What actually happens here.
Source-verified events pages from 435 Alliance.
Black Desert Championship
The Black Desert Championship is the youngest event on this list. It debuted in October 2024 as the first PGA Tour event held in Utah in over six decades,...
Cedar City Livestock & Heritage Festival
For three days every fall, sheep walk down Main Street. A thousand of them, sometimes more, herded by working dogs and horseback riders from one end of...
Cedar City Music Arts Concert Series
Cedar City Music Arts has been bringing visiting professional ensembles and solo artists to a town of 36,000 since 1973 — concerts that would otherwise only...
Dixie Roundup Rodeo
The Dixie Roundup Rodeo is older than most Utah cities. It started in 1937 in St.
Huntsman World Senior Games
The first weekend of October every year, the population of St. George swells by an order of magnitude that the city's hotels track more tightly than any...
Hurricane Peach Days
Hurricane Peach Days has been running since 1911 — older than most of the buildings on Main Street, older than the modern town grid, older than most of...
IRONMAN 70.3 St. George
The Sand Hollow Reservoir starting line at six in the morning in early May is the closest thing the 435 has to a held breath.
IRONMAN North American Championship (St. George)
The North American Championship designation moves around the IRONMAN regional calendar — sometimes Mont-Tremblant in Quebec gets it, sometimes Tulsa,...
IRONMAN World Championship 2021 (St. George)
For one weekend in May 2022, the IRONMAN World Championship lived in St. George, Utah, instead of Kona, Hawaii.
Ivins Heritage Days
Ivins is a town of around 9,000 people on the west side of the Snow Canyon Parkway corridor, named for Anthony W. Ivins — a pioneer-era cattleman, judge,...
Kanab Greyhound Gathering
A thousand retired racing greyhounds in Kanab, Utah, every May. They walk down Center Street with their adopters in a parade that's part adoption-success...
Kanab Western Legends Roundup
Kanab earned the nickname "Little Hollywood" because over a hundred Western films were shot in and around the town between the 1920s and the 1970s.
Kayenta Street Painting Festival
The Kayenta Street Painting Festival is the Italian-tradition chalk-pavement festival, transplanted to the red sandstone of Ivins.
New Harmony Heritage Days
New Harmony sits at the base of Pine Valley Mountain, off UT-144 between Anderson Junction (I-15 exit 42) and the back-road that climbs toward Pine Valley.
Red Bull Rampage
There is no permanent course at Red Bull Rampage. Every fall, on the dust-and-Navajo-sandstone benches above the Virgin River north of the town of Virgin,...
Santa Clara Swiss Days
Santa Clara is the only Utah pioneer town with a Swiss founding story. In 1854, LDS missionaries returning from Switzerland brought back roughly thirty...
Springdale Festival of Arts
Springdale is a three-mile linear strip of UT-9 between the south entrance of Zion National Park and Rockville. The population is just over 500.
St. George Art Festival
The St. George Art Festival is built around a calendar accident: it falls on Easter weekend every year, which means it lands on whichever weekend Easter...
St. George Marathon
The bus loading begins at four in the morning at Worthen Park, downtown St. George, the runners filing on with throwaway sweatshirts and gas-station coffee.
St. George Triathlon
The St. George Triathlon is the local-grade race — the one that fits between the championship-circus IRONMAN events in May and the senior-games choreography...
Switchback Century / Gran Fondo
The Switchback Century starts at sea-level-equivalent for a Utah town — Cedar City sits at 5,840 feet — and climbs to the top of the Markagunt Plateau over...
True Grit Epic
The True Grit Epic starts and finishes at the Cottonwood Cove trailhead in Santa Clara every March, and it's the season opener for the western U.
Tuacahn Saturday Markets
Tuacahn Center for the Arts is the 1,920-seat outdoor amphitheater built into the red sandstone of Padre Canyon, four miles up Snow Canyon Parkway from Ivins.
Utah Shakespeare Festival
Cedar City has more theater seats per capita than most American cities ten times its size, and the reason is the Utah Shakespeare Festival.
Utah Summer Games
The Utah Summer Games started in 1986 as an Olympic-style multi-sport festival for state residents — a model that exists in over forty states, but only...
Washington City Cotton Days
Washington City was founded in 1857 by LDS pioneers sent south from Salt Lake under Brigham Young's "Cotton Mission" — an effort to establish cotton...