Top 100 Events - United States - 1982- 2016
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Top 100 Events - United States - 1982- 2016
TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch UNITED STATES World Series, location and date set 6 weeks before season ends 1985*, 1986* ALASKA, UNITED STATES Alaska Balt Eagle Festival Haines Alaska Highway Rendezvous, Alaska to Alberta SEE Highway Rendezvous Alaska State Fair Palmer Anchorage Fur Rendezvous SEE Fur Rendezvous Anchorage Anniversary of the Haines Road, AK to YT Festival of Native Arts Fairbanks Fur Rendezvous Anchorage Gold Rush Days Juneau Golden Days Fairbanks Highway Rendezvous, AK to YT to BC to AB Ice Art Fairbanks Iditarod Sled Dog Race Anchorage to Nome Iditarod Sled Dog Race, Jazz & Classics, Juneau, Klondike Gold Rush Celebration Last Frontier Theater Conference, 10th Annual Midnight Sun Baseball Fame, 100th Annual Midnight Sun Festival Rendezvous '92 SEE Highway Rendezvous Sitka Summer Music Festival Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival Tanana Valley State Fair The Annual May Day Fly-In & Air Show Valdez Gold Rush Days World Eskimo-Indian Olympics World Ice Art Championship United States Page 1 Anchorage (Start) Willow (Finish) Juneau Skagway Valdez Fairbanks Fairbanks Sitka Fairbanks Fairbanks Valdez Valdez Fairbanks Fairbanks 2006 1995, 2003, 07, 08 1993 2014 1984, 87, 95 1997 1991, 96, 2012 1992 1997, 07, 2010 1992, 2006*, 07*, 08*, 09*, 2010*, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016* 1992, 2014* 1999 1998 2002 2005 2014, 2016 1998 2015 2004 2009, 2012 2011 2009, 2016 2003 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch ALABAMA, UNITED STATES Alabama Civil Rights Movement 50th Anniversary (1963 & 1965) Alabama June Jam SEE June Jam Azalea Trail and Festival, Mobile BayFest Music Festival Bellingrath Gardens and Home 75th Anniversary Blessing of the Fleet Botanical Garden Galaxy of Lights, Bridge Crossing Jubilee Christmas City Christmas on the Coosa Christmas on the River Chrysanthemum Extravaganza City Stages Diehard 500 Stock Car Race Festival of Arts Festival of Flowers Galaxy of Lights George Lindsey Celebrity Benefit Weekend Helen Keller Festival Hot Air Balloon Classic, Alabama Jubilee Incident at Looney’s Tavern Jubilee CityFest June Jam Magic Christmas in Lights Mardi Gras, America’s Original Mums Extravaganza Native American Festival Oktoberfest Peanut Festival Shakespeare Festival Shrimp Festival Birmingham/ Montgomery Space Celebration Talladega Diehard 500 Stock Car Race SEE Diehard 500 Stock Car Race To Kill A Mockingbird Victorian Front Porch Christmas W.C. Handy Music Festival WEUP 17th Annual June Black Arts Festival Huntsville Talledga United States Page 2 Fort Payne Mobile Mobile Theodore Bayou la Batre Huntsville Selma Wetumpka Demopolis Theodore Birmingham Talledega Birmingham Mobile Huntsville Montgomery Tuscusbia Decatur Double Springs Montgomery Fort Payne Mobile Mobile Theodore Moundville Birmingham Dothan Montgomery Gulf Shores Montgomery Opelika Florence Huntsville 2013, 2014, 2015 1983 2012, 2014 2007 1982 2002 2005 1997 1987 1982 1990 1993, 98 1986, 89 1983, 2001 2009 2009, 2015, 2016 1987 1992, 94, 2008 1995, 2008, 2014 1992 1999 1987 2016 1984, 90, 2003 1985 2006 1988 1982, 86, 97 1996 1984, 94,2005, 2013, 2015, 2016 1989 2013**** 2002, 03 1985, 91, 2011, 2013, 2015 2006 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch ARKANSAS, UNITED STATES Apple Festival, 23rd Annual Arkansas Arkansas Fold Festival Arkansas Sesquicentennial Celebration, AR SEE Sesquicentennial Celebration Arkansas Trail of Holiday Lights ArkansasOklahoma Rodeo & World’s Richest Barrel Race, AR SEE Old Fort Days Arts & Crafts Fair SEE Redbud Ramble Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival SEE Pink Tomato Festival Celebration of the Arts Chuckwagon Races, National Championship Dodge City Days Duck Calling Contest Fort Smith Riverfront Blues Festival Great Passion Play Hope Watermelon Festival SEE Watermelon Festival Johnny Cash Music Festival Jonquil Festival, Annual King Biscuit Blues Festival Lights of the Delta Lights of the Ozarks Magnolia Blossom Festival and WorldChampionship Steak CookOff Main Street El Dorado Re-enactment Oaklawn Park’s Racing Festival of the South SEE Racing Festival of the South Oktoberfest, Arkansas Old Fort Days (Arkansas Oklahoma Rodeo & World’s Richest Barrel Race) Original Ozark Folk Festival SEE Ozark Folk Festival Ozark Folk Festival, Passion Play SEE Great Passion Play Petit Jean SEE Swap Meet & Auto Fair Pink Tomato Festival Portfest “Rollin’ on the River” Racing Festival of the South (Oaklawn Park’s) Redbud Ramble Riverfest Arkansas Sesquicentennial Celebration, AR statewide Springtime War Eagle Arts & Crafts Fair 4th Annual World Champion Squirrel and Bacon Bowl Sugar Creek Arts & Crafts Fair, Annual SEE Redbud Ramble Swap Meet & Auto FairPetit Jean Toad Suck Daze Festival Victorian Christmas in Eureka Springs War Eagle Arts and Crafts Fair War Eagle Spring/Fall Fair Watermelon Festival Wildwood Festival Wine Festival Wings Over the Prairie Festival United States Page 3 Lincoln Mountain View 1998 2002 Little Rock Fort Smith 2011 Bentonville Warren Hot Springs Clinton Dodge City Stuttgart Fort Smith Eureka Springs Hope State University Washington Helena Blytheville Fayetteville Magnolia 1996 1994 2015 1992 2011 1987, 2001 El Dorado Hot Springs 2008 Hot Springs Fort Smith 2003 1982 Eureka Springs Eureka Springs Eureka Springs Morrilton Warren Jackenport Hot Springs Bentonville Little Rock Hindsbille Bentonville Bentonville Morrilton Conway Eureka Springs Hindsville War Eagle Hope Little Rock Wiederkehr Village Stuttgart 2013**** 1990 1988,2006 2004 1997 1995, 2009 1983, 85, 2009 1993 1993 1986 1991 1984, 87, 2001, 05, 07, 2010, 2012, 2013 1986 1994 2015**** 1989 1997 1990 2007 2004 1989 2003 2005 1992 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch Withrow Renaissance Festival & American Crossbow Huntsville 1999 Tournament World of the Pharaohs Little Rock 2010 World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade Hot Springs 2011, 2014 World’s Champ. DuckCalling Contest SEE Duck Calling Stuttgart Contest World’s Richest Barrel Race SEE Old Fort Days Fort Smith United States Page 4 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch ARIZONA, UNITED STATES 27th Annual Boat Parade of Lights 40th Annual Heard Museum Guild Indian Faire and Market All Arabian Horse Show Arizona Renaissance Festival Arizona’s Route 66 Fun Run Boat Parade of Lights Celebration of Basketry and Native Foods – Heard Museum Chocolate Affaire Cowgirl Up! Art Show & Sale-Desert Caballeros Western Museum Fall Festival of the Arts Festival in the Sun Fiesta Bowl Festival & Football Classic Fiesta Bowl Festival & Football Classic Film Festival & Workship, international Frontier Days/Frontier Days Rodeo Gem & Mineral Show Gold Rush Days…Out Wickenburg Way Havasu Balloon Festival & Fair Hoop Dance Contest, Heard Museum World Championships Hopi Festival of Arts and Culture La Fiesta de los Vaqueros, Annual Mariachi Conference Native American Arts and Crafts Festival, White Mountain Navajo Nation Fair Parada del Sol Rodeo and Parade Prescott Frontier Days, AZ SEE Frontier Days Red Rock Fantasy Renaissance Festival, Arizona SEE Arizona Renaissance Festival Thunderbird Balloon Classic Tubac Festival of the Arts Tucson Festival Tucson Gem & Mineral Show, Annual SEE Gem & Mineral Show Tucson Int’l Mariachi Festival SEE Mariachi Conference Tucson Rodeo, Annual SEE La Fiesta de los Vaqueros U.S. West National Festival of the West Western Winter Blast Winterfest Yuma Lettuce Days United States Page 5 Lake Havasu City Phoenix Scottsdale Apache Junction Kingman Havasu City Phoenix Glendale Wickenburg Tempe Tucson Phoenix/Tempe Tempe/Phoenix Sedona Prescott Tucson Wickenburg Lake Havasu City Phoenix Flagstaff Tucson Tucson PinetopLakeside Window Rock Scottsdale Prescott Sedona Apache Junction Scottsdale Tubac Tucson Tucson Tucson Tucson Scottsdale Lake Havasu City Flagstaff Yuma 2009 1998 1986 1993 2002 2003, 04, 06, 08 2007 2003 2009 2005 1991 1983, 84, 85, 86* 1983, 84, 85, 86* 2006 1989, 92 1992 1994 2014, 2015 1995 2008** 1990, 91, 2001, 2015 1985, 97, 2012 1996 1988, 2010 1982, 83, 87 2010 1999 2011 1982, 83 2012 1998 2013 1994 2016**** TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES African Marketplace and Cultural Faire America’s Cup Asparagus Festival Bicycle Classic SEE Coors Int’l Bicycle Classic Blossom Trail Calaveras County Jumping Frog Jubilee SEE Jumping Frog Jubilee Carnaval San Francisco Centennial Year 2010-2011, U.S. Immigration Station, Angel Island Cherry Blossom Festival Chinese New Year Celebration Christmas Parade Coors Int’l Bicycle Classic Date Festival Dixieland Jazz Jubilee Farm-to-Fork Festival Festival of Arts & Pageant of the Masters Fiesta Days Fresno County Blossom Trail SEE Blossom Trail Garlic Festival Gilroy Garlic Festival SEE Garlic Festival Godwit Days Migratory Bird Festival Gold Rush Days Golden Gate Bridge 50th Anniversary Harvest Wine Celebration, Annual Historical Automobile Races Indian Wells Arts Festival Jazz Festival, Monterey Jumping Frog Jubilee Latin American Festival Lone Pine Film Festival Mendocino County Mushroom, Wine and Beer Festival Old Sacramento Annual Gold Rush Days Old Spanish Days Fiesta Orange Blossom Festival Palm Springs International Film Festival Pow Wow Road to California Quilters Conference & Showcase Rocktoberfest Route 66 Rendezvous Sacramento Jazz Jubilee Salinas Rodeo Scottish Gathering and Games, Shakespeare Santa Cruz Snowfest Winter Carnival Southwest Arts Festivak Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl Tournament of Roses Parade & Rose Bowl Game United States Page 6 Los Angeles San Diego Stockton San Francisco to Denver Fresno Angels Camp 2002 1992 1999 San Francisco Pleasanton 1994 2011 San Francisco San Francisco Hollywood San Francisco Denver Indio 1986 1983, 84 1990 1985, 86, 87, 88* Sacramento Laguna Beach Vacaville Fresno Gilroy Gilroy Arcata Sacramento San Francisco Livermore Monterey Indian Wells Monterey Angels Camp San Diego Lone Pine Mendocino County Sacramento Santa Barbara Riverside Palm Springs Stanford Ontario Palm Springs San Bernardino Sacramento Salinas Pleasanton Santa Cruz Tahoe City/Tuckee Indio San Francisco Pasadena San Diego Pasadena 1992 to 1986, 87, 88 1983, 85, 90, 91 2014 1985, 86, 93 2007 1991, 96 2002 2004, 05, 06, 2010, 2011, 2014 1987 2008 2003 2014 1982 1982, 09 2001 2003 2016 2007 1993, 97 1998 2013 2002 2015 2004 1999 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011 1995 1995, 2010 2005 1989 2015 1985, 1987, 93* 1988* 1982, 83, 84, 85*, 86*, 88*, 89*, 90*, TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch 91*, 92*, 93*, 99*, 2001*, 02*, 03*, 04*.05*, 07*, 08*, 09*, 2010*, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016* Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach Long Beach 1994 U.S. Open Golf Tournament San Francisco 1987 World GoldPanning Championships Coloma 1998 United States Page 7 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch COLORADO, UNITED STATES “Pikes Peak or Bust” Rodeo Aspen Music Festival and School Bicycle Classic, CA to CO SEE Coors Int’l Bicycle Classic Bluegrass & Country Music Festival Cherry Creek Arts Festival Cinco de Mayo Colorado Mountain Winefest Colorado Springs Balloon Classic Colorado Springs Aspen 1995, 2004, 05, 09 1994 Telluride Denver Denver Palisade Colorado Springs Colorado State Fair Coors Int’l Bicycle Classic Denver Holiday of Lights Donkey Derby Days Pueblo San Francisco