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Fun in Fruita is a festive event!
Enjoying your time in Fruita is more than a good time; it's a GREAT EVENT when you come to our truely unique festivals.
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| We celebrate fun with
a variety of classic and unique events from the Hometown Christmas
and the Fruita Fall Fest, to the redrock classic Fat Tire Festival
and the unusual, bizarre, and very humorous "Mike the Headless
Chicken" Festival. Every year the fun just grows at these
fun events. We have lots of sunshine and friendly smiles awaiting
you! |
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Date |
Types
of Activities |
Farm & Ranch Days |
March 8, 2008 |
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Fat Tire Festival
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April 24 - 27, 2008 |
Celebrating
its 12th Anniversary with a week of racing, incredible spring
riding, good friends - new and old, friendly guides, an impressive
product expo, the "Spirit of the Rockies" series
Vegetarian Cross Country Race, live music, and a big party,
are a great way to start off the season. |
Mike
the Headless Chicken Festival
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May
16 - 17, 2008 |
Don't
miss this Unique Fun!
Enjoy – eating contest, chicken receipe contest, a car show,
great music and "chicken dance" contest, more chicken,
the 5K “run like a headless chicken”, chicken games which includes
"chicken bingo", "Mike's" market (probably
the only place in the world you can get chicken noodle soap)…GREAT
FAMILY FUN! |
Thursday Night Variety Show
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Thursdays,
June 5 - August 14, 2008
7:30 pm - |
Live entertainment Thursday evenings
beginning in June and continuing into August. Bring your lawn
chair and a picnic basket. Great fun for the family. |
| Fireworks |
July
3, 2008 |
Fireworks
diplay at Snooks Bottom. |
| Dinosaur
Day |
July
26, 2008 |
Monstrous
Good Fun! A fun family event at Fruita's Dinosaur Journey Museum
with the 5K Pteranodon Ptrot, T-Rex golf tournament, CeRaftasuarus
Raft Race, and "build your own dinosuar raft" race
on the Colorado River.
Fred & Barney would be proud, and who knows, they might
just be in the crowd! |
Fruita
Fall Festival
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September 25 - 28, 2008 |
Originally a harvest festival
beginning in 1910. It's now a bluegrass venue at Circle Park
has been a main attraction for many years. Today this is the
BIG One in Fruita.
There is much to do and see. With a newly added Civic Center
Pavilion stage, additional live music can be enjoyed which features
a variety of high quality music, from country, to blues and
funk.
A BIG Fruita event with a parade, carnival rides, and over 150
vendors of every description, including food, clothing, arts
and handcrafts, and the unusual.
An award winning festival, (Best of the West Award, for Best
Local Festival of Event, years 2000 & 2002). The
BOW awards are based upon a Daily Sentinel readership survey,
and presented by the Daily Sentinel. |
| Hometown
Christmas |
December
13, 2008 |
Fruita
Hometown Christmas and Parade of Lights...Special events, downtown
shopping & more. |
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