Town festivals in California
Town festivals in California, 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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- 20 Mule Team DaysBoron · Parade and festivalBoron, California, holds an annual parade and park festival for the Death Valley borax wagons, and crowns an honorary mayor elected with charity dollars.
- Almond FestivalEsparto · Family-friendly two-day eventAn almond festival, first held in 1915, that opens each late February at Esparto Community Park in Yolo County, California, and runs up Highway 16 to Rumsey.
- Annual Street FairMoss Landing · Street fairA one-day Sunday street fair of nearly two hundred antique and vintage booths on Moss Landing Road, whose gate money is the town chamber of commerce's main yearly income.
- Apple Blossom Parade and FestivalSebastopol · Parade and festivalSebastopol's spring parade and two-day festival in Ives Park, run by the chamber of commerce since 1947, ends its Main Street march with fire hoses turned on the youngest spectators.
- Avocado FestivalFallbrook · Annual avocado festivalA one-day April street fair on Main Avenue in Fallbrook, San Diego County, held since 1987, where guacamole is judged in amateur and professional divisions.
- Big Hat DaysClovis · Two-day street festivalA free two-day April street festival on Pollasky Avenue in Old Town Clovis, California, begun in 1938 and named for the sun hats of Clovis farmers and cowboys.
- Bigfoot DazeWillow Creek · FestivalBigfoot Daze is a free one-day summer festival in Willow Creek, Humboldt County, California, held for the 64th time in 2026, with a parade on Highway 299 and a Bigfoot Calling Contest.
- Bigfoot JamboreeHappy Camp · Annual town celebrationThe Bigfoot Jamboree is Happy Camp's three-day Labor Day festival at River Park on the Klamath, named for a neighbor who, organizers say, has turned down every invitation.
- Blossom DaysSanger · Fest & car showThe Sanger District Chamber of Commerce's free spring street festival in downtown Sanger, Fresno County, where nearly 400 cars filled the Webber Realty Car Show in 2026.
- Blue Mountain Festival & City ParadeGrand Terrace · Festival and city paradeGrand Terrace, California's free one-day May festival, opened by a city parade down Mt. Vernon Avenue and featuring a battle of the bands in Richard Rollins Community Park.
- Bodega Bay Fisherman's FestivalBodega Bay · Annual fishing-community festivalA two-day spring festival at Westside Regional Park in Bodega Bay, California, where the Sunday Blessing of the Fleet ends with a wreath cast for fishermen lost at sea.
- Bok Kai Festival and ParadeMarysville · Annual parade and festivalAn annual parade and Bomb Day in Marysville, California, for Bok Eye, the Chinese water god, ending with numbered good-fortune rings fired over Chinatown.
- Borrego Days Desert FestivalBorrego Springs · Desert festivalThe Borrego Springs Chamber of Commerce's free desert festival at Christmas Circle, which opens the season each October with a multi-plane flyover down Palm Canyon Drive.
- Buellton Fall FestivalBuellton · FestivalThe Buellton Fall Festival is a free three-day street carnival on Avenue of the Flags each November, where adults may carry a drink from the Ferris wheel to either bandstand.
- Butter & Egg Days Parade and FestivalPetaluma · Parade and festivalPetaluma's April parade and street festival, revived in 1982 from the Egg Days of the "Egg Basket of the World," where babies compete dressed as chicks.
- California Avocado FestivalCarpinteria · Three-day avocadoA free three-day festival on Linden Avenue in downtown Carpinteria each October, opened when the honorary chairs balance an avocado on the nose of the Seal Fountain's seal.
- Carrot FestivalHoltville · Parade & street fairHoltville's Carrot Festival fills the town square of this Imperial Valley town each February, and its Saturday parade ends with carrots handed out to the crowd.
- Castro Valley Fall FestivalCastro Valley · Community traditionA free two-day street festival in Castro Valley, California, held since 1972, whose stages one local musician has booked for nearly 30 years.
- Cherry FestivalLinden · Cherry festivalThe Linden Cherry Festival, a one-day May gathering on the elementary school grounds in Linden, California, where the high school Future Farmers who started it still run a cow plop.
- Cherry FestivalSan Leandro · FestivalA one-day street festival and parade in downtown San Leandro, California, dating to a 1909 bumper crop of cherries, where every food vendor must put a cherry item on the menu.
- Cherry Parade and FestivalLeona Valley · Cherry parade & festivalThe annual Cherry Parade and Festival in Leona Valley, northern Los Angeles County, ends at the Community Building, where food booths sell deep-fried cherry burritos with whipped cream.