to Denver Denver Cripple Creek Festival of Mountain & Plain: A Taste of Colorado Garden of the Gods Easter Sunrise Service Greeley Independence Stampede Holiday Festival of Lights Hot Air Balloon Festival, Annual Snowmass Interstate Bank World Disabled Ski Championship Long Peaks Scottish Highland Festival Mesa Verde Country Indian Arts & Cultural Festival Music Festival, Int’l National Western Livestock Show and Rodeo SEE Western Stock Show Snowmass HotAir Balloon Festival, CO SEE HotAir Balloon Festival State Fair Subaru Aspen Winternational and BASF World Cup Races Telluride Bluegrass & Country Music Fest, CO SEE Bluegrass & Country Music Fest. Tesoro Foundation Indian Market & Powwow U.S. Olympic Festival Denver Colorado Springs Greeley Denver Snowmass Village Winter Park Estes Park Cortez Aspen Denver 1988 2014 2002 2002 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014 1994 1985, 86, 87, 88* 2009 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 1991 1984 1998, 99, 2001, 03 2002 1990 1990 1997 2003 1983 2012 Pueblo Aspen 1992 1986 Morrison Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs 2008 1995 Breckenridge Denver 1985, 87, 89, 93 1982, 83, 86, 89, 91, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2006, 08, 10, 12 Ullr Breckenridge World Int’l Freestyle Event, CO SEE Ullr Fest Ullr Fest Western Stock Show, Nat’l United States Page 8 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch CONNECTICUT, UNITED STATES 12th Annual By Land and By Sea: Antique Vehicles at Mystic Seaport Apple Harvest Festival Barnum Festival Parade, Annual Cablevision Parade Spectacular Christmas at Mystic Seaport Connecticut River Eagle Festival Deep River Ancient Muster Dogwood Festival, Elizabeth Park Rose Weekend Festival of Arts and Ideas, International Festival of the Arts, Int’l Annual Garlic Festival in Olde Mistick Village Jazz Festival Jubilee 350 Lantern Light Christmas Tours Litchfield Jazz Festival Lobster Days Mystic Outdoor Art Festival Mystic Seaport Lantern Light Christmas Tours, CT SEE Lantern Light Christmas Tour Mystic Seaport’s Annual Antique & Classic Boat Rendezvous Mystic Seaports’s Annual Music Festival Norwalk Seaport Annual Oyster Festival, CT SEE Oyster Festival Oyster Festival, Norwalk Seaport Mystic Southington Bridgeport Stamford Mystic Essex Deep River Fairfield Hartford New Haven New Haven Mystic New Haven Hartford Mystic Goshen Mystic Mystic 2009 1995 1982, 91 2001, 2010 1984, 85, 86, 88 2005 1996 1984, 2002 1999 2002, 05. 08, 2010 1997 2016 1985, 89 1985, 86 1892 2006, 09 2007, 2013 1998 Mystic Mystic 2004 2003, 2012 East Norwalk Parade Spectacular Rose and Garden Weekend, Great Hartfors Special Olympics World Games Taste of History at Mystic Seaport The 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan Volvo International Tennis Tournament Warm Up to Winter Stamford Hartford New Haven Mystic Mystic New Haven Farmington Valley 1983, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 93, 94, 95, 97, 98, 99, 2001 2007, 2011 2003,06 1995 1996 2014 1994 1992 Windjammer Weekend Mystic 1982 United States Page 9 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES Barbecue Battle, 7th Annual National Capital Bicentennial of the District of Columbia 1999 1991 Big Band Jam 2014 Black Family Reunion Cherry Blossom Festival 1993 1982, 83, 84, 85*, 86*, 87*, 88*, 89*, 90*, 91*, 92*, 93*, 99*, 2001*, 02*, 03*, 04*, 06*. 07*, 08*, 09*, 2010*, 2011*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016* 2012** 1990, 95 100th Anniversary Cherry Blossom Festival Christmas Tree Lighting, Nat’l, also see Pageant of Peace District of Columbia Bicentennial SEE Bicentennial of the District of Columbia Festival of American Folklife Independence Day Celebration, Nat’l Martin Luther King Birthday Observance Nat’l Cherry Blossom Festival SEE Cherry Blossom Festival Nat’l Christmas Tree Lighting, SEE Christmas Tree Lighting Pageant of Peace Celebration, also see Christmas Tree Lighting Passport DC Smithsonian Folklife Show Smithsonian Institution 150th Anniversary Taste of D.C. United States Page 10 1983, 84, 86, 87*, 88*, 89, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98 1982, 83, 85, 86, 88*, 89*, 90*, 91*, 92*, 93*, 99*, 2001*, 02*, 03*, 04*, 06*, 07*, 08*, 09*, 2010*, 2011*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015 1997 1987, 88*, 90, 92, 95. 2008 2013, 2015 2014 1996 1994 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch DELAWARE, UNITED STATES Apple Scrapple Festival Capt. John Smith 2007 Reenactment Voyage Christmas at Hagley Christmas at Rockwood Coast Day Day in Old New Castle Delaware Wine & Beer Festival Delmarva Hot Air Ballon and Craft Festival Grand Festival of the Midnight Sun Hagley’s Irish Festival Jazz Festival Middletown Olde-Tyme Peach Festival Nanticoke Indian Pow Wow Nemours Mansion Celebrates the Holidays Dover Days Bridgeville Chesapeake Bay Watershed Wilmington Wilmington Lewes New Castle Dover Milton Wilmington Wilmington Rehoboth Beach Middletown Millsboro Wilmington Dover 2012, 2016 2007 Old Fashioned Ice Cream Festival PEAK Antifreeze 500 PointtoPoint Races, Winterthur, DE SEE Winterthur PointtoPoint Races Punkin’ Chuckin’ Contest (see World Championship Punkin Chucking Qulits in a Material World: Selections from the Winterthur Collection Rehoboth Beach Sea Witch Festival SEE Sea Witch Festival Saint Anthony’s Italian Festival Sea Witch Festival Sea Witch Halloween & Fiddlers’ Festival Wilmington Dover 2010 1998 1987 1982, 2008 2014 1997 1988 1990, 1995 2015 1985, 2007 2003 1984, 2006, 2013, 2014 1986 1994 Bridgeville Winterthur 2008 2007 Wilmington Rehoboth Beach Rehoboth Beach Springtime on the Farm Winterthur Country Fair Winterthur Craft Festival Winterthur PointtoPoint Races World Championship Punkin Chucking World Championship Punkin’ Chucking’ World Championship Punkin Chunkin Yuletide at Winterthur Yuletide in Odessa Dover Winterthur Wilmington Winterthur Lewes Millsboro Nassau Winterthur Odessa 1989 1993, 96 2003, 09, 12, 13, 2015, 2016* 1992 1983 1999 1982 2009 2005 2012, 2013, 2014 1991, 93, 2005 2001 United States Page 11 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch FLORIDA, UNITED STATES 500th Anniversary of Ponce de Leon’s Discovery of la Florida “Delray Affair” Arts and Crafts Street Festival Art Deco Weekend Beach Ball Drop Chasco Fiesta City Lights, Cypress Nights Daytona 500 St. Augustine Delray Beach Miami Panama City Beach New Port Richey Cypress Gardens Daytona Beach Edison & Ford Festival of Lights (Holiday Nights) Fort Myers Fiesta of Five Flags Florida Heritage Festival at Bradenton Florida Intnl Festival featuring the London Symphony Orchestra Florida State Fair Gasparilla Festival/Gasparilla Pirate Invasion Pensacola Bradenton Daytona Beach Tampa Tampa Halifax Art Festival ICE! At Gaylord Hotels-Gaylord Palms Indian River Festival Indian Summer Festival Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival Mayport and All That Jazz Medieval Fair Nights of Lights Daytona Beach Kissimmee Titusville Panama City Beach Fernandina Beach Jacksonville Sarasota St. Augustine Orange Bowl Festival & Football Classic Miami Pensacola Seafood Festival Rodeo of Champions, Silver Spurs Seabreeze Jazz Festival Shell Air & Sea Show Speed Weeks Strawberry Festival, Florida Sunfest Super Bowl Super Bowl The Downtown Festival & Art Show The Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Walt Disney’s Fantasy on ParadeA Christmas Celebration WorldFamous Swamp Buggy Races Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities Pensacola Kissimmee Santa Rosa Beach Fort Lauderdale Daytona Beach Plant City West Palm Beach Miami Tampa Gainesville Pensacola Orlando Naples Eatonville United States Page 12 2013 1995 1993 2012 2006 1998 1982, 91*, 92*, 93*, 99*, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016 1996,1997,2003,05 06, 2011, 2012, 2016 1983 1996 2001 1995 1983, 85, 87, 91, 99, 2001, 02, 2014 2002 2010, 2011 1988 2008 1983 1990, 93 1998, 2007, 2011, 2015 1982, 84, 85*, 86*, 88*, 89*, 92 2009 1997 2012 1999 1986 2003, 07, 08, 2014 1989 1989 1991 2009 2014 1988 1994 2004 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch GEORGIA A Southern Christmas at Stone Mountain Park Arts Festival of Atlanta Arts in the Heart of Augusta Atlanta Dogwood Festival SEE Dogwood Festival Barn Yard, Mossy Creek Bear on the Square Big Pig Jig Black Arts Festival Catfish Festival, Annual Labor Day Weekend Cherry Blossom Festival Stone Mountain Atlanta Augusta Atlanta Perry Dahlonega Vienna Atlanta Kingsland Macon Christmas in Savannah Christmas Tour of Homes Chrysanthemum Festival Country Fair and Art Festival Dogwood Festival Fantasy in Lights at Callaway Gardens Savannah Savannah Pine Mountain Newman Atlanta Pine Mountain First Saturday Festivals Georgia Mountain Fair Highland Games at Stone Mountain Park Jekyll’s 15th Annual Beach Music Festival Jekyll’s Christmas Island Labor Day Weekend Catfish Festival Maritime Festival Masters Golf Tournament Mountain Moonshine Festival, 39th Annual Oktoberfest Onion Festival SEE Vidalia Onion Festival Parade of Lights Pilgrimage Christmas Home Tours Powers’ Crossroads Country Fair & Art Festival SEE Country Fair & Art Festival Prater’s Mill Country Fair Reach of Song Renaissance Festival Rock City Gardens-Enchanted Garden of Lights Rose Show & Festival Savannah Maritime Festival SEE Maritime Festival Savannah Spring Tour of Homes and Gardens, GA SEE Spring Tour of Homes & Gardens Spring Tour of Homes & Gardens St. Patrick’s Celebration on the River St. Patrick’s Day Parade Thomasville Rose Festival SEE Rose Festival U.S. Open Stock Dog Trials & Farm Festival Vidalia Onion Festival, Vidalia, GA Savannah Haiwassee Stone Mountain Jekyll Island Jekyll Island Kingsland Savannah Augusta Dawsonville Helen Vidalia Savannah Marietta United States Page 13 2004 1987 2001 1997 3006 1989, 92 1994 2007 1984, 85, 87, 90, 96, 2001, 09, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 1985 1993 2011 1983 1982 1994, 95, 2003, 2009, 2011, 2012 1991 1983 1986 1998, 2002 1990 2001, 04, 05 1993 1987* 2006 1984, 89 2015 2002 Dalton Hiawassee Fairburn Lookout Mountain Thomasville Savannah 1986, 97 1992 1999 2010 1983, 88. 2008 Savannah Savannah Savannah Thomasville Dawsonvillw 1982, 2014 1998 2014 2005 1989 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch Aloha FestivalFloral Parade Ironman World Triathalon Championship King Kamehameha Celebration Merrie Monarch Festival NFL Pro Bowl Game United States Page 14 HAWAII, UNITED STATES Waikiki Hilo Honolulu 1987, 91, 92, 95, 96, 97, 98 1986 1993 2006 1986* TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch IDAHO, UNITED STATES 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games Boise River Festival SEE River Festival Coeur d’Alene Resort Holiday Light Show Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo Dogwood Festival Festival at Sandpoint Fiddlers Festival, Nat’l Folk Dance Festival, Idaho Int’l Boise Boise Coeur d’Alene Pocatello Lewiston Sandpoint Gene Harris Jazz Festival Rexburg, Twin Falls, Pocatello Boise Grand Teton Hot Air Balloon Races SEE Hot Air Balloon Races Great American Outdoor Festival also see Hot Air Balloon Races High Country Cowboy Festival Hot Air Balloon Races Idaho International Dance and Music Festival Idaho Int’l Folk Dance Festival SEE Folk Dance Festival Idaho Shakespeare Festivel Jazz Festival, Lionel Hampton Ketchum/Sun Valley Wagon Days SEE Wagon Days National Old Time Fiddlers’ Contest River Festival ShoshoneBannock Indian Festival, Annual Snake River Stampede Spud Day Sun Valley Swing ‘n’ Jazz Jamboree Three Island Crossing Timber!Idaho Centennial Timber Festival Trailing of the Sheep Wagon Days Winter Carnival, McCall Driggs Driggs Driggs Driggs 3 regions in Idaho Rexburg Boise Moscow Ketchum, Sun Valley Weiser Boise Fort Hall Nampa Shelley Sun Valley Glenns Ferry Lewiston Hailey Ketchum, Sun Valley McCall United States Page 15 2009 2010 1994 1989, 2003 2007 1997 1991, 98, 2001, 04, 09 2003 1987 1993 1987 2006, 2012 2006 1996, 2002 1983, 84. 