Town festivals in Nevada
Town festivals in Nevada, each compiled from its own sources: the weekend, the parade, and who puts it on. No ratings; every entry carries its status.
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- 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.
Town Festivals in all eleven states; next door in Idaho, Utah, Arizona, California, and Oregon.