The US events calendar for RV travel.

Lake Havasu boating season 2026

Lake Havasu City (Lake Havasu, AZ–CA)

Colorado River playground at London Bridge — long desert boating season.

Lake Mead boating season 2026

Boulder City / Las Vegas Bay (Lake Mead NRA, NV–AZ)

America's largest reservoir, 30 minutes from the Las Vegas Strip.

Florida Keys boating + diving season 2026

Key Largo / Marathon / Key West

Keys flat-water + reef diving season. PickRV + boat-rental combo.

Lake Powell houseboat season 2026

Page / Wahweap & Bullfrog (Glen Canyon NRA, AZ–UT)

Glen Canyon houseboat + RV season on the Arizona–Utah line.

Lake Shasta houseboat season 2026

Redding (Shasta Lake, Shasta-Trinity NF)

Northern California's houseboat capital — Shasta Lake near Redding.

Norris Lake houseboat season 2026

Andersonville / LaFollette (Norris Lake, East TN)

East Tennessee's clear-water houseboat lake in the Cumberland foothills.

Dale Hollow Lake houseboat season 2026

Celina (Dale Hollow Lake, TN–KY)

Smallmouth-bass legend + houseboat haven on the Tennessee–Kentucky line.

Table Rock Lake boating season 2026

Branson / Kimberling City (Table Rock Lake)

Branson's clear-water Ozark lake — fishing + family boating.

Chesapeake Bay boating season opener 2026

Annapolis / Eastern Shore (Chesapeake Bay)

The Sailing Capital wakes up — Chesapeake Bay season from Annapolis.

Boundary Waters Permit Season 2026

Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Superior National Forest, MN

BWCAW quota permit window May 1 - Sep 30, 2026 — book the entry-point lottery at recreation.gov.

Lake of the Ozarks boating season 2026

Osage Beach / Camdenton (Lake of the Ozarks)

Missouri's 1,100-mile-shoreline lake — peak boating May–September.

Yellowstone summer season

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone full-loop access window. RV class restrictions on Beartooth Pass — check rig length.

Grand Canyon rim-to-rim window

Grand Canyon National Park

North Rim open window — only 5 months/year. Less crowded than South Rim.

OBX summer + Hatteras window

Outer Banks

Outer Banks peak season. PickRV's OBX hub stocks 4WD off-road + RVs for Hatteras beach driving.

Great Lakes boating season 2026

Traverse City / Lake Michigan shoreline

Pure Michigan freshwater coast — Lake Michigan boating season.

San Juan Islands boating season 2026

Anacortes / Friday Harbor (Salish Sea)

Salish Sea island-hopping + orca waters off northwest Washington.

Acadia National Park summer

Bar Harbor

Acadia's primary visitor window. Cadillac Mountain sunrise reservation system.

Rocky Mountain National Park season

Estes Park / Grand Lake

Trail Ridge Road open window — highest paved through-road in US (12,183ft)

Lake Tahoe boating season 2026

South Lake Tahoe / Tahoe City (Lake Tahoe, CA–NV)

Alpine blue-water boating high in the Sierra Nevada.

Sun Valley summer season

Sun Valley / Ketchum

Sun Valley summer — Sawtooth backcountry access, music festival, mountain biking, fly fishing.

Glacier Going-to-the-Sun Road

Glacier National Park

Going-to-the-Sun Road full-open window. Vehicles >21ft prohibited Logan Pass area.

Cheyenne Frontier Days

Cheyenne

World's largest outdoor rodeo + concerts. 10-day RV rally city.

San Diego Comic-Con 2026

San Diego (Convention Center + Gaslamp)

San Diego Comic-Con — Convention Center + Gaslamp takeover.

Newport Folk Festival 2026

Newport (Fort Adams State Park)

Newport Folk Fest at Fort Adams State Park — boats welcome.

Chincoteague Pony Swim & Pony Week 2026

Chincoteague Island, VA (Assateague Channel)

The 101-year-old wild-pony swim from Assateague to Chincoteague — the 'Misty' tradition, in person.

Brickyard 400 — Indianapolis

Indianapolis (Indianapolis Motor Speedway)

NASCAR Brickyard 400 at IMS. RV camping on IMS grounds + Indy KOA nearby.

