Boulder, Colorado: Celestial Seasonings Tea Factory Tour

We visited here today and totally loved it! The tour is free, and you can sample as much tea as you want! My favorite part was how amazing everything smelled. Every few feet you would smell another herb or plant used in their teas.

They had a special room with just tea leaves (so that the leaves wouldn't soak up the scents of the herbal infusions), and they had a peppermint room.

This place was spectacular. I loved every moment of it -- from the "tea-ket" ticket, to the mint room, to seeing the machinery. They have a great gift shop too. Definitely worth going out of your way to visit.

You walk right through the working factory while they are making teas and filling boxes. You also get to go into the "peppermint room," which remains sealed off so that the strong peppermint does not contaminate all other teas in the facility! It's a fun tour and the gift shop is great!