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America’s Freedom Festival

Provo Utah’s 4th of July Celebration

  • Stadium of Fire – Nitro Circus – Fireworks – Concert
  • Balloon Fest
  • Grand Parade – Largest In Utah
  • Freedom Days – Carnival
  • Freedom Run
  • Colonial Fest
  • Bluegrass Festival
  • Clogging Dancers
  • Music Concerts
  • July 1-4, 2023 Freedom Days
  • July 1-4, 2023 Balloon Fest
  • July 1, 2023 Stadium of Fire, Fireworks
  • July 4, 2023 Grand Parade

4TH OF JULY WEEK ANNUALLY

America’s Freedom Festival
Various Provo/Utah Valley Locations

Days of ’47 Pioneer Parade & Celebration

Celebrate the arrival of the first pioneer settlers to the Salt Lake Valley! The Days of ’47 remembers Utah’s early pioneers with various events, including the Pioneer Parade and entertainment with fireworks at Liberty Park.

  • Parade
  • Rodeo
  • Cowboy Games
  • Marathon Run
  • Festival at Liberty Park
  • Royalty Pageant
  • Fireworks
  • Music Concerts
  • Food Vendors

July 24, 2024, Cowboy Games & Rodeo
July 24, 2024, Pioneer Parade 9 am
July 24, 2024, Liberty Park Festivities

Fireworks, Native American Pow-Wow
Food Vendors, Live Entertainment
Festivities at Liberty Park

July 24th Week Annually

Days of 47 Pioneer Celebration
Salt Lake City, UT

Native American PowWow
Liberty Park After Parade Festivities
July 24, 2023,  12 Noon to Moon
Liberty Park, Salt Lake

Park Silly Sunday Market

Park City Open Air Market

Utah Agenda Top Event Pick. Featured Photo: Park Silly Sunday Market —Utah Agenda

  • Street Festival
  • Artisans
  • Live Music
  • Food Vendors
  • Farmers Market
  • Arts & Crafts
  • Performers

Sunday’s 10 am–5 pm
June–September

Park Silly Sunday Market
Historic Main Street, Park City

Mountain Top Brunch

Snowbasin Mountain Resort Utah

Enjoy a beautiful Sunday Morning Gondola Ride through the high alpine Wasatch Mountains to the majestic Needles Lodge, where incredible cuisine awaits. A must-do summer northern Utah Event.

  • Gondola Ride (15 Minutes)
  • Chef Created Cuisine
  • Mountain Cool Air
  • Relax With Nature

Sundays  10:30 am–3 pm
June 25th–October 8, 2023

Snowbasin Mountain Resort
Winter Olympics Site
3925 Snow Basin Rd, Huntsville


Utah Arts Festival

The Utah Arts Festival is the largest outdoor multidisciplinary arts event in Utah. It has garnered numerous awards internationally, nationally, and locally.  UAF Photo —Utah Agenda

More than 80,000 patrons enjoy four days of award-winning fine arts in the Artist Marketplace, live performances on five stages, local and international street theater, a short film festival, a fine arts exhibition, and culinary delights.

Children are fully immersed in the arts at the Art Yard, where local nonprofits create hands-on projects; teenagers have an opportunity to explore their creative sides at the Urban Arts venue, and Artists At Work showcases the talents of local artist guilds as they set up and create art on-site.

June 19-22, 2025, Noon-Midnight

Utah Arts Festival
Library Square
500 South 300 East Salt Lake

Utah Air Show

U.S. Air Force Air Show

USAF Thunderbirds!

The Hill Air Force Base open house and Air Show featuring the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds is always a Utah favorite. Several military and civilian aerial and ground performers are scheduled for this free weekend event.

The Air Force Heritage Flight represents the evolution of airpower by flying today’s state-of-the-art fighter aircraft in close formation with vintage fighter aircraft. Heritage flights are flown at air shows around the country in support of Air Force recruiting and retention.

June 29-30, 2024, 8 am–4 pm

Utah Air Show
Warriors Over The Wasatch
Hill Air Force Base, Roy, Utah

Lunch Bunch Concert Series

Gallivan Center Musical Lunch

Gallivan Plaza provides free live entertainment every weekday at Noon. Get out into the sunshine and enjoy your lunch while listening to the sounds of solo acoustic singers, songwriters, and local bands. Musical selections include folk, acoustic, rock, jazz, pop, blues, and all variations in between.

Did you forget to pack a lunch? Don’t worry; visit the new Gallivan Center concessions stand or one of the many take-out delis and restaurants nearby. Also, enjoy Lunch Bunch on Gallivan Ave. every Thursday along with their Thursday Food Trucks.

Weekdays Noon–1 pm, Free
June–August

Lunch Brunch Concert Series
Gallivan Center, 239 S Main St, Salt Lake

Tulip Festival

Thanksgiving Point

Welcome spring this April through May and enjoy all the colors of the rainbow spread throughout nearly 100 different varieties of tulips during the annual Thanksgiving Point Tulip Festival. Featuring 250,000 tulips spread throughout the 55-acre Thanksgiving Point Gardens, the Tulip Festival is an awe-inspiring sight that is redesigned each year to create a new display.

On Fridays and Saturdays, the Tulip Festival includes spectacular tulips, music, vendors, and food. Garden tours and demonstrations run every day. Though hundreds of volunteers and staff work behind the scenes to create the festival, make no mistake about it: Mother Nature is in charge of the show.

April–May 17, 2025, Monday–Saturday

Thanksgiving Point
3003 Thanksgiving Way Lehi

Utah Flower Gardens
Take A Walk With Nature