2008 1992, 95, 97, 99, 2011 1986 1985 1992 1994 1993 1990 2011 1988 1986 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch ILLINOIS, UNITED STATES Air and Water Show American Passion Play Art Exposition, Int’l Blues Festival Carillon Festival, Int’l Cedarhurst Craft Fair Chicago Blues Festival SEE Blues Festival Chicago Int’l Art Exposition SEE Art Exposition Chicago Int’l Film Festival SEE Film Festival ChicagoFest Christmas Around the World Decatur Celebration DuQuoin State Fair East Peoria Festival of Lights SEE Festival of Lights Eyes to the Skies Balloonfest & Fourth of July Celebration, 24th Annual Festival of Lights Festival of Lights Festival of the Vine Film Festival Galena Oktoberfest Grand Excursion 2004 Great Galena Balloon Race Harvest Feast History Comes Alive Int’l Art Exposition SEE Art Exposition Int’l Film Festival SEE Film Festival Jazz Festival, Annual Chicago Labor Day Weekend on the Mississippi Lake Shelbyville Festival of Lights SEE Festival of Lights Light Nights on the Magnificent Mile www.themagnificentmile.com Lincolnfest Lisle’s Eyes to the Skies Festival Magnificent Mile Lights Festival Marshall Field’s Chicago Holiday Celebration NBA AllStar Game Ravinia Festival Route 66 Mother Road Festival, International Scarecrow Festival Splendor & Majesty State Fair Steamboat Days Strawberry Festival Swedish Days Tall Ships Chicago! 2010 Taste of Chicago Victorian Festival, Jersey County Way of Lights United States Page 16 Chicago Bloomington Chicago Chicago Springfield Mount Vernon Chicago Chicago Chicago Chicago Chicago Decatur DuQuoin Peoria Lisle Findlay East Peoria Geneva Chicago Galena 54 cities in IL, IA, MN & WI Galena Petersburg Springfield Chicago Chicago Chicago Rock Island, Moline Findlay Chicago Springfield Lisle Chicago Chicago Chicago Highland Park Springfield St. Charles Rockford Springfield Peoria Long Grove Geneva Chicago Chicago Jerseyville Belleville 2008 1994 1988 1987 1986, 2016 2003 1982, 83 1984 1991 1991 1995,99, 2003, 04,05 1992 1993, 2004, 05, 07, 09 2014 1984 2014 2004 2010 1997 2015 1991 1994 2006 1983, 85, 88, 89 2009 2002 2005 1988* 1990, 98 2008 2000, 2007, 09, 2011 1996 1997 1986 2002 2014 2010 1989, 90 2008 1985, 2001, 04, 06, 09 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch INDIANA, UNITED STATES 500 Festival SEE Indianapolis “500” Amish Acres Arts & Crafts Festival Indianapolis Nappanee Amish Country of Northern Indianan Quilt Gardens Tours AuburnCordDeusenberg Festival Black Expo/Summer Celebration Blueberry Festival, Marshall County Circle City Classic Circus City Festival Covered Bridge Festival Dionosphere Grand Opening Eitejorg Museum’s Annual Indian Market Fairmount Museum Days: Remembering James Dean Farm Progress Show Feast of the Hunters’ Moon Ferdinand Christkindlmarkt Festival of Lights Freedom Festival Gifts to the Tsars: 15001700 Treasures from the Kremlin Hoosier Celebration Indiana Black Expo/Summer Celebration SEE Black Expo/Summer Celebration Indianapolis “500” Elkhart Auburn Johnny Appleseed Festival Ligonier Marshmallow Festival Madison Regatta/Indiana Governor’s Cup Race Marshall County Blueberry Festival Nat’l Hot Rod Assoc. U.S. Nat’ls, Annual Night Before Christmas Candlelight Tour of Homes NRHA SEE Nat’l Hot Rod Association Old Fashioned Holiday Celebration, Pan American Games Parke County Covered Bridge Festival SEE Covered Bridge Festival Popcorn Festival Purdue Muscial Organizations Christmas Show Quilt Gardens Along the Heritage Trail Shipshewana Quilt Festival Shipshewana Midwest Largest Outdoor Flea Market Sports Festival Steamboat Days Festival Strawberry Festival Symphony on the Prairie Three Rivers Festival U. S. Grand Prix West Side Nut Club Fall Festival Fort Wayne Indianapolis Madison Plymouth Indianapolis Madison United States Page 17 Plymouth Indianapolis Peru Rockville, Indianapolis Indianapolis Indianapolis Fairmont Knightstown Lafayette Jasper Michigan City Evenaville Indianapolis Indianapolis 2003, 06. 08, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 2009, 2010, 2011 1985, 86, 88, 89, 9, 2005 1988, 89, 93, 96 1997, 99, 2002 1990 1983, 84 1988, 89, 97, 2002, 09 2004 1998 1999 1985 1994, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014 2012 2007 1983, 86 2001 1988* 1982, 83, 84, 85*, 86*, 87*, 88*, 89*, 90*, 91*, 92*, 93*, 99*, 2001*, 02*, 06*, 07*, 08*, 09*, 2010*, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016 1994 2009 1985 2007 1992 2004 Nashville Indianapolis Rockville 1992 1987 Valparaiso West Lafayette Elkhart Shipshewana Shipshewana Indianapolis Jeffersonville Crawfordville Conner Prairie Fort Wayne Indianapolis Evansville 2005 2003, 2010* 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 2011, 2015, 2016 2013 1982 1991 1995 1996 1990, 91 2001 2009 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch IOWA, UNITED STATES “A Christmas Carol”—Come Have a Dickens of a Time American Music Festival also see Steamboat Days Arts Festival Big River Rendezous Burlington Steamboat Days Civil War Reenactment of the Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark DubuqueFest Festival of Trees Folkies Frontier Days Glen Miller Festival, Grand Excursion 2004 Great Iowa Balloon Race Homecoming ’86 SEE Iowa State Fair Carroll Burlington Des Moines Burlington Keokuk Dubuque Davenport Cedar Rapids Fort Dodge Clarinda 54 cities in IL, IA, MN & WI Storm Lake Des Moines 1999 1987 2007 1997 2012 1995 1983 1994, 2001 2001 1995 1993, 2003, 08, 2010 2004 1998 Hot Air Balloon Championships Iowa Championship Rodeo Iowa Festival Iowa State Fair Homecoming ’86 Madison County Covered Bridge Festival, Midwest Old Settlers & Threshers Reunion, SEE Old Settlers & Threshers Reunion My Waterloo Days Nat’l Hot Air Balloon Championships SEE Hot Air Balloon Championships Nordic Festival North Iowa Band Festival Old Settlers & Threshers Reunion Orange City Annual Tulip Festival SEE Tulip Festival Pella Annual Tulip Festival SEE Tulip Festival Port of Sioux City Rivercade SEE Rivercade Pufferbilly Days Rivercade, Port of Sioux City Spirit of Cross Stitch Festival State Fair SEE Iowa State Fair Steamboat Days also see American Music Festival Indianola Sidney Iowa City Des Moines Winterset 1982, 85, 87* 1984 1993 1986, 2002, 06, 2010 1994 Waterloo 1989 Decorah Mason City Mt. Pleasant Orange City Pella Sioux City Boone Sioux City Des Moines Des Moines Burlington 1997 2009, 2011 1983, 85, 87, 90, 2002 Sturgis Falls Celebration Cedar Falls 2006, 07 Tulip Festival Pella Tulip Festival U.S. Nat’l HotAir Balloon Championship, HotAir Balloon Championship Van Buren County Barn Tour World Ag Expo Orange City 1982, 86, 88, 92, 97, 2004, 09, 2010 1991, 2008, 2011 Keosauqua Amana 2005 1988 United States Page 18 2005 1990, 2002 1998 1987 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch KANSAS, UNITED STATES Amelia Earhart Festival Bethel College Fall Festival Civil War on the Border Country Stampede Dodge City Days Atchison North Newton Olathe Manhattan Dodge City Festival of Poinsettias Good Ol’ Days Grassland Heritage Festival Indian Peace Treaty Pageant McPherson Kansas Scottish Festival Medicine Lodge Indian Peace Treaty Pageant and Celebration Music Theatre of Wichita Neewollah Old Dodge City Boot Hill Museum and Front Street Praire Rose Western Days Railroad Days, Renaissance Festival, Kansas City River Festival Riverfest Lawrence Fort Scott Elkhart Medicine Lodge McPherson Medicine Lodge Wichita Independence Dodge City Benton Topeka Bonner Springs Salina Wichita Smoky Hill River Festival SEE River Festival State Fair, Kansas Svensk Hyllningsfest Tulip Time in Topeka Tulip Time at Binkley Gardens Saline Hutchinson Lindsborg Topeka Topeka United States Page 19 2005, 2014 9199 2008 2001 1990, 93, 2007, 08, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 1995 1985, 91 2005 1997 2009 1982, 88, 2006 2010 1984 1986 2016**** 1988, 89 1984, 2001, 04, 05 1987, 92, 94 1983, 90, 96, 2002, 04,06, 2011 1985, 2013 2005 2016 2007 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch KENTUCKY, UNITED STATES A Gift from the Desert Exhibition Actors Theatre Humana Festival of New American Plays Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, 2010 American Quilters Society Nat’l Quilt Show Ballard County Doo Wop Days Festival BarBQ, Int’l Belle’s Big Birthday Bash, A Centennial Celebration Bluegrass Fan Fest & Trade Show Bluegrass Music Festival Bourbon Festival Lexington Louisville Lexington Paducah Wickliffe Owensboro Louisville Owensboro Louisville Bardstown Breeder’s Cup, Churchill Downs Christmas at The Galt EquiFestival of Kentucky Governor’s Derby Breakfast Great American Brass Band Festival Int’l BarBQ SEE BarBQ KaLightoscope Christmas Kentucky Derby Festival & Race Louisville Louisville Lexington Frankfort Danville Owensboro Louisville Louisville Kentucky Fried Chicken Bluegrass Music Festival SEE Bluegrass Music Festival Kentucky Sampler Oktoberfest Quilt Show, American Quilter’s Society National Riverfest Rolex Kentucky ThreeDay Event Saint James Court Art Show Southern Lights State Fair, Kentucky Tall Stacks Thunder Over Louisville Winter Wonderland of Lights World Chicken Festival World of Bluegrass Fan Fest & Trade Show SEE Bluegrass Fan Fest & Trade Show United States Page 20 Louisville Covington Paducah Covington & Cleveland OH Lexington Louisville Lexington Louisville OH & KY Louisville Ashland London 2010 2003 2010 1992, 99, 2004, 06 2007 1989 2014 1990 1982, 83, 84, 87, 88 1997, 2001, 08, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 1994 2005, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 1993 2009 1993, 97, 2001 2012 1982, 83, 84, 85*, 86*, 87*, 88*, 89*, 90*, 91*, 92*, 93*, 99*, 2001*, 02*, 03*, 04*, 06*, 07*, 08*, 09*, 2010*, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016* 1998 1985, 86 1995 1985, 86, 89 1991, 2005, 06 1985 2013, 2014 1991 1992, 99 1994, 96, 2004 1995, 96 2003, 07 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES Arts Festival, Red River Revel Audubon Pilgrimage Breaux Bridge Crawfish Cajun & Creole Mardi Gras Cranival on the Coast-Mardi Gras Season Christmas Festival of Lights SEE Festival of Lights Contraband Days Festival International De Louisiane Festival of Lights Festivals Acadiens French Quarter Festival Heritage Festival Holiday in Dixie Jazz & Heritage Festival Mardi Gras Bash formally known as Krewe of Centaur Mardi Gras Party, Shreveport-Bossier La Grande Boucherie des Cajuns Lagniappe on the Bayou Louisiana Gumbo Festival of Chackbay Louisiana Seafood Festival Mardi Gras in Cajun Country Mardi Gras Shreveport St. Francisville Breaux Bridge Lafayette Coastwide Natchitoches Lake Charles Lafayette Natchitoches Lafayette New Orleans Gretna Shreveport & Bosier City New Orleans Shreveport 1983, 93 2005 2011 2016 2016 St. Martinsville Chauvin Thibodaux New Orleans Lafayette New Orleans Mardi Gras of Imperial Calcasieu Mardi Gras of Southwest Louisiana Mardi Gras on Bayou Lafourche Mudbug Madness Natchitoches Christmas Festival Passion Play Peach Festival, Louisiana Red River Revel Arts Festival SEE Arts Festival Renaissance Festival Satchmo SummerFest Sea Witch Halloween & Fiddler’s Festival Shrimp and Petroleum Festival Sugar Bowl, USF&G, Super Bowl Tales of the Cocktail-New Orleans World Exposition Lake Charles Lake Charles Raceland Shreveport Natchitoches Calhoun Ruston Shreveport Robert New Orleans Rehoboth Beach Morgan City New Orleans New Orleans New Orleans New Orleans 1993 1987 2013, 2014 2016 2002 1982, 83, 84, 85*, 86*, 87*, 88*, 89*, 91*, 92*, 93*, 99*, 2001*, 02*, 03*, 04*, 06*, 07*, 08*, 09*, 2010*, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016 1994 2003, 04, 2010, 2015 2015 2011 1987, 89 2003 United States Page 21 1987, 96, 99, 2001, 05, 2010*, 1988, 90, 91, 92, 94, 2008, 2012 1983, 85, 86, 90, 95, 97, 2001, 08 1984, 89, 2004, 06, 07 2011, 2012, 2013 2006, 07 1999 1982, 85, 86, 89, 91, 2015 2005, 2014 2009 2011 2013 1997, 98, 2012 1985*, 86*, 88*, 89*, 90* 1986*, 90* 2009 1984 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES ACC Craft Fair Antique and Collectibles Shows, Brimfield Big E, SEE Eastern States Exhibition Boston Harborfest West Springfield Brimfield West Springfield Boston Bourne Scallop Festival Buzzards Bay or Bourne Springfield Wareham Sturbridge West Springfield Bright Nights at Forest Park/Spirit of Springfield Cranberry Harvest Celebration Early 19th Century Fourth of July Eastern States Exhibition (The Big E) Fall River Celebrates America Festival of Trees First Night Arts Celebration Folk Festival Haunted Happenings La Salette Christmas Festival of Lights Legacy of the Hanging Judge Maritime Days, Cape Cod National Cranberry Festival New England Spring Flower Show Pilgrim Monument Centennial Anniversary/100 Years-First Landing Place of the Pilgrims Pops by the Sea Provincetown Portuguese Festival Salem Haunted Happenings Scallop Fest Tanglewood Music Festival Thanksgiving at Old Sturbridge Village America’s Hometown Thanksgiving in Plymouth Fall River Pittsfield Boston Lowell Salem Attleboro Salem Centerville Carver Boston Provincetown The Big E, W SEE Eastern States Exhibition U.S. Open Golf Tournament Working Waterfront Festival West Springfield Brookline New Bedford United States Page 22 Centerville Provincetown Salem Buzzards Bay Lenox Sturbridge Plymouth 1984, 85 2003 1985, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 96, 97, 98, 2001, 02, 04,05, 09, 2010*, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016* 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 2013 1984 1983, 90, 2002, 04. 06, 07, 08, 09, 2010*, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016 2003 1999 1984, 86, 87, 88, 91, 93, 2001 2007 2013, 2014 2005 2005 2008 2009 1993, 94, 95 2010 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 2009 1998, 2001, 2015, 2016 2015, 2016 1986, 2011 1985 1982, 83, 89, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 1988* 2007, 2016**** TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch MARYLAND, UNITED STATES American Crafty Council Baltimore Show Annapolis Alive! Antietam National Battlefield Memorial Illunination Artscape Autumn Glory Festival Baltimore Book Festival Baltimore City Fair Capt. John Smith 2007 Reenactment Voyage 18th Century Market Fair Chesapeake Appreciation Day 150th Commemoration of the Maryland Campaign Department of Defense Joint Service Open House Fall Harvest Days Hard Crab Derby & Fair, Nat’l ICE! At Gaylord Hotels-Gaylord National Kunte Kinte Heritage Festival Maryland Renaissance Festival Maryland’s 350th Anniversary Star-Spangled Spectacular 2012 – A Festival of Naval Vessels and Tall Ships New Market Days New Year’s Extravaganza OC Air Show Oyster Festival, St. Mary’s County Preakness Race Festival Baltimore Annapolis Sharpsburg Baltimore McHenry Baltimore Baltimore Chesapeake Bay Watershed Hagerstown Annapolis Hagerstown Camp Springs National Harbor Annapolis Annapolis All over MD Baltimore New Market Baltimore Ocean City Leonardtown Baltimore Renaissance Festival SEE Maryland Renaissance Festival Rocky Gap Country/Bluegrass Music Festival Salute to Independence, Maryland Symphony Orchestra’s Annual Seafood Feast-I-Val Seafood Festival, Maryland Showcase of Nations Sugarloaf Craft Festival Sunfest Vivat! St. Petersburg Volvo Ocean Race Around the World Waterfowl Festival Wildfowl Carving Competition, Wine Festival Winterfest of Lights Annapolis Cumberland Sharpsburg World Champ Wildfowl Carving Comp SEE Wildfowl Carving Competition 40 Years a Saint – 40th Anniversary of Elizabeth Seton’s Canonization Ocean City United States Page 23 Cambridge Annapolis Baltimore Gaithersburg Ocean City Baltimore Baltimore/Annapolis Easton Ocean City Westminster Ocean City Emmitsburg 2004 2008 2008 1989 1995, 2010 2001 1982 2007 2014 1986 2012 1992, 98 1999 1991 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 1997 1990, 2004 1984 2012, 2014** 1988 1987 2011 1995, 2005 1984, 85*, 86*, 87*, 88*, 89*, 91*, 92*, 93*, 99*, 2002*, 03*, 04*, 06*, 07*, 08*, 09*, 2010*, 2011* 1994 2001 2009 1989 1982, 83, 85 1996 1986, 93, 96 2003 2006 1985, 90, 2016**** 1983 1997 2003, 06, 07, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014 2016 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch MAINE, UNITED STATES American Folk Festival Bangor 2007 49th Annual Bar Harbor Music Festival Belfast Bay Festival Blueberry Festival aka Wild Blueberry Festival Christmas Prelude Celebration Clam Festival Deering Oaks Family Festival Fall Foliage Fair Festival de la Bastille, Le Fryeburg Fair Heritage Days Int’l Festival Kennebunkport’s Christmas Prelude Lobster Festival, Maine (previously listed as Seafood Festival) Bar Harbor Belfast Machias Kennebunk Yarmouth Portland Boothbay Augusta Fryeburg Bath Calais Kennebunkport Rockland Maine Quilts 2010 Moose Mainea National Folk Festival North American Wife Carrying Championship Potato Blossom Festival, 52nd Annual Saltwater Celtic Music Festival Seafood Festival, Maine (later listed as Lobster Festival) Skowhegan State Fair Ste. Croix 2004 Commemoratiive Events Windjammer Days Augusta Greenville Bangor Newry Fort Fairfield Waterville Rockland Skowhegan Calais & Bayside NB Boothbay Harbor Winterfest Falmouth & Freeport 2015 1997 1995, 2008 2008 1988, 92, 94 1986 1998 1994 1987, 92, 2006 1993 1990 2013, 2014, 2015 1986, 89, 2001,06, 2014, 2015, 2016 2010 1997 2003 2013 1999 2013**** 1983, 84 1991 2004 1983, 89, 99, 2014, 2015, 2016 2005 United States Page 24 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES Alpenfest ArtPrize Bavarian Festival Cereal Festival Cherry Festival, Nat’l Gaylord Grand Rapids Frankenmuth Battle Creek Traverse City Christmas at Greenfield Village Coast Guart Festival Detroit 300 Festival Freedom Festival, Int’l see Ontario also Holland Tulip Time Festival Dearborn Grand Haven Detroit Detroit Holland Hot Air Balloon Championships Ice Sculpture Spectacular Int’l Freedom Festival SEE Freedom Festival Lilac Festival, Mackinac Island Miller Lite Montreux Detroit Jazz Festival Music Fest Frankenmuth Oktoberfest, Frankenmuth Old Car Festival Soap Opera Fanfare Tall Ship Celebration: Bay City World Hot Air Balloon Champ SEE Hot Air Balloon Championship Zehnder’s Snowfest Battle Creek Plymouth Detroit Mackinac Island Detroit Frankenmuth Frankenmuth Dearborn Mackinaw City Bay City Battle Creek United States Page 25 Frankenmuth 2016 2015 1982, 83, 84, 87, 88, 94 1995 1987, 88, 91, 94, 97, 98, 2001, 03, 06, 07, 08, 09, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 1983, 84 2006 2001 1985, 86, 88, 90, 91, 93, 99*, 2001* 1982, 83, 84, 86, 87*, 88*, 89*, 90*, 91*, 92*, 93*, 99*, 2001*, 02*, 03*, 04, 05, 2009, 2010*, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016* 1985 1985, 86, 89 1993, 99, 2003, 07, 09, 2016 1992 1985 1999, 2013 2010 1996 2010 2006, 2012 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch MINNESOTA, UNITED STATES 19th Annual Grand Celebration Pow Wow A Country Christmas Velebration Aquatennial Barnesville Potato Days Big Island Rendezvous and Festival Defeat of Jesse James Days Festival of Nations Grand Excursion 204 Commemorative Events Grand Portage Rendezvous Days & Pow-Wow Heritagefest Macalester College Scottish Country Fair Minnesota Renaissance Festival Minnesota State Fair Minnesota State Fair Polkafest, International Renaissance Festival SEE Minnesota Renaissance Festival Scandinavian Hjemkomst Festival Song of Hiawatha Pageant SPAMTOWN USA Presents “A Nation of One” Super Bowl Target Holidazzle Parades Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga Wheels, Wings and Water Festival Winter Carnival United States Page 26 Hinckley Lakeville Minneapolis Barnesville Albert Lea Northfield Saint Paul 54 cities in IL, MN, WI, IA Grand Portage New Ulm Saint Paul Shakopee Saint Paul Falcon Heights Chisholm Shakopee 2010 2007 1982, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92 2012 2011 2008 1984, 90, 95, 98, 2001, 09 2004 2014 1993, 2004 2002 1985, 87, 94, 96 1991, 2002, 05, 06 1992, 94, 97 2001 Moorhead & Fargo ND Pipestone Austin Minneapolis Minneapolis Saint Paul SaintCloud Saint Paul 1995, 99, 2002, 2010 1997 2004 1992* 2005, 2012 2003 1985 1982, 83, 84, 87*, 88*, 89*, 90*, 91*, 92*, 93*, 99*, 2001*, 02*, 03*, 04*, 06*, 07*. 08*, 09*, 2010*, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016* TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch MISSOURI, UNITED STATES American Royal Livestock, Horse Show & Rodeo Balloon Derby, Great Pershing Birthplace of Route 66 Festival Branson Fest Branson Veterans Week Christmas Traditions Country Club Plaza Christmas Lighting Ceremony Crafts Festival, Nat’l Dogwood-Azalea Festival Garden Glow Great Pershing Balloon Derby SEE Balloon Derby Hot Air Balloon Championship, U.S. National Japanese Festival KCL&L Plaza Lights Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Signature Event Lewis and Clark Heritage Days Mark Twain Sesquicentennial Old Time Music Ozark Heritage Festival Ozark Mountain Christmas Kansas City Laclede Springfield Branson Branson Saint Charles Kansas City Branson Charleston St. Louis Laclede Columbia Saint Louis Kansas City Saint Charles Saint Charles Hannibal West Plains Branson Plaza Lighting Ceremony Season of Lights Ragtime and Traditional Jazz Festival Rt. 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival See The World in Branson Music Fest Sesquicentennial Celebration of the Pony Express Silver Dollar City’s Worldfest Tom Sawyer Days, Nat’l V.P. Fair SEE Veiled Prophet Fair Veiled Prophet Fair Kansas City Saint Louis St. Louis Sedalia Branson St. Joseph Branson Hannibal Saint Louis Saint Louis United States Page 27 1982, 83, 84, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94 1983 2014**** 2004, 05, 06, 07, 08 2010, 2011, 2015 2014 1986, 94 1987, 88, 89 2011 2016 1995, 97 1989, 2012 2007 2004 1998, 2001 1985 2014 1996, 99, 2006, 07*, 08*, 08*, 09*, 2010*, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016* 2002, 03 1985 2016 1998 2015, 2016 2010 2003 1982, 84, 88, 90, 91, 96, 2006, 2010 1982, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88, 89, 92 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch MISSISSIPPI, UNITED STATES Ballet Competition, Int’l Balloon Classic, Mississippi Int’l, Biloxi Seafood Festival Blessing of the Fleet also called Shrimp Festival Bridging the Blues Jackson Greenwood Gulfport Biloxi Greenville 1982, 94 1992 2010 1988, 93 2015**** Canton Flea Market Arts and Crafts Show Canton 1998, 2011 Carnival on the Coast-Mardi Gras Season Choctaw Indian Fair, Christmas at Beauvoir – Festival of Trees Christmas in the Pass Cotton District Art Festival Cruisin’ the Coast Biloxi Philadelphia Biloxi Pass Christian Starkville Mississippi Gulf Coast Delta Blues Festival Double Decker Arts Festival Elvis Presley Festival’s 50th Anniv. Of Elvis’ 1957 Tupelo Concert Glory of Baroque Dresden, The Holly Springs Pilgrimage of Homes Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Festival Magesty of Spain: Royal Collections from the Museo del Prado & Patrimonio Nacional Market Street Festival Mississippi Gulf Coast Mardi Gras Mississippi Gulf Coast Spring Pilgrimage of Homes & Gardens Mississippi Int’l Balloon Classic SEE Balloon Classic Mistletoe Marketplace Peter Anderson Arts & Crafts Festival Natchez Pilgrimage SEE Pilgrimage Pilgrimage Home & Garden Tour, Annual Pilgrimage, Natchez Spring Freedom Village Oxford Tupelo Jackson Holly Springs Meridan Jackson 2015 1987, 88 2014 2011 2009 2001, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016* 1984 2005 2007, 08 2004 2012 1985, 89, 93 2001 Places of St. Petersburg: Russian Imperial Style Exhibition River Fest Shrimp Festival SEE Blessing of the Fleet Sky Parade, Splendors of Versailles Spring Pilgrimage SEE Pilgrimage USA International Ballet Competition Vicksburg:The Final Days Victorian Christmas Festival World Catfish Festival Jackson Vicksburg Biloxi Jackson Jackson Natchez Jackson Vicksburg Canton Belzoni United States Page 28 Columbus Mississippi Gulf Coast Bay St. Louis Greenwood Jackson Ocean Springs Natchez Columbus Natchez 2003 2003 2004 1999, 2007 2014 2006, 07 1982, 83, 84, 86, 87, 89, 91, 97, 2002, 07 1996 1990 1995 1998** 2002 1992 2008 1997 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch MONTANA, UNITED STATES Bald Eagle Gathering Branson Veterans Homecoming Centennial Rendezvous & Can Can Festival Choral Festival, Int’l Clark on the Yellowstone College Nat’l Finals Rodeo Crow Fair, Teepee Capital of the World Custer’s Last Stand ReEnactment Festival of Nations Flathead Festival Folk Festival, National Great Northwest Oktoberfest Lewis & Clark Festival Little Big Horn Days & Custer’s Last Stand ReEnactment Montana Cowboy Poetry Gathering Montana Fair Nat’l Finals Rodeo SEE College Nat’l Finals Rodeo Traditional Jazz Festival, Montana Victorian Ball & Heritage Days Wildlife Film Festival, International Winter Carnival United States Page 29 Apgar Branson Red Lodge Missoula Billings Bozeman Crow Agency Hardin Red Lodge Kalispell Butte Whitefish Great Falls Hardin Lewiston Billings Bozeman Helena Virginia City Missoula Whitefish 1988 2013 1989 1993 2006 1983, 84, 92 1997, 2014 1991, 92, 95, 97, 2001, 03, 06, 07 1982, 85, 87 1998 2008, 09, 2010, 2012, 2016 2015**** 2002, 03, 04, 2016 1994 2010 1999 1989, 90 2004 2005 1982, 86 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch NORTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES America’s Four Hundredth Anniversary, Apple Festival Azalea Festival at Wilmington Black Theatre Festival Blue Ridge Parkway Golden Anniversary Carolina Renaissance Festival Cherokee Fall Festival Christmas at Biltmore Estate Dogwood Festival Festival of Flowers Festival of Native People Folk Festival—Folkmoot USA North Carolina International Folkmoot USA Food Lion Speed Street 600 Festivasl Gathering of the Scottish Clans Golden Anniversary of the Blue Ridge Pkwy, SEE Blue Ridge Pkwy Golden Anniversary Golden Gathering Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, NC SEE Gathering of the Scottish Clans Hang Gliding Spectacular Light Up Your Holidays Lost Colony Outdoor Drama MichaelmasL A Celebration of the Harvest Mountain Dance & Folk Festival National Black Theatre Festival North Carolina Apple Festival SEE Apple Festival North Carolina Azalea Festival SEE Azalea Festival Old Homes and Gardens Tour Ramses the Great: The Pharaoh and His Time Exhibition Queens Cup Steeplechase Roaring 20s at Biltmore Estates NC Seafood Festival Southern Christmas Show Southern Spring Show Tanglewood Festival of Lights The Billy Graham Library “Christmas at the Library” World 600 United States Page 30 Hendersonville Wilmington Winston-Salem NC/VA state line Huntersville Cherokee Asheville Fayetteville Asheville Cherokee Waynesville. Maggie Valley & 10 western counties Waynesville Charlotte Linville 1984 1992 1986, 89, 2001, 07, 2010 2007 1985 2010, 2014 1988 1983, 85. 2003. 06, 07, 09, 2010*, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016* 1986, 94 1991, 97, 2004 2008 1999 2003 2008 1982, 83, 84, 87, 2010, 2011 Maggie Valley 1991 Nags Head Asheville Manteo Ashwville Asheville Winston-Salem Hendersonville Wilmington Beaufort Charlotte Mineral Springs Asheville Morehead Charlotte Charlotte WinstonSalem/Clemmons Charlotte Harrisburg 1995 1993 1990, 2012 2005 1997 2003, 2013 2002 1989 2014 2002 2015 1993 1998 2001, 04 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 1985 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch NORTH DAKOTA, UNITED STATES Big Iron Farm Show Bonanzaville USA SEE Pioneer Days Constitution Day Constitution Day, Dickens Village Festival Folkfest,also see United Tribes Int’l PowWow Fort Union Trading Post Rendezvous KeplinFest Medora Musical West Fargo West Fargo Bismarck/Mandan Mandan/Bismarck Garrison Bismarck Williston Belcourt Medora Norsk Hostfest Minot Old Time Fiddlers Contest Pioneer Days aka Bonanzaville USA Pioneer Days Pyrotechnics Guild Intnl Convention Reunion at the Home of Sakakawea-A Lewis & Clark Signature Event Rodeo Association Championship Finals, North Dakota Rodeo Days United Tribes Int’l PowWow also see Folkfest United States Page 31 2015 West Fargo Fargo New Town 1989 1989 2005 1988, 90, 91 1987 2016**** 1991, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2001, 02, 08, 09, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 1985, 86, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2002, 03, 04, 07, 09, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016 1982, 83, 84, 87 (& MB 84) 1986, 95 2007 2006 Watford City Mandam Bismarck 2008 2006 1985, 89, 90, 91, 93, 2005, 2011, 2016 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch NEBRASKA, UNITED STATES Intertribal Gathering Applejack Celebration Arbor Day Festival Crane Fest 2003 Crane Watch Czech Festival Husker Harvest Days John C. Fremont Days Festival Kool-Aid Days Living History Demonstrations National Centennial Celebration of the Lincoln Highway Nat’l Arbor Day Festival SEE Arbor Day Festival NEBRASKAland Days Crawford Nebraska City Nebraska City Kearney Kearney Wilber Grand Island Fremont Hastings Nebraska City Kearney 2012 1997 1993, 2008 2003 2005 1999 1984, 85, 86, 87 1994, 2004 2011 1999 2013 North Platte North Platte Rail Fest Old Fashioned Danis Christmas Oregon Trail Days River City Roundup Inc Salute to Labor SEE Septemberfest Septemberfest Salute to Labor Sisters Quilt Show “The World’s Largest Outdoor Quilt Show” South Loup River Blues Festival Star City Holiday Festival Summer Arts Festval Tulip Fest Wings over the Platte North Platte Dannebrog Gering Omaha/Council Bluffs Omana Omaha Sisters 1982, 83, 84, 88, 91, 98, 2002, 06, 09, 2015 2011, 2013, 2014 1995 1992, 98 1985, 86, 89, 90, 95, 2004 United States Page 32 Arnold Lincoln Omaha Woodburn Grand Island 1983 2015 2005 1996 2007 2015 1997 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch NEW HAMPSHIRE, UNITED STATES Craftsmen’s Fair, New Hampshire Newburg Gathering of the Scottish Clans Great Waters Music Festival Harvest Day Highland Games, New Hampshire Concord Wolfeboro Canterbury Lincoln or Contoocook Holiday Tours of Strawberry Banke July 4th at Strawberry Banke Keene Pumpkin Festival League of New Hampshire Craftsmen’s Fair SEE Craftsmen’s Fair Market Square Day New England Brewfest New Hampshire Maple Weekend Seafood Festival Portsmouth Portsmouth Keene Newburg Strawberry Banke Museum Candlelight Stroll Vintage Christmas in Portsmouth Volvo Int’l Tennis Tournament Portsmouth Portsmouth North Conway United States Page 33 Portsmouth Lincoln Statewide Hampton Beach 1982, 83, 84, 88, 89, 91, 92, 94, 97, 98, 99, 2002, 04, 05, 07, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016 2007 2003 1992 1987, 90, 91, 93, 95, 98, 2001, 02, 03, 04,06, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 1985 1986 2009 1999 2016**** 2013 1996, 2001, 02, 06, 08, 09, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016* 2008 2011, 2014 1984 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES Air Show Beach Fest 2002 Christmas in Victorian Cape May Festival of Ballooning (see Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning) Festival of Champions, IBM/USET Festival of the Sea Atlantic City Atlantic City Cape May Readington 2007, 2011, 2013 2002 2003 1987, 89, 92, 97, 2011 1996 1999 Flower & Garden Show, New Jersey Gladstone Point Pleasant Beach Somrset Folk Festival Bridgeton 2006 Food and Wine Festival Cape May 2005 Hambletonian East Rutherford 1982, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89*, 90*, 91 Harness Racing Classic SEE Hambletonian Jazz & Blues Festival Miss America Pageant East Rutherford Red Bank Atlantic City OldTime Barnegat Bay Decoy & Gunning Show Passion Play Powhatan Renape Nation American Indian Arts Festival Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning Tuckerton Union City Rancocas Fairfield/ Readington Belvidere Red Bank Belmar Hoboken Augusta Toms River Morristown Cape May Millville Stone Harbor Return to Beaver Creek Powwow Riverfest Seafood Festival, New Jersey St. Ann’s Italian Festival Sussex County Farm & Horse Show Toms Riverfest Treasures From the Homeland of Genghis Khan Victorian Week WheatonArts Festival of Fine Craft Wings and Water Festival United States Page 34 1991, 94 2005 1983, 84, 85*, 86*, 87*, 88*, 89*, 90*, 91*, 92*, 93* 1997 1998 1998 2013 1995 1996 2007 1995 1990 2006 1994 1989, 93 2008 1993 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch NEW MEXICO, UNITED STATES All American Futurity, Ruidoso, NM American Indian Arts Festival Formally known as American Indian Week, Albuquerque, NM Balloon Fiesta, Albuquerque Int’l, Ruidoso Albuquerque 1986 1998, 2014, 2015 Albuquerque Balloon Rally, Red Rock, Gallup, NM Bat Flight Breakfast, Carlsbad, NM Christmas on the Pecos River Cowboy Days Fiestas de Santa Fe, Sante Fe, NM Folk Art Market, Intn’l Freedom Days, Farmington, NM Gathering of Nations Native American Pow Wow Harvest Festival, Sante Fe, NM Hot Air Balloon Fiesta, Albuquerque, NM Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM Int’l Hot Air Balloon Fiesta, SEE Hot Air Balloon Fiesta InterTribal Indian Ceremonials, Kodak Albuquerque Int’l Balloon Fiesta SEE Balloon Fiesta La Fiesta de San Ysidro Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium, Ruidoso Downs New Mexico State Fair, Albuquerque, NM Old Lincoln Days, Lincoln, NM Outdoor Summer Theater, Farmington, NM, Renaissance Craftfaire Rio Rancho’s Port and Brew BBQ State Championship Ruidoso Valley Festival of Lights Electric Light Parade SalsaFest! Shiprock Navajo Nation Fair, Shiprock, NM Totah Festival, Farmington, NM Tricentennial Celebration Whole Enchilada Fiesta Las Cruces NM Wine Festival at Bernalillo, Bernalillo, MN, Winter Spanish Market, Santa Fe Gallup Carlsbad Carlsbad Las Cruces Santa Fe Albuquerque Farmington Albuquerque Santa Fe Albuquerque Santa Fe Albuquerque 1989*, 90*, 91*, 92*, 93*, 95, 2004, 06*, 07*, 08*, 09*, 2010*, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016* 1997 1988 1996, 2002, 04, 07, 08, 09, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 2004 1989, 2010 2006 1988 2004, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 1985 1982, 84 1983, 91, 92 United States Page 35 Gallup Albuquerque 1982, 84, 90 Las Cruces Ruidoso Albuquerque Lincoln Farmington Las Cruces Rio Rancho 2005 2001 1993 1987 1999 2003 2009, 2012, 2013 Ruidoso 2008 Las Cruces Shiprock Farmington Albuquerque