- Clam FestivalPismo Beach · Clam festivalPismo Beach has held its Clam Festival every October since 1946, the city's founding year, with a parade down Price Street and a chowder cook-off on the pier.
- Colfax Railroad DaysColfax · Celebration of colfax's role in the construction of the transcontinental railroadA free September weekend in downtown Colfax, California, where Union Pacific parks working engines beside the Fruit Shed in the town that supplied the Central Pacific's climb over the Sierra.
- Colony DaysAtascadero · Annual community celebrationAtascadero Colony Days, the town's community celebration since 1973, sends floats over the Arch Bridge and up El Camino Real before a carnival fills the Sunken Gardens.
- Community Arts FestivalRancho Cucamonga · Annual community arts festivalA spring day of performing and visual arts in Rancho Cucamonga's Central Park, where ballet folklorico, hula, a school choir and a drum academy share one outdoor stage.
- Constitution Day WeekendNevada City · Constitution observance weekendA September weekend of parade, encampment, and band concert in Nevada City, California, held since 1967, where costumed Masons sign the Constitution and every president marches down Broad Street.
- Corning Olive Festival and Car ShowCorning · Destination event for all agesCorning, California's annual October olive festival and car show, two parks joined by a footbridge, begun by women of the Catholic church raising money for a hall.
- Cotton FestivalCorcoran · Harvest celebrationCorcoran's October harvest festival in Kings County, California, opens with a parade down Whitley Avenue to mark the start of the cotton harvest, then moves to the park.
- Country FaireRio Linda · Annual country faireA volunteer-run September faire in Rio Linda, California, held since 2013 and moved in 2026 to the Dry Creek Ranch House, where entrants race zucchinis fitted with wheels.
- Days of 49 Celebration and Wagon TrainJackson · Annual wagon trainA horse-drawn covered-wagon train of the Kit Carson Mountain Men spends days crossing Amador County's back roads each April before rolling down Main Street in Jackson.
- Downtown Hayward Street PartiesHayward · Summer celebrationFree summer street parties on B and Main streets in downtown Hayward, California, held third Thursdays from June through August, with a marketplace of businesses run by local youth.
- Dunsmuir Railroad DaysDunsmuir · FestivalDunsmuir Railroad Days is a June weekend in a Siskiyou County rail town, held since 1941, with a noon parade down Dunsmuir Avenue and a button made for every celebration.
- Durham Parade and PicnicDurham · Community celebrationA parade and picnic held in Durham, Butte County, California, every May since 1917, said to have begun as a way to bring grown children home for Mother's Day.
- Enchilada Dinner and CelebrationHornitos · Annual enchilada dinnerThe Hornitos Patrons Club's enchilada dinner, held each March at Stag Hall in Hornitos, California, since 1949 and still made, the club says, from its founders' recipes.
- Fairfax FestivalFairfax · Annual music, food, and arts eventA free June weekend of parade and three music stages in downtown Fairfax, California, run by a volunteer committee and once cancelled, in 1970, for rowdiness.
- Feather Fiesta DaysOroville · Hometown celebrationCelebrate over 70 years of tradition during Feather Fiesta Days in Oroville, California! This beloved hometown celebration brings together community festivals, live entertainment, classic cars, family activities, local vendors, food, and Downtown Oroville traditions throughout an exciting week of events.
- Fiesta DaysFrazier Park · Annual three-day celebrationFrazier Park's free three-day festival in Frazier Mountain Park, held the first weekend of August since 1968 and begun to pay for emergency medical care on the mountain.
- Fiesta HermosaHermosa Beach · Three-day festivalA Chamber-run street fair in downtown Hermosa Beach, California, begun in the 1970s as a one-day arts show on Pier Avenue, whose Labor Day edition returned in 2026.
- Fontana Days ParadeFontana · Annual paradeAn annual May parade through downtown Fontana, California, part of Fontana Days, a celebration that began in 1913 when a bottle of grape juice struck a flagpole.
- Fortuna Apple Harvest FestivalFortuna · Annual fortuna apple harvest festivalFortuna's town-wide apple festival, held the first Saturday of October since 1985, began at Clendenen's Cider Works, where the family keeps a 1916 cider press in working order.
- Foster City Summer DaysFoster City · Community eventFoster City's free August weekend at Leo J. Ryan Park, held to celebrate the city's birthday, with a carnival, a classic car show, and rubber ducks hidden across the grounds.
