Name: Dan's Van
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Austin Food Truck and Food Cart Pods
Austin has been credited with having the most food trucks per capita nationwide. It's where some of the most famous food trucks started, like Torchy Taco's, and where the modern food truck craze really gained it's unique flair. Food trucks are just as much a staple for techy and business guru's lunching downtown, as they are for the city's vibrant nightlife. The food trucks around the city are as diverse as the millennials, you can find a vegan truck right next to a wild game truck, no questions asked. Keep Austin Weird, right? Coming soon, Truckster's mobile app will be covering Austin too! Be sure to go to the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/truckster-denver-food-trucks/id1375284993?ls=1">App Store</a> or <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truckster">Google Play</a> to download Truckster and find all the best Austin food trucks near you. In the meantime, here are a few of our favorite pods around the city.

Austin

Texas

Boise Food Truck Events & Festivals
Truckster is your gateway into the food truck community and lets you know about the best local food truck festivals and events happening around Idaho. Whether you are looking for a family friendly event, a unique brewery event, or a music festival, we've got you covered. Here are a few of our favorite regularly occurring events to keep you happy all year long. Be sure to go to the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/truckster-denver-food-trucks/id1375284993?ls=1">App Store</a> or <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truckster">Google Play</a> to download Truckster and find all the food truck events happening near you.

Boise

Idaho

Boulder Food Truck Events and Festivals
        Truckster is your gateway into the food truck community and lets you know about the best local food truck festivals and events happening around the Boulder area, including Longmont, Lafayette, Niwot, Broomfield, and Westminster. Whether you are looking for a family friendly event, a unique brewery event, or a music festival, we’ve got you covered. Here are a few of our favorite regularly occurring events to keep you happy all year long. Be sure to go to the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/truckster-denver-food-trucks/id1375284993?ls=1">App Store</a> or <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truckster">Google Play</a> to download Truckster and find all the food truck events happening near you.

Boulder

Colorado

Colorado Springs Food Truck Events & Festivals
        Truckster is your gateway into the food truck community and lets you know about the best local food truck festivals and events happening throughout Colorado. Whether you are looking for a family friendly event, a unique brewery event, or a music festival, we’ve got you covered. Here are a few of our favorite regularly occurring events to keep you happy all year long. Be sure to go to the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/truckster-denver-food-trucks/id1375284993?ls=1">App Store</a> or <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truckster">Google Play</a> to download Truckster and find all the food truck events happening near you.

Colorado Springs

Dallas Food Truck Parks
The very first food trucks date back to the chuckwagon. These covered wagons sold perishable food to cowboys and loggers in the American wilderness. Although we have come a long way from the Chuckwagon, you can still find Cowboys and cowboy fans eating from food trucks around AT&T Stadium. Over the years food trucks have become a large part of the everchanging cuisine options in the DFW area. Downtown Dallas, which is widely recognized as a foodie's paradise, has increasingly encouraged new cuisines that don’t always stay in one spot. Food trucks have become as much a staple for techy and business guru's lunching downtown, as they are for the city's vibrant nightlife. Food trucks here in Dallas / Ft. Worth are as diverse as the people, you can find a Texas BBQ truck next to a Vegan truck, no questions asked. Be sure to go to the <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/truckster-denver-food-trucks/id1375284993?ls=1" rel="nofollow">App Store</a> or <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truckster" rel="nofollow">Google Play</a> to download Truckster and find all the best Dallas food trucks near you. In the meantime, here are a few local haunts to find food trucks.

Dallas

Denver Food Truck Events & Festivals
Truckster is your gateway into the food truck community and lets you know about the best local food truck festivals and events happening throughout Colorado. Whether you are looking for a family friendly event, a unique brewery event, or a music festival, we’ve got you covered. Here are a few of our favorite regularly occurring events to keep you happy all year long.

Denver

Detroit Food Truck Events & Festivals
Truckster is your gateway into the food truck community and lets you know about the best local food truck festivals and events happening throughout Texas. Whether you are looking for a family friendly event, a unique brewery event, or a music festival, we’ve got you covered. Here are a few of our favorite regularly occurring events to keep you happy all year long.

Detroit

Michigan

Fort Collins Food Truck Events and Festivals
        Truckster is your gateway into the food truck community and lets you know about the best local food truck festivals and events happening around Fort Collins. Whether you are looking for a family friendly event, a unique brewery event, or a music festival, we’ve got you covered. Here are a few of our favorite regularly occurring events to keep you happy all year long. Be sure to go to the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/truckster-denver-food-trucks/id1375284993?ls=1">App Store</a> or <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truckster">Google Play</a> to download Truckster and find all the food truck events happening near you.

Fort Collins

Fort Worth Food Truck Events & Festivals
Truckster is your gateway into the food truck community and lets you know about the best local food truck festivals and events happening throughout Texas. Whether you are looking for a family friendly event, a unique brewery event, or a music festival, we’ve got you covered. Here are a few of our favorite regularly occurring events to keep you happy all year long.

