Idaho Spud Day
Held since the late 1920s in the heart of Idaho's potato country, this one-day community celebration turns Shelley into a tribute to the state's most famous crop with potato-themed contests, a parade, and community meals.
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"Since 1968, St. Maries has kicked off Labor Day weekend by celebrating its logging heritage with axe throwing, crosscut competitions, pole climbing, a parade, and carnival, using folk hero Paul Bunyan as its mascot."
Paul Bunyan Days
"Since 1953, Ketchum has celebrated its frontier and mining heritage over Labor Day weekend with the Big Hitch Parade featuring stagecoaches, buggies, and massive Lewis Ore Wagons once used to haul silver ore from Idaho's mines."
Wagon Days
"Marking its 30th anniversary in 2026, this five-day festival celebrates the 150-year-old tradition of trailing sheep down from the Sawtooth Mountains through Ketchum's valley, culminating in the Big Sheep Parade of over 1,200 animals down Main Street."
Trailing of the Sheep Festival
"One of Idaho's most intimate Basque gatherings, this 43rd-annual picnic at the Gooding Basque Center serves lamb chops and Basque beans after a Mass in the Basque language, followed by traditional dancing and a weight-carrying contest."
Gooding Basque Picnic
"Now in its 28th year, this outdoor juried arts festival showcases over 100 artisans in Festival Meadow on Sun Valley Road, set against the backdrop of central Idaho's mountain landscape."
Ketchum Arts Festival
"A five-day dockside celebration in the small shrimping village of Delcambre where the fleet is blessed, fresh Gulf shrimp is served every style imaginable, and Cajun and zydeco bands play into the bayou night."
Delcambre Shrimp Festival
"The 66th edition of this small-town festival celebrates the Howell cantaloupe -- a variety grown nowhere else on earth -- with arts and crafts vendors, a classic car show, train rides, and the legendary once-a-year Rotary Howell Melon Ice Cream that sells out fast."
Howell Melon Festival
"Marking its 50th anniversary in 2026, this beloved Downeast Maine festival rolls out the blue carpet for the native wild blueberry with a musical, baking and eating contests, food vendors, and public suppers in the small county-seat town of Machias."
Machias Wild Blueberry Festival
"The tiny Bedford County village of Imler gathers its community each August for an old-fashioned whole-ox roast and festival, a vanishingly rare American food custom that draws visitors from across south-central Pennsylvania."
Imler Ox Roast Festival
"Main Street Calumet's beloved celebration of the Cornish pasty -- the hand-crimped pastry that fuelled the Copper Country's immigrant miners -- brings a parade, live music, street food, and a visit from Cousin Jack to the UNESCO-listed mining village downtown."
PastyFest
"The small UP gateway village of Paradise, near Tahquamenon Falls, celebrates the wild blueberries of the eastern Upper Peninsula with a community festival that draws visitors combining berry picking, local food, and access to one of Michigan's most dramatic waterfalls."
Wild Blueberry Festival