Town festivals in New Mexico
Town festivals in New Mexico, 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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- 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.
Town Festivals in all eleven states; next door in Colorado, Utah, and Arizona.