denver, we’ve planned for that, too. On Sunday and Monday nights after the AGM, JASNA has reserved sleeping room blocks at both the Gaylord and at the Brown Palace in downtown Denver. We have arranged for a block of tickets to the Brown Palace’s justly famous afternoon tea; and the hotel is the ideal base for taking part in city tours on Sunday and Monday or heading out on your own to shop, explore museums, or visit some of the nearby well-known restaurants.
Reservations in the JASNA room block at the Brown Palace will open in mid-June, on the same day as the Gaylord room block opens. Details will be posted on the Hotel page soon.
AGM Schedule Preview
Are you ready to start researching flights or train schedules? This at-a-glance schedule will help you plan. The AGM proper is on Friday and Saturday, with related activities scheduled the day before and after.
Please note that some workshops and tours will begin Thursday morning, while AGM special sessions will begin that afternoon for the convenience of those flying in on Thursday morning.
The schedule is preliminary and subject to change—please check back in the coming days to see additions and updates
