Where can I get breakfast before a Sundance screening?

Morning screenings are the ones where the maths actually matters, because you are adding a drive to a fixed start time in January. From Longmont it works out easily: the run down the Diagonal is quick and the coffee opens early.

Juniper Goods, 659 4th Ave.

Coffee and brunch, a couple of blocks off Main Street, open from 7am daily. That is the fact that makes it useful: a 7am coffee and a 7.30 departure puts you in Boulder comfortably before a 9am screening.

One caveat. Juniper Goods’ own homepage and its visitor page disagree about closing time — one says 6pm on weekdays, the others say 5pm daily. We publish the earlier of the two, so if anything our listing understates it. The 7am opening is consistent across every source we checked.

If you are travelling by bus

RTD’s BOLT route starts early: first departures run from about 4:56am on weekdays, 6:32am Saturday and 6:37am Sunday. A morning screening is reachable from Longmont without a car, which is not true of most festival-adjacent towns.

Before you set out

These are published normal hours. Breakfast is the category where that matters least — an early opening is usually an early opening — but festival week will not run like a normal January, so ring ahead if your screening leaves no room for a wrong guess.