Las Cruces Bernadillo Santa Fe 2015 1998, 2010* 1996, 2002 2006** 1985, 94 1999 2001 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch NEVADA, UNITED STATES “Treasurers of Russia”—Peterhof Palaces of the Czars Air Races, Int’l, Las Vegas Reno ArtinthePark Arttown 2004 Aviation Nation Basque Festival, National Best In the West Nugget Rib Cook-off Camel Races Candy Dance Cocktails & Cannons Elks Helldorado Days Fairshow and Balloon Races Fire and Ice Competition Great Balloon Race Hearts of Gold Canteloupe Festival Holiday Festival on Ice Hot August Nights Hydroplane Race Japan Festival in Las Vegas Las Vegas/Budweiser Silver Cup Unlimited Hydroplane Race SEE Hydroplane Race Nat’l Championship Air Races and Air Show, Reno SEE Air Races Nat’l Finals Rodeo (previously held in Oklahoma City Native American Arts Festival North Las Vegas Fairshow and Balloon Races SEE Fairshow & Balloon Races Reno Nat’l Championship Air Races SEE Air Races Reno Rodeo Resurrection Festival Shakespeare Festival, Lake Tahoe Wings & Wildfire Festival of Southern Nevada Winter Break Boulder City Reno Las Vegas Elko Sparks Virginia City Genoa Ely Las Vegas Las Vegas Ely Reno Fallon Reno Remo Las Vegas/Lake Mead Las Vegas United States Page 36 1999 1982, 84, 85, 86, 88*, 89*, 90*, 91*, 92*, 93*, 2003, 2011 1994 2004 2010 2004 2015 1989, 92 2002 2013 1985 1993 2008, 09, 2010, 2011 2005 2004 1996 2002, 09 1987, 89 1998 Remo Las Vegas Henderson/Las Vegas Las Vegas Reno Reno Rhyolite Incline Village Laughlin Laughlin 1986, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 09 1997 1982, 83, 84, 87, 91 1995 1999, 2001 2010 2006 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch NEW YORK, UNITED STATES Adirondack Balloon Festival Albany Tulip Festival Applefest Belmont Belmont Stakes, Brotherhood Winery’s Grape Stomping Festival Canal Fest Capital District Garden & Flower Show Glens Falls Albany Warwick Elmont Long Island Washingtonville Tonowanda Troy 1996, 2001, 2013 2013 2003 1987* 1999* 2007 1990 1999 Caramoor International Music Festival Katonah 1995, 2001 The Chautauqua Institution 2010 Summer Season Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival Concert in the Sky Destival and Dressage Dutchess County Fair Festival of Lights Chautauqua Valhalla Niagara Falls Saratoga Springs Rhinebeck Niagara Falls, NY & ON 2010, 2013 1997 1985 2002 2004 1983, 84, 86, 88, 89, 90*, 91*, 92*, 93*, 99*, 2001* Festival of Lilacs SEE Lilac Festival Festival of Nations Festival of the Arts, First New York Int’l Finger Lakes Wine Festival First New York Int’l Festival of the Arts SEE Festival of Arts French and Indian War Celebration Rochester Hunter New York Watkins Glen New York Friendship Festival GlassFest Goodwill Games Grans Encampment of the French and Indian War The Great jack O’Lantern Blaze Great New York State Fair Harborfest Historic Lewiston Jazz Festival Hudson 400th Celebration of Discovery Hudson Valley Garlic Festival I Love New York Spring Festival “A Riesling to Visit the Finger Lakes” I Love New York Summer Festival Lilac Festival Lucille Ball Comedy Festival LucyDesi Days 2002 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Mozart Bicentennial at Lincoln Center National Buffalo Garden Festival National Buffalo Wing Festival Natl Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum Induction Weekend New York State Festival of Blossoms United States Page 37 1988 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016* Crown Point, Lake George, Ogdensburg, Oswego, Rome, Ticonderoga, Youngstown Buffalo also Ontario Corning New York & Long Island Ticonderoga Croton-on-Hudson Syracuse Oswego Lewiston Albany Saugerties Finger Lakes region 2007 Buffalo Rochester Jamestown Jamedtown New York New York Buffalo Buffalo Cooperstown 2003 1986, 89, 91, 92, 2010 2016 2002 1982, 83, 84, 85*, 86*, 87*, 88*, 91*, 92*, 93*, 99*, 2001*, 02*, 03*, 04*, 06*, 07*, 08*, 09, 2010*, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016* 1991 2015**** 2010 2007 North Dansville 2004 1987, 89 2014, 2015, 2016 1998 2005 2015 2011 1996, 98, 2005, 2008, 2010 2014 2009 2004 2002 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch Niagara on a Song: Senior Spring Sing Niagara Falls 1995 Operation Sail New York 1992 Oyster Festival, Annual Long Island 1990, 94 Radio City Music Hall’s 50th Anniv. Celebration New York 1982 Renaissance Faire Tuxedo 2001, 2016 Renaissance Festival Sterling 1999 Saratoga Festival & Dressage Saratoga Springs 2001 Spiedie Fest & Balloon Rally, Annual Binghamton 2006 Statue of Liberty Celebration New York 1986 Tulip Festival Albany 2008 U.S. Open Tennis Flushing 1987* War of 1812 Bicentennial Battle of Plattsburgh Plattsburgh 2012 Commemoration Weekend War of 1812 Encampment- The Capture of Ft Youngstown 2013 Niagara West Indian/American Carnival Brooklyn 1996 West Point Bicentennial West Point 2002 Woodstock/New Paltz Arts & Crafts Fair-Quail Woodstock 2009 Hollow Events World Cup Competitions Lake Placid 1987 World University Games Buffalo 1993 United States Page 38 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch OHIO, UNITED STATES A Chihuly Garden of Glass Columbus Air Show, Cleveland Nat’l Cleveland Airshow & Trade Exposition Dayton AmeriFlora ‘92 Columbus Arts Festival Columbus Blooms and Butterflies Columbus Canadian-American Police-Fire Games, 2010 Dublin Celebration of Lake Erie Heritage: Ohio Bicentennial Tall Cleveland, Toledo & other Lake Ships Challenge Erie ports Christmas in the Country Event Walnut Creek D-Day Reenactment, Annual Conneaut Deck the Hall Akron Figure Skating Championship Cincinnati Flower Show Cincinnati Folk Festival, Nat’l Dayton German Village Haus and Garden Tour Columbus Grape Jamboree Geneva Great Lakes Medieval Faire Rock Creek Great Mohican Indian Pow Won and Rendezvous Londonville Heritage Days Frazeysburg Heritage Festival Piqua Hot Air Balloon Championship, U.S. Nat’l, Middleton Inventing Flight Centennial Celebration Dayton Irish Festival Dublin 2007 1983 1984 1992 1988 2004 2010 2003 2016 2006 2016 1987 2005 1996 2006 1988 2004 1995 2007 2009 1993 also see IA 87 2003 2005, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015 1989 2015 1986 1985, 2002 1984 1998 1983 1990, 2002 1994 1999 1982, 87, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012 1999 1982 1991 1997 1985, 86, 89 Jamboree in the Hills Meet Jungle Jack Hanna Midfest Int’l Ohio River Sternwheel Festival Ohio State Fair Ohio Swiss Festival Oktoberfest Zinzinnati Paul Bunyan Show Popcorn Festival Prairie Peddler Festival Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival St. Clairsville Columbus Middletown Marietta Columbus Sugarcreek Cincinnati Nelsonville Marion Butler Canton Pumpkin Festival Pumpkin Show Red, White, and Boom! Renaissance Festival Riverfest Barnesville Circleville Columbus Harveysburg Cincinnati and Covington KY Riverfront Stadium Festival Son of Heaven: Imperial Arts of China, State Fair SEE Ohio State Fair Tall Stacks ‘92 Tecumseh!, ToledoFest: A Celebration of the Arts U.S. Nat’l HotAir Balloon Championship SEE HotAir Balloon Championship Vectren Dayton Air Show Cincinnati Columbus Columbus OH/KY Chillicothe Toldeo Middleton 1989 1989 Dayton 2007, 2010, United States Page 39 1992, 95, 99**, 1993 1990 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch Vintage Ohio Kirtland 2001, 06 Wildlights at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Powell 2012 Wise Men Still Seek Him Kirtland 2011 World Figure Skating Championships SEE Figure Skating Cincinnati Championships OKLAHOMA, UNITED STATES A Territorial Christmas Celebration Airblown World’s Christmas Kingdom of Inflatables at the Castle of Muskogee American Indian Exposition Azalea Festival Bluegrass Festival, Oklahoma International Cherokee Strip Centennial Celebration Opening Ceremonies Christmas Train at Dry Gulch Chuckwagon Gathering & Children’s Cowboy Festival Discoveryland’s “Oklahoma”, Eighty Niner Week, Festival of the Arts Guthrie Muskogee 2003 2009 Anadarko Muskogee Guthrie Enid The Pryor Oklahoma City Tulsa Guthrie Oklahoma City Festival of the Horse Finals Rodeo SEE Nat’l Finals Rodeo Gene Autry Oklahoma Film & Music Festival Grant’s Bluegrass Festival, Greenwood Jazz Celebration, Jazz Banjo Festival Mayfest, Int’l, Nat’l Finals Rodeo (moved to Las Vegas) Nike World Masters Games Oklahoma Centennial Oklahoma Indian Summer Festival Oklahoma Mozart International Festival Oktoberfest Old Time Threshing Bee, Annual Olympic Festival Oklahoma City Oklahoma City Gene Autry Hugo Tulsa Guthrie Tulsa Oklahoma City statewide Statewide Bartlesville Bartlesville Tulsa Fairfiew Oklahoma City and other cities Edmond Oklahoma City Oklahoma City Oklahoma City Ponca City Oklahoma city Tahlequah Claremore 1986 1987, 90, 96 2001 1993 1999 2004 1985 1987 1982, 83, 86, 88, 89, 90, 2002 1992, 94 PGA Annual Golf Championship Prix de West International Art Exhibition Quarter Horse Show Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival Standing Bear Pow Wow State Fair of Oklahoma Trail of Tears Outdoor Historic Drama Will Rogers Days United States Page 40 2006 1993 1995 1998 1990, 2005 1982, 83, 84 1998 2007** 2013 2002, 2011 1997 2006 1989 1988* 2008 1984 1988, 91, 97 2008 1998 1985, 2002 2013 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch OREGON, UNITED STATES Bach Festival Corvallis Fall Festival Feast Portland Festival of American Music Grotto Festival of Lights, The Junction City’s Scandinavian Festival Matieres de Reves: Stuff of Dreams Mt. Angel Oktoberfest Oregon Shakespeare Festival SEE Shakespeare Festival Outdoor Quilt shoe Pendleton RoundUp Portland Rose Festival Eugene Corvallis Portland Eugene Portland Junction City Portland Mount Angel Ashland 1995 2015**** 2014 2007 1999 1998 2002 1999, 2011 2012 Sisters Pendleton Portland Scandinavian Festival Seafood and Wine Festival, Newport Shakespeare Festival Timber Carnival Waterfront Blues Festival Whale Watching Week World Championship Timber Carnival SEE Timber Carnival Junction City Newport Ashland Albany Portland Waldport Albany 2008 1982, 87 1982, 83, 84, 85*, 86*, 87*, 88*, 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 2001, 04*, 06*, 07*, 08*, 09*, 2010*, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016* 1990 1997, 2005, 2012 1986, 91, 2008, 09, 2011, 2012, 2013 1993, 2001 2004 2003 United States Page 41 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES A Chihuly Garden of Glass A Longwood Gardens Christmas Applefest Arts and Heritage Festival, Westmoreland Balloon Festival Bavarian Fun Fest Ben Franklin Tricentennnary Christkindlmarkt Bethlehem Christmas in Hershey Chrysanthemum Festival at Longwood Gardens Civil War Heritage Days Craft Fair, Pennsylvania State Discover Presque Isle Days Dedication Day Farm Show Flower and Garden Show Folk Festival Fort Ligonier Days French and Indian Ware Celebration German Festival Gettysburg 150: Reflections of History Gettysburg Civil War Battle Re-enactment Gettysburg Remembrance Day Global Fusion Festival Harley Davidson Open House, 17th Annual Highland Games Koziar’s Christmas Village Keystone Country Festival La Festa Italiana A Longwood Christmas Longwood Gardens Centennial Celebration Longwood Gardens Festival of Fountains Longwood Gardens Wine & Jazz Festival Manufacturers Days Mummer’s Parade Musikfest Overly’s Country Christmas Patriots or Traitors? The 225th Anniversary Celebration of the Revolution Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire Pennsylvania State Craft Fair, SEE Craft Fair United States Page 42 Pittsburgh Kennett Square Franklin Greensburg Poconos Sharon Philadlphia Bethleham Hershey Kennett Square Gettysburg Lancaster Erie Gettysburg Harrisburg Philadelphia Kutztown Ligonier Erie Kutztown Gettysburg Gettysburg Gettysburg Philadelphia York Ligonier Bernville Altoona Dunmore Kennett Square Kennett Square Kennett Square Kennett Square York Philadelphia Bethlehem Greensburg Valley Forge Manheim Lancaster 2007 2011 2012 1997 1992 1991 2005** 2003 2014 2014 1985, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94, 95, 2001, 04, 06 1999 2013 2013 1984 1985, 91, 93, 96, 2001, 04*, 06*, 07*, 08*, 2010*, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016* 2008, 2015 2010, 2016 2007 1996 2013** 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016* 2010 2010 2001 1999. 