INFORMATION ABOUT THE WICKENBURG AREA

Events
 

Wickenburg Events

Jan             Happy New Year!!!

                        Rotary Community Raffle & Dinner

Feb.    

3rd                  Gold Panning & Car Show

Tours, pan for gold, car show or participate in a Geocach hunt.

Robson's Mining World

 9-11^th 2007      Gold Rush Days
                        An annual event for over 58 years, this is a celebration of Wickenburg's rich heritage. For three action-filled days, always the second full weekend in February, thousands of visitors and participants enjoy the multitude of activities that make this Chamber-sponsored event.

Festivities begin with a shoot-out on Frontier Street that kicks of a wild rootin'-tootin' western weekend. Spectators line the streets on Saturday as one of the largest parades in Arizona passes by. Cowboys from all over the country gather on Saturday and Sunday afternoon to participate in the rodeo. In the area around the Community Center families can enjoy a carnival, food booths, and arts and crafts.

A Tradition as old as the town itself, Gold Rush Days has become a part of Wickenburg's heritage. Contest events are enjoyable to watch and educational as well. See gold panning, a mucking and drilling contest, and other activities relating to the gold fever that created the town.

Music, dancing, a real old-fashioned melodrama, horses, floats and food - it's all a part of Wickenburg's most action packed weekend of the year. Visitors from all over the world mix and mingle with cowboys and garter girls. This true old-west celebration demonstrates what western hospitality is all about "Out Wickenburg Way."

                        Rodeo

                        Valentines Day

Mar              Lions BBQ

                        Hassayampa Friends of NRA Dinner/Auction

                        St Patrick’s Day

Apr               Volunteer Fire Dept Annual BBQ

                        Cops Who Care Easter Egg Hunt

Robson Mining World Sunrise Service

  23 - 27          Desert Caballeros Annual Trail Ride
A caballero (pronounced "cab-ee-air-owe") is a cowboy. The Desert Caballeros is a group of about 240 men from all over the country, Canada, and overseas, who gather annually for this ride. The first ride was in 1947, the year that the old Wickenburg Rodeo closed down. The riders have gathered annually since then for this 100-mile round-trip ride into the Weaver and Bradshaw mountains northeast of Wickenburg.

                        Easter

May             Community Street Dance

                        Mothers Day

                        Memorial Day

Jun              Fathers Day

July             Independence Celebration

Aug            No Bar Too Far

Sep                 

                       Fiesta Septiembre
On the first Saturday in September, from 11;00 AM to 9:00 PM at the Wickenburg Community Center, the place to be as the town celebrates its Hispanic heritage. Enjoy folkloric dancers, mariachi music, a salsa-making contest, arts and crafts booths, and a tasty food fair.

Golf Classic

Labor Day

Oct                Horse Thieves Market Sidewalk Sale

Wickenburg Fly-in & Classic Car Show
Held the last Saturday in October, this event features airplanes from all over the southwest and an aerobatics display, model airplane exhibit, and pancake breakfast. 7:30 am - 1:30 pm.

Nov 

3rd - 4th          Las Senoras Tour of Homes
Along with a self-guided tour of distinctive area homes, this holiday festival features arts & crafts, books, home-baked goods, and silent auction. Sponsored by Las Senoras de Socorro to benefit the Desert Caballeros Western Museum. 9 am - 4 pm.

                        Blue Grass Festival
Held the second full weekend in November for over 25 years,  this three day event has featured the Four Corners championship contests for fiddle, flat pick guitar, banjo and mandolin. It draws thousands of spectators from throughout the southwest.
 

24th to 25th      Gem and Art Show
 Wickenburg Community Center , Wickenburg, Arizona
Ph: 928-684-1991

                          Thanksgiving

Dec               Cowboy Poetry Gathering Join cowboy poets the first weekend in December for offerings of poems, songs and ideas with a western theme. Noted cowboy poets will join us on the Saturday Evening Performance at the Wickenburg Performing Arts Center.

                        Christmas Parade of Lights
Luminating entries in a variety of categories from stagecoaches to floats and individuals draped with colorful lights.

                        Christmas