Maine Lobster Festival 2026

Rockland, ME (Harbor Park)

Tons of fresh lobster cooked in the world's largest lobster cooker on Rockland's working harbor.

Lollapalooza Chicago 2026

Chicago (Grant Park)

Lollapalooza in Grant Park. Chicago Northwest KOA + Indiana Dunes State Park for RV base.

Hot August Nights

Reno / Sparks, NV

Reno's classic-car + rock-'n'-roll nostalgia takeover

Outside Lands 2026 — San Francisco

San Francisco (Golden Gate Park)

Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park. San Francisco RV Resort + Half Moon Bay State Beach.

Sturgis Motorcycle Rally 2026

Sturgis (downtown + Black Hills region)

Sturgis 86th — world's largest motorcycle rally.

Monterey Car Week

Monterey / Pebble Beach

Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance + Laguna Seca + Quail. Classic-touring rig peak demand.

August 12, 2026 partial solar eclipse — limited US visibility

Far Northeast US (very small partial coverage)

Total solar eclipse on Aug 12 2026 — totality is in Greenland/Iceland/Spain, NOT contiguous US.

FMCA International Convention

Lincoln (Lancaster Event Center)

FMCA International — Family Motor Coach Association annual.

Total Solar Eclipse 2026 (US Partial) — Maine

Acadia / Bar Harbor (best US viewing zone)

August 12 2026 total solar eclipse — best US partial coverage in northern New England (~40-50%).

Woodward Dream Cruise

Metro Detroit (Woodward Avenue), MI

Classic muscle cruises Woodward Avenue — the world's largest one-day car event

Santa Fe Indian Market 2026

Santa Fe, NM (downtown Plaza)

The world's premier Native art market — a thousand artists around the Santa Fe Plaza.

Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance

Pebble Beach, CA

Concours Sunday on the 18th green — the crown of Monterey Car Week

Aurora Borealis season

Brooks Range / Fairbanks

Aurora Oval visibility window — Sep-Mar peak with darkest skies

Descend on Bend (Vanlife Gathering)

Bend, OR

Central Oregon's vanlife community gathering — builds, workshops, high-desert basecamp

Palisade Peach Festival 2026

Palisade, CO (Riverbend Park)

Colorado's famous high-desert peaches at harvest peak — orchards, wineries and the Colorado River.

National Park Service 110th Anniversary

Nationwide (NPS-wide programming)

NPS 110th anniversary — Founder's Day, all parks free August 25.

Overland Expo Mountain West 2026

The Ranch (Larimer County Fairgrounds), Loveland

The Rockies edition of Overland Expo — late-summer gear, training, and high-country trail access.

Desert Arts Gathering

the desert playa

Black Rock Desert. Bring your own EVERYTHING. RVs are the standard housing.

Cherokee National Holiday 2026

Tahlequah

Cherokee Nation's annual celebration — Tahlequah, OK.

National Hard Crab Derby 2026

Crisfield, MD (Somers Cove / city dock)

Labor Day crab races, a crab-picking contest and boat-docking on the Eastern Shore's Crab Capital.

Marshall County Blueberry Festival 2026

Plymouth, IN (Centennial Park)

Indiana's biggest four-day Labor Day festival — hot-air balloons, a giant parade and blueberry everything.

Labor Day Weekend 2026

All US

Labor Day weekend — last summer RV peak before fall pricing dip.

Hatch Chile Festival 2026

Hatch, NM (village + Hatch High School grounds)

The Chile Capital of the World at harvest — the smell of roasting green chile is the whole point.

Kentucky Bourbon Festival 2026

Bardstown, KY (Spalding Hall / downtown)

The original bourbon festival in the Bourbon Capital of the World — tastings, distillery culture and Bluegrass fall.

Adventure Van Expo — Big Bear

Big Bear Lake, CA

Walk-through adventure vans and conversions in the San Bernardino mountains

Great Basin NP Astronomy Festival

Great Basin National Park

Astronomy festival at the darkest dark-sky in the contiguous US (IDA Gold-tier).

Oktoberfest Zinzinnati 2026

Cincinnati, OH (Sawyer Point & Yeatman's Cove)

America's largest Oktoberfest, on Cincinnati's riverfront — free entry, running since 1976.