- Founder's DayGeorgetown · Annual celebrationFounder's Day closes Main Street in Georgetown, California, each September for a Rotary-run parade, street booths, and the town's stamp mill set to working.
- Founder's Day Parade and Sawdust FestivalShingletown · Founders day community eventShingletown's annual Founder's Day Parade and Sawdust Festival, held on the grounds of the town's all-volunteer library in California, with candy thrown from the floats and duck races in the creek.
- Fourth of July Parade and FestivalCrescent City · FestivalCrescent City's two-day Independence Day celebration on the Del Norte coast, where a downtown parade honors its grand marshals and fireworks go up over Battery Point Lighthouse.
- Gold Digger DaysGreenville · Annual town celebrationGreenville's one-day July celebration on Main Street in Plumas County, held since 1962, whose parade now runs through a downtown the 2021 Dixie Fire largely destroyed.
- Gold Nugget DaysParadise · Annual town celebrationParadise, California's late-April celebration of the 54-pound Dogtown Nugget of 1859, held since 1959, with a queen in a 1968 gold crown and a donkey derby.
- Golden DaysAzusa · Annual parade and carnivalAzusa Golden Days, a parade, carnival and week of club events held each October since 1949 in Azusa, California, returns in 2026 to Route 66 for the road's centennial.
- Golden History Days and Wagon Train ArrivalPlacerville · CelebrationGolden History Days, a June Saturday on Placerville's Main Street, ends when the Highway 50 Wagon Train rolls up to the Bell Tower after a week's crossing from Nevada.
- Good Old Days Street FestivalPacific Grove · Street festivalA free two-day spring street festival on Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove, California, with five stages and a quilt show in an 1881 meeting hall.
- Grape Day FestivalEscondido · FestivalEscondido's Grape Day Festival, a free September afternoon in Grape Day Park since 1908, grew out of the burning of the bonds that paid for the town's dam.
- Graton Day FestivalGraton · FestivalGraton Day, a free afternoon of homemade pies, zucchini racing, and chicken bingo in Graton, Sonoma County, revived in 2024 on a former gas-station lot turned town square.
- Grover Beach Night OutGrover Beach · Night out and drone showA free summer evening at 16th Street Park in Grover Beach, California, put on by the city's police department and closed after dark by a drone light show.
- Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin FestivalHalf Moon Bay · Art & pumpkin festivalHalf Moon Bay's two-day Art & Pumpkin Festival fills Main Street each October, the weekend after a weigh-off begun in 1974, when a local pumpkin outweighed Ohio's by one pound.
- Harvest FestivalGreenfield · Annual greenfield harvest festivalA free one-day street festival on El Camino Real in Greenfield, South Monterey County, that grew out of a 1980s Broccoli Festival and now names student scholarship winners.
- Harvest Parade & FestivalJurupa Valley · Parade & festivalA city-run fall parade on Limonite Avenue in Jurupa Valley, California, first held in 2025, that ends at City Hall with a free pumpkin patch.
- Hercules Cultural FestivalHercules · Cultural festivalAn annual free cultural festival in Hercules, California, revived in 2023 after a decade's hiatus, where a Polynesian troupe dances a haka to live drums.
- Heritage FestivalMontebelloA free October festival in Montebello, California, that begins with a 7:30 a.m. footrace, moves to a parade on Whittier Boulevard, and ends with carnival rides in City Park.
- Hesperia DaysHesperiaHesperia Days, a fall celebration in Hesperia, California, runs from a 5K on Main Street to fireworks over Hesperia Lake and dates to 1948 and a 13-year-old rodeo queen.
- Hilmar Dairy & Farm FestivalHilmar · FestivalA free June evening in Hilmar, California, of antique tractors, a sheriff's helicopter and fireworks, built around a stage contest that crowns a Little Milkman and Milkmaid aged three to six.
- Honey FestivalWestmorland · Annual honey festivalA one-day festival in Westmorland, an Imperial Valley town that calls itself the honey capital of the world per capita, where local beekeepers sell from their own hives.
- International Street FairOrange · International celebrationOPT's largest signature event, about 300,000 visitors over Labor Day weekend; the streets around the historic Orange Plaza become an international celebration of cultural food streets, live entertainment, arts and crafts, commercial exhibitors and community organizations.
- Ione HomecomingIone · Annual celebrationA two-day May celebration at Howard Park in Ione, Amador County, California, begun with the 1876 centennial and the railroad's arrival, now with mutton bustin' and lawnmower races.
