Town festivals in Arizona
Town festivals in Arizona, each compiled from its own sources: the weekend, the parade, and who puts it on. No ratings; every entry carries its status.
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- Andy Devine DaysKingman · Annual paradeKingman's September parade down Beale Street, first formally organized in 1970, honors Andy Devine, the gravel-voiced film sidekick who grew up in the town's Beale Hotel.
- Apache Leap Mining FestivalSuperior · Mining festival & carnivalA free three-day March festival in Superior, Arizona, where contestants race the clock at spiking, hand-sawing, jackleg drilling and mucking beneath the cliff called Apache Leap.
- Billy Moore DaysAvondale · Multi-day festivalA four-day October carnival and Saturday-morning parade in Avondale, Arizona, honoring Billy Moore, a Coldwater postmaster who, the local historical society says, dispensed moonshine with the mail.
- Coolidge Cotton Days FestivalCoolidge · FestivalCoolidge, Arizona's three-day Cotton Days, where teams roll cotton bales for sport and three irrigation districts were named grand marshals of the 2026 parade.
- Douglas DaysDouglas · Weekend celebrationDouglas Days, the City of Douglas's annual birthday weekend at Raul Castro Park in Cochise County, where fire crews and gas-company teams race wheeled beds down Ninth Street.
- Eagar DaysEagar · Community celebrationEagar Days is the Town of Eagar's one-day summer celebration at Ramsey Park in Arizona's White Mountains, opened at 8 a.m. by a fishing tournament on Cowpuncher Pond.
- Fall FestivalQuartzsite · Annual fall festivalThe Quartzsite Fall Festival is a free one-day gathering in the town park at Quartzsite, Arizona, where four bands, one of them an AC/DC tribute, mark the end of the desert summer.
- Fall Fountain Festival of Fine Arts and CraftsFountain Hills · Juried festivalA juried arts and crafts fair held each November and February along the Avenue of the Fountains in Fountain Hills, Arizona, begun in Fountain Park with 60 artists in 1974.
- Fort Verde DaysCamp Verde · Annual homecomingCamp Verde, Arizona's annual homecoming fires artillery at the Indian Wars post the town grew around, and in 2026 marks its 70th year.
- Fountain Hills OktoberfestFountain Hills · Annual festivalA two-night German festival at the Fountain Hills Community Center in Arizona, hosted by the town's Sister Cities group, with a band that flies in from Germany every year.
- Gila Valley Pioneer DaysPima · CelebrationGila Valley Pioneer Days, a two-day July celebration whose host rotates among Gila Valley towns, came to Pima, Arizona, in 2026, its fireworks paid for by $5 pulled-pork plates.
- Gold Rush DaysWickenburg · Premier annual eventThe annual February festival in Wickenburg, Arizona, honoring an 1863 gold strike on the Hassayampa, with gold panning, a mucking contest and a Senior Pro Rodeo.
- Helldorado DaysTombstone · CelebrationHelldorado Days, held in Tombstone, Arizona, the third weekend of October, puts gunfight reenactments on Allen Street and dates to 1929, when 44 townsmen pledged to grow whiskers.
- Hi Jolly Parade and CamelpaloozaQuartzsite · Camel-themed paradeEach January in Quartzsite, Arizona, live camels walk in a parade down Moon Mountain Avenue to a festival at an old adobe store, honoring the Army camel driver Hi Jolly.
- Joseph City Founders DayJoseph City · Community eventAn evening at the Historical Joseph City Dam, a parade and Saturday activities.
- Lost Dutchman DaysApache Junction · Annual eventApache Junction's rodeo weekend at the end of February, begun in 1965 as a one-day event and named for Jacob Waltz's lost gold mine in the Superstition Mountains.
- Marana Founders' Day Parade & FestivitiesMarana · Parade and festivalMarana, Arizona, marks its 1977 incorporation each March with a parade down Marana Main Street begun by Ora Mae Harn and Mrs. Kern, whose grandson still coordinates it.
- Old Miners' DayChloride · Parade and festivalChloride, Arizona's October parade and fair for the hard rock miners of the Cerbat Mountains, which opens each year with a corner bake sale of pecan pie and pineapple upside-down cake.
- Pioneer Day Parade and FiestaWellton · Annual parade and fiestaAn annual February parade and fiesta in Wellton, Arizona, a railroad well town east of Yuma, running along Los Angeles Avenue and ending at Butterfield Park.
- Pleasant Valley DaysYoungThrough one weekend each July the town of Young remembers the infamous Pleasant Valley War and celebrates local history with three days of history, heritage, roping, a parade, food and drink.
- Rex Allen DaysWillcox · FestivalA celebration of tradition, music, and community in Willcox, Arizona.
- Snowflake Pioneer DaysSnowflake · Community organizationAn Inheritance of Faith. This video provides a narration of the founding of Snowflake Arizona, detailing the Pioneers arriving to the area around the 24th of July.
- St. David Pioneer DaysSt. David · Pioneer days celebrationA two-day July celebration in St. David, Arizona, recalls the Mormon families who settled the San Pedro River in 1877 and ends with fireworks over the high school football field.
- Territorial DaysChino Valley · CelebrationChino Valley's four-day Labor Day festival in Yavapai County, Arizona, marks Arizona's first territorial capital at Del Rio Springs with a parade, pancakes and an FFA corn dinner.
- Tombstone Wild West DaysTombstone · Parade and street entertainmentTombstone Wild West Days is a March parade and street weekend on Allen Street in Tombstone, Arizona, staged by a local Marine Corps League detachment as a salute to the armed forces.
- Williams Rendezvous DaysWilliams · City parkOpen during summer months for day use, the park includes two cabanas, barbecue pits, basketball and volleyball court, and horseshoe pits. The lake is stocked regularly by Arizona Game and Fish, and the park has a the trail head to several trails maintained by the forest service.
Town Festivals in all eleven states; next door in California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.