Gold Rush Days is a celebration of Wickenburg’s ranching and mining heritage. For three action-filled days, always the second full weekend, thousands of visitors and participants enjoy the multitude of activities that make up the Chamber-sponsored event.
Festivities begin with a shoot-out on Frontier Street that kicks off 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 senior pro rodeo.
In the area in front of the Community Center, and around Stone Park, families can enjoy a carnival, food booths, and over 200 arts and crafts exhibitors.
A tradition as old as the town, unique mining 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.