- Italian Picnic and ParadeSutter Creek · Annual picnic and paradeThe Italian Benevolent Society's three-day June picnic in Sutter Creek, California, held since 1882, ending with a Sunday parade down Old Highway 49 and a salami toss.
- Johnny Appleseed DaysParadise · Harvest festivalBilled as California's oldest harvest festival, Johnny Appleseed Days fills Paradise's Terry Ashe Park each October and began in 1888 as a temperance party over an acquired saloon.
- Kelseyville Pear FestivalKelseyville · FestivalPear Square - Enjoy a collection of local photos and history, vintage tools and packing box labels as well as pear tasting and pear products.
- Kingsburg Swedish FestivalKingsburg · Swedish festivalThe Kingsburg Swedish Festival fills downtown Kingsburg, California, every third weekend in May with pea soup, a Maypole and a parade, beneath a water tower shaped like a coffee pot.
- Klamath Salmon FestivalKlamath · Annual salmon festivalThe Yurok Tribe's August festival on Klamath Boulevard in Klamath, California, where in 2026 salmon cooked over open fire returned to the lunch plates after four years without it.
- Lamb DerbyWillows · ParadeA week-long celebration in Willows, California, held since 1934, when fifty lambs raced down Butte Street. The parade still starts there each May.
- Los Alamos Old DaysLos Alamos · Festival held on the last full weekend of septemberThe Los Alamos Valley Men's Club's three-day September celebration in Los Alamos, Santa Barbara County, held since 1946 and closing each year with a Sunday parade down Bell Street.
- Los Olivos Day in the CountryLos Olivos · Annual town celebrationLos Olivos Day in the Country is a one-day October festival in the Santa Ynez Valley town, where riders, farm animals and family-owned vintage tractors parade down Grand Avenue.
- Lower Lake Daze Parade and Street FairLower Lake · Parade and street fairA Memorial Day weekend parade and street fair on Main Street in Lower Lake, Lake County, California, led by fire engines and fed by the football team's oysters.
- Lumberjack DayWest Point · Street parade and family dayLumberjack Day fills Main Street in West Point, Calaveras County, every first Saturday in October with a horsemen's parade, a downhill soap box derby, and a logging show paying over $5,000.
- Mardi Gras Parade and Street FairNevada City · Annual parade and street fairA Mardi Gras parade and street fair down Broad Street in Nevada City, California, begun in 1996 as Joe Cain Day, a custom carried west from Mobile, Alabama.
- Mariposa Butterfly FestivalMariposa · Annual community festivalAn annual May weekend at the Mariposa County Fairgrounds in California where each child is handed a classroom-raised butterfly perched on a slice of orange.
- Marysville Peach FestivalMarysville · FestivalA two-day peach festival on D Street in downtown Marysville, California, held the third weekend of July, where every food vendor must sell something made with peaches.
- Mid-Sierra Loggers JamboreeNorth Fork · Annual mid-sierra loggers jamboreeNorth Fork's own Nate Hodges was again named Champion Logger at the 66th Annual Mid-Sierra Loggers Jamboree held July 4-5 at the North Fork Recreation Center; this marks the 17th time Hodges has captured the Champion Logger title.
- Middletown DaysMiddletown · Middletown days celebrationMiddletown Days, a three-day western celebration in Lake County, California, has raised money since 1961 to build and keep up the park it is held in.
- Monrovia DaysMonrovia · Annual community birthday partyMonrovia Days of Yesteryear exhibit in the Community Center multi-purpose room.
- Montague Hot Air Balloon FairMontague · EventParade welcomes UTVs, tractors, classic cars, clubs, businesses, schools and marching bands.
- Moorpark Country DaysMoorparkThe Country Days parade and street fair takes over Historic High Street in Moorpark, California, each fall, an event the Jaycees began in 1979 as "Country Daze."
- Morgan Hill Mushroom FestivalMorgan Hill · Food, art, entertainment festivalAn annual Memorial Day weekend mushroom festival in downtown Morgan Hill, California, begun in 1980 by a fire chief to buy equipment and now raising scholarships for local seniors.
- Mule Days CelebrationBishop · Mule days celebrationBishop Mule Days fills the Tri-County Fairgrounds in Bishop, California, every Memorial Day week with mule shows, packing contests, and a Main Street parade in which nothing runs on a motor.
- Murphys Irish DayMurphys · Celebration of the irishA free street festival on Main Street in Murphys, Calaveras County, held the third Saturday in March, that began in 1993 as a children's parade with no announcers.