Fort Worth

Houston Food Truck Events & Festivals
Houston is in the top 5 most populated cities in the country and is the biggest city in Texas. Houston is known for having the top energy suppliers in the country and bringing in workers from all around the globe. This plays a huge role in how diverse and authentic the food scene is today. Couple that with the fact that Houstonians eat outside of the home more than any other city in the US, and you have the perfect recipe for a vibrant food truck scene. Here are some of our favorite spots to find the best Houston food trucks.

Houston

Kansas City Food Truck Events & Festivals
Truckster is your gateway into the food truck community and lets you know about the best local food truck festivals and events happening around the greater KC area. Whether you are looking for a family friendly event, a unique brewery event, or a music festival, we’ve got you covered. Here are a few of our favorite regularly occurring events to keep you happy all year long.

Kansas City

Missouri

Kansas

Miami Food Truck Events & Festivals
Truckster is your gateway into the food truck community and lets you know about the best local food truck festivals and events happening throughout Florida. Whether you are looking for a family friendly event, a unique brewery event, or a music festival, we’ve got you covered. Here are a few of our favorite regularly occurring events to keep you happy all year long.

Miami

Florida

Nashville Food Truck Events & Festivals
Truckster is your gateway into the food truck community and lets you know about the best local food truck festivals and events happening throughout Texas. Whether you are looking for a family friendly event, a unique brewery event, or a music festival, we’ve got you covered. Here are a few of our favorite regularly occurring events to keep you happy all year long.

Nashville

Tennessee

Phoenix Food Truck Events & Festivals
Truckster is your gateway into the food truck community and lets you know about the best local food truck festivals and events happening throughout Texas. Whether you are looking for a family friendly event, a unique brewery event, or a music festival, we’ve got you covered. Here are a few of our favorite regularly occurring events to keep you happy all year long.

Phoenix

Arizona

Portland, Maine Food Truck Events & Festivals
Truckster is your gateway into the food truck community and lets you know about the best local food truck festivals and events happening around Maine. Whether you are looking for a family friendly event, a unique brewery event, or a music festival, we've got you covered. Here are a few of our favorite regularly occurring events to keep you happy all year long. Be sure to go to the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/truckster-denver-food-trucks/id1375284993?ls=1">App Store</a> or <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truckster">Google Play</a> to download Truckster and find all the food truck events happening near you.

Portland

Maine

Portland Food Truck and Food Cart Pods
It's no secret that Portland is the place to go for food trucks. CNN ranked Portland asthe world's best street food in 2010, and there were only 400 carts then! With more than 600 carts around the greater Portland area, this city is pioneering the food truck craze. Truckster is your gateway into the food truck community and lets you know about the best local food trucks, pods, festivals and events happening throughout Portland. Coming soon, Truckster's mobile app will be covering Portland too! Be sure to go to the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/truckster-denver-food-trucks/id1375284993?ls=1">App Store</a> or <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truckster">Google Play</a> to download Truckster and find allthe best Portland food trucks near you. In the meantime, here are a few of our favorite pods around the city.

Oregon

Tampa Food Truck Events & Festivals
Truckster is your gateway into the food truck community and lets you know about the best local food truck festivals and events happening throughout Florida. Whether you are looking for a family friendly event, a unique brewery event, or a music festival, we’ve got you covered. Here are a few of our favorite regularly occurring events to keep you happy all year long.

Tampa

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If you're craving delicious Southern-style comfort food, you'll want to wave down Dan's Van food truck in the Fort Collins, Colorado area. The signature green truck, formerly a bakery van, is difficult to miss.

In 1974, the eponymous Dan Skaggs began his food truck journey with the help of his mother and grandmother's delicious home recipes. Dan's Van signature red beans and rice, sausage and chicken gumbo, and his classic braised pork have quickly built a reputation for being some of the best Southern food Fort Collins has to offer.  

Bite into his top-selling green chili bacon cheeseburger, or give his also popular avocado grilled cheese a try. Regardless of what you're looking for, the Dan's menu delivers on its promise to share great-tasting food you can't find anywhere else. In addition to serving locals on a daily basis, Dan's Van is happy to cater your next event! 

Asked why he decided to give a mobile restaurant a go, Dan said, "I've always wanted to do a food truck. They are sort of the hip new thing." If the warm reception he's received from the Fort Collins area is any indicator, Dan's Van will be serving its delicious, high-quality meals for a long time to come.

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Dan's Van

Cajun chicken, andouille sausage slow cooked Louisiana-style served over a bed of rice with a side of Taxas Toast

Chicken and Sausage Gunmbo

Hand-pattied burger topped with American cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion and special sauce on a brioche bun

Drive-In Burger

Hand-pattied burger topped with fire roasted green chiles, caramelized onion, bacon and American cheese with special sauce on a brioche bun

Green Chile Bacon Burger

Smoked andouille sausage slow cooked with red beans served over a bed of rice and a side of Texas Toast

Andouille Red Beans and Rice

Mashed avocado, caramelized onion and grilled tomatoes loaded with Monterey jack cheese on texas toast

Avocado Grilled Cheese

Pork shoulder braised low-and-slow topped with coleslaw, blue cheese crumbles and spicy honey mustard on texas toast

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