2008 2015 1995 2008 2015 2006 1998 2009 2002, 04 1986*, 89, 90*, 91*, 92*, 93*, 99*, 2001*, 02*, 03*, 04*, 06*, 07*, 08*, 09*, 2010*, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015* 1987, 90, 93 2012 2003 1998, 2016 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch Pennsylvania State Farm Show SEE Farm Show Harrisburg Pennsylvania German Festival Kutztown 2001 Philadelphia Century IV Celebration Philadelphia 1982 Pocono Winter Carnival Pocono 1984, 86, 88, 89 region Quilter’s Heritage Celebration Lancaster 1998 Rhubarb Festival Intercourse 2013 Shawnee Autumn Balloon Festival SEE Balloon Festival Poconos Tall Ships Erie Erie 2016 The Gettysburg Festival-Celebrating America Gettysburg 2009 Three Rivers Arts Festival Pittsburgh 1983 Three Rivers Regatta Pittsburgh 1982 Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs Philadelphia 2007 We the People 200 Philadelphia 1987 Whoopie Pie Festival Strasburg 2013****, 2015 Winter Carnival, SEE Pocono Winter Carnival Pocono region World War II Weekend Reading 2016 World War II History Weekend at Eisenhower Natl. Historic Site Gettysburg 2010 World’s Largest Garden Party Philadelphia 2002 York County Made In America Days York 2006, 2009 United States Page 43 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch RHODE ISLAND, UNITED STATES American Classic Tea Open House Christmas in Newport Wadmalaw Island Newport Festival of Historic House Flower Show Providence Newport Fourth of July Parade Gaspee Days Celebration Jack O’Lantern Spectacular Jazz Festival, Newport Music Festival, Newport Quahog Festival, Int’l Rhythm & Roots Festival Seafood Festival, C WaterFire Providence Wickford Art Festival Winter Festival, Newport Bristol Warwick Providence Newport Newport North Kingstowne Charlestown Charlestown Providence Wickford Newport United States Page 44 1999 1982, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 93, 94, 95, 97, 99, 2003 1985, 95, 99 1998, 2001, 0, 06, 07, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 1985, 2004 2001, 02 2004, 2013, 2016 1991*, 92*, 93* 1992, 93, 97 1986 2007 1988, 96. 2008 2003, 2010, 1998 1992, 94 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch SOUTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES South Carolina Apple Festival Balloons Over Anderson Beaufort County Water Festival SEE Water Festival Beaufort Water Festival SEE Water Festival Bravo—Celebrate the Arts! Brookgreen Gardens Nights of a Thousand Candles Canadian American Days Festival Christmas City at Heritage USA Christmas in Charlestown, Creche Festival Dickens Christmas Show and Festival Festival of Flowers Walhalla Anderson Beaufort Beaufort Hilton Head Island Murrells Inlet Myrtle Beach Fort Hill Charleston Moncks Corner Myrtle Beach Greenwood First Flush Festival Freedom Weekend Aloft Golden Leaf Festival Gullah Festival Heritage USA, Fort Hill, SEE Christmas City Holiday FantaSea Motorcoach Festival Wadmalaw Island Greenville Mullins Beaufort Fort Hill Myrtle Beach Holiday Festival of Lights Iris Festival Lee County Cotton Festival Lights Before Christmas at Riverbank Zoo & Gardens Picolo Spoleto Plantation Days at Middleton Place Preservation Society of Charleston Fall Candlelight Tour of Homes & Gardens Spoleto Charleston Sumter Bishopville, Columbia Charleston Charleston Charleston Charleston 1982, 83, 84, 85*, 86*, 91, 94, 2002 Spring Jubilee Springfest Sumter Iris Festival Sun Fun Festival Taste of Charleston This Man Called Jesus Water Festival Pendleton Hilton Head Island Sumter Myrtle Beach Charleston Lexington Beaufort 1991 1985, 86 2015 1987. 2008 2009 2012 1983, 88 United States Page 45 2014**** 2013**** 2006 2016 1984, 90, 93, 94 1986, 87 1989, 03, 2005 2012 1999, 2002, 2013, 2015 1982, 92, 96, 2001, 2013, 2015 2012 1990, 91, 95, 2007 1992 1998 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016 2012 9198 1999 1995, 97 0207 1996 2001 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch SOUTH DAKOTA, UNITED STATES Angus Leader RibFest Black Hills & Northern Plains Indian PowWow & Arts Expo Black Hills Autumn Expedition Black Hills Passion Play, Black Hills Roundup Buffalo Roundup and Arts Festival Sioux Falls Rapid City Rapid city Spearfish Belle Fourche Custer 2005 1994, 2003 2005 1988, 90 1995 1993, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016* Calvary Days, Corn Palace Festival Corn Palace Stampede Rodeo Crazy Horse Memorial Hike Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup Arts Festival Czech Days Days of ’76 Rodeo and Parade Fort Sisseton Historical Festival, SD SEE Historical Festival Fourth of July Celebration Gold Discovery Days, Great Black Hills Outdoor Quilt Show & Sale Historical Festival Jaxx & Blues Festival Laura Ingalls Wilder Pageant Milbank Train Festival Mount Rushmore Golden Anniversary Celebration & Formal Dedication Nordland Fest Northern Plains Indian Pow Wow and Exposition Passion Play SEE Black Hills Passion Play Rosebud Sioux Fair and Pow Wow Wild Bill Days Yankton Riverboat Days Sturgis/Fort Meade Mitchell Mitchell Crazy Custer Taboe Deadwood 2001 1982, 89, 97, 2013 2007 1999 2013, 2014 1999 1999 Mount Rushmore Custer Hill City Lake City/Fort Sisseton Sioux Falls DeSmet Milbank 1983 1985 2004 1987, 88, 89, 92, 93. 2008 2007 1996, 2003 1998 1991, 2010 Sioux Falls Rapid City Spearfish Rosebud Deadwood Yankton 1986 1992 United States Page 46 1984 2006 1995 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch TENNESSEE, UNITED STATES 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh 2015 Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemoration + Blue & Gray Reunion & Jubilee National Cornbread Festival Gatlinburg Beans and Cornbread Festival Country Holidays Chattanooga’s Riverbend Music Festival Country Music Association Music Festival (formerly Fan Fair) Nashville Knoxville 2012 2015 South Pittsburg Gatlinburg Nashville Chattanooga Nashville Country Music Fan Fair, Int’l Nashville Dogwood Arts Festival Elvis Int’l Tribute Week Knoxville Memphis Fall Color Cruise & Folk Festival Fall Homecoming Fan Fair, Int’l Country Music SEE Country Music Fan Fair Fantasy of Lights Christmas Parade Fiddlers’ Jamboree, Fourth of July Midnight Parade Gatlinburg 4th of July Celebration Gaylord Opryland Resort’s A Country Christmas Chattanooga Norris Nashville Gatlinburg Smithville Gatlinburg Gatlinburg Nashville 2015, 2016 2016**** 1988, 89, 90, 91 2013 2004, 06*, 07*, 08*, 2010*, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015* 1982, 83, 84, 86, 90, 91, 93, 94, 98, 09 1987, 93 1985, 95, 98, 2002, 2010, 2014 1982, 83, 89 1992, 99, 2016 Haborfest Harvest Festival Heroes, Hometowns & Legends/Welcome Home Vietnam ICE! At Gaylord Hotels-Gaylord Opryland International Biscuit Festival Int’l Country Music Fan Fair SEE Country Music Fan Fair Memphis in May Int’l Festival Mud Island Museum Museum of Appalachia Tennessee Fall Homecoming, SEE Fall Homecoming Nashville’s Country Holidays SEE Country Holidays Nat’l Storytelling Festival SEE Storytelling Festival Ramses the Great Exhibition Riverbend Festival Rivers & Spires Festival Norfolk Pigeon Forge Clarksville Nashville Knoxville Nashville Memphis Memphis Norris Secret City Festival Smithville Fiddlers’ Jamboree, TN SEE Fiddlers’ Jamboree Smoky Mountain Lights Speedway in Lights Storytelling Festival Summer Lights in Music City, TACA Fall Crafts Fair Tennessee Homecoming Titanic Exhibition Uncle Dave Macon Days Festival, 26th Annual Winter Magic Winterfest Oak Ridge Smithville Gatlinburg Bristol Jonesborough Nashville Nashville Statewide Memphis Murfreesboro Gatlinburg Gatlinburg United States Page 47 Nashville Jonesborough Memphis Chattanooga Clarksville 2013 1987 2004 2016 2002, 2012, 2014, 2015*, 2016* 2016 2004 2016 2010, 2011 2013**** 1988, 91, 92, 93, 94, 96 1982 1987 1985, 88, 96 2006, 09, 2014, 2015, 2016 2009, 2013 1994 2007 1984, 95, 97, 99 1996 2001 1986 1997 2003, 05, 08 2008 2002 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch Winterfest Pigeon Forge 1998, 2003, 06, 09, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016 Wonders: Egyptian Art from the British Museum Memphis 2001 World’s Fair Knoxville 1982 United States Page 48 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch TEXAS, UNITED STATES Azalea and Spring Flower Trail Bluebonnet Trail Charro Days Chisholm Trail Roundup Christmas Capital of Texas Tyler Cotton Bowl Parade & Football Classic Denton Art & Jazz Festival Dickens on the Strand Fiesta San Antonio Dallas Denton Galveston Island San Antonio Folklife Festival, Ft. Worth Stock Show & Rodeo GrapeFest Festival (A Celebration of Texas Wines) San Antonio Ft. Worth Grapevine Harbor Lights Christmas Festival Houston Int’l Festival ICE! At Gaylord Hotels-Gaylord Texan Livestock Show & Rodeo Main Street Fort Worth Art Festival Mardi Gras! Galveston 2001: Space & Beyond Pioneer Days Celebration and Rodeo Corpus Christi Houston Grapevine Houston Fort Worth Galveston Island Fort Worth Quilt Fesdtivsal, International Red Steagall Cowboy Gathering San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo Sesquicentennial Exposition and Texas State Fair Southwestern Exposition & Livestock Show & Rodeo State Fair of Texas Houston Fort Worth San Antonio Dallas Fort Worth Dallas Texas Folklife Festival SEE Folklife Festival Texas Jazz Festival Texas Musical Drama Texas Rose Festival Texas State Fair SEE State Fair of Texas San Antonio Corpus Christi Near Amarillo & Canyon Tyler Dallas 2005 1996, 2001, 03, 2012, 2013 2005, 2013, 2014 Washington’s Birthday Celebration Wurstfest Laredo New Braufels 2004, 2011, 2013 1985, 88, 95 United States Page 49 Brownsville Fort Worth Grapevine 2006, 09 1986 1996, 2002. 05, 06 1990 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 1985*, 86*, 88*, 89*, 90* 2012, 2013, 2014 1990, 98, 2004. 08, 2012 1982, 83, 85, 91, 95, 98, 09, 2010**, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016* 1989, 92, 078 2014 2003, 05, 07, 08, 09, 2010, 2012, 2016* 1992 1991, 94 2010, 2011 1983, 87 1999. 