- Oakhurst Fall FestivalOakhurst · Annual oakhurst fall festivalThe Oakhurst Area Chamber of Commerce's October festival in the Sierra foothills began as a one-day wine-and-chocolate soiree and in 2026 brought rescue camels to new grounds.
- Old Lewiston Peddlers' FaireLewiston · Annual street faireAn annual street faire in historic downtown Lewiston, California, held the first Saturday in June, with food and beer vendors on both sides of an old one-lane bridge.
- Old Timers Day Parade and CelebrationMadera · Parade and festivalMadera, California, has paraded stagecoaches, fire trucks, and bands down Yosemite Avenue since 1931, when the day honored anyone living in the county by 1890.
- Old West DaysRandsburg · Annual old west daysRandsburg Old West Days is a one-day street festival on Butte Avenue in a Kern County mining town, staged each September to pay for the Rand Desert Museum.
- Oroville Salmon FestivalOroville · Community-wide celebrationThe Oroville Salmon Festival, a free September day in Oroville, California, when crowds watch Chinook salmon climb the Feather River Fish Hatchery's half-mile fish ladder.
- Pacific Coast Fog FestPacifica · FestivalA free two-day street festival on Palmetto Avenue in Pacifica, California, named in 1986 to mock the town's foggy reputation and timed for what founders judged its sunniest weekend.
- Patterson Apricot FiestaPatterson · Annual festival celebrating agriculture & apricotsPatterson's Apricot Fiesta fills downtown Plaza Circle on the weekend after Memorial Day, and it began in 1971 as a business promotion first planned as Western Daze.
- Paul Bunyan DaysFort Bragg · FestivalFort Bragg's Labor Day weekend festival, held since 1939, where Mendocino Coast loggers race double buck saws on the Skunk Train lot and a six-foot-six Paul Bunyan walks the streets.
- Paul Bunyan Mountain and Blues FestivalWestwood · CommunityA July weekend in Westwood, California, the Red River Lumber Company's old mill town, where lumberjacks chop and saw in a pine-shaded park between blues sets.
- Pear and Wine FestivalMoraga · Community eventCelebrates the Moraga Valley’s pear-orchard heritage.
- Pear FairCourtland · Annual agricultural fairCelebrates the Sacramento River Delta's Bartlett pear harvest.
- Pescadero Arts & Fun FestivalPescadero · Coastal country festivalA free two-day arts and music festival held each August on the I.D.E.S. grounds in Pescadero, California, where school parents and teachers hand-make the tamales sold beside the stage.
- Phelan Phamily Phun DaysPhelan · Community traditionLong-standing tradition in the Tri-Community of Phelan, Pinon Hills, Wrightwood and surrounding areas, with parade, car show, contests, vendors, food, and the Phun Zone on Phelan Road.
- Pinedorado DaysCambria · Annual community celebrationA Labor Day weekend celebration in Cambria, California, run by the Lions Club since 1949 to pay for a youth hall cut from an Army camp's theater.
- Pioneer DayPaso Robles · Annual pioneer day paradePaso Robles's free Pioneer Day parade and bean feed, held each October since 1931, where a clean-shaven man without a $1 badge can still be paraded in a jail wagon.
- Pistachio FestivalAvenal · Annual pistachio festivalMusic, food, vendors and family activities at Rice Park.
- Poway Rotary ParadePoway · ParadeA September parade east along Poway Road in San Diego County, held since 1962, where Victorian-dressed riders, vintage tractors and General Atomics drones pass three announcer stations.
- Pumpkin FairManteca · Free community eventCar show for adults. A Kids Zone with art and crafts, games, rides and a playground. Pumpkin growing contest and more. A variety of unique vendors. A large assortment of foods to feast on. A beer garden, great music and room to dance. A real hometown feel - come join us!
- Pumpkin FestivalArbuckle · FestivalA pumpkin festival held the first Sunday of October in LaVanche Hursh Park, Arbuckle, California, that raises money to rebuild the old train depot across the street.
- Ramona Country FairRamona · Country fairA free three-day country fair run by the Ramona Chamber of Commerce in Ramona, California, since 1971, where Saturday brings an off-road car show and Sunday a blues brunch.
- Raymond ParadeRaymond · Parade and craft fairRaymond's parade, held the third Saturday of April in the Madera County foothills, began in 1986 as a learners' parade and still steps off at high noon.
- Red Suspenders DayGridley · Community-wide celebrationGridley, California's May celebration of its volunteer firefighters, run by the Chamber of Commerce, where teams push decorated beds down Virginia Street before the noon parade.
- Reedley FiestaReedley · Annual two-day community celebrationEntertainment and booths at Pioneer Park, a community art show, coronation, live music, pancake breakfast, run/walk, Rotary parade and frog jump contest.
- Rio Vista Bass Derby and FestivalRio Vista · FestivalA three-day striped bass and salmon derby on the Sacramento River at Rio Vista, California, first held in 1933, with every fish weighed at the foot of Main Street.
- Round Valley Blackberry FestivalCovelo · Blackberry festivalA free two-day blackberry festival held each August since 1983 under a wisteria-covered arbor in Covelo, where one woman has made the blackberry slush from the first year on.
- Solvang Danish DaysSolvang · Annual danish heritage festivalA three-day September festival of Danish heritage in Solvang, California, begun in 1936, where æbleskiver breakfast is served in the street at Copenhagen Drive and First Street.
- Stagecoach DaysBanning · Annual eventAn annual event in the city of Banning since 1957 that consists of PRCA Rodeo, beer garden, vendors, concerts.
- Stone Soup Music Festival & Street FairGrover Beach · Music festival & street fairA free two-day music festival and street fair held each August around Ramona Garden Park in Grover Beach, California, named for the folk tale of a soup made from a single stone.
- Street Festival and Car ShowHollister · Street festival and car showA free downtown street festival and classic-car show on San Benito Street in Hollister, California, that began as a sidewalk sale with free watermelon.
- Swallows Day Parade and Mercado Street FairSan Juan Capistrano · Non-motorized paradeA March parade and street fair in San Juan Capistrano marking the swallows' return to the Mission, in which every entry walks, marches, or rides behind horses.
- Sweet Potato FestivalLivingston · Annual community festivalA three-day harvest festival in Livingston, California, where every food vendor must sell a sweet potato dish and local growers' varieties go for a dollar a pound.
- Tehachapi Apple FestivalTehachapi · FestivalThe Tehachapi Apple Festival is a one-day October street fair on Green Street in Tehachapi, California, where every vendor must offer something made from or about apples.
- Tehachapi Mountain FestivalTehachapi · Arts & crafts festivalThe Tehachapi Mountain Festival, held in Kern County every third August weekend since 1963, closes its Saturday with a street dance recalling the town's 1915 electric lights.
- Tolowa Dee-ni’ DaySmith River · Family-friendly annual eventTolowa Dee-ni' Nation invites the community to join the annual Dee-ni' Day celebration in Smith River, California — only a few miles from Crescent City!
- TomalesFestTomales · Town festivalLive music with the Blues Defenders, beer booth, oysters, and more.
- Topanga DaysTopanga · FestivalTopanga Days, a three-day Memorial Day fair at the Topanga Community Center in Topanga, California, raises money for a hall that canyon women began building with a nickel-a-brick drive.
- Tuolumne Lumber JubileeTuolumne · Community driven eventThree-day community event with logging competitions, parade, queen contest, carnival, vendors and tug-of-war.
- Tustin Tiller DaysTustin · Annual tustin tiller days eventA free three-day festival held the first weekend of October at Columbus Tustin Park in Tustin, California, named for the farmers who once made up much of the town.
- Wasco Rose FestivalWasco · FestivalLocal floats, vendors and family festivities celebrate Wasco’s agricultural heritage.
- Western Days ParadeLakeside · ParadeThe Lakeside Chamber of Commerce's Western Days Parade runs down Woodside and Maine avenues in San Diego County each April on rodeo weekend, and reached its sixtieth year in 2025.
- Western WeekendPoint Reyes Station · Community celebrationAn annual June parade, barn dance, and chicken barbecue in Point Reyes Station, begun by a women's group with a cake walk in 1949, or 1948 by its organizers' count.
- Whiskey Flat DaysKernville · Town celebrationEach Presidents' Day weekend since 1957, Kernville, California, takes back its mining-camp name, Whiskey Flat, for four days of rodeo, parade, encampment, and a race for Whiskey Flat mayor.
- World’s Largest Salmon BarbecueFort Bragg · Salmon BBQAll proceeds are used to improve salmon populations on the Northern California coast.
- Yreka Golden City DaysYreka · Gold rush celebrationA two-day street festival on Miner Street in Yreka, California, held each Father's Day weekend, once called Gold Rush Days, with Sunday opened by a Native American drum group.
Town Festivals in all eleven states; next door in Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona.