Ketchum Wagon Days
Ketchum Wagon Days is a great way to celebrate the old west and the mining heritage of the Sun Valley/ Ketchum area. Wagon days is packed with antique markets, car auctions, contests, food, music, children's carnival, and the Big Hitch Parade which is the most popular event of the long weekend.
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Great Wagon Days Duck Race
Organization:
Date: 9/4/2011 update info
Time: 1:00:00 PM - 4:30:00 PM
Event Cost: varies
Venue: Great Wagon Days Duck Race in Ketchum,ID
Contact: Ketchum/ Sun Valley Rotary Club
Phone: (208) 720-8618
Email:
Website: www.rotaryduckrace.org
Event Details:
Up to 30,000 rubber ducks will be launched into the Wood River at the Warm Springs bridge and race to the finish line at Rotary Park in Ketchum. The Duck Race is also a party with live music, food, drink and lots of fun activities for the kids.
- Downtown Ketchum in early September
- Celebrate the old west and the mining heritage of the Sun Valley/ Ketchum area.
- Antique markets, contests, food, music, children's carnival, and the Big Hitch Parade
Overview: The Big Hitch Parade is the main attraction at the Ketchum Wagon Days. Now the longest non motorized parade in the west, the parade boasts over a hundred museum quality wagons, buggies, carriages, tacks, carts and buckboards. An authentic 16- draft mule jerkline powers the parade though downtown Ketchum.
Where: Downtown Ketchum Idaho
When: Usually held in early September each year
Cost: Most events are free entry but there may be a few specific events with a small fee
Details: The parade also has authentically costumed people, numerous kinds of horses and school and professional marching bands from around the state. Wagon Days also features an all you can eat pancake breakfast, fiddlers contest, antique shopping, bareback riding performance, shootouts, and a children's carnival with a climbing mountain, bungee run, astro jump, gyro, and train and wagon rides.