2008, 2010, 2015 2001 1993, 94 2001 2006 2013, 2016 1986 w/Texas State Fair 1999, 2011 1983, 84, 86, 87, 97, 2011, 2012 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch UTAH, UNITED STATES America’s Freedom Festival America’s Freedom Festival/Stadium of Fire Arts Festival, Utah Canyonlands By Night Christmas Lights at Temple Square Days of ‘47 Pioneer Celebration Festival of the American West, Mormon Miracle Pageant Pioneer Days, Shakespearean Festival Provo Provo Salt Lake City Moab Salt Lake City Salt Lake City Logan Manti Salt Lake City Cedar City Tiacahn’s Broadway in the Desert Tuacahn Summer Festival of Theater Western Legends Round Up and Little Hollywood Film Festival St. George Ivins Kanab United States Page 50 2003, 04 2007 1986, 89 2013 1991, 93, 94, 95, 96, 98, 2001, 02 1985, 87, 88, 90, 91 1985, 86, 88, 92, 97, 99, 2002, 03 1989, 93 1982, 83 2084, 85, 90, 91, 92, 94, 2002, 06, 08, 2011, 2012 2005 2004 2008, 2010, TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES 100 Miles of Lights 2001, 02, 05 18th Century Craft Fair at Mount Vernon 7th Annual PANroma Caribbean Music Fest AFR’AM Fest America’s 400th Anniversary Weekend Anniversary of D Day, 60th Annual CAN*AM, SEE Canadian American Festival Apple Blossom Festival, Aviation World’s Fair 2003 Azalea Festival, Int’l Blue Ridge Parkway Golden Anniversary Boardwalk Art show and Festival Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion CAN*AM SEE Canadian American Festival Canadian American Festival Capt. John Smith Reenactment Voyage Celebration of the Victory at Yorktown Chautauqua Festival: The Arts in the Park Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmith, Richmond, Virginia Beach, Williamsburg Mount Vernon Virginia Beach Norfolk Jamestown Bedford Virginia Beach Winchester Newport News Norfolk NC/VA state line Virginia Beach Bristol Virginia Beach Virginia Beach Chesapeake Bay watershed Yorktown Wytheville Christmas Illuminations at Mount Vernon Mount Vernon 2016 Christmas in Williamsburg Williamsburg 2015, 2016 Christmas Town, a Busch Gardens Celebration Williamsburg 2013, 2014, 2015 Civil War 150th Commemoration Anniversary of First Battle of Manassas Colonial Williamsburg’s Grand Illumination Ella Fitzgerald Music Festival Fall Foliage Festival Golden Anniversary of the Blue Ridge Pkwy SEE Blue Ridge Pkwy Golden Anniversary Grand Illumination Manassas 2011** Williamsburg Newport News Waynesboro 2013, 2014, 2015* 2009 1991 Colonial Williamsburg Hampton Bay Days, Harborfest Highland Festival Hampton Norfolk Abingdon Historic Garden Week Int’l Azalea Festival SEE Azalea Festival International; Tattoo Richmond Norfolk Norfolk 1984, 2010, 2012, 2016* 1990, 91, 92, 09 1985, 2010, 1986, 91, 93, 94, 95, 99, 2001, 02, 03, 06. 08, 2013 2011, 2013 Jazz Festival Marymount Flower and Garden Show Hampton Richmond United States Page 51 2005 2009 2004 2007 2004 1983, 92, 93, 2002 2003 1982, 83, 86, 88 1985 2008 2015 1993 2007 2006 1996 2005, 07. 08*, 09*, 2010*, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016** 1997, 2007 1996, 98 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch McDonald’s Holiday Lights at the Beach Virginia Beach 2011 Neptune Festival Virginia Beach 1987, 2002, 05, 2011, 2014 Norfolk Harborfest presented by AT&T Norfolk 2013 North American Fireworks Competition Virginia Beach 1994 Oatlands Celtic Festival, Leesburg 1996 Oceana Air Show Virginia Beach 2010, 2016 Old Time Fiddler’s Convention Galax 1989 Olde Towne Holiday Music Festival Portsmouth 2008 OpSail Norfolk 2012 Patriotic Festival: A Celebration of Our Military Virginia Beach 2016 Pony Penning and Auction, Chincoteaque 1982 Seawall Festival, Portsmouth 1988 Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival SEE Apple Winchester Blossom Festival Virginia Beach Patriotic Festival Virginia Beach 2012 Virginia Fall Foliage Festival, Waynesboro SEE Fall Foliage Festival Virginia Highlands Festival Abingdon SEE Highlands Festival Virginia Wine Festival Middleburg SEE Wine Festival Voyage of the Godspeed from England to Jamestown Williamsburg 1985 Waterford Homes Tour and Crafts Exhibit, Waterford 1995 Waterfront International Arts Festival, Virginia 7 towns 1999 Wine Festival Middleburg 1985 United States Page 52 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch VERMONT, UNITED STATES Arts Festival Balloon & Craft Festival Burlington Discover Jazz Festival Celebration of Peonies at Hildene, the Lincoln Family Home Champlain Valley Exposition Champlain Valley Fair Discover Jazz Festival Discovery Festival, Fall Foliage Festival Farm & Food Fair, Vermont Herrmann’s Royal Lipizzan Stallions Jazz Festival, SEE Discover Jazz Festival Lake Champlain Balloon & Craft Festival SEE Balloon & Craft Festival Lake Champlain Discovery Festival SEE Discovery Festival Lake Champlain Maritime Festival Lilac Sunday Maple Festival, Annual Vermont, VT Oktoberfest Quechee Balloon Festival Quilt Festival Stratton Arts Festival SEE Arts Festival Strolling of the Heifers Symphony Orchestra Summer Festival Tour, Vermont Vermont Celebrates Champlain Vermont Festival of the Arts Vermont Life Wine & Harvest Festival Vermont Quilt Festival Vermont’s NE Kingdom Annual Fall Foliage Festival SEE Fall Foliage Festival Winter Carnival United States Page 53 Stratton Essex Junction Burlington Manchester Essex Junction Essex Junction Burlington Burlington Manchester Burlington Burlington 1982, 85, 86, 88 1992 2013 2016 2008 2007 1988, 90, 94, 95, 98 1984 1990, 96 1999 2006 Burlington Burlington Shelburne Saint Albans Stowe Quechee Northfield Stratton East Dummerston Statewide Montpelier Mad River Valley Wilmington Essex Junction 2013 1993 1989, 91, 2003, 2015 2001 2012 1992, 94, 97, 2002, 03,06 Stowe 1982, 83, 85, 87, 91 2015 2004 2009 2010 2011, 2015 2012 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES A Taste of Edmonds Edmonds Air Fair, Int’l Everett Apple Blossom Festival, Wenatchee Argosy Christmas Ship Festival Seattle Arlington Fly-In Arlington Autumn Leaf Festival, Leavenworth Balloon Stampede, Walla Walla Central Washington State Fair Yakima Daffodil Festival, Puyallup Valley Tacoma Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival Port Angeles Ellensburg Rodeo Ellensburg Goodwill Games Seattle Kite Festival, Int’l Long Beach Laser Light Festival Grand Coulee The Lights of Christmas Festival Stanwood Lilac Festival Spokane Logger’s Jubilee Morton Morton Logger’s Jubilee SEE Logger’s Jubilee Morton NBA AllStar Game Northwest Experimental Aircraft Assoc. Fly-in Northwest Folklife Festival Omak Stampede & Suicide Race Puyallup Fair SEE Western Washington Fair Puyallup Valley Daffodil Festival SEE Daffodil Festival Seafair Seqyim Lavender Festival Skagit Valley Tulip Festival Skagit Valley Tulip Festival SEE Tulip Festival Spokane Lilac Festival SEE Lilac Festival Stampede and Suicide Race State Fair SEE Central Washington State Fair Tulip Festival Vintage Aircraft Weekend Viking Fest Walla Walla Balloon Stampede Warm Beach Christian Camps and Confernece Center-“The Lights of Christmas” Washington State Apple Blossom Festival,SEE Apple Blossom Festival Washington State Fair SEE Central Washington State Fair Washington State Int'l Air Fair SEE Air Fair, Int'l Western Washington Fair (Puyallup Fair) Whale Fest United States Page 54 Seattle Arlington Seattle Omak Tacoma Seattle/Puget South area Port Angeles Mount Vernon Statewide Spokane Omak Yakima Stateside Mukilteo Poulsbo Walla Walla Stanwood Yakima Everett Payallup Westport/Grayland 2004 1985 1986 2003 2012 1996 1994 1987 1987 2011, 2015 1992 1990 1997 1991 2016 1986, 99, 2006, 2016 1985 1987* 2007, 2008, 2009 1989 1995 1982, 83, 84 2007 2006 1995 1988, 99 2016 1992 1998 2010, 2011, 2012 1983, 2001, 02 1993 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES “Mummies of the World” A Fireside Christman African World Festival Air Fair on the Square, American Birkebeiner, SEE Birkebeiner Apostle Island Lighthouse Celebration Apple Festival Balloon Rally, The Great Wisconsin Dells Baraboo’s Big Top Parade & Circus Celebration Birkebeiner Bristol Renaissance Faire SEE Renaissance Faire Christmas at the House on the Rock Country Jam USA, Cranberry Festival, EAA AirVenture 2002 SEE Fly In Experimental Aircraft Assoc. FlyIn, SEE FlyIn Fall Festival, International Festa Italiana Festival of Blossoms FlyIn Fur Trade Rendezvous German Fest Grand Excursion 2004 Great Circus Parade Green County Cheese Days Home of the Hamburger Celebration Irish Fest Lumberjack World Championships Marsh Bird Festival Menominee Ice Challenge Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival Milwaukee Summerfest SEE Summerfest Mississippi River Log Boom Oktoberfest USA Old World Christmas Market Polish Fest Renaissance Faire, Bristol Snowmobile Derby Spectacle of the Geese Sports Aviation Exhibition SEE FlyIn State Fair, Wisconsin Summerfest Walleye Weekend Festival Warrens Cranberry Festival Wilhelm Tell Festival World Championship Snowmobile Derby SEE Snowmobile Derby United States Page 55 Milwaukee Fort Atkinson Milwaukee Madison Telemark Bayfield Bayfield Wisconsin Dells Bababoo Howard to Telemark 2011 2003 2009 1992 Spring Green Eau Claire Warrens Oshkosh Oshkoch Eau Claire Milwaukee Door County Oshkosh Prairie du Chien, Milwaukee 54 cities in IL, IA, MN, WI Milwaukee Monroe Seymoure Milwauke Hayward Horicon Keshena Milwaukee Milwaukee La Crosse LaCrosse Elkhart Lake Franklim Keshena Eagle River, Fond du Lac Oskosh West Allis Milwaukee Fond du Lac Warrens New Glarus Eagle River 2002, 2013 1994 1994, 2016 2002 1990 1995 2016 1983 1999 1988, 2001 1997 1983, 84, 86, 87, 2002 1988 2004, 06, 2011 2004 1989, 2001 2006 1991 1995, 2007 1985, 92 2007 1999 2012 1996 2005 2012 2008 1999, 2004 1985, 91 1986 2008 1982, 85, 87, 89, 2003 1989 1998 1993 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch WEST VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES Annual Mountain State Apple Harvest Festival SEE Apple Harvest Festival Apple Harvest Festival Art & Craft Fair Bridge Day Charleston Sternwheel Regatta SEE Sternwheel Regatta City of Lights/Festival of Lights SEE Festival of Lights/City of Lights Festival of Lights/City of Lights Martinsburg Fire on the Mountain Chili Cook-Off Forest Festival, Mountain State Hinton Railroad Days Italian Heritage Festival, Jamboree in the Hills John Brown Sesquicentennial Mountain State Apple Harvest Festival SEE Apple Harvest Festival Mountain State Art & Craft Fair New River Gorge Bridge Day New River Gorge Bridge Day New River Train Steam Excursion Oglebay Winter Festival of Lights SEE Festival of Lights/City of Lights Rocket Boys Festival State Fair of West Virginia Sternwheel Regatta Stonewall Jackson Heritage Arts & Craft Jubilee Strawberry Festival, West Virginia Vandalia Gathering West Virginia Italian Heritage Fest SEE Italian Heritage Festival West Virginia Strawberry Festival SEE Strawberry Festival Winter Festival of Lights SEE Festival of Lights Snowshow Elkins Hinton Clarksburg Wheeling Harpers Ferry Martinsburg United States Page 56 Martinsburg Ripley Fayetteville Charleston Wheeling 1989, 93 1984, 85, 1994, 2004 Wheeling 1988, 90, 91, 92*, 93*, 99, 2001, 02, 03, 2011, 2012, 2014*, 2015, 2016* 2005 1982, 87 2015, 2016 1983, 89, 95, 99 1992, 93, 94, 95 2009 Ripley Fayetteville Oak Hill Wheeling Beckley Lewisburg Charleston Weston Buckhannon Charleston Clarksburg Buckhannon Wheeling 2004, 2010 2003,05 2007, 2010, 2014 1993 2012, 2013 2016 2008, 2011 1982, 86, 87, 88 1988, 98 1986, 91 1996, 98, 2006 TOP 100 EVENTS 1982 thru 2016 *=Annual Event/Internationally Known Event ** = No.1 Event in US *** = No. 1 Event in Canada **** Event to Watch WYOMING, UNITED STATES Buffalo Bill Days Buffalo Bill Cody Stampede Rodeo Cheyenne Frontier Days SEE Frontier Days Cody Nite Rodeo Sheridan Cody Cheyenne 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014 Cody 2001, 04 College National Finals Rodeo Casper 2008 Eastern Shoshone Indian Days Powwow & Rodeo Fort Bridger Rendezvous Frontier Days Lander 2009, 2010, 2012, 2016 Fort Bridger Cheyenne 1999 1982, 83, 84, 85*, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, 98, 99*, 2001*, 02*, 03*, 04*, 05*, 06*, 07*, 08*, 09*, 2010*, 2011*, 2012*, 2013*, 2014*, 2015*, 2016* Grand Teton Music Festival SEE Music Festival Longmire Days Music Festival Plains Indian Museum Powwow Teton Village United States Page 57 Buffalo Teton Village Cody 2016 1984, 85, 96, 97, 2001, 03, 09, 2011, 2013 1998, 99
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