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Source-verified events pages from 435 Alliance.

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October (annual; FedEx Cup Fall schedule) Event

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,...

late October / early November (annual) Event

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...

October through May (annual concert series, ~6–8 concerts per season) Event

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...

third weekend of September (annual; Thursday–Saturday) Event

Dixie Roundup Rodeo

The Dixie Roundup Rodeo is older than most Utah cities. It started in 1937 in St.

first two weeks of October (annual) Event

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...

Labor Day weekend (annual; Thursday through Saturday) Event

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...

early May (annual; commonly the first Saturday) Event

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.

early May (when held; recent editions paired with or replaced the 70.3 in championship years) Event

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,...

May 7, 2022 (the rescheduled 2021 World Championship) Event

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.

late September (annual) Event

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,...

mid-May (annual) Event

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...

late August (annual; commonly the fourth weekend) Event

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.

mid-November (annual; commonly the second weekend) Event

Kayenta Street Painting Festival

The Kayenta Street Painting Festival is the Italian-tradition chalk-pavement festival, transplanted to the red sandstone of Ivins.

late June (annual; commonly the last weekend of June) Event

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.

October (annual; date varies year to year) Event

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,...

late September (annual; commonly the fourth weekend) Event

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...

late September (annual; the weekend after Labor Day in some years, otherwise mid- to late September) Event

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.

Easter weekend (annual; Friday–Saturday before Easter Sunday) Event

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...

first Saturday of October (annual) Event

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.

mid-August (annual; commonly second Saturday) Event

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...

early September (annual; commonly the second Saturday after Labor Day) Event

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...

mid-March (annual; first or second Saturday) Event

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.

Saturdays, March through December (annual; weekly recurrence) Event

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.

late June through early October (annual, rotating-repertory season) Event

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.

mid-June (annual; opening ceremonies typically the second Friday of June) Event

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...

late April (annual; commonly the last full weekend) Event

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...

Last updated  ·  Apr 27, 2026