Festivals & Celebrations

Indian Festivals

Fall brings more than colorful leaves and nippy air to the southern Yosemite region.

The season of the harvest brings out the "party animal" in the region. Agricultural crops are in the barn, tribal gathering has been completed and now it is time to celebrate the bounty.

Pow Wows, fairs, parades and assorted other festivals dot the calendar of events. Colorful dancers, singers and drummers, decorated floats and bands with cultural food and drink to boot. Who said fun ended with summer?

Indian Fair Days
559-877-2115
North Fork, August

Picayune Rancheria Pow Wow
559-683-6633
Coarsegold, first weekend in October

Precious Sunset Indian Pow Wow
559-855-2705
Bass Lake, September

Wassama Gathering Days
559-683-3631
Ahwahnee, October

Other Local Events

Chowchilla-Madera County Fair
559-665-5603
Chowchilla, May

Coarsegold Peddlers Fair
559-683-3900
Memorial Day & Labor Day Weekends

Madera District Fair
559-674-8511
Madera, September

Madera Wine Trail Weekends
800-733-8068
Madera valley foothills
February, June & November

Oakhurst Mountain Peddlers Fair
559-683-7766
Memorial Day & Labor Day Weekends

Old Timers Day Parade
559-673-5951
Madera, September

Sierra Art Trails
559-658-8844
Madera County, CA
www.sierraarttrails.org

Annual Tarantula Awareness Festival
559-683-3900
Coarsegold, last Saturday in October

Wild Wonderful Chocolate Festival
559-683-1993
Oakhurst, October

See Calendar for dates, and to view other events.