Town festivals in the West
Town festivals across the West, each compiled from its own sources: the weekend, the parade, and who puts it on.
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Arizona
- 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.
California
- 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.
Colorado
- Aguilar DaysAguilar · Street festival and car showA free one-day street festival and car show held the first Saturday of August in Aguilar, Colorado, opening with a parade down a Main Street closed for the day.
- Akron Crazy DayzAkron · Akron crazy dayz and car showAkron Crazy Dayz is a one-day summer festival on Main Avenue in Akron, Colorado, where two-person teams aim fire hoses to push a hoisted keg toward the other side.
- Arts Walk & Hollyhock FestivalSaguache · Arts walk & hollyhock festivalA free one-day festival in Saguache, Colorado, held the last Saturday in July, joining a walk among local artists to self-guided tours of the town's hollyhock gardens.
- Arvada Harvest FestivalArvada · Annual festivalHeld in Arvada since 1925, the harvest festival retreated in 2026 to its Olde Town meeting hall, where entry cost a food donation and chickens were judged in costume.
- Ault Fall FestivalAult · Annual traditionThe Ault Fall Festival, a first-weekend-in-August celebration on the Weld County plains, where the fire department shoots the Friday fireworks and hosts the Sunday pancake breakfast.
- Bayfield Heritage Days and Sheep TrailingBayfield · Annual eventA one-day fall celebration in Bayfield, Colorado, held since 2000, built around a working flock of about 2,000 sheep that the Brown family drives down Buck Highway toward winter pastures.
- BBQ DayJohnstownBBQ Day, Johnstown, Colorado's free June town celebration, began in 1912 as Dairy Day, when local farmers put up circus tents to judge cattle.
- Beef 'N Bean DayMilliken · Community festival dayBeef 'N Bean Day is Milliken, Colorado's second-Saturday-in-August festival of parade, bean contest, and free supper, which local lore traces to a Presbyterian minister's pot of pinto beans.
- Bennett DaysBennett · FreeBennett Days is a celebration of everything that makes our community special, bringing residents, businesses and visitors together for three days of fun, entertainment and connection.
- Berthoud DayBerthoudBerthoud Day, the first-Saturday-in-June town celebration in Berthoud, Colorado, began as a pancake breakfast called Flap Jack Day and still opens with Boy Scout pancakes.
- Black Forest FestivalColorado Springs · FestivalA one-day August festival at the Black Forest Community Center north of Colorado Springs, with pancakes at dawn, a parade up Black Forest Road, and outhouse races after it.
- Boggsville DaysLas Animas · Annual boggsville days celebrationAn annual living-history celebration at Boggsville Historic Site south of Las Animas, Colorado, held around two 1860s adobe houses that stand near the Purgatoire River.
- Boom DaysLeadville · International pack burro race held at leadville boom daysLeadville's three-day street festival on the first full weekend in August, held at 10,200 feet and closing with a pack burro race toward Mosquito Pass that has run since 1949.
- Bronc DayGreen Mountain Falls · Annual western heritage celebrationA free western heritage festival held the last Saturday in July in Green Mountain Falls since 1939, whose parade once counted 149 horses.
- Broomfield DaysBroomfield · Annual community festivalBroomfield Days is the City and County of Broomfield's one-day September festival at Midway Park, where a children's clown contest follows the parade and dogs compete off a diving dock.
- Buffalo Bill DaysGolden · Golden's largest summer eventGolden's three-day July festival in Parfet Park and on Washington Avenue, begun in 1946 for Buffalo Bill's 100th birthday; the honoree is buried on Lookout Mountain above town.
- Buffalo Days (Grand Lake)Grand Lake · Three-day celebrationBuffalo Days, Grand Lake, Colorado's three-day August festival since 1948, serves buffalo barbecue beside the state's largest natural lake and sends a Cowpoke Parade down Grand Avenue.
- Burning Mountain FestivalNew Castle · Annual town festivalNew Castle, Colorado's two-day September town festival in Burning Mountain Park, held since 1973 and named for the ridge above town where an old mine fire still burns.
- Burro DaysFairplay · CelebrationBurro Days in Fairplay, held each July since 1949, is built around the World Championship Pack Burro Race, in which runners and burros climb to the 13,185-foot top of Mosquito Pass and back.
- Calhan Summer FestCalhan · Annual community eventCalhan Summer Fest is a free one-day July fair 35 miles east of Colorado Springs, where cars line 8th Street and a mayor once resigned over the band money.
- Cañon City Music & Blossom FestivalCañon City · Community-run school music competition and paradeCañon City's May festival of school band, orchestra, choir and jazz competitions and a Main Street parade, descended from an 1890s Fruit Day that gave fruit away by the plateful.
- Cedaredge ApplefestCedaredge · Annual fall harvest festivalThe Town of Cedaredge's harvest festival at the foot of Grand Mesa, which a local historian traces to a 1904 Harvest Home Festival put on by the Women of Woodcraft.
- Chile & Frijoles FestivalPueblo · FestivalThe Pueblo Chile & Frijoles Festival fills Union Avenue in downtown Pueblo, Colorado, the third weekend after Labor Day, with growers roasting Pueblo chiles by the bag.
- Cortez Rendezvous Balloon RallyCortez · FestivalAn August hot air balloon rally in Cortez's Parque de Vida, run since 2004 by an Albuquerque ballooning family, with dawn launches and a Friday night glow.
- Covered Wagon DaysDel Norte · Family-oriented multi-day community eventCovered Wagon Days, a summer festival in Del Norte, Colorado, held since 1972, whose Saturday parade has opened with a re-enactment of a miners' biscuit fight.
- Crawford Pioneer DaysCrawford · OrganizationCrawford Pioneer Days is a three-day June celebration in Crawford, Colorado, held for 47 years, that ends with the volunteer fire department's fireworks over Crawford Reservoir.
- Dash Around the World Culture FestivalFort Morgan · Cultural exploration dayA free annual family culture festival at Morgan Community College in Fort Morgan, Colorado, where local Folklorico dancers perform and the notice runs in English, Spanish, and Somali.
- Days of '92 and Fourth of July Mining FestivalCreede · Street festival & vendorsCreede's Fourth of July weekend in Mineral County, Colorado, where working hard-rock miners from across the Southwest drill, muck, and drive spikes before a grandstand in Basham Park.
- Dinosaur Stone Age StampedeDinosaur · FestivalA two-day September festival in Cady Park, Dinosaur, Colorado, with Raptor Crap Bingo, a free headline concert, and an OHV poker run that crosses into Utah.
- Donkey Derby DaysCripple Creek · Annual three-day festivalDonkey Derby Days is a free three-day June festival on Bennett Avenue in Cripple Creek, Colorado, that pays for the town's donkey herd, which is believed descended from gold-camp stock.
- Eagle Flight DaysEagle · CelebrationEagle Flight Days, a two-day June celebration in Eagle, Colorado, dating to 1922, ends its Saturday parade on Broadway with firefighters hosing down the crowd.
- Early Settlers DayLa Junta · Annual community celebrationEarly Settlers Day in La Junta, Colorado, is a one-day parade, park fair and street dance that began in Rocky Ford in 1915 and has been held in La Junta since 1934.
- Eaton DaysEaton · FestivalA three-day July celebration in Eaton, Colorado, held the weekend after the Fourth, that began as Farmer's Appreciation Day and whose underground barbecue pit dates to 1956.
- Elbert Day FestivalElbert · Annual festivalElbert Day Festival is a free July Saturday in downtown Elbert, Colorado, run by Town Committee volunteers, opening with a Woman's Club breakfast and a flyover before the parade.
- Elevation Celebration (Conifer)Conifer · Two-day mountain street faireA free two-day street faire on Sutton Road in Aspen Park, Conifer, Colorado, known locally as El Cel and opened by a trail race averaging 8,200 feet.
- Emma Crawford Coffin Races & FestivalManitou Springs · Coffin racesThe Emma Crawford Coffin Races in Manitou Springs, Colorado, held since 1995, run wheeled coffins with a helmeted "Emma" riding inside along Manitou Avenue each October.
- Erie Town FairErie · Annual town fairA one-day May street fair in Old Town Erie, Colorado, with more than 280 booths on the downtown streets and the Garage Rats car show in Coal Creek Park's lot.
- Escalante DaysDolores · Community celebrationDolores's town celebration in Flanders Park, held each August since 1976 beside a tribute noting that Father Escalante slept on that spot Aug. 13, 1776.
- Fiesta Day ParadePueblo · Cultural paradePueblo's Fiesta Day Parade, held each Labor Day weekend since 1967, carries floats, charros and marching bands about two miles down Northern Avenue through the Bessemer neighborhood.
- Fiesta de Santiago y Santa Ana (San Luis)San Luis · Multi-day historic festivalThe July feast of St. James and St. Anne in San Luis, Colorado's oldest town, where the parish's mission churches feed the crowd in the church yard after Sunday Mass.
- Fleming Fall FestivalFleming · Fall festivalFleming's fall festival in northeastern Colorado joins high school homecoming to a September Saturday of class floats on Main Street, a firemen's pulled-pork lunch, and a pet pageant.
- Florence Pioneer DaysFlorence · Pioneer day celebrationFlorence Pioneer Day fills Main Street and Pioneer Park in Florence, Colorado, each September, crowning a pioneer king and queen at a celebration that began as a women's club picnic.
- For Peetz Sake DaysPeetz · Annual celebrationThe 2026 parade marshals are Dale and Bonita Dickinson, Peetz Lions members who used to live in Peetz in the 80's when Bonita was the math teacher at Peetz.
- Fort Morgan Hispanic Heritage CelebrationFort Morgan · Community celebrationA free noon-to-ten celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month in Fort Morgan's Glenn Miller Park, where the public picks the best homemade salsa and the loudest cheer wins the grito.
- Fountain Valley Fall FestivalFountain · Fall festivalFountain, Colorado's Labor Day festival, now past its fiftieth year, where the Chamber of Commerce raffles a handmade quilt and children sell what they have made.
- Fraser Fire and IceFraser · Fire and ice festivalFraser Fire and Ice is a free February evening at Cozens Ranch Open Space in Fraser, Colorado, where donated Christmas trees feed a bonfire and an ice sculpture is set alight.
- Fruita Fall FestivalFruita · Two-day festivalFruita's downtown street festival, run each September for more than a century, where on Friday evening teams race outhouses on wheels down Aspen Avenue.
- Gold Rush Days (Buena Vista)Buena Vista · FestivalBuena Vista's three-day August festival in Chaffee County, Colorado, built around a pack burro race run annually since 1979 and a toilet-seat derby propelled by plungers.
- Granada-Bristol DaysGranada · Community celebrationGranada Bristol Days is a June weekend in Granada Park in southeastern Colorado, timed to the town school's alumni reunion, when a pilot drops streamers to the children.
- Grand Old West DaysCraig · Colorado's annual kick off to summerA Memorial Day weekend festival at the Moffat County Fairgrounds in Craig, Colorado, begun in 1990 to steady a boom-and-bust town and now built around the state high school rodeo finals.
- Grand Valley Days (Parachute)Parachute · Annual summer celebrationGrand Valley Days is Parachute, Colorado's four-day August run of parade, CPRA rodeo and ice cream social, and its 2026 parade on Second Street was billed as the 118th annual.
- Gunnison River FestivalGunnison · River festivalAn annual June river festival at Gunnison's whitewater park on Highway 50, where dogs launch for distance and costumed racers ride anything that floats but is not a boat.
- Gypsum DazeGypsum · Community eventGypsum Daze, a three-day July celebration in Gypsum, Colorado, whose Valley Road parade ends with fire and airport trucks hosing down the crowd.
- Haxtun Corn FestivalHaxtun · Annual eventThe Haxtun Corn Festival, a harvest day held the last Saturday of September on Colorado Avenue in Haxtun, Colorado, reached its 105th edition in 2026.
- Hay DaysWiley · Annual festivalWiley Hay Days is a June celebration in the Prowers County town of Wiley, Colorado, where the Lions Club runs the parade and serves the sloppy Joes.
- Hayden DazeHayden · Annual celebrationHayden Daze is a free two-day July celebration at Dry Creek Park in Hayden, Colorado, descended from a 1978 appreciation day, where costumed crews float cardboard boats across the park pond.
- Hayden Harvest FestivalHayden · Harvest festivalA free autumn afternoon of straw bales, caramel apples and bluegrass in Hayden, Colorado's Dry Creek Park, begun by a garden-center owner whose son inspired it.
- Heritage DayEvans · Community heritage festivalHeritage Day in Evans, Colorado, is a free one-day September festival that begins with pancakes and a parade in the city's oldest park and ends with fireworks above the South Platte bottoms.
- Hot Sulphur DaysHot Sulphur Springs · Town festivalA three-day June town celebration in Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado, held since 1965, where Friday-night pies are auctioned whole to pay for next year's festival.
- Kersey DaysKersey · Vendor fairKersey Days is the Town of Kersey's August weekend in Weld County, Colorado, and it opens on a Friday night with modified lawn mowers racing on a dirt track.
- Kiowa Colorado Day Ice Cream SocialKiowa · FairFree ice cream, live music, food, family activities and a commemorative drone show.
- Kremmling DaysKremmling · Annual eventKremmling's festive and rural character shines during Kremmling Days, an annual event that draws residents and visitors to the town square and surrounding streets for a parade, firefighter games, cliff golf, a class reunion, the Mustang Mile race and other activities.
- La Veta OktoberfestLa Veta · Nonprofit community eventA free one-day street festival on Main Street in La Veta, Colorado, each first Saturday in October, whose proceeds pay for scholarships, eyeglasses and propane across Huerfano County.
- Lamar DaysLamar · FestivitiesLamar Days kick-off barbecue at the Chamber
- LaSalle DaysLaSalle · 45th annual celebrationLaSalle Days is a two-day July celebration in the Weld County railroad town of LaSalle, Colorado, where parade entries may perform only in front of the Fire Department.
- Limon Heritage DayLimon · Annual heritage dayLimon's annual Heritage Day fills the town's Heritage Museum and Railroad Park on Colorado's eastern plains, and its 2026 edition ended with 500 drones over the rail cars.
- Lochbuie Fall FestivalLochbuie · Fall festivalThe Town of Lochbuie's free September street festival on Bonanza Blvd, closing with a drone light show, in a town that began as a mobile home subdivision nicknamed Space City.
- Logger DaysSouth Fork · ScheduleSouth Fork celebrates the area's culture and history during the Annual Logger Days Festival.
- Loveland Corn Roast FestivalLoveland · Annual community festivalA two-day corn roast at Fairgrounds Park in Loveland, Colorado, with roots in an 1894 town feast. Volunteers roasted and buttered 12,000 ears for the 2026 festival.
- Madam Lou Bunch Day and Famous Bed RaceCentral City · Annual town celebrationThe long-running tradition mixes bed races, vendors, music, cabaret dancers, local historical displays, and performances by the Wild Bunch.
- Manassa Pioneer DaysManassa · EventAnnual Western heritage festival held in Manassa; one of the oldest festivals in Colorado with a century-plus tradition. Carnival rides, main street parade (so prized it runs the route twice), Miss Pioneer princesses, demolition derby, fair food, an old-time bandstand, and rodeo competitions; population of the town roughly doubles during the celebration.
- Mancos DaysMancos · Annual event68th Annual Mancos Days Celebration; July 24, 25, 26 2026; Theme: Mancos Ever After - Myth, Magic & Fairy Tales.
- Mead Community DayMead · Annual celebrationMead Community Day is the Northern Colorado town's largest annual celebration, a free evening in Mead Town Park that ends with fireworks over the park.
- Miners DayFrederick · Premier community eventFrom gold panning to burro racing, Miners Day is a celebration of Frederick's community and history. Miners Day is the biggest annual event for Frederick, a town that also holds a hot air balloon festival and chainsaw carving contest every year.
- Missouri DayFowler · CommunityRanch rodeo with returning teams, youth teams and public spectators.
- Moffat County Hot Air Balloon FestivalCraig · FestivalA free three-day hot air balloon festival at Loudy-Simpson Park in Craig, Colorado, where the Saturday night glow is timed to burn behind the headlining band.
- Monte Vista Crane FestivalMonte Vista · FestivalA three-day March festival in Monte Vista, Colorado, built around the sandhill crane stopover in the San Luis Valley, begun in 1984 under the name of a different crane.
- Morrison CiderfestMorrison · Fall festivalA free one-day fall festival on a nursing-home lawn in Morrison, Colorado, where the woman who proposed it in 1989 still turns the cider press as Apple Annie.
- Mountain Mining DaysWalsenburg · Annual heritage festivalWalsenburg's Labor Day weekend heritage festival in Colorado's old coal country, where fire trucks lead the Main Street parade and children race mining carts on Sixth Street.
- Naturita DaysNaturita, CO · Annual holidayAnnual Naturita community celebration that was once held every year, stopped for a period, and is now being revived by a group of citizens.
- North Park DaysWalden · Community celebrationAnnual Walden town days held on the front lawn of the historic Jackson County Courthouse; over 137 years of community history.
- Nucla Water DaysNucla · Annual community holidayAnnual town celebration organized by the Water Days Steering Committee; in 2026 the theme is "Celebrate."
- Nunn DaysNunn · Fall festivalNunn Days, the Town of Nunn's one-day fall festival in Veterans Park, opens with a parade, and at two o'clock its program sets aside time to plant a tree for Arbor Day.
- Oak Creek Labor DayOak Creek · Labor day weekendPancake breakfasts, live music, family activities, a car and motor show, cornhole, bingo, food, vendors, museum events and contests, with a Labor Day parade.
- OktoberfestKeenesburg · Fall celebrationKeenesburg's Oktoberfest is a town-run fall gathering on North Main Street in a Weld County town whose motto is "Home of 500 Happy People and a Few Soreheads."
- Old Fashioned Saturday NightHaxtun · CommunityClassic cars, roaring engines, family fun and small-town tradition will once again take center stage as the Haxtun Chamber of Commerce hosts the 39th Annual Old-Fashioned Saturday Night on Saturday, July 18, with a full day of activities planned throughout downtown Haxtun.
- Old Settlers' PicnicEckley · Annual old settler’s dayAn annual Labor Day weekend celebration in Eckley, Yuma County, Colorado, reaching its 137th edition in 2026, where lawn mowers run barrels and the fire department serves free barbecue.
- Ovid DaysOvid · CelebrationA two-day summer celebration in Ovid, Sedgwick County, Colorado: a Friday Home Run Derby, then a Saturday of softball, a Main Street parade, duck races, and goat roping.
- Paonia Cherry DaysPaonia · Community festivalPaonia's Fourth of July festival in Colorado's North Fork Valley, begun by the Lions Club as a fundraiser for football-field lights, with a parade, a pit spit and a coronation.
- Parker DaysParker · Family festivalA free festival that closes Mainstreet in Parker, Colorado, each June, with a fenced carnival on Carnival Hill and a free Sunday pancake breakfast served from the main stage.
- Penrose Apple DayPenrose · Annual apple day celebrationResidents and tourists fill the streets each October to celebrate apples, including a free slice of pie.
- Pioneer DayNorwood · Pioneer festivalNorwood's Pioneer Day, held the last Saturday of September on Wright's Mesa in San Miguel County, Colorado, crowns its royalty and carries them in an old Telluride stagecoach.
- Pitkin DaysPitkin · Annual celebrationPitkin Days, held each July in a former Gunnison County mining camp, runs from a free alpine footrace to a melodrama where the audience throws popcorn at the villain.
- Plateau Valley Heritage DaysCollbran · Heritage days celebrationPlateau Valley Heritage Days is a three-day Fourth of July rodeo celebration in Collbran, Colorado, where cowboys herd the bucking horses down Main Street to the arena.
- San Ignacio FiestaIgnacio · Annual fiestaA two-day July fiesta in Ignacio, Colorado, on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation, held by St. Ignatius parish for its patron saint, counted in 2026 as its 126th year.
- San Luis Valley Potato FestivalMonte Vista · Annual harvest celebrationA one-day September harvest festival at Chapman Park in Monte Vista, Colorado, put on by the state's potato committee, with a 5K called the Tater Trot and a Mashed Potato Dunk Tank.
- Santa Fe Trail DayLas Animas · Town celebrationAn April town day in Las Animas, Colorado, started by high school students in 1934 and still sponsored by the student council, with square dancing in the gym.
- Santa Fe Trail DaysTrinidad · FestivalSanta Fe Trail Days is a free street festival in downtown Trinidad, Colorado, and its 2026 edition was scheduled to carry a state drone show for Colorado's 150th and the nation's 250th.
- SeptemberfestRangely · Annual labor day celebrationSeptemberfest is Rangely, Colorado's Labor Day weekend festival, running from a fire-station pancake breakfast to choirs singing inside a 65-foot water tank.
- Sheridan CelebratesSheridan · Annual parade and festivalSheridan Celebrates is a one-day September parade and festival on the City Hall lawn in Sheridan, Colorado, begun in 1990, where parade candy must be handed out by walkers.
- Silt HeydaySilt · Annual silt heydayLive Music: The Colorado Currys
- Simla DaysSimla · CelebrationThe Labor Day weekend celebration of Simla, an Elbert County High Plains town on U.S. 24, where $10 buys a taste of every barbecue entry and a vote.
- Strasburg Hometown DaysStrasburg · CelebrationStrasburg Hometown Days, an August weekend festival on the Colorado plains, began in 1970 to fund the museum near where Kansas Pacific crews closed a coast-to-coast railroad in 1870.
- Strawberry Days (Glenwood Springs)Glenwood Springs · Free community festivalGlenwood Springs' free festival on the third weekend of June, begun in 1898 by a farmers union, where Kiwanis still hand out strawberries and ice cream after the parade.
- Sugar Beet DaysSterling · Annual festivalSugar Beet Days is a two-day September festival on the Logan County Courthouse Square in Sterling, Colorado, where visitors can see and taste a real raw sugar beet.
- Tarantula FestLa Junta · Annual tarantula festivalAn annual two-day festival in downtown La Junta, Colorado, timed to the fall walk of male tarantulas across the Comanche National Grassland, with city buses carrying visitors out at dusk.
- Tomato Festival at Trapper DaysFort Lupton · Tomato festival at trapper days!Fort Lupton's September festival on the Colorado Front Range, begun in 1908 as Tomato Days and named since 1976 for the trappers of Lancaster Lupton's adobe trading post.
- Ullr FestBreckenridge · Annual celebration of winter and snowBreckenridge's festival for Ullr, Norse god of snow: a Main Street parade, a bonfire of old Christmas trees, and roots in the town's 1963 mock secession.
- Victor Gold Rush DaysVictor · CommunityAnnual Victor Gold Rush Days festival: live mining demonstrations, colorful parades, live music, and guided tours celebrating Victor's mining heritage.
- Walsh DaysWalsh · Nonprofit organizationCommunity-organized annual day reviving Walsh Days as a celebration of community pride.
- Wheat Ridge Carnation FestivalWheat Ridge · Community celebrationA free three-day August festival at Anderson Park in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, begun in 1969 for a city that once sent carnations to the White House every Monday.
- Wiggins Day Fall Harvest FestivalWiggins · Fall harvest festivalWiggins Day, the free late-August harvest festival in Wiggins, Colorado, fills Teets Park with food trucks, a live band and visiting square-dance clubs; 2026 brought the 52nd.
- Wild Horse DaysDe Beque · Annual community eventParade, live music, vendors, poker run, corn hole tournament, mud run, burnout and bump n jumps.
- Windsor Harvest FestivalWindsor · FestivalWindsor, Colorado's Labor Day festival of balloons, booths and a Monday parade, which began in 1921 as a carnival celebrating Weld County's first paved street.
- Wray DazeWray · Fair weekendWray Daze, the fair weekend of Wray, Colorado, runs from a Friday market on Main Street to a Sunday mud volleyball tournament behind an accounting office.
Idaho
- American Falls DaysAmerican Falls · Annual celebrationAn early-August parade and park fair in American Falls, Idaho, a town that was picked up and moved in the 1920s to make way for a reservoir.
- Blackberry Festival & Classic Car ShowJuliaetta · Annual summer celebrationAn annual September festival and classic vehicle show in Juliaetta, Idaho's Centennial Park, where tractors park beside hot rods and dachshunds race on the softball field.
- Celebrate BlackfootBlackfoot · Summer festivalA two-day summer festival at Jensen Grove in Blackfoot, Idaho, run by the chamber of commerce and descended from Blackfoot Pride Days, a weeklong celebration begun in the late 1980s.
- Craigmont June PicnicCraigmont · Annual picnicCraigmont's June Picnic, held the fourth Saturday in June in Lewis County, Idaho, marks the day in 1920 when two rival towns were joined in a mock wedding.
- Depot DaysWallace · Railroad museumWallace, Idaho's one-day classic-car show, held each May on the Saturday before Mother's Day, marks the anniversary of the town's 1901 railroad depot moving 200 feet for Interstate 90.
- Eagle Fun DaysEagleEagle Fun Days is the City of Eagle's two-day summer celebration in downtown Eagle, Idaho, where the Saturday parade ends in a water fight between floats and the crowd.
- Eden-Hazelton CelebrationHazelton · Annual celebrationThe Eden-Hazelton Celebration is a two-day Lions Club gathering in southern Idaho, held each June since 1953 and closed by fireworks behind Hazelton's white water tower.
- Emmett Cherry FestivalEmmett · Hometown festivalEmmett's June cherry festival fills City Park in Gem County, Idaho, for four days, and admission, concerts, contests, and the Saturday parade cost nothing.
- Fairfield 4th of July CelebrationFairfield · 4th of july celebrationA Fourth of July in Fairfield, Camas County, Idaho, run by American Legion Post 19, where beds race down Main Street from the school to the courthouse.
- Franklin Idaho DaysFranklin · Fun family celebrationIdaho Days, a three-day June celebration in Franklin, Idaho's oldest town, kept since 1910 with a parade, fireworks, and a candy cannon that fires sweets into the air.
- Gyro Days & Lead Creek DerbyWallace · CarnivalEach third weekend in June the Wallace Gyro Club fills downtown Wallace, Idaho, with a street carnival, then floats a leather ball about seven miles downriver from Mullan for prizes.
- Hansen Hay DayHansen · Annual hay day festivitiesHansen Hay Day is the City of Hansen, Idaho's midsummer Saturday of parade, park vendors and free laser tag, with goats and reptiles on display and grilled cheese among the food.
- Harrison OktoberfestHarrison · OktoberfestThe Harrison Chamber of Commerce's fall Oktoberfest in Harrison, Idaho, held in a city park laid out where eleven businesses burned in 1917 and were never rebuilt.
- Harrison Old Time PicnicHarrison · Traditional community celebrationA three-day July celebration in Harrison, Idaho, held since 1953, that crowns a king and queen for the year before a Sunday of sack races and greased-pole climbing.
- Hayden DaysHayden · Annual hayden days celebrationHayden Days is the City of Hayden's two-day July festival in McIntire Family Park, Idaho, where a fire-station pancake breakfast and a flyover open a parade led by a veteran.
- Homedale Harvest FestivalHomedale · Community eventThe Homedale Hometown Harvestfest, the Homedale Chamber of Commerce's one-day fall festival in Bette Uda Park, Idaho, with pie contests, a candy cannon, and an afternoon foam party.
- Huckleberry FestivalDonnelly · Annual huckleberry festivalDonnelly, Idaho's August Huckleberry Festival sets booths along Highway 55, runs a noon parade down Main Street, and sends a library 5K around a heart at Roseberry.
- Idaho City DaysIdaho City · EventIdaho City Days, a two-day October street fair on Main Street in the Boise Basin gold rush town, where the 2026 edition shared Saturday with Idaho's Liberty Bell.
- Idaho Spud DayShelley · Annual potato celebrationA harvest festival in Shelley, Idaho, held since 1927 on the third Saturday of September, where the losing tug-of-war team goes into a pit of mashed potatoes.
- Kamiah BBQ DaysKamiah · Labor day weekend eventFree community barbecue begun by local merchants to thank area residents. The Kamiah Chamber organizes and sponsors nearly every aspect of the Labor Day weekend event.
- Kimberly Good Neighbor DaysKimberly · Community celebrationFriday night music by Kimberly Road Band, returning for many years.
- Kootenai River DaysBonners Ferry · FestivalKootenai River Days is the Bonners Ferry Chamber of Commerce's free summer celebration in downtown Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Wildfire stopped it in July 2026, and it returned for one September Saturday.
- Kuna DaysKuna · Annual celebrationKuna Days, the Kuna Chamber of Commerce's first-weekend-of-August celebration in Kuna, Idaho, where the parade has ended in a water fight with the town's fire trucks.
- Locust Blossom FestivalKendrick · FestivalThe Kendrick Lions Club's one-day spring festival in a Potlatch River canyon town of Latah County, Idaho, held since 1961, when the barbecue beef sandwich cost a dollar.
- Market Lake DayRoberts · CommunityAnnual celebration in Roberts, Idaho every 3rd Saturday in July, with parade, vendors, fireworks, live music, car show, beer garden, and free kids' activities.
- Meadows Valley DaysNew Meadows · Annual celebrationMeadows Valley Days, an amateur lumberjack show and town celebration held each Labor Day weekend in New Meadows, Idaho, where axe throwers aim at a beer-can bullseye.
- Meridian Dairy DaysMeridian · FestivalA three-day June festival centered on Storey Park in Meridian, Idaho, held since 1929, when a dairy show marked the opening of the town's cooperative creamery.
- Orofino Lumberjack DaysOrofino · Annual traditionSeptember logging celebration held alongside the Clearwater County Fair, with lumberjack competitions, parade, carnival, live entertainment and family activities.
- Paul Bunyan DaysSt. Maries · 4-day celebrationPaul Bunyan Days, a four-day Labor Day weekend festival held in St. Maries, Idaho, since 1968, with logging contests, a tightrope over the city pool, and a roofless beer garden.
- Post Falls FestivalPost Falls · Annual festivalA free three-day festival in Post Falls, Idaho, held each second weekend of July since 1995 in Q'emiln Park, with a parade down Seltice Way.
- Rathdrum DaysRathdrum · Town heritage celebrationRathdrum Days is a mid-July celebration in Rathdrum, Idaho, traced to the 1950s, where a Main Street parade gives way to Big Wheel races at the high school.
- Salmon River DaysSalmon · Annual celebrationSalmon River Days, Salmon, Idaho's four-day July celebration, runs from a concert at Sweet Water Hollow to a duck race on Kid's Creek and a demolition derby at the fairgrounds.
- Timber DaysPriest River · Timber daysPriest River, Idaho's logging festival on the last Saturday of July, where five-person teams race saw, choker and axe beside the Pend Oreille, descended from spring log drives.
- Wagon DaysKetchum · One of the largest non-motorized parades in the westKetchum, Idaho's Labor Day weekend festival since 1958, whose non-motorized Big Hitch Parade ends with six Lewis ore wagons, the last of their kind, hauled down Main Street.
- Wallace Huckleberry FestivalWallace · Huckleberry festivalCome and immerse yourself in the charm of Historic Downtown Wallace, Idaho, during a weekend brimming with excitement, community spirit, and, of course, huckleberries!
- Weston Pioneer Day CelebrationWeston · Pioneer day celebrationWeston, Idaho's town-run Pioneer Day fills one July Saturday with animal chases, an airplane candy drop over the ball diamond, and an evening gunfight at the country store.
Montana
- Absarokee DaysAbsarokee · Annual one-day festivalAbsarokee Days is a one-day street festival on Woodard Avenue in Absarokee, Montana, held the last Saturday of July, whose parade has included a kazoo band.
- Alberton Railroad Day FestivalAlberton · Railroad day celebrationA one-day July festival in Alberton, Montana, a town the Milwaukee Road built, with pancakes in the 1908 depot and a $100 hunt for a hidden railroad spike.
- Basin DayBasin · Basin dayBasin Day is a one-day August street celebration in Basin, a Jefferson County gold camp of about 200 people, where stick pony races, a duck race and a cake walk raise money for the town.
- Belgrade Fall FestivalBelgrade · One-day community celebrationA free one-day festival in Belgrade, Montana, built around the Panther high school homecoming parade, whose route map arrives folded into the city water bills.
- Bigfork Fourth of JulyBigfork · Family-friendly eventBigfork's Fourth of July parade runs at noon down Grand Drive and Electric Avenue in Bigfork, Montana, a village where photographs of the parade reach back to 1924.
- Broadview DazeBroadview · Community fair and fundraiserA one-day June fair in Broadview, Montana, that raises money for the volunteer fire district, with a parade of tractors, lawn mowers and donkeys and fireworks after dark.
- Cabin Fever DaysMartin City · Annual winter festivalCabin Fever Days is a February fundraiser weekend in Montana's Bad Rock Canyon, where racers ride barstools fixed to skis down 750 feet of hauled-in snow on Martin City's Central Avenue.
- Chinook Sugarbeet FestivalChinook · Community event, festivalsThe Sugarbeet Festival, a Saturday each fall in downtown Chinook, Montana, honors a sugar factory gone since 1952 and the high school team still named for it.
- Chokecherry FestivalLewistown · Annual festivalLewistown's one-day Main Street festival, held the first Saturday after Labor Day, is built around a wild, bitter Montana berry and a contest for spitting its pit.
- Circle Town & Country Appreciation DayCircle · Annual community celebrationCircle's Town & Country Appreciation Day, held each September by the Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture in McCone County, Montana, runs from a fire-department breakfast to a dance at the VFW.
- Clancy DaysClancy · FestivalClancy Days is a one-day street festival in Clancy, Montana, held the second Saturday in June, where fire trucks toss candy from the parade and wooden pucks stand in for rubber ducks.
- Craig Caddis FestivalCraig · Annual fundraiserA Saturday fundraiser on Main Street in Craig, Montana, a Missouri River fishing town of 46, where barbecue bites and auctioned guide trips pay for the volunteer fire department.
- Darby Strawberry DaysDarby · Annual strawberry festivalDarby's volunteer fire department has sold strawberry shortcake in Main Street Park on the third Saturday of July since at least 1958, and its chiefs disagree about the starting year.
- David Thompson DaysThompson Falls · Community celebrationA two-day June celebration in Thompson Falls, Montana, named for fur trader David Thompson, where mountain-man reenactors teach children to strike fire with flint and steel.
- Dayton DazeAn annual September fundraiser for Dayton, Montana's volunteer fire department, held off Highway 93 on Flathead Lake and first planned in 1990 for a bar that burned the night before.
- Dutton Fun DayDutton · Community celebrationA volunteer-run summer day in Dutton, Montana, held the second Saturday of July, whose proceeds maintain the town pool and whose jail is a corral by the beer garden.
- Ennis 4th of July ParadeEnnis · Western themed paradeThe Ennis Fourth of July parade in Ennis, Montana, run on Main Street since 1936 by one account, closes U.S. Highway 287 for one hour and caps its line at sixty floats.
- Flint Creek Valley DaysPhilipsburg · Three-day town celebrationA three-day July celebration in Philipsburg, Montana, whose Saturday parade is said to have begun as a march from the local sawmill to downtown.
- Forsyth Duck DaysForsyth · Annual celebrationTwo-day event: traditional duck race in the Yellowstone River alongside a parade, car show, tournaments, children's activities, live music, a movie and a Most Patriotic Dressed Contest.
- Fort Benton Summer CelebrationFort Benton · Small town festivalThe Fort Benton Summer Celebration, a free three-day festival on the Missouri River in Montana each June, began with the 1976 dedication of the Lewis and Clark statue.
- Frenchtown DaysFrenchtown · EventFrenchtown Days is a free one-day July street festival in Frenchtown, Montana, that closes after dark with a street dance at Mike's Alcan Bar & Grill.
- Good Old DaysSt. Ignatius · Community celebrationGood Old Days is a three-day July celebration in St. Ignatius, Montana, begun by a local couple in the early 1980s, whose parade ends with fire hoses turned on the crowd.
- HarvestfestHungry Horse · FestivalA free fall festival at Canyon Elementary School in Hungry Horse, Montana, where the chili cook-off entries become everyone's lunch and the 5k runs beside the Flathead's South Fork.
- Havre Festival DaysHavre · Annual celebrationHavre Festival Days, a mid-September weekend in downtown Havre, Montana, since 1980, sends off summer with a Fifth Avenue parade, $2 raffle buttons and a 48-hour softball tournament.
- Homesteader DaysHot Springs · Festival and rodeoHomesteader Days, held the second weekend in June in Hot Springs, Montana, since 1949, pairs an open rodeo and Main Street parades with breakfasts honoring the town's 1910 homesteaders.
- Huntley Homesteader DaysHuntley · Two-day celebrationThe Huntley Project Lions Club's two-day July celebration in Homesteader Park, Huntley, Montana, where the barbecue still turns on the pits used at the first one in 1964.
- Irish DaysVirginia City · Community eventIrish Days, a June weekend in Virginia City, Montana, when the Ancient Order of Hibernians paint a green stripe down Wallace Street and honor acting territorial governor Thomas Francis Meagher.
- Jim Bridger DaysBridger · Annual civic celebration programJim Bridger Days is a civic celebration of Bridger, Montana, held in July. Friday, July 18th 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM: Bridger Historic Walking Tours. Starting at Zier Gallery. Adults $10.00. Kids 12 and up $5. All money is donated for Bowler school and the Jennings-Mahr cabin projects.
- Kevin Fun DayKevin · Annual kevin fun dayKevin Development hosts their annual Kevin Fun Day with many fun activities to partake in including car show, games for both adults and youth, live band music by Wheelhouse, prizes plus much more.
- Laurel 4th of July CelebrationLaurel · CelebrationLaurel, Montana's two-day Independence Day, from a July 3 street dance to fireworks the volunteer fire department has presented for 79 years.
- Lewis & Clark FestivalCut Bank · FestivalA four-day July festival in Cut Bank, Montana, held since 1979, where a five-dollar button sold on the honor system buys the all-you-can-eat chili.
- Lincoln County Logger DaysLibby · FestivalA three-day June festival of lumberjack shows, a downtown parade, and a balance-log contest at J. Neils Memorial Park in Libby, Montana, revived by the local Rotary club in 2026.
- Little Bighorn DaysHardin · Community celebrationA three-day June festival in downtown Hardin, Montana, led in 2026 by the Friends of the Depot under the banner of the Little Bighorn battle's 150th anniversary.
- Livin' Large in LavinaLavina · Annual full-day celebrationA one-day June celebration in Lavina, Montana, a Golden Valley County town of 153, that opens its old bank, mercantile, school and 1908 Adams Hotel to visitors.
- Manhattan Potato FestivalManhattan · CommunityAnnual celebration of Montana's agricultural heritage; 40th anniversary Saturday, August 15, 2026 with theme Heritage: A Journey Through the Years.
- Marysville PicnicMarysville · Family-fun eventHistorical buildings open for viewing. Free kids fun area. Local vendors. Barron of beef and burger barn lunch for purchase. As well as cold beer, soda, and frozen treats. Pie auction and raffle. Watermelon eating contest and egg toss. Rock drilling exhibition and good ol’ small town community fun.
- Miles City Bluegrass & Pie FestivalMiles City · FestivalA three-day bluegrass festival in the Home Show Building at the Eastern Montana Fairgrounds in Miles City, where homemade pie from local bakers shares the bill with the bands.
- Milk River Indian DaysFort Belknap Agency · Annual pow-wow and paradeMilk River Indian Days is the late-July contest powwow of the Aaniiih and Nakoda at Fort Belknap Agency, Montana; its 62nd edition, in 2026, opened a new elders' section in the arbor.
- North American Indian DaysBrowning · Annual celebration of blackfeet cultureThe Blackfeet Nation's four-day July gathering of powwow, drum contests, stick games, Indian relay racing and rodeo in Browning, Montana, begun in 1954 on a Sheridan, Wyoming, model.
- Plains DayPlains · Street festivalPlains Day, a street festival in Plains, Montana, fills the first Saturday in June with a parade on Railroad Street, a crosscut saw contest, huckleberry pies and evening limbo.
- Power Harvest FestPower · CommunityPower Harvest Fest is a non-profit organization that is vital to community enrichment activities for the town of Power, Montana.
- R.I.D.E.Roundup · Twenty first annual multi-day festivalRIDE is proud to announce our 2026 headlining acts: TANYA TUCKER and COOPER ALAN!!!
- Ronan Pioneer DaysRonan · Community celebrationRonan Pioneer Days, an early-August weekend in Ronan, Montana, whose 2026 rodeo was cancelled in June and restored by the Lake County Fair Board and Friends of the Fairground.
- Saco Fun DaysSaco · CommunityEnjoy a full day of festivities during the 63rd Annual Saco Fun Days! Events include a kids' RC car race at 9:00 AM, parade at 11:00 AM, pie social, community barbecue, button draw, County Line Arena Rodeo at 3:00 PM, minnow races at 7:00 PM, and live music and entertainment at 9:00 PM.
- Scobey Pioneer DaysScobey · Annual pioneer daysPioneer Days, held the last weekend of June at Pioneer Town in Scobey, Montana, where the Dirty Shame Belles dance in a 1913 grain building turned movie theater.
- Sheridan DaysSheridan · Festival/daysA four-day event with three nights of live music, anchored to Main Street and the Base Ball Park in Sheridan, MT.
- Shields Valley Old Settlers DaysLivingston · Annual eventThe weekend concludes with a community potluck honoring grand marshals and local service award recipients.
- Sidney Fall FestivalDowntown Sidney, Montana · Annual community celebrationAn annual harvest day in downtown Sidney, Montana, run by the Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture, ending in a supper from local farms and ranches and a street dance.
- Smeltermen's DayAnaconda · Annual community celebrationAnaconda, Montana's three-day August celebration of its smelter workers, once a union holiday held August 8 because the ACM weatherman named it the best bet against rain or snow.
- Stevensville Creamery PicnicStevensville · PicnicGuests shop the marketplace, eat the great food, listen to good music and enjoy some cold brews.
- Sun River Valley Fun DaySimms · Community organizationThe Sun River Valley's Fun Day fills Main Street in Simms, Montana, every second Saturday in August, from a Lions Club pancake breakfast to a rubber duck race down a ditch.
- Swan Lake Huckleberry FestivalSwan Lake · Huckleberry festivalA lakeshore fair held since 1981 on August's second Saturday at Swan Lake, Montana, where the fire department supplies huckleberry pies and search and rescue scoops the ice cream.
- Territorial DaysDeer Lodge · Annual territorial days celebrationTerritorial Days is the Powell County Chamber of Commerce's one-day June festival on Main Street in Deer Lodge, Montana, opening with a road race called the Prison Break Run.
- Townsend Fall FestTownsend · Family-friendly festivalA free three-day Rotary Club festival in Townsend, Montana, held the first weekend of October and closing Sunday with a Show & Shine car show of more than 300 cars.
- Trego Heritage DayTrego · Family-friendly festivalA one-day October festival on the Blarney Ranch in Trego, Montana, honoring Tobacco Valley ranching, farming, and logging, where the 2026 day opened with Dexter cattle and coffee.
- Twin Bridges Flotilla and Alumni WeekendTwin Bridges · Annual town weekendA summer weekend in Twin Bridges, Montana, where decorated rafts, drift boats, and kayaks float the Beaverhead River as a parade, followed by a rubber duck race.
- Valier Homesteader DaysValier · Annual homesteader days celebrationHomesteader Days is Valier's annual June weekend in Pondera County, Montana, with a poker ride from the stockyards, a parade, and a free Saturday-night dance at the Lake Frances pavilion.
- Victor DaysVictor · Community paradeVictor Days is a two-day August fair in the park at Victor, Montana, with a Saturday parade, a classic truck show, and racers built from engine valve covers.
- Whitehall Frontier DaysWhitehall · Community eventWhitehall Frontier Days fills the last weekend of July in this Jefferson Valley railroad town with two nights of PRCA rodeo, a Legion Street parade, and a firemen's duck race.
Nevada
- Amargosa DaysSpring town festivalA free spring festival at Amargosa Valley Park in Nye County, Nevada, held since 1969 and opened each Saturday by a parade about 800 yards long.
- Armed Forces Day CelebrationHawthorne · Armed forces day celebrationHawthorne, Nevada's Armed Forces Day, held the third weekend of May and counted 75 times, ends its noon parade with the crowd carrying a large American flag to Veterans Memorial Park.
- Beatty DaysBeatty · Town birthday celebrationBeatty Days, the Nye County town's Halloween-weekend birthday party in Cottonwood Park, grew out of a 1990s effort to save the Rhyolite ghost town five miles away.
- Boulder City DamboreeBoulder City · Damboree parade and fireworks celebrationBoulder City, Nevada's Fourth of July Damboree, begun by American Legion Post 31 in 1949, runs from Rotary pancakes at dawn to a street water fight along Avenue B.
- Caliente Memorial Day HomecomingCaliente · Memorial day weekend traditionThe Memorial Day Homecoming in Caliente, Nevada, held since 1951: four days of parade, softball and veterans' rites, with beef cooked in a pit at Rose Park.
- Carson Valley DaysGardnerville · FestivalA four-day June festival at Lampe Park in Gardnerville, Nevada, first held in 1910 as a single "Carson Valley Day" with a free barbecue of three steers.
- Dayton Valley DaysDayton · Community festivalA two-day September street festival in Historic Downtown Dayton, Nevada, begun in 1989 to fund artists in local schools and later turned to saving the town's old buildings.
- Genoa Candy DanceGenoa · Annual genoa candy dance arts and crafts faireA two-day crafts faire and Saturday dinner dance in Genoa, Nevada, begun in 1919 to buy street lights and still paying the town's electric bill.
- Genoa Western Heritage DaysGenoa · FestivalGenoa Western Heritage Days is a spring weekend of cowboy poetry, Chautauqua and a horse parade in Genoa, Nevada, the first permanent settlement in what became the state.
- Goldfield DaysGoldfield · EventGoldfield Days is a three-day town celebration held the first weekend in August in Goldfield, Nevada, built around Esmeralda County's auction of tax-delinquent land.
- Jarbidge DaysJarbidge · Annual celebrationIn August, the townspeople gather for their annual celebration at Jarbidge Days, with outdoor live music and parade, a bar-b-que, Dutch oven cooking, mountain men village, children's craft-making center and games, craft fair, wagon rides, Bingo, and a Jarbidge narrated slide program.
- Jim Butler DaysTonopah · Memorial day weekend town celebrationTonopah, Nevada, spends Memorial Day week celebrating Jim Butler's 1900 silver strike, and at the Elks Lodge the Nevada State Mining Championships put men and women to jacking and mucking.
- Lovelock Frontier DaysLovelock · Weekend of family funAn annual summer weekend in Courthouse Park, Lovelock, Nevada, begun for the town's 1968 centennial, where contestants in harness drag a tractor that hasn't run in years.
- Lund Pioneer DaysLund · Annual lund rodeoLund Pioneer Days fills a July weekend in Lund, Nevada, around an amateur rodeo first held in 1898 and missed, its organizers say, only in 2020.
- Mesquite DaysMesquite · EventsFamily Fun Night, carnival, Mayor's Pancake Breakfast, parade and Mesquite Mile fun run.
- National Basque FestivalElko · Basque festivalElko, Nevada's three-day Basque festival on the Fourth of July weekend, whose national title, one organizer joked, the town took because nobody was using it.
- Nevada DayCarson City · Statehood paradeNevada's statehood celebration in Carson City, held downtown since 1938, where a four-hour parade follows a dawn balloon launch and precedes single-jack drilling into Sierra White granite.
- Panaca Pioneer DayPanaca · Pioneer days celebrationA two-day, family-friendly celebration honoring early settlers with food, festivities, and community traditions.
- Pioche Labor Day CelebrationPioche · Small-town celebrationThe Pioche Labor Day Celebration, held for over a century in an old Lincoln County, Nevada, silver camp, pairs mucking and drilling contests with lawnmower races and a drone show.
- Silver Springs & Stagecoach Founders DaySilver Springs · Block party car showThe Founders Day Block Party Car Show returns Saturday, October 10th at Penny Park as part of our special Silver Springs & Stagecoach America 250 Celebration!
- Smith Valley Fun DaysWellington · Fun daysThe Rotary Club of Smith Valley's two-day October fair at Dressler Park in Wellington, Nevada, where tractor pulls have shared the grounds with a quilt show and horse-drawn vehicles.
- Spring JamboreeBoulder City · An annual, fun-filled, FREE family eventA free two-day festival in historic downtown Boulder City, Nevada, that grew from a 1977 chamber sidewalk sale into four parks of booths, hot rods, and a pinup pageant.
- Winnemucca Basque FestivalWinnemucca · Annual festivalMeals, street dances, music performances, wood chopping and weight lifting.
New Mexico
- Carrizozo Community FestivalCarrizozo · Community festivalA Labor Day weekend street festival on 12th Street in Carrizozo, New Mexico, revived by a coalition of local nonprofits, where Smokey Bear leads a parade that throws no candy.
- Chama DaysChama · Multi-day community festivalChama Days fills the railroad village of Chama, New Mexico, on the second weekend of August with rodeo, a parade, and softball that runs around the clock.
- Cloudcroft Lumberjack DayCloudcroft · Sporting eventCloudcroft Lumberjack Day is a free September Saturday of axe throwing, chainsaw and crosscut-saw contests at Ski Cloudcroft, held every year since 1993.
- Corrales Harvest FestivalCorrales · Two day eventA two-day village-wide fair in Corrales, New Mexico, held the last weekend of September, that moves crowds by tractor-drawn hay wagon and elects a pet mayor by the dollar.
- Diez y Seis de Septiembre Parade and FiestaMesilla · Parade and fiestaMesilla's two-day fiesta for Mexico's independence, run by the town on its historic plaza, opens with a Saturday-morning parade down Avenida de Mesilla.
- FiestaTruth or Consequences, New Mexico · Rodeo • live music • paradeAn annual May parade, rodeo, and street festival in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, begun in 1950 when Hot Springs took a radio game show's name.
- Fiesta de Santa FeSanta Fe · Annual celebrationThe Fiesta de Santa Fe fills the Santa Fe Plaza each September with dances, parades and food booths, under a civic vow first written into city minutes in 1712.
- Fiesta de TaosTaos · Community celebrationThe Fiestas de Taos, three July days on the Taos Plaza for Santiago and Santa Ana, where a reina is crowned at Mass and the court leads marchas through town.
- Fiesta del Valle de EspañolaEspanola · Annual community eventEspañola's July fiesta on the Plaza, first held in 1933 to mark Don Juan de Oñate's 1598 arrival, and for years contested over its portrayal of him.
- Fiestas de Las VegasLas Vegas · Long-standing summer traditionA four-day Fourth of July fiesta on the Historic Plaza of Las Vegas, New Mexico, dated to 1888 and grown from a farming town's feast for water.
- Great American Duck RaceDeming · FestivalDeming, New Mexico's four-day August festival, held since 1980, in which racers coax festival-raised ducks down wet and dry lanes beside the 1910 Luna County Courthouse.
- Hatch Chile FestivalHatch · FestivalBegun in 1971, the Hatch Chile Festival fills a New Mexico farm village each Labor Day weekend with barrel roasters and forty-pound sacks of valley green chile.
- Las Fiestas de San LorenzoBernalilloCelebration of Bernalillo’s patron San Lorenzo, centered on the ritual dance drama Los Matachines, with entertainment at Rotary Park.
- Mora FiestasMoraEvery summer, the Mora Valley pauses between the hay cutting and the harvest to celebrate the feast days of Santiago y Santa Ana — with a parade, live music, good food, and the whole community on Mainstreet.
- Mountainair JubileeMountainair · JubileeMountainair's summer Jubilee, in Torrance County, New Mexico, brings fireworks at the municipal airport, a Highway 60 parade beneath a local pilots' flyover, and dancing in the square.
- Old Fort DaysFort Sumner · Arts & craft show during old fort daysOld Fort Days, a June celebration in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, where racers carry 80-pound tombstones over hurdles to mark the thefts of Billy the Kid's headstone.
- Old Lincoln DaysLincoln · Three-day celebrationA three-day August festival in Lincoln, New Mexico, built around The Last Escape of Billy the Kid, a folk pageant staged by local volunteers since 1940.
- Old Timers' DayMelrose · Annual traditionThe Melrose community celebrates Old Timers' Day with great music, hometown pride, food, family fun, and memories for all ages.
- Pie Town Pie FestivalPie Town · Pie festivalA benefit festival on the second Saturday of September in Pie Town, a Catron County stop on US 60, where volunteers bake 500 pies from scratch for sale.
- Pinto Bean FiestaMoriarty · Annual harvest extravaganzaA balloon glow at Sierra Blanca Brewery, a parade, park vendors and a dance after dark.
- Pioneer DaysClovis · PRCA rodeoThe Pioneer Days PRCA Rodeo is a three-night professional rodeo held indoors in Clovis, New Mexico, by the Curry County Mounted Patrol, a fifty-member horsemen's club founded in 1939.
- Roswell UFO FestivalRoswell · FestivalThree free days each Fourth of July weekend on Main Street in Roswell, New Mexico, where a 1947 ranch-debris story drives a parade, costume contests, mariachi and a drone show.
- Spokes on 66Grants · Car showRoute 66-inspired car show packed with classic cars, custom builds, live music, vendors, and family fun
- Tucumcari Rawhide DaysTucumcari · Celebration of the old west and the filming of rawhideA three-day June festival in Tucumcari, New Mexico, for the TV western "Rawhide," filmed partly around town, whose chuckwagon cook was played by a Tucumcari native.
Oregon
- '62 DaysCanyon City · CelebrationCanyon City, Oregon's June celebration of the 1862 gold strike, held since 1922 by the Whiskey Gulch Gang, which stages a mock hanging beside the old brewery it owns.
