North Dakota Festivals
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Dec 28 2024Sullys Hill Winter Festival - Fort Totten
Varfious outdoor activities include snowshoeing, hiking and cross-country skiing. Educational workshops on site. -
Dec 28 2024Annual North Dakota State Trophy Night - Harvey
See the biggest mounts from across the state. Enter the white tail deer contest, gun raffles and more. -
Jan 10 - 12 2025Annual THS Mardi Gras - Dickinson
This event is a 48+ year tradition offering great food, fun, and fine entertainment for the whole family with games for all ages. -
Jan 10 - 12 2025Norski Days - Fort Ransom
Winter festival includes downhill and cross-country skiing, ice fishing tournament, snowmobile run, snow sculpting, big air snowboarding, Norwegian bu ... more » -
Jan 17 - 18 2025Drayton Curling Club Bonspiel - Drayton
Annual bonspiel hosted by North Dakota's oldest curling club. -
Jan 18 - 19 2025Celebrating Pomps 201th Birthday - Washburn
Celebrate the 201st birthday of Sakakawea's baby Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. -
Jan 18 2025Pomp - Washburn
Celebrate the 201st birthday of Sakakawea's baby Jean Baptist Charbonneau. -
Jan 18 - 19 2025In the Heart of Winter Festival - Ashley
in the heart of winter, enjoy a snow day in the park, quilt and handcraft displays, banquet and prizes. -
Jan 25 2025Garrison Firemen - Garrison
Feast on buffalo roast and meatballs. Dance to live music. -
Mar 1 2025Cross Ranch State Park Winterfest - Center
Fight off cabin fever with a day of winter activities. Cross country skiing during the day and by candlelight from 5-8 p.m. Ski clinics. Enjoy horse-d ... more » -
Mar 15 - 17 2025Devils Lake Shiverfest - Devils Lake
ShiverFest takes place the third weekend in February every year. It has grown over the years, and in 2020 celebrated its 20th annual event. A rounded ... more » -
May 3 - 5 2025Skydance Sakakawea - Garrison
Kite flying festival for all ages. Fly your own kite. See kites of all shapes and sizes being flown. Stunt kite flying demonstrations. Prizes awar ... more » -
May 9 2025Hettinger's Street Fair - Hettinger
Street fair with food and craft vendors, entertainment, children's activities, specialty shops promotion, bus trip from Bismarck. -
May 10 2025Carousel Days - Wahpeton
Parade, craft and food booths, games, zoo and carousel. -
May 17 2025Annual Rhubarb Festival - Grand Forks
Bake sale, door prizes, create a rhubarb bar contest, quilts, cards, rhubarb lotions, gels and candles for sale. Lunch also served. -
May 22 - 25 2025Finley Days - Finley
Family entertainment, parade, kiddie events, games-to-go, street dance, all faith service, picnic in the park, water carnival plus lots more. ... more » -
May 23 - 25 2025Lewis & Clark Days - Washburn
Parade, carnival, street dance, with band "Rift", fishing derby, car show and much more. -
May 23 - 25 2025Hunter 125th Celebration - Hunter
Friday: Stars Come Out At Night Talent Show, Burger Night at Hunter Cafe and Bakery.Saturday: Parade, dedication to Veterans Memorial, kids karoke, ba ... more » -
May 23 - 26 2025Happy Days Festival - Lisbon
Community celebration, steak fry, stock car races, rock climbing wall, pancake breakfast, parade, street dances Friday and Saturday nights, Citywide r ... more » -
May 24 - 25 2025German Festival Street Fair - New Leipzig
German-Russian ethnic celebration with food, entertainment, demonstrations, museum. -
May 29 - 1 2025Annual Oakes Irrigation Days - Oakes
Annual community celebration. Parade, street dances featuring live performers, bull-a-rama, artisans on main, grand parade, demo derby, pickup pull, b ... more » -
May 30 - 1 2025Aneta Turkey Barbeque - Aneta
Event includes breakfast, arts and crafts show, parade, two dances, all-faith service and, of course, a turkey barbecue on Saturday. -
May 30 - 31 2025Burke County Birding Festival - Bowbells