Telluride Blues & Brews Festival 2026

Telluride, CO (Town Park)

Blues, funk and 50+ craft breweries in a box-canyon town at 8,750 ft, with the aspens just turning.

Vermont + New Hampshire Fall Foliage 2026

Vermont + New Hampshire (Northeast Kingdom → Kancamagus → CT River valley)

VT + NH foliage 2026 — Northeast Kingdom peaks ~Sep 28, Kancamagus early Oct, CT River valley mid-Oct.

Vermont fall foliage peak

Stowe / Killington / NEK

Peak northern New England foliage — book 10+ weeks ahead, hotels triple

Monterey Jazz Festival 2026

Monterey, CA (Monterey County Fairgrounds)

The world's longest continuously running jazz festival — three days on the oak-shaded Monterey Fairgrounds.

American Royal World Series of Barbecue 2026

Kansas City, KS (American Royal campus, near Kansas Speedway)

Hundreds of competition pits smoking through the night — barbecue's biggest weekend.

Austin City Limits Music Festival 2026

Austin (Zilker Park)

ACL Fest 2 weekends in Zilker Park. McKinney Falls State Park RV-accessible.

North Carolina Seafood Festival 2026

Morehead City, NC (Crystal Coast waterfront)

The Crystal Coast's biggest weekend — fresh NC seafood on the Morehead City waterfront, free admission.

Beaufort Shrimp Festival 2026

Beaufort, SC (Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park)

Lowcountry shrimp by the region's best chefs on the Beaufort River — and Hunting Island is 16 miles away.

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta 2026

Albuquerque (Balloon Fiesta Park, NM)

Balloon Fiesta 2026 — 9 days, 500+ balloons, dawn mass ascensions over the Rio Grande valley.

Women's Pro Basketball Finals 2026

Host cities not yet announced

Women's Pro Basketball Finals 2026 — host cities TBD. PickRV publishes RV playbook within 24 hours of conference final.

Rebelle Rally 2026

Start: Mammoth Lakes / Sierra; finish: Imperial Sand Dunes (NV–CA corridor)

The largest women's off-road navigation rally in the U.S. — no GPS, map-and-compass over ten days.

Annual National Shrimp Festival 2026

Gulf Shores, AL (Gulf Shores public beach)

Gulf shrimp straight off the boats, art and music on the sand — free, four days, beach weather.

Georgia National Fair 2026

Perry, GA (Georgia National Fairgrounds & Agricenter)

Georgia's state-sponsored fair with an on-site RV campground — eleven days of livestock, midway and concerts.

Overland Expo East 2026

Oak Ridge Estate, Arrington

Overland Expo's East Coast show on the Blue Ridge doorstep, timed to peak Virginia fall color.

Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue 2026

Lynchburg, TN

Barbecue's invitation-only world championship, in a Tennessee town of a few hundred people.

Festivals Acadiens et Créoles 2026

Lafayette, LA (Girard Park)

Three free days of Cajun and zydeco under the Girard Park oaks — Acadiana's family reunion.

Okie-Tex Star Party

Camp Billy Joe (Black Mesa)

Okie-Tex Star Party — premier dark-sky observing event in Oklahoma Panhandle.

Great Smoky Mountains foliage peak

Cades Cove / Newfound Gap / Roaring Fork

Smokies foliage peak — mid-Oct elevations 3000-5000ft.

New River Gorge Bridge Day 2026

Fayetteville (New River Gorge Bridge, WV)

Bridge Day — third Saturday of October, only US bridge where BASE jumping is legal.

Cedar Key Seafood Festival 2026

Cedar Key, FL (downtown)

Clams, oysters and old-Florida island character on the Nature Coast — free, two days, mid-October.

Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival 2026

Half Moon Bay, CA (Main Street)

The 'Pumpkin Capital of the World' coastal festival — a giant-pumpkin weigh-off and Main Street arts show.

Wellfleet OysterFest 2026

Wellfleet, MA (Cape Cod, downtown)

World-famous Wellfleet oysters, the Oyster Shuck-Off and off-season Cape Cod at its best.

Circleville Pumpkin Show 2026

Circleville, OH (downtown)

'The Greatest Free Show on Earth' — giant pumpkins, a 400-lb pumpkin pie and Ohio harvest tradition since 1903.

F1 Circuit of the Americas

Austin

F1 USGP weekend + concerts. RV camping at COTA = best F1 vibe in US.

Suwannee Hulaween 2026

Live Oak, FL (Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park & Campground)

Halloween-weekend jam-and-electronic festival where camping in the Spanish-moss oaks IS the event.

Key West Fantasy Fest

Key West

10-day costume + parade festival. Drive Overseas Highway to peak Halloween energy.

Lexington Barbecue Festival 2026

Lexington, NC (Uptown Main Street)

The heart of Lexington-style pork shoulder — one October Saturday, six stages, a whole town of pit smoke.

TCS New York City Marathon

New York City (5 boroughs)

NYC Marathon 5-borough race. RV at Liberty Harbor (Jersey City) or Bear Mountain (NY).

Snowbird Season 2026-2027 (Florida + Arizona)

Florida (E coast / Keys) + Arizona (Phoenix area)

Snowbird season — Florida + Arizona RV parks fill October-April.

Terlingua International Chili Championship 2026

Terlingua, TX (Rancho CASI de los Chisos)

A chili world championship in the Chihuahuan Desert — the campout IS the event.

Big Pig Jig 2026

Vienna, GA (Big Pig Jig grounds, off I-75)

Georgia's state barbecue championship — a whole south-Georgia county throws the party.

Florida Seafood Festival 2026

Apalachicola, FL (Battery Park)

Florida's oldest maritime festival — oyster shucking, blessing of the fleet, Forgotten Coast oysters.

Wurstfest 2026

New Braunfels, TX (Wurstfest grounds, Landa Park area)

Texas's ten-day 'Salute to Sausage' — German heritage, polka and the Comal River in Hill Country.

National Peanut Festival 2026

Dothan, AL (National Peanut Festival Fairgrounds)

The nation's largest peanut festival — ten days of Wiregrass-country fair, midway and agriculture in the Peanut Capital.

Peter Anderson Arts & Crafts Festival 2026

Ocean Springs, MS (historic downtown)

Mississippi's largest fine-arts festival, in the Gulf Coast art town of Ocean Springs — first weekend of November.

Manatee viewing season

Crystal River / Three Sisters Springs

Three Sisters Springs winter manatee aggregation — Nov-Mar peak window

Oregon coast storm-watching

Cannon Beach / Yachats

Pacific storm-watching window. Heated rig + rain-spec windshield wipers + ocean view.

F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix

Las Vegas Strip circuit

F1 Las Vegas GP on the Strip. Sam's Town RV Park + LV KOA Resort nearby.

Thanksgiving Week 2026

All US

Thanksgiving week — family-trip RV demand surge.

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2026

New York City (Manhattan parade route)

Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Manhattan. Liberty Harbor RV + PATH to 33rd St.

Art Basel Miami Beach 2026

Miami Beach (Convention Center)

Art Basel Miami Beach 2026 — global contemporary art week.

MLS Cup Final 2026

Host venue not yet announced

MLS Cup Final 2026 — host venue is the top-seeded conference finalist. PickRV publishes RV playbook within 24 hours.

New Year — Arizona Desert Snowbird Peak

Quartzsite / Yuma corridor

New Year in the Arizona desert — the snowbird-season RV gathering ramp.

Times Square New Year's Eve 2026

New York City (Times Square)

Times Square ball drop NYE 2026 → 2027. Liberty Harbor RV Park is the only Manhattan-adjacent option.

CES 2027 — Las Vegas

Las Vegas (Convention Center + Strip venues)

CES 2027 — Sam's Town RV Park = 15 min to LVCC.

Mecum Kissimmee Collector Car Auction

Kissimmee, FL

The world's largest collector-car auction by volume — two weeks in central FL

Fellsmere Frog Leg Festival 2027

Fellsmere, FL (downtown)

A Guinness-recognized frog-leg feed in old cracker-country Florida — four days every January.

Winter 4x4 off-road season — Arizona desert

Florence / Box Canyon & Tonto National Forest OHV areas

Peak winter wheeling window — cool Sonoran desert temps and dry trails around Florence and the Tonto NF.

Quartzsite Big Tent RV Show 2027

Quartzsite

Quartzsite Big Tent — world's biggest RV show + boondocking gathering.

