Life in Cave Creek, a town of outdoor adventures, a rich cowboy past, and music, is one grand holiday. It’s packed with events and celebrations that make life worth living day by day.
Here’s a sample of Cave Creek, Arizona events to fire up your adrenalin.
- 2nd Annual Cave Creek Sculpture & Wine Festival
Stagecoach Village Shopping & Dining Center, 7100 E Cave Creek • March 15, 2024 • 10 a.m.Check out small to imposing fine sculptures and a special jury selected for the event. Enjoy fine wines, spirits, and microbrews. Sample the festival food and enjoy the live music, while basking under warm sunshine and viewing mountain scenery. .You’ll also bump into artists and art lovers.
- Cave Creek Rodeo Days Parade
Cave Creek Road • March 16, 2024 • 9 a.m.Kick off Cave Creek’s most celebrated event with the Rodeo Days Parade. Featured are horseback riders, draft hitches, floats, special vehicles, rodeo rock stars, clubs, bands, clowns. and so much more. Aside from kicking off the rodeo, this family-friendly event celebrates American Western Heritage.
- Cave Creek Rodeo Days Mutton Bustin
Cave Creek Memorial Arena • March 16, 2024 • 2 p.m.Here’s another event to usher in Cave Creek Rodeo Days. The wildly popular Mutton Bustin attraction allows children aged four to seven to jumpstart their rodeo dreams. Astride the back of a sheep with their hands wrapped tightly around the animal’s neck, helmeted tykes will try to hang on for as long as they can as the sheep runs around the rodeo arena. The finals of the rodeo performance will be held on March 24, 2023, the last day of the actual Cave Creek Rodeo Days festivities.
- Cave Creek Rodeo Days
Cave Creek Memorial Arena, 37201 N 28th St, Cave Creek • March 21-24, 2024 • Schedule of events here - Events at Cave Creek Museum
6140 E Skyline Drive, Cave Creek- The Arizona Gold Mining Experience | Feb 10, 2024, 10-11:15 a.m.
- Gold Fever Adventure | Feb 10, 2024, 1-4:30 p.m.
- Kiwanis’ Family Fun Days: Sticks & Pricks and Bones, Oh My! | Feb 11, 2024, 2-4 p.m.
- The Arizona Gold Mining Experience | Feb 24,2024, 10-11:15 a.m.
Watch Arizona’s only fully functioning ten-stamp ore crushing mill slam down and pound ore from the gold mine into fine gravel. Guests get to see the mine shaft, tramway, and ore carts besides the hard rock ore extraction procedure.
A guide takes you on a learning adventure that centers on Arizona’s gold mining history. Step back in time and relive gold miner Old Rackensack’s hunt for mineral-rich mines in the area in 1880.
Check out skeletons and skulls; study predators and prey; look at stunning desert rocks, feel ancestral artifacts.
Cave Creek Rodeo Days is the city’s biggest event, attracting around 17,000 guests to celebrate the town’s Western Heritage. Introduced 45 years ago, Cave Creek Rodeo Days activities include a parade (see above), and events such as the Mutton Bustin’ rodeo for kids,, rodeo dances, a cornhole tournament in which participants attempt to toss sacks of beans on a raised platform with a hole, a professional bull-riding show, and so much more. Profits support charitable organizations throughout the Sonoran Desert and assist in the maintenance and enhancement of the Cave Creek Memorial Arena, which is a public facility. The success of the yearly festival proves that the rodeo will never get old.
Get a layman’s overview of mining in the desert. Learn about the heydays of Cave Creek mining with live demonstrations & the chance to try gold-panning like the old prospectors did.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg where Cave Creek, Arizona events are concerned. Which proves that even with its small population (5,172 as of 2023), Cave Creek has some of the biggest, baddest, and most fun events this side of south-central AZ.
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