- Aumsville Corn FestivalAumsville · Oregon heritage traditionThe Aumsville Corn Festival, held in Aumsville, Oregon, since 1968, gives away hot corn grown by a local farmer under contract to the city for one August Saturday.
- Aurora Colony DaysAurora · Annual eventA two-day August festival in Aurora, Oregon, that opens on Friday night with a free biergarten in the courtyard of the Old Aurora Colony Museum.
- Azalea FestivalBrookings · FestivalThe Azalea Festival is Brookings, Oregon's Memorial Day weekend celebration, held since 1939; its 1962 grand marshal was the Japanese pilot who had bombed nearby forest in 1942.
- Beachcomber FestivalWaldport · Annual festivalWaldport's three-day June festival on the Oregon coast, counted as the 70th in 2026, when its noon parade closed US101 and two committees claimed the name.
- Bohemia Mining DaysCottage Grove · Free public celebrationCottage Grove's free July festival, begun in 1959, raises a wooden-fronted Bohemia City in Coiner Park and races human-pushed ore carts in honor of the Bohemia Mining District.
- Bonanza DaysBonanza · Annual festivalBonanza Days is a one-day July homecoming in Bonanza, Oregon, a farm town of 465, where old-time carnival games run in booths used for more than 30 years.
- Canyonville Pioneer DaysCanyonville · CommunityCanyonville Pioneer Days, a four-day late-August festival in Pioneer Park in Canyonville, Oregon, honors a supply town on the Applegate Trail with pie auctions, a grease pole and a frog jump.
- Carlton Fun DaysCarlton · Annual celebration of communityCarlton Fun Days is a free two-day June festival in Carlton, Oregon, centered on Ladd Park, with a parade that marches from the elementary school north on Third and west down Main.
- Celebrate MolallaMolalla · FestivalCelebrate Molalla is a free one-day festival under the oaks of Clark Park in Molalla, Oregon, that grew out of a city council plan for 2020 to 2030.
- Chief Joseph DaysJoseph · Rodeo celebrationThe late-July rodeo week in Joseph, Oregon, begun in 1946 on a lake moraine to dedicate an airport, that opens with bucking horses stampeding down Main Street.
- Clatskanie Heritage DaysClatskanie · CelebrationClatskanie, Oregon's Fourth of July celebration, begun as a barbecue-and-baseball drive to build a town pool after drownings, still runs its parade downhill along Nehalem Street.
- Coquille RiverdaysCoquille · FestivalCoquille Riverdays is a two-day June festival in downtown Coquille, Oregon, that grew from the Gay '90s celebration, begun to open the Sawdust Theatre's season.
- Cove Cherry FairCove · FestivalThe Cove Cherry Fair, a free all-volunteer August day on the Ascension School grounds in Cove, Oregon, revives a growers' fair that crowned a King Bing and Queen Anne.
- Cranberry FestivalBandon · FestivalBandon's cranberry harvest festival on the southern Oregon coast, held since 1947, where high-school juniors are crowned Cranberry Queen or King and the parade has run since 1948.
- Culver Crawdad FestivalCulver · Community festival and paradeAn August Saturday parade and crawdad boil in Culver, Oregon, cooked from crawdads pulled out of Lake Billy Chinook, as they have been since Jess Smith's farm party.
- Dallas DaysDallas · EventA free downtown celebration in Dallas, Oregon, held the last weekend of July under a name that has gone from Krazy Dayz to Summerfest, back again, and now Dallas Days.
- Day in DamascusDamascus · Annual community carnivalDay in Damascus is the Damascus Civic Club's July carnival at its privately owned Centennial Park on Highway 212, where local candidates take turns in a dunk tank.
- Dory DaysPacific City · Annual celebration of local dory fishing culturePacific City, Oregon's July festival for its dory fleet, held since 1959, with a parade, a fish fry, and boats that launch straight off the beach at Cape Kiwanda.
- Dufur Threshing BeeDufur · FestivalA harvest weekend in Dufur, Oregon, begun in 1971 by a farmer who noticed passing motorists stopping to watch him work his wheat fields with horses.
- Elephant Garlic FestivalNorth Plains · Festival celebrating elephant garlicA free three-day elephant garlic festival held the second weekend of August in North Plains, Oregon, where every food booth must serve at least one garlic dish.
- Estacada Timber Festival and Fourth of July ParadeEstacadaEstacada, Oregon, spends the Fourth of July on a parade from the high school and back, and in many years on a Timber Festival where working loggers climb fifty-foot poles.
- Festival of ArtsGresham · Arts and cultural eventA free arts festival in historic downtown Gresham, Oregon, where on the third Saturday of July about 150 juried artists set up booths along streets closed to traffic.
- Fiesta MexicanaWoodburn · FestivalA three-day August festival in Woodburn, Oregon's Legion Park, begun in 1964 as an end-of-harvest thank-you to farmworkers and named an Oregon Heritage Tradition in 2017.
- Forest Grove Corn RoastForest Grove · FestivalA day of food, vendors, games, crafts, music, children's events and roasted corn on a street closed for the day; established in 1964 as a way to introduce incoming educators.
- Fort Umpqua DaysElkton · FestivalFort Umpqua Days is a free Labor Day weekend festival in Elkton, Oregon, held around a volunteer-built replica of the Hudson's Bay Company's southernmost fur post.
- Function 4 JunctionJunction City · Show 'n shine · classic cruise · community fundraiserFunction 4 Junction is a volunteer-run June car weekend in downtown Junction City, Oregon, whose Saturday night cruise admits only vehicles of 1979 and older.
- Garibaldi DaysGaribaldi · Family friendly town-wide festivalGaribaldi Days, a three-day July festival on Tillamook Bay at Garibaldi, Oregon, where Coast Guard crews and fire-department teams settle a water ball tournament on Biak Avenue.
- Gold Dust Day Heritage CelebrationGold Hill · Community eventGold Hill, Oregon, holds its Gold Dust Day on the first Saturday in June, with a parade down 2nd Avenue and free raft rides on the Rogue River.
- Grassroots FestivalUnion · Festival & car showA free one-day August festival on Union, Oregon's closed Main Street, with a car show, more than 30 yard sales, and a rubber duck race on Catherine Creek.
- Harrisburg Harvest FestivalHarrisburg · Tractor and truck pullA two-night truck and tractor pull a mile north of Harrisburg, Oregon, where a seventy-year-old Allis Chalmers and trucks of over 1,500 horsepower hook to the pulling sled.
- Hells Canyon Mule DaysEnterprise · Mule showA three-day mule show at the Wallowa County Fairgrounds in Enterprise, Oregon, held since 1981 on the weekend after Labor Day, with a log pull and a flapjack race.
- Homer Davenport DaysSilverton · Primary multi-day festivalSilverton, Oregon's August festival for its native-son cartoonist Homer Davenport, held since 1980, ends each year with teams pushing couches down Main Street.
- Hop & Heritage FestivalIndependence · Annual harvest celebrationA September harvest festival in downtown Independence, Oregon, once the Hop Capital of the World, where beers brewed with hops picked hours earlier pour in the town that grew them.
- Huckleberry FestivalNorth Powder · Small town festivalAn annual July festival in North Powder, Oregon, for the wild huckleberry of the surrounding mountains, where the Wolf Creek Grange serves the fruit in milkshakes.
- Irrigon Watermelon FestivalIrrigon · Annual community festivalA last-Saturday-of-July festival at Irrigon Marina Park on the Columbia in Oregon, where Hermiston melons go by the slice between a 6 a.m. breakfast and 10 p.m. fireworks.
- July JubileeNorth Bend · Hometown celebrationJuly Jubilee is North Bend, Oregon's three-day July birthday party for itself, begun in 1983 as a celebration held whether or not voters merged the city with Coos Bay.
- June Dairy ParadeTillamookAnnual June Dairy Parade celebrating Tillamook's dairy heritage, with more than 90 entries; the same weekend as the Tillamook County Rodeo and the Milk Run; the Tillamook Farmers Market runs in downtown that Saturday morning.
- Klamath Basin Potato FestivalMerrill · FestivalA two-day harvest festival in Merrill, Oregon, held since 1934 by most accounts, where growers enter boxed Russets for judging and the Lions Club feeds the crowd free.
- La Pine Frontier DaysLa Pine · 4th of july celebrationA four-day Fourth of July celebration in La Pine, Oregon, begun in 1976 and now held on old Finley Ranch pasture, where mowers race and children fish stocked trout.
- Lebanon Strawberry FestivalLebanon · FestivalA four-day June festival at Cheadle Lake Park in Lebanon, Oregon, held since 1909, where the Saturday parade ends in free slices of a shortcake billed as the world's largest.
- Linn County Pioneer PicnicBrownsville · Oregon’s oldest continuing celebrationOregon's oldest continuous pioneer celebration, a free three-day June picnic in Brownsville's Pioneer Park on the Calapooia, never canceled since its first reunion in 1887.
- Maupin DazeMaupin · Annual summer kickoff eventA celebration of the Maupin Community & our annual summer kickoff event!
- Melon FestHermiston · A celebration of watermelon & communityHermiston Melon Fest, a one-day August street festival in downtown Hermiston, Oregon, hands out local watermelon free by the slice while three-person teams race bathtubs from Hershey down Festival Street.
- Milwaukie FestMilwaukie · Annual weekend-long summer festivalMilwaukie's signature events bring long-time residents and newcomers together to enjoy each other's company and celebrate what makes the city unique. The city hosts the following signature events each year: Arbor Day, Umbrella Parade & Tree Lighting, Winter Solstice & Christmas Ships, Earth Day.
- Miners JubileeBaker City · Town days celebrationBaker City, Oregon's three-day July celebration of Baker County gold mining, with a parade, a state gold panning championship, and, until 1991, porcupine races.
- Molalla Buckeroo and July 4th CelebrationMolalla · 4th of july rodeo traditionMolalla's Fourth of July rodeo in Clackamas County, Oregon, has run on Shirley Street since a 1913 celebration of the town's first train, with fireworks after every evening show.
- Molalla Heritage Apple FestivalMolalla · Heritage festivalVendors, apple pie and apple cider, with cider-pressing demonstrations.
- Monroe FestivalDowntown Monroe · FestivalA free one-day Saturday festival in downtown Monroe, Oregon, pouring Southern Willamette Valley wine, beer and spirits beside a blueberry pie contest and vintage log trucks.
- Mosquito FestivalPaisley · FestivalPaisley, Oregon's festival on the last full weekend of July, begun in 1984 to buy mosquito spray for a high-desert town built on the Chewaucan Marsh.
- Multnomah Days Festival & ParadePortland · One-day open-airA one-day street festival and parade in Portland's Multnomah Village, begun by local merchants about 1920, whose parade admits no motorized vehicles or floats.
- National Rooster Crow WeekendRogue River · FestivalA late-June weekend in Rogue River, Oregon, held since 1953, whose main event counts how many times each entered rooster crows in thirty minutes.
- Newport Loyalty Days & Sea Fair FestivalNewport · FestivalEach May, Newport, Oregon, closes Highway 101 for one of the few Loyalty Day parades still held in the country, then blesses its fishing fleet on Yaquina Bay.
- Northwest Cherry FestivalThe Dalles · Annual festivalThe Northwest Cherry Festival is an April celebration in The Dalles, Oregon, that grew from a growers' Cherry Sweetheart contest begun in 1960 into the Gorge's largest parade.
- Painted Hills FestivalMitchell · FestivalA one-day town festival in Mitchell, Oregon, on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, that starts runners in the Painted Hills and ends with water troughs rolling down Main Street.
- Pilot Rock Community DaysPilot Rock · Family eventSaturday activities include a fireman's breakfast, yard sales, horseshoes, cornhole, vendors, parade, unofficial car show, beer garden and live music.
- Pioneer Days Picnic and CelebrationWeston · Annual celebrationThe Umatilla County Pioneer Picnic has been held in Weston, Oregon, since 1892. Each June it crowns a queen from an old settler family before a parade down Water Street.
- PorchfestGrants Pass · Free, family-friendly music festivalA free one-day music festival on the front porches of historic houses in northwest Grants Pass, Oregon, where the streets close to cars and the bands play for tips.
- Prideville FestivalPrineville, Oregon · Pride festJoin Prideville to show our "Small Town, Big Pride" at this year's 6th annual Pride fest in downtown Prineville.
- Prineville Western DaysPrineville · FestivalA two-day vendor festival in Prineville's Pioneer Park, held each June on Crooked River Roundup rodeo weekend, where the Saturday parade down Third Street comes to an end.
- Rainier Days in the ParkRainier · 3 day festivalA three-day riverfront carnival, parade, and fireworks show in Rainier, Oregon, organized since 2011 by the mayor, his wife, and his daughter, with volunteers.
- Rhododendron Festival (Rhody Days)Florence · Floral festivalFlorence's biggest celebration and one of Oregon's longest-running floral festivals, held throughout Florence.
- Robin Hood FestivalSherwood · Summer festivalEach third weekend of July since 1954, Old Town Sherwood, Oregon, holds a Robin Hood festival that knights its volunteers and shoots arrows against Nottingham, England.
- Santiam SummerFestStayton · Street fairA free one-day street fair on Third Avenue in downtown Stayton, Oregon, held each last Saturday of July, with lumberjacks working near the Jordan Covered Bridge.
- Sawdust JubileeRiddle · Annual eventRiddle's beginning-of-summer celebration returns Saturday, June 27, as Sawdust Jubilee brings a full day of food, music, family activities, local traditions and fireworks to town.