Birding tours, grand opening of Lostwood Tower, wildflower walk, youth activities, barbecue in Powers Lake, shorebird and waterfowl seminar, Music on ... more » -
May 30 - 1 2025Sheldon 125th Celebration - Sheldon
Dance, food, parade, quilt show, tractor and pickup pull, and rodeo. -
May 30 - 1 2025Old Settlers Days - Center
Four-day celebration mark over 100 years. Main Street carnival, wagon train, kids' parade, art show, class reunions, street dances, turkey barbecue, g ... more » -
May 31 - 2 2025Rally in the Valley - Valley City
Three day celebration includes a Classic Car Show (sponsored by Bridge City Cruisers), street dances, motorcycle hill climb, parade, class reunions, r ... more » -
Jun 5 - 9 2025Harvey Centennial - Harvey
Join us for grand celebration. Events include: street dances, carnival, craft fair, parade, demolition derby, club de ski nautique, antique tractor s ... more » -
Jun 5 - 9 2025Hillsboro 125th Anniversary - Hillsboro
Event coincides with Trail County Courthouse centennial. All-school reunion, golf tournament, dances, auto show, games, concerts and North Dakota anti ... more » -
Jun 6 - 9 2025Steele 125th Birthday Celebration - Steele
Everyone is invited to Steele to join them in a 3 day festival celebrating 125 years of life on the prairie. -
Jun 6 - 9 2025Hannaford Centennial - Hannaford
Two dances, fireworks, variety show, petting zoo, banquet, parade, tractor pull and hole-in-one contest. -
Jun 6 - 8 2025Aber Days - Abercrombie
Community celebration. Friday night Variety Show, 7pm at the Pavilion Park. Free Will Offering. Saturday - Pancake Breakfast, 7-10am at Community H ... more » -
Jun 7 2025Hazelton Community Days - Hazelton
Community Day is held each year on the third Saturday in June. A family affair, there is fun for everyone, including races, food, trapshoot, paintb ... more » -
Jun 7 2025Rhame Gala Day - Rhame
Yearly celebration. Street games, parade, noon meal, slope summer circuit rodeo, street dance, softball game, and flea market. Last Saturday in June. ... more » -
Jun 10 2025National Trails Day - Bottineau
Celebrate National Trails Day on our trails for your chance to win prizes. Activities at the park include biking, birding, hiking and canoeing. ... more » -
Jun 12 - 15 2025Fort Union Rendezvous - Williston
Nineteenth-century fur trading fair includes a variety of historic period arts, crafts, music and interpreters. This annual gathering is its largest e ... more » -
Jun 14 - 3 2025Roughrider Days Fair and Expo - Dickinson
Feel the excitement in the heart of oil country! Western North Dakota is where cowboy action and family fun begins with the Roughrider Days Fair and E ... more » -
Jun 17 2025Visitor Appreciation Day - Bottineau
Enjoy free day entrance into the state park to picnic, swim, hike and bike. Explore the natural areas of the park to bird watch, canoe or just to fin ... more » -
Jul 4 - 5 2009Buffalo Trail Days - Epping
Event includes barbecue from 6-8 p.m., and fireman's dance from 9 p.m.-1 a.m. on Saturday; Pancake breakfast, church service, museum tours, parade, ca ... more » -
Jul 3 - 6 2014McVille Centennial - McVille
Event includes entertainment, barbecue, fishing derby, canoe races, parade, golf tournament and all-class reunion. -
Jul 4 - 6 2014Drayton Riverfest - Drayton
Annual city-wide festival featuring attractions for all ages. Food, music, parade, horse show and more. -
Jul 4 - 5 2015Turtle Days - Turtle Lake
Home of the USA and World Turtle Races. Kids' tractor pull, soap box derby, egg toss, coin hunt, turtle races, street dance, dunking booth and much mo ... more » -
Jul 4 - 5 2015Sodbuster Days - Fort Ransom
Family show includes horse farming, small engines, pioneer skills and crafts, live music, kids' games. Second full weekend in July. Saturday: 9-5 pm ... more » -
Jun 7 - 10 2025Almont Centennial - Almont
