The Pikes Peak Card Show wraps up its 2026 season on Saturday, December 5, 2026, at the Norris Penrose Event Center, and the December date is a Colorado Springs holiday tradition in its own right. As the final show of the year for southern Colorado's longest-running card and collectibles series, it lands at the perfect moment for holiday gift shopping, year-end collection moves, and one last afternoon of digging through boxes with the hobby community before the calendar turns.
The floor brings the familiar 150-plus vendor tables stocked for the season. Sports card dealers arrive with their deepest holiday inventories: NFL cards at the peak of playoff-race excitement, NBA and NHL singles, graded baseball vintage for the collector who has everything, plus soccer, UFC, boxing, and racing. The TCG aisles do their biggest business of the year in December — Pokemon sealed product, elite trainer boxes, and singles make perennial gifts, alongside Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, Lorcana, and Dragon Ball Z. Showcases gleam with PSA, BGS, CGC, and SGC slabs at every price point, and the floor rounds out with autographed memorabilia, Star Wars collectibles, Funko Pops, comics, vintage toys, and supply vendors for last-minute storage and display gifts.
Hours are Saturday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Admission is free and parking is free — in a season of expensive everything, a family outing that costs nothing at the door is its own kind of gift. The Norris Penrose Event Center is on Lower Gold Camp Road on the city's southwest side, fully indoors and minutes from downtown Colorado Springs, with a large free lot.
December draws the widest crowd of the year: parents and grandparents shopping for young collectors, couples hunting a grail gift, kids spending holiday money early, dealers doing year-end inventory swaps, and collectors treating themselves after a year of discipline. If you have never been to a card show, the December date is the most festive introduction the region offers.
Strategy for show day: come at open if you are gift shopping for specific players or Pokemon products, because seasonal demand empties the popular boxes by midday. Bring cash for leverage, and ask dealers about bundle pricing — December is when they are most willing to package deals. Get anything valuable sleeved and boxed before it leaves the building, and if you are buying sealed TCG product as a gift, stick to reputable dealers on the floor rather than gambling on resealed product elsewhere. Selling? Year-end is prime time, as dealers restock for January and tax-season buyers.
The Pikes Peak Card Show returns with a fresh slate of dates in 2027 — typically monthly through the spring — announced via facebook.com/PikesPeakSportsCards and the Norris Penrose calendar at norrispenrose.com. Close out your collecting year where southern Colorado's hobby community gathers: December 5, at the show that has outlasted them all.