- Shaniko DaysShaniko · Annual event celebrating the inland wool capital of the worldSimplified wildfire program: live music Friday evening and Saturday, mechanical bull rides, cake auction, Ferrari Club from 12:30p-1:30p, and dinner.
- Sherman County Harvest FestivalGrass Valley · Harvest festivalA one-day harvest fair of children's activities, local makers and live entertainment, set for September 2027 in Grass Valley, Oregon, a Sherman County wheat town named for rye grass.
- Strawberry FestivalSilverton · FestivalThe Silverton Strawberry Festival, held each Father's Day in Silverton, Oregon, has served strawberry shortcake since 1951, and anyone two or younger or 80 or older eats free.
- Sutherlin StampedeSutherlin · RodeoA July night of bull riding, mutton bustin' and queen crowning in Sutherlin, Oregon, run by volunteers on a rodeo that once took canned food as admission.
- Talent Harvest FestivalTalent · Harvest celebrationSouthern Oregon's free downtown harvest festival in Talent, begun in 1971 as the Talent Tomato Festival, where neighbors' backyard apples and pears go into one community cider.
- Tamkaliks CelebrationWallowa · Three-day celebration of nez perce cultureA three-day Nez Perce powwow and homecoming each July on the Wallowa River at Wallowa, Oregon, ending in a Sunday feast of salmon, elk, deer, and buffalo.
- Teddy Bear ParadeGresham · Annual paradeAn annual parade through downtown Gresham, Oregon, held the last Saturday of September since 1982, in which marchers and watchers carry teddy bears later given to children in need.
- Thunderegg DaysNyssa · FestivalThunderegg Days is a three-day July festival in Nyssa, Oregon, where cut and polished specimens of the state rock have been laid out for visitors since 1966.
- Toledo Summer Festival & Logging ShowToledo · Toledo summer festivalA three-day July festival on Memorial Field in Toledo, Oregon, a Yaquina River mill town, where amateurs throw axes and pull crosscut saws between the carnival and the fireworks.
- UFO FestivalMcMinnville · UFO festivalA May weekend of UFO talks, costumes, and an alien parade in McMinnville, Oregon, held since 2000 to mark Paul and Evelyn Trent's 1950 flying-saucer photographs.
- Umatilla Landing DaysUmatilla · Family fun festivalUmatilla Landing Days, a free June festival at Umatilla Marina Park on the Columbia, marks the 1862 founding of Umatilla Landing with fireworks billed as the season's first.
- Vernonia Friendship Jamboree and Logging ShowVernonia · Community logging heritage festivalA three-day August reunion in Vernonia, Oregon, begun after the town's sawmill closed in 1957 and built around a logging show where competitors run logs across Rock Creek.
- White Cedar DaysPowers · Annual independence day celebrationAn Independence Day weekend in Powers, Oregon, held since 1976, where competitors drag choker cables and throw axes at a loggers' Shodeo on borrowed logs.
- Yamhill Derby DaysYamhill · Yamhill derby days paradeYamhill, Oregon's July festival in Beulah Park, begun for a general store's anniversary, where children aged 8 to 11 race homemade derby cars down a steep ramp.
Utah
- Bear Lake Raspberry DaysGarden City · Annual festivalA three-day August festival in Garden City, Utah, for the Bear Lake raspberry harvest, held in a county of under 3,000 people that expected 50,000 visitors in 2025.
- Cotton DaysWashington · Annual cotton days celebrationCotton Days is Washington City's free spring festival in Utah, honoring the families sent to grow cotton in the desert, and its 2026 edition closed with the city's first drone show.
- Daggett DazeManila · ParadeDaggett Daze is Manila, Utah's Labor Day Saturday, with a parade down Highway 43, a fair in the county park, PRCA rodeo, and a boat parade of lights on Flaming Gorge.
- Fort Herriman Towne Days ParadeHerriman · ParadeThe Saturday-morning parade of Fort Herriman Towne Days, a city-run procession of floats and performers through Herriman's Mirabella and Emmeline streets to W & M Butterfield Park.
- Founders' DayWellsville · Annual eventWellsville, Utah, marks its 1856 founding as Maughan's Fort each Labor Day with pancakes, a parade, rodeo nights, and a Sham Battle reenacted there since about 1930.
- Golden Onion DaysPayson · Annual celebrationPayson, Utah's five-day Labor Day celebration, begun in 1929 as the Onion Harvest and Homecoming, where a flower show in a 1901 schoolhouse still looks for the biggest onion.
- Grantsville SociableGrantsville · Annual community eventGrantsville's Sociable, first held on January 6, 1884, still fills the town's high school one Saturday each March with a car show, a talent program, and a dinner for its elders.
- Handcart DaysBountiful · Park activitiesHandcart Days is Bountiful, Utah's July pioneer celebration, held since 1950 and run entirely by volunteers, with a 1.8-mile parade up Main Street and gunny-sack races in City Park.
- Hay DaysTremonton · Summer traditionA July celebration in Tremonton, Utah, renamed from City Days in 2021 for the town's crops, with free pancakes from the city council and a police-versus-fire softball game.
- Heritage DaysSyracuse · Annual festivalSyracuse, Utah's June celebration, a week of pageant, petting zoo and pancakes that ends with a parade down 2000 West and fireworks from Founders Park.
- International DaysPrice · FestivalSeveral days of live entertainment, carnival, cultural celebrations, food, activities, and fun for the whole family; free to attend.
- Kaysville First Friday FestivalKaysville · Community festivalThis monthly event celebrates all things vintage, antique, and one-of-a-kind. There is something for everyone at this family-friendly community festival.
- Kearns Hometown CelebrationKearns · Annual hometown celebrationRaces, parade, food trucks, car show, live music, petting zoo and night sky show.
- Lamb DaysFountain GreenWatch lambs on a spit lowered into heated pits to cook overnight.
- Leamarado DaysLeamington · Homecoming celebrationLeamington's Labor Day homecoming in Millard County, Utah, begun in 1946 for returning World War II soldiers, runs from a morning talent show at Town Hall to a 3:30 rodeo.
- Little Hollywood Wild West FestKanab · FestivalKanab, Utah's Little Hollywood Wild West Fest runs three September nights of stunt shows, cowboy poets and Western actors, with its hub on a museum lot of actual movie sets.
- Melon DaysGreen River · FestivalCelebrating 120 years of tradition, Green River's Melon Days Festival honors our world-famous melons and the hardworking families who grow them.
- Miner's DayPark City · Annual celebrationPark City's Labor Day, called Miners Day, falls on the first Monday in September, when 15,000 golf balls race down Main Street and hard-rock miners drill a donated stone in City Park.
- Oak City DaysOak CityA two-day event held in August to celebrate the founding of the town.
- Old Mill DaysMillville · City celebrationOld Mill Days, Millville, Utah's June celebration at South Park, takes its name from the 1859 sawmill that the Cache Valley town was settled beside.
- Peach DaysBrigham City · Annual celebrationBrigham City's harvest festival, held since 1904 the weekend after Labor Day, traces its peaches to 100 pits William Wrighton bought for a dollar in 1855.
- Peach DaysHurricane · A celebration of our heritageHurricane, Utah's early-September festival on the old town square, revived in 1999 from a 1909 fruit festival that once grew into the Washington County Fair.
- Pioneer DaySpring City · Annual pioneer day paradeSpring City's July Pioneer Day week in Sanpete County, Utah: a fireman's breakfast, a Main Street parade, and history contests in a town listed entire on the National Register.
- Pioneer Day CelebrationFairview · CelebrationFairview's Pioneer Days, a Sanpete County, Utah, celebration that two volunteer chairs stretched from two days to ten, climbing to a July 24 parade, rodeo and dirt dance.
- Pioneer DaysMapleton · Event schedule2026 Event Schedule with Pickleball Tournaments and Pioneer Festival.
- Pioneer DaysWellingtonFriday community picnic in the park at 6:00 p.m. with the Desert Sage Band; Saturday breakfast, 10:00 a.m. parade, vendors, games, live music, bingo and tournaments at Wellington City Park.
- Pioneer Days CelebrationMonticello · Community celebrationA two-day Pioneer Day celebration in Monticello, Utah, with a Main Street parade and what the San Juan Record calls the nation's longest consecutively running fastpitch softball tournament.
- Price City Renaissance FestivalPrice · Family friendly, FREE community eventAnnual free family-friendly Renaissance Festival drawing more than 30,000 visitors to Washington and Pioneer Parks in Price, Utah.
- Quilt Walk FestivalPanguitch · FestivalThe Quilt Walk Festival, held each June in Panguitch, Utah, honors seven men who crossed a snowbound pass to Parowan in 1864 by laying quilts down ahead of them.
- Sauerkraut DaysProvidence · Town daysProvidence City Sauerkraut Days is a six-day August town celebration in Cache Valley, Utah, built around a sauerkraut that a local bottler ferments each summer in barrels and sells by the jar.
- Scandinavian Heritage FestivalEphraim · Scandinavian celebrationA free two-day Memorial Day weekend festival in Ephraim, Utah's "Little Denmark," begun in 1976 to pay for two pioneer roofs and now spread across three villages.
- Swiss DaysMidway · Small town heritage festivalMidway Swiss Days, a two-day Labor Day weekend festival on the Midway, Utah, town square since 1947, where beef smokes two days over Payson tart cherry wood.
- Swiss DaysSanta Clara · Hometown festivalSwiss Days is Santa Clara, Utah's three-day hometown festival, held since 1990 for the Swiss settlers of 1861, when a herd of decorated wooden cows lines Santa Clara Drive.
- Tintic Silver JubileeEureka · Long-standing traditionWe need volunteers to help out at various Tintic Silver Jubilee events.
- Torrey Apple DaysTorrey · Annual summer celebrationTorrey Apple Days fills a Wayne County town near Capitol Reef on the first weekend of July, when children race apple boats down the canal on Main Street.
Washington
- 3rd & 4th of July CelebrationEatonville · Community celebrationThe Eatonville Business Association's two-day Independence Day in Pierce County, Washington: fireworks over a school field on the night of July 3, a noon parade on July 4.
- 49er DaysWinthrop · Annual celebrationWinthrop, Washington's annual western celebration on Mother's Day weekend, opened each year by a pack train riding in from a week in the Methow Valley high country.
- Amboy Territorial DaysAmboy · CelebrationAmboy Territorial Days is a three-day July celebration at a volunteer-owned park in North Clark County, Washington, begun for a post office's 75th anniversary and built around a logging show.
- Anatone DayAnatone · Community dayA June Saturday at the Anatone Community Hall in Asotin County, Washington, held since 1982, with pit-roasted pork, an ATV poker run, and Rod Sangster at his player piano.
- Apple Pie JamboreePateros · Annual eventA three-day fundraiser held since 1947 in Pateros, Washington, where pie, a parade and fireworks in a lakeshore park pay for the town's children's swim lessons and theater.
- Asotin DaysAsotin · Annual town celebrationAsotin Days, the August weekend festival of Asotin in southeast Washington, opens with a 6 a.m. Lions Club breakfast and holds its Chrome on the Creek car show beside Asotin Creek.
- Bald Eagle DaysCathlamet · Two-day festivalBald Eagle Days, a two-day July festival in Cathlamet, Washington, grew from a parade the Cathlamet Women's Club staged in support of the bald eagle.
- Battle DaysRosalia · Town day celebrationRosalia's town day on the Palouse, held each June since 1970, commemorates the 1858 Battle of Pine Creek, and its early proceeds paid for the town museum.
- Battle Ground Harvest DaysBattle Ground · FestivalBattle Ground's Harvest Days, held the third weekend of July since 1957, runs pre-1996 cars down Main Street on Friday night, a parade Saturday morning, and fireworks over the high school.
- Benton City DazeBenton City · Community celebrationBenton City Daze, a September community celebration held in downtown Benton City, Washington, since 1983, runs from a 10 a.m. parade to a street dance ending at midnight.
- Berry Dairy DaysBurlington · Community festivalBurlington, Washington's three-day summer festival of strawberries and dairy, held since the 1930s and still centered on the strawberry shortcake firefighters once pulled down Fairhaven Avenue in red wagons.
- Black Diamond Labor DaysBlack Diamond · FestivalA Labor Day weekend festival in the coal town of Black Diamond, Washington, restarted in 1947 when five men each threw $10 into a pot.
- Buckley Log Show and ParadeBuckley · Two-day logging competitionAn amateur logging competition held the last full weekend of June in Buckley, Washington, open only to local contestants, where a retired logger is named Bull of the Woods.
- Camas DaysCamas · Weekend celebrationCamas Days, a two-day July street festival in downtown Camas, Washington, begun in 1974, where Camas and Washougal council members take part in bathtub races outside City Hall.
- Cascade DaysConcrete · All-class reunionConcrete's August parade and festival in eastern Skagit County, born in the 1930s from dinner meetings held to push a highway across the North Cascades.
- Cheese DaysToledo · Annual town eventToledo, Washington's July festival has run since 1919 and has outlasted the cheese factory it was founded to celebrate. The parade still ends with free cheese sandwiches.
- Chief Seattle DaysSuquamish · 3-day public festivalThe Suquamish Tribe's free three-day August festival in Suquamish, Washington, held since 1911 and centered on a Saturday honoring at Chief Seattle's grave above the Salish Sea.
- Clallam Bay/Sekiu Fun DaysClallam Bay · FestivalClallam Bay/Sekiu Fun Days is a July weekend on Washington's North Olympic coast that began as a loggers' day off and ends Saturday night with fireworks over the bay.