Street dances, city tours, water slide, local entertainment, children's activities, paint ball war, fireworks display, parade and program. -
Jun 12 - 15 2025Tolna Centennial - Tolna
Event includes alumni banquest, parade, daily entertainment, polka dance, bull ride, fireworks, demolition derby. -
Jun 12 - 15 2025Ryder Centennial - Ryder
Events include a parade, tractor pull, steak fry, school and museum tours, street dances combined church services, community choir and more. ... more » -
Jun 26 - 28 2025Taylor Horsfest & Hee-Haw Musical - Taylor
Highlights include a parade of horses and horse-drawn equipment, craft vendors, draft horse pull and driving competitions, demonstrations, musical and ... more » -
Jun 27 - 29 2025Michigan Days - Michigan
Community celebration. -
Jun 27 - 29 2025Pioneer Village Threshing Bee - Crosby
Parades, threshing, flea markets, food, entertainment and all buildings open. Bakery, bank, blacksmith, wood cutting. -
Jun 27 - 29 2025White Cloud Days - Jamestown
Four day event includes childrens activities at the National Buffalo Museum, parade, free birthday cake, classic carshow, McElroy Park festival, weste ... more » -
Jul 2 - 6 2025North Dakota Ukrainian Festival - Dickinson
The Ukrainian festival is an immersion into the Ukrainian culture. Featured are the foods, the performing and visual arts, religious rites and intell ... more » -
Jul 4 - 6 2025Mayville-Portland 125th Anniversary/Summerfest - Mayville
Three days of family fun. All-school reunion. Children's activities, parade, street fair, tractor pull, horse pull, Sunday in the park and lots more. ... more » -
Jul 10 - 14 2025Fargo Downtown Street Fair - Fargo
Fargo's Downtown Street Fair features over 280 art and craft vendors, 40-plus food vendors, as well as demonstrations, live musical entertainment and ... more » -
Jul 11 - 12 2025Scheels Midwest Waterfowl Fest - Fargo
Events include Greenwing program, K-9 super air challenge and duck calling contests. Food and product vendors will be on site. -
Jul 17 - 20 2025Old Fashioned Saturday - Northwood
Old Fashioned Saturday occurs the fourth Saturday of July every year and has been occurring every summer since the Centennial Celebration in 1984! ... more » -
Jul 19 - 20 2025Jamestown Buffalo Days - Jamestown
Big Guns of the Old West, Parade, CarShow in McElroy Park, Cornhole Tournament, and more! -
Jul 11 - 13 2025Deuce of August Icelandic Celebration - Mountain
This is a celebration for the entire family featuring Icelandic heritage and culture, music, food, and entertainment. 107th Annual Icelandic Celebrat ... more » -
Jul 17 2025Corps of Discovery Pitchfork Fondue - Hensel
Pitchfork fondue meal with Lewis and Clark related program to follow in beautiful park setting. -
Jul 19 2025Gingras Day - Walhalla
Annual Gingras Day celebration. -
Jul 19 2025Street Festival - Valley City
Arts, crafts, food, flea market, entertainment. Quilt show inside the courthouse. -
Jul 22 2025Evening in the Park - Oakes
Includes Pets in the Park. Family fun featuring pet show, farmer's market, rib cook-off, community picnic. -
Jul 26 2025Kulm - Kulm
Activities all day. Golf tournament, kids/adult games, food, street dance celebrating North Dakota's first two commerical wind farms Saturday. ... more » -
Jul 26 - 27 2025Killdeer Lewis and Clark Event - Killdeer
Golf the Legend, Lewis and Clark cook-off, frontiersman, rodeo, wagon train, talent show, frontier street dance, and much more. -
Aug 1 - 3 2025Heritage Days - Grand Forks
Displays, demonstrations, barn dance, crafts, parade, thresher's breakfast and concessions. See website for schedule. -
Aug 2 2025Beach Party - Garrison
Fun for all ages. Fantastic concessions, 50's, 60's, and 70's live entertainment, great shopping opportunity in Garrison. -
Aug 3 2025Annual Village Fair - Rugby
Live music, pioneer demonstrations, fair food, art exhibit and loads of family fun. The biggest, best day of the year at Prairie Village Museum. ... more » -