- Concrete River DaysColfax · Annual concrete river days celebrationA one-day July festival in downtown Colfax, Washington, named for the town's concrete river, where rubber ducks once raced the canal and now serve as raffle tickets.
- Connell Fall FestivalConnell · Annual community celebrationAn annual September celebration in downtown Connell, Washington, north of Pasco on Highway 395, which the city says has run more than 100 years and which opens with a fireman breakfast.
- Custer DaysCuster · Street festival for all agesCuster Days is a one-day August street festival in Custer, Whatcom County, Washington, revived in 2025, where a covered-wagon jail holds anyone arrested until a friend pays bail.
- Davenport Pioneer DaysDavenport · Annual town celebrationDavenport, Washington's town celebration, held the third weekend of July since a museum opening in 1972, puts its Saturday parade on U.S. Highway 2.
- DeutschesfestOdessa · FestivalOdessa, Washington's four-day German-Russian heritage festival, held since 1971 in a wheat town of under 900, where a city-block Biergarten fills the community center built for it in 1973.
- Down River DaysIone · Town weekend celebrationIone, Washington's town weekend in City Park on the Pend Oreille River, first held in 1957, ends with snowmobiles racing across open water.
- Duvall DaysDuvall · FestivalDuvall Days, the free first-weekend-of-June festival in Duvall, Washington, closes Main Street for a parade and ends in fireworks over McCormick Park, and it counts two anniversaries at once.
- Everson-Nooksack Summer FestivalEverson · Summer festivalA free two-day July festival in Everson, Washington, a Nooksack Valley farm town about nine miles from Canada, whose Saturday parade runs a mile down Main Street to the river.
- Fair Days ParadeMonroe · ParadeMonroe, Washington's annual Fair Days Parade on West Main Street, run alongside the Evergreen State Fair, where dancing horses share the street with Evergreen Speedway drift cars.
- Fall City DayFall City · Family community festivalFall City Day, a volunteer-run June festival in unincorporated Fall City, Washington, where a parade has followed the Snoqualmie River road since the early 1950s.
- FallfestFamily-friendly fall festivalFood and craft vendors, live music, a beer garden and a chili cook-off in downtown Chewelah.
- Festival at Mt. SiNorth Bend · Annual summer festivalA free three-day August festival at Si View Park in North Bend, Washington, held under four names since 1947 and run by volunteers to fund a scholarship.
- Festival of AmericaGrand Coulee · FestivalA Fourth of July festival at Grand Coulee Dam's Visitor Center Park in Coulee Dam, Washington, where lasers play across the dam face and fireworks launch from its top.
- Fjordin CrossinHoodsport · 9th annual fjordin crossin fun family event that celebrates the old linie aquavit traditionEach June in Hoodsport, Washington, a fiddle-led parade walks a barrel of dill aquavit to the dock and sends it out onto Hood Canal, trailed by a flotilla of paddlers.
- Flag DayFairfield · Flag day celebrationFairfield, a Palouse farm town southeast of Spokane, has held a Flag Day parade and celebration in June since 1910, six years before Wilson's proclamation.
- Forks Old Fashioned 4th of July CelebrationForks, WA · Nonprofit organizationForks, Washington's four-day Independence Day celebration on the West End, where log trucks roll in the Grand Parade and the Lions Club bakes salmon in Tillicum Park's Ben Dome.
- Founder's DayCashmere · Summer celebrationCashmere Founders' Days fills downtown Cashmere, Washington, each June with a car show, parade and evening laser show, and a helicopter drops prize ping-pong balls to children.
- Founders DayMedical Lake · Signature eventMedical Lake, Washington, holds Founders Day on the third weekend of June, with Friday fireworks, a Saturday parade, and a triathlon that begins with a swim.
- Founders' DayTonasketTonasket's Memorial Day weekend celebration in the Okanogan pairs a Saturday parade on Whitcomb Avenue with a two-night PRCA rodeo whose mid-show chicken race is billed as world famous.
- Fourth of JulyLopez IslandLopez Island's Fourth of July, in Washington's San Juan Islands, closes with a volunteer-built fireworks show over Fisherman Bay, its shells made on the island with charcoal from local trees.
- Fourth of July CelebrationArlington · July 4th celebrationArlington, Washington's two-day Fourth of July, with pancakes on the Stillaguamish, a parade down Olympic Avenue, and thousands of rubber ducks dumped off Lincoln Bridge.
- Fourth of July ParadeTwisp · Annual fourth of july paradeTwisp's Fourth of July parade, a Methow Valley custom since 1891, moves along Glover Street in Okanogan County, Washington, with horses, floats, and a fire engine hosing down the spectators.
- Goldendale Community DaysGoldendale · Summer celebrationGoldendale's summer celebration on Main Street and the Klickitat County Courthouse lawn, which reached its 100th year in 2026 and began, the mayor says, as a world-record turnout attempt.
- Grand Old Fourth of JulySteilacoom · Annual july fourth celebrationThe Steilacoom Chamber of Commerce's day-long Fourth of July on Lafayette Street in Steilacoom, Washington, ending with fireworks from a barge paid for entirely by private donations.
- Grandview DaysGrandview · Community paradeGrandview's community parade runs down 2nd Street each August with the Yakima Valley Fair and Rodeo, a fair that began in 1927 as canvas booths and a horse-team pull downtown.
- Granger Cherry FestivalGranger · Cherry festivalThe Granger Lions Club's three-day festival in Granger, Washington, a Yakima Valley town that took the cherry as its emblem, with a carnival at Stoney's Plaza and a Saturday parade.
- Harrah Fall FestivalHarrah · Fall festivalThe Town of Harrah's festival in Yakima County, Washington, held the second Saturday of September, began as the Sugar-Beet Festival and took a new name when the industry went away.
- Harrington Car ShowHarrington · Annual harrington car showAn annual May car show on Third Street in Harrington, Washington, hosted by a family antique car museum in an old Ford dealership in memory of its founder.
- Harrington Fall FestivalHarrington · Fall festivalHarrington's Fall Festival is the September alumni and harvest day of a Lincoln County, Washington, wheat town, where one family has smoked the Lions Club lunch since 1946.
- Harrington Vintage Country FairHarrington · Vintage country fairA free one-day street fair of tractors, pies and yard sales in Harrington, Washington, begun in 2021, with a quilt show upstairs in the 1904 Opera House.
- Hartline DaysHartline · Annual hartline days celebrationHartline Days is a one-day September celebration in the Grant County farm town of Hartline, Washington, where a five-block parade ends at the park and the auction pays for scholarships.
- Harvest FestivalKirkland · FestivalA free one-day fall festival on the north side of Kirkland's Juanita Beach Park, where pie eating, corn shucking, and pony rides share the grounds with a food-donation tent.
- Hockinson Fun DaysHockinson · Two-day celebrationHockinson Fun Days, a late-May celebration near Brush Prairie, Washington, runs from Friday bingo in the high school commons to a Saturday parade of about fifty entries.
- Holland HappeningOak Harbor · Two-day spring celebrationThe Holland Happening & International Festival is Oak Harbor's April weekend honoring Whidbey Island's Dutch settlers, where small wooden shoes race down a water-filled canal at Windjammer Park.
- Huckleberry FestivalBingen · Community festivalBingen, Washington, has held its free, three-day Huckleberry Festival since 1962, with huckleberry pie, a parade dressed in purple and a reptile show kept out of the afternoon heat.
- Independence Day CelebrationConconully · Annual independence day celebrationConconully's Independence Day Celebration fills Main Street in an Okanogan County mountain town of 193 every first Saturday of July, and ends with a $3-a-duck race.
- Kahlotus DaysKahlotus, Washington · Community eventAnnual first-weekend-in-June community celebration with vendors, breakfast, softball, Kiddie Parade and Grand Parade.
- Kalama Cultural FestivalKalama · FestivalFor many years, the Kalama community held a festival celebrating the unique blending of Hawaiian and Native American cultures of the Pacific Northwest. This year, we continue to build on the foundation of the previous festivals in Kalama, Washington.
- Kelso Highlander Festival & Scottish GamesKelso · Highland festival and scottish gamesClan societies march and gather on the Avenue of Clans.
- Kent Cornucopia DaysKent · Annual festivalThe festival happens on Meeker Street in downtown Kent; the car show is at 4th & Meeker Street, spread over 3 blocks and additional side parking lots.
- Kent International FestivalKent · FestivalAn annual free festival of the greater Kent community's heritages at the accesso ShoWare Center in Kent, Washington, where visitors collect stamps at ten cultural passport booths.
- Kla Ha Ya DaysSnohomish · FestivalKla Ha Ya Days is Snohomish, Washington's official July celebration, held since 1913 and named, by one account, for the Chinook word for welcome.
- Klickitat Canyon DaysKlickitat · Annual town festivalThe annual festival of Klickitat, Washington, held the last full weekend of July since the 1970s, ends with a thousand numbered ducks floating down the river into town.
- Kruisin’ Kittitas Car Show & BurnoutsKittitas · Car show & burnoutsClassic cars, community, and burnouts in the City of Kittitas.
- La Center Our DaysLa Center · Summer traditionVendor marketplace at Holley Park: every year the parking lot and grass areas fill with a curated selection of local crafts, food, and services and thousands of visitors.
- LoggerodeoSedro-Woolley · Fourth of july festivalSedro-Woolley's Fourth of July celebration in Washington's Skagit Valley, built around an invitation-only chainsaw carving championship held in a fenced lot downtown.
- Loggers' JubileeMorton · CelebrationMorton, Washington, holds its four-day Loggers' Jubilee the second weekend of August, where springboard choppers share the bill with home-built lawnmower racers and a logging-truck parade.
- Loggers' PlaydayHoquiam · Logging celebration and paradeHoquiam's one-day September logging celebration in Grays Harbor County, Washington, held since 1965, ends at Olympic Stadium, where a topped spar drops onto a watermelon-painted Volkswagen.
- Loyalty DaysLong Beach · Annual loyalty days paradeLoyalty Days, a free May weekend of parades and a fleet blessing in Ilwaco and Long Beach, Washington, kept since 1950 and claimed as the nation's longest-running Loyalty Day observance.
- Makah DaysNeah Bay · Annual celebrationMakah Days, the Makah Tribe's three-day August homecoming in Neah Bay, Washington, held every year since 1924 around the anniversary of a 1913 flag raising.
- Manson Apple Blossom FestivalManson · FestivalManson's spring festival on Lake Chelan's north shore, held since 1921, where each May's royal court wears crowns from a line of makers begun by Edna Bennett in 1948.
- Mason County Forest FestivalShelton · Forest festivalA four-day timber festival in Shelton, Washington, held the weekend after Memorial Day, begun in 1945 as a forest-fire prevention campaign and still led by Paul Bunyan.
- McCleary Bear FestivalMcCleary · Annual mccleary bear festivalMcCleary's Bear Festival, held each July since 1959 in a Grays Harbor County mill town, ends its Saturday parade with stew cooked in iron kettles by volunteer firefighters.
- Meeker DaysPuyallup · Community celebrationPuyallup's free three-day June street festival, held since the 1940s and named for Ezra Meeker, whose first hop-curing house stood in the park where its main stage plays.
- Metaline Falls Bigfoot FestivalMetaline Falls · Town-wide eventAn annual small-town Bigfoot festival with vendors selling food and art.
- Millwood DazeMillwood · Street fairMillwood Daze is the late-August street fair of Millwood, Washington, a paper-mill town east of Spokane, where entrants race small cars built from engine valve covers.
- Milton DaysMilton · City community celebrationMilton Days, an August weekend in Milton, Washington, has marked the town's 1907 incorporation since 1948 with a costume party, a parade down Milton Way, and a car show.
- Mossyrock Blueberry FestivalMossyrock · FestivalMossyrock's free three-day blueberry festival in Lewis County, Washington, held the first weekend of August in the town where the county's first commercial blueberries went in during 1944.
- Moxee Hop FestivalMoxee · Annual moxee hop festivalThe Moxee Hop Festival is a three-day August gathering in Moxee City Park, Washington, begun in 1948 to pay for the town's swimming pool.
- Napavine Funtime FestivalNapavine · FestivalA summer festival in Napavine, Washington, planned by the town's Jaycees in 1973, crowns a princess in the grade school gym the night before its candy-throwing Tiger Parade.
- National Lentil FestivalPullman · Food & brew festThe World’s Largest Lentil Chili Bowl, a food and artisan marketplace, and live performances.
- Northeast Washington Mushroom FestivalKettle Falls · Mushroom festivalA free one-day fungi festival at Happy Dell Park in Kettle Falls, Washington, where foragers leave at ten with maps and return by two to have their mushrooms weighed.
- Old Fashioned Tokeland 4th of July Parade & PicnicTokeland · Parade and family picnicAn Independence Day parade and lawn picnic in Tokeland, Washington, on Willapa Bay, held since 1976, whose parade leaves the marina and loops past the 1885 Tokeland Hotel.
- Old Mill DaysOakesdale · Annual celebrationOld Mill Days, Oakesdale, Washington's July festival, honors a four-story 1890 flour mill shut since 1960, with corgi races, lawn mower races, and a midnight swim.
- Old Settlers PicnicFerndale · Washington's longest running picnicThe all-volunteer Whatcom County Old Settlers Association organizes the annual picnic, grand parade and car show, with proceeds going toward preserving the memory and heritage of the early pioneers of Whatcom County.
- Oregon Trail DaysTenino · FestivalTenino, Washington's three-day July festival of pioneer history, where an 1890 press in the old stone depot still prints the town's souvenir wooden money.
- Our Days CelebrationLa Center · CelebrationLa Center, Washington's July Steamboat Celebration, a volunteer-run festival since the mid-1960s, opens with a Friday twilight parade down Fourth Street and fills Holley Park on Saturday.
- Palouse DaysPalouse · Town daysWorld Famous Palouse Days, an annual community celebration the second weekend after Labor Day in downtown Palouse.
- Pe Ell 4th of July FestivalPe Ell · FestivalA volunteer-run Fourth of July weekend in Pe Ell, a western Lewis County town of about 655, where a pierogi contest shares the program with axe throwing and fireworks.
- Penn Cove Water FestivalCoupeville · FestivalAnnual tribal canoe races, Native arts and crafts vendors, storytelling, musical and dance performances, artist demonstrations, Native foods, youth activities and educational displays.
- Pioneer DaysCle Elum · Patriotic celebrationThe Fourth of July weekend in Cle Elum, Washington, led by a First Street parade and a Pioneer Queen who must be at least 75.
- Planters DaysWoodland · Annual community celebrationWoodland, Washington's four-day June celebration at Horseshoe Lake Park, held since 1922 to mark the diking of the Lewis and Columbia rivers, with a frog jump near sixty years old.
- Prairie DaysYelm · Community festivalPrairie Days is Yelm, Washington's four-day late-June festival around a Saturday parade on Yelm Avenue, begun in 1971, by one founder's account, to replace a fading carnival.
- Prospectors' DaysRepublic · AnnualProspectors' Days is Republic, Washington's three-day June celebration of its gold-camp beginnings, with a mock Old West shootout at noon and a grand parade down Clark Street.
- Quincy Farmer Consumer Awareness DayQuincy · CelebrationA September day in Quincy, Washington, begun in 1981 after a farmer heard a radio story about a shopper who believed food came "from Safeway, naturally."
- Railroad DaysGranite Falls · Annual railroad daysGranite Falls, Washington, keeps an October parade and street fair for its steam-train era, begun in 1966 when a high school class opened a tin box from a schoolhouse cornerstone.
- Rainier Round-Up DaysRainier · Community eventCommunity events include a parade, street dance, corn feed, and a free 32nd annual Bluegrass Festival at Wilkowski Park during the fourth weekend in August.
- Razor Clam and Shellfish FestivalLong Beach · FestivalThe spring razor clam festival at Veterans Field in Long Beach, Washington, begun in 1940 around a clam fritter fried in the "World's Largest Frying Pan."
- Reardan Mule DaysReardan · Annual eventA celebration of community filled with many events.
- Rhododendron FestivalPort Townsend · FestivalRhody Week events include trike races, the Pet Parade, Grand Parade, Kiddie Parade, Bed Races, beard judging, golf tournaments and a downtown store window display contest.
- Rhubarb DaysSumner · Street fair & festivalRhubarb Days is a free June street fair in downtown Sumner, Washington, selling rhubarb pie, crisp and IPA from a valley that has forced the plant in hothouses since 1914.
- Sage-N-Sun FestivalEphrata · FestivalEphrata's downtown June festival in Grant County, Washington, run by the Chamber of Commerce around the county courthouse and possibly the county's oldest continuously held.
- Selah Community DaysSelah · Annual celebrationSelah Community Days, held the third weekend in May in Selah, Washington, began in 1926 with a parade of flower-festooned autos to a new high school's picnic grounds.
- Settlers DayDeer Park · Annual community celebrationSettlers Day, Deer Park, Washington's July parade and park gathering, held since 1921 and counted by the city as the state's oldest continuous community celebration.
- Slippery Gulch CelebrationTekoa · FestivalTekoa's June celebration in the Palouse, where a week of youth fishing on Hangman Creek ends in a parade, fireworks, and an egg toss with a 93-foot record.
- Snoqualmie DaysSnoqualmie · Annual celebrationSnoqualmie Days, an August festival in downtown Snoqualmie, Washington, began in 1939 when volunteer firefighters celebrated the town's first fire truck, which still rides in the parade.
- States DayProsser · Community eventAfter the parade, family activities get underway at the city park. Stop on your way into the park to sign into your state of origin and don't forget to purchase your States Day Commemorative buttons! Then grab food from local vendors before trying your luck at BINGO under the pavilion or enjoying the stage show, which shows off the talents of local groups.
- Sultan ShindigSultan · A community celebrationThe Sultan Shindig is a free three-day July festival at River Park in Sultan, Washington, built around a logging contest of pole climbing, hot saws, and thrown axes.
- Sumas Community DaysSumas · Community eventLocal vendors, food, live music, and family fun.
- Sunshine DaysSunnyside · Annual town celebration and paradeA free three-day September festival in downtown Sunnyside, Washington, built around the town's oldest parade and closing Sunday with a grito contest and dancing horses.
- Tides & Timbers Brew Fest (Willapa Harbor Festival)Raymond · Brew festThe former Willapa Harbor Festival, reimagined as a coastal craft-beverage and music festival
- Town and Country DaysKettle Falls · Small town community reunion festivalA two-day street festival on Meyers Street in Kettle Falls, Washington, held in early June, where an honorary Town Grouch leads the Saturday parade.
- Vader May Day FestivalVader · FestivalA one-day parade and street fair on A Street in Vader, Washington, begun in 1952 by Girl Scout leader Lena DeAger and still closing with a May Pole dance.
- Vashon Strawberry FestivalVashon · Island strawberry heritage festivalA three-day July street festival on Vashon Island, Washington, held in the strawberry's name since 1909 on an island that now grows few commercial strawberries.
- Waitsburg Celebration DaysWaitsburg · Time-honored eventWaitsburg Celebration Days is a time-honored event, starting in some form as early as 1902.
- Warden Community DaysWarden · Small town festivalWarden Community Days is a Labor Day weekend festival in Warden, Washington, that ends Monday with a parade down Main Street and a footrace in inflatable costumes.
- Washington State Autumn Leaf FestivalLeavenworth · FestivalLeavenworth's longest-running festival, founded in 1964, crowns an older woman Royal Lady of the Autumn Leaves and sends her around the Northwest before she rides home down Front Street.
- Waterville DaysWaterville · CelebrationWaterville Days is a July Saturday in Waterville, Washington, the state's highest incorporated town, when a parade leaves the school and Pioneer Park fills with the farm market.
- Westport Seafood Festival & Craft ShowWestport · Seafood festival & craft showA one-day waterfront feast of fish and oysters off the Westport boats, with a juried craft show, held at the mouth of Grays Harbor, Washington.
- Whaling DaysSilverdale · Community festivalWhaling Days is a free, volunteer-run festival on the Silverdale waterfront in Kitsap County, Washington, held since 1974 and named for a furniture store called Silver Whale.
- Wild Goose Bill DaysWilbur · Annual town celebrationWilbur, Washington's May town celebration, with a parade and a 3.5-mile Wild Goose Chase, named for a founder who died in a cabin shootout in 1895.
- Wild West ParadeToppenish · ParadeA free downtown parade of horses, wagons, floats and classic cars in Toppenish, Washington, held on the rodeo's Fourth of July weekend and billed locally as the "original" Western parade.
- Wilkeson DaysWilkesonDay 1 has handcar races, parade and vendor market at Historic Coke Oven Park. Day 2 has art displays, history walk, vendor market and Duh Kwooz at Wilkeson Town Hall.
- Winlock Egg DaysWinlock · Annual festivalWinlock's June egg festival in Lewis County, Washington, held since 1921 for a town that once shipped eggs to New York and Hawaii, under a fiberglass egg on a pole.
- Yakama Nation Treaty DaysToppenish and White Swan · Treaty day commemorationThe Treaty Day Commemoration celebrates the sovereignty, resilience and culture of the Yakama people.
- Yep Kanum CelebrationColville · Community festivalA free three-day July festival in Colville's Yep Kanum Park, first held in 1914 and revived by volunteers in 2025 after Rendezvous Days lapsed.
- Zillah Community DaysZillahThe annual weekend celebration in Zillah, sponsored by Zillah Associated Clubs with activities run by city clubs and individuals including the Chamber of Commerce.
Wyoming
- Albin Day CelebrationAlbin · Annual celebrationAlbin Day, held in Albin, Wyoming, every July since 1928, fills one Saturday with pancakes, a parade run twice, a junior rodeo, and fireworks over a town of a few hundred.
- Alpine Mountain DaysAlpineA three-day June festival in Alpine, Wyoming, held since 1990 in a town-center park named for Marge Grover, who co-founded it with Jan Rollins.
- Bear River RendezvousEvanston · Mountain man rendezvousA pre-1840s mountain man encampment held each year the weekend before Labor Day at Bear River State Park in Evanston, Wyoming, where youth competitors take home the biggest prizes.
- Burns DayBurns · Full day community eventBurns Day fills Main Street in Burns, Wyoming, every second Saturday of June, from a 7 a.m. pancake breakfast to a goat roping, revived in 2021 by a new Lions Club.
- Byron DaysByron · Town celebrationByron Days, the two-day July town celebration of Byron, Wyoming, where in 2026 a local artist painted an eagle on canvas from a float rolling down Main Street.
- Clearmont DayClearmont · Family-friendly eventClearmont Day is a one-Saturday celebration in a Sheridan County, Wyoming, railroad town on old Highway 14; the 2026 program added Dachshund and Corgi races.
- Cokeville Pioneer DayCokevilleCokeville, Wyoming's July Pioneer Day: a parade, two rodeos and a dance, held on grounds a bishop and two neighbors bought east of the Stock Yards in 1953.
- Cowboy CarnivalHyattville · Annual fundraiserAn annual fundraiser on the Sunday before Memorial Day in Hyattville, Wyoming, where a town of 75 keeps its old grade school running on three-meat barbecue and donated pie.
- Cowley Pioneer DaysCowley · CelebrationCowley Pioneer Days is a two-day July celebration in Cowley, Wyoming, whose Saturday by tradition opens with an early blast: once a cannon, then dynamite, now fireworks.
- Deer Creek DaysGlenrock · Summer three-day celebrationGlenrock, Wyoming's three-day June celebration, once called Glenrock Days, marked its 50th year in 2026 with Pony Express re-riders leading the parade down Birch Street.
- Duck DazeGuernsey · Annual fundraiserDuck Daze is Guernsey, Wyoming's late-August fundraiser, where a thousand numbered rubber ducks race bridge to bridge down the North Platte River for cash prizes.
- Eastern Shoshone Indian Days PowwowFort Washakie · PowwowThe Eastern Shoshone summer powwow at Fort Washakie, Wyoming, billed as the state's largest, where the 2026 Iron Man special ran 34 songs without a break.
- Flaming Gorge DaysGreen River · FestivalFlaming Gorge Days is a June festival in Green River, Wyoming, whose name goes back to 1957, when bearded men in old-time clothes marked the start of Flaming Gorge Dam.
- Fort Bridger Mountain Man RendezvousFort Bridger · Mountain man rendezvousA four-day reenactment of the 1825–1840 fur-trade rendezvous, held each Labor Day weekend at Fort Bridger State Historic Site in southwest Wyoming, where all visible clothing must predate 1840.
- Glendo DaysGlendo · CelebrationGlendo Days is a one-day June celebration in downtown Glendo, Wyoming, whose 2022 edition marked a century since the town's incorporation.
- Gold Rush DaysSouth Pass City · Celebration of south pass cityA two-day July celebration at South Pass City State Historic Site, Wyoming, where an anvil is blown several stories into the air every hour on the hour.
- Green River Rendezvous DaysPinedale · Four-day celebration of the rocky mountain fur trade eraPinedale, Wyoming's four-day July festival of the Rocky Mountain fur trade, built around a mounted pageant that residents have staged every year since 1936.
- Half-Way DaysRawlins · CelebrationHalf-Way Days is a downtown festival in Rawlins, Wyoming, first held July 10–12, 2026, for the town's place at about the midpoint of the Continental Divide Trail.
- Hanna King Coal DaysHanna · Annual celebration of coalKing Coal Days is Hanna, Wyoming's July celebration of the coal that built the town; no official record says when it began, and in 2025 it nearly ended.
- Homesteader Days FestivalPowell · FestivalA free September harvest festival in the streets around Powell, Wyoming's log Homesteader Museum, with tractors, a car show, and a pie auction that raised $11,505 in 2025.
- Jim Baker Days & RendezvousSavery · Annual eventAug 7-9 Jim Baker Days & Rendezvous at Little Snake River Museum
- Legend of RawhideLusk · Annual celebrationA volunteer pageant in the Niobrara County Fairgrounds arena at Lusk, Wyoming, telling how the Rawhide Buttes got their name, still played from its 1946 script.
- Pine Bluffs Trail DaysPine Bluffs · CelebrationPine Bluffs Trail Days, a five-day celebration in a Wyoming railroad and cattle-trail town, opened its 76th edition in 2026 with a melodrama about a secret barbecue recipe.
- River FestivalGreen River · Two-day eventJoin the Green River Chamber in the celebration of our amazing river! Always the third weekend on August 14th and 15th, we host the River Festival, a fun-packed two-day event! This event has something fun for everyone!
- Rock Springs International DayRock Springs · Ethnic festivalCelebrates Rock Springs heritage through food, exhibits, costumes and live entertainment each July.
- Story DaysStory · Annual community celebrationStory Days is a three-day end-of-summer celebration in Story, Wyoming, at the base of the Bighorn Mountains, with a Saturday parade that follows the volunteer firemen's breakfast.
- Wyoming Discovery DaysThermopolis · Music, arts and vendors festivalA free two-day festival of music, storytelling, Dutch oven cooking and crafts at the Hot Springs State Park band shell in Thermopolis, closed on Sunday by a dachshund race.
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