Aug 17 2025Railroad Days at Railroad Museum - Mandan
Visit the ND Railroad Hall of Fame; Telegraph Demonstrations; live steam mini-train rides for kids of all ages on the "Sky Line Railway". A hobo banqu ... more » -
Aug 8 - 9 2025Old Settlers Days - Alexander
Chili cookoff, street dances, parade and barbecue with program. Kids fun rodeo. Sunday all faith church service and potluck. -
Aug 9 2025gardendwellers Farm Produce Party - Churchs Ferry
The produce party at gardendwellers Farm is a one-day garden event and farmers market. Enjoy musicians in the gardens, artist demonstrations, food, fu ... more » -
Aug 16 - 17 2025Sodbuster Days - Fort Ransom
Family fun in picturesque setting. Horse farming, threshing and potato picking, displays, demonstrations of pioneer skills and crafts, live music and ... more » -
Aug 17 2025Pumpkin Festival - Beach
Fun family festival celebrating the pumpkin and zuchinni with games, food, races and contests. -
Aug 21 - 24 2025Sunflower Festival - Enderlin
All-day events. Parade, recipe contest, entertainment, fun for kids, craft show, flea market, food booths, 10-K, 5-K run/walk, quilt show. Sunflower t ... more » -
Aug 22 - 24 2025Central North Dakota Steam Threshers Reunion - New Rockford
Parade of engines daily at 2 p.m. Stationary engines, threshing, steam plowing, craft, fleat markets, thresherman's breakfast at 6 a.m. and much more ... more » -
Aug 23 - 15 2025Beaver Creek Pumpkin Festival - Linton
Enjoy live entertainment on Sunday afternoons, ride down memory lane on our covered wagon, learn something new in our educational corn maze, ring old ... more » -
Aug 23 2025Hannafest Hannaford Fall Festival - Hannaford
Craft booths, tractor pull, kids' games, soup and sandwich dinner, petting zoo. -
Sep 3 - 7 2025Hazen Harvestfest - Hazen
Quilt show, car show, kids' activities, variety show, kite festival, parade, fleischkuechle feed, street dance, dachshund races, golf tournament, and ... more » -
Sep 8 - 13 2025West Fest - West Fargo
West Fest is an annual weeklong celebration of the community of West Fargo. The celebration includes events for children and adults and one of the lar ... more » -
Sep 17 - 20 2025Norsk Hostfest - Minot
Norsk Hostfest is North America's largest Scandinavian festival and celebrates the heritage and culture of the five Nordic countries. The festival fea ... more » -
Sep 20 2025OktoberFest Mandan - Mandan
The Annual OktoberFest is back for more fun, food, music and Beer Tasting! 11 am – 10 pm No Dogs Permitted in the Park!. Beer Garden Noon-10pm F ... more » -
Sep 12 - 14 2025Duck Fest - Bowdon
Three-day celebration of waterfowl hunting. Event includes crafts, demonstrations, specialty foods, talent show, trap shoot and more. -
Sep 12 - 14 2025Makoti Threshing Show - Makoti
Big parade on Saturday and Sunday, demonstrations, flea market, antique farm equipment, steam and gas engines, music and food. Tractor pull, worl cha ... more » -
Sep 20 2025Dakota Feeder Calf Show and Craft Fair - Turtle Lake
Annual events has dog show demo, pitchfork fondue, craft fair, auction, cowpie bingo and much more. -
Sep 28 - 4 2025Kenmare Goosefest - Kenmare
Seven-day hunting festival held in scenic Kenmare, snow goose capital of North Dakota. -
Oct 8 2025Sauerkraut Day - Wishek
German entertainment, bingo, sauerkraut and wiener food. Sauerkraut Day truly is a festive occasion that has been going on since 1925. It is the close ... more » -
Oct 24 - 26 2025Steele Winterfest - Steele
Winterland fun and crafts for everyone. -
Oct 31 - 16 2025Dickens Village Festival - Garrison
Each weekend, walk the streets of downtown and eat delicious hot baked potatoes and sausages on a stick, warm up with a cup of English tea, shop the E ... more » -
Nov 7 - 8 2025Christkindlfest - Enderlin
German arts festival, ethnic foods, crafts, German music, tour of homes and hands on crafts and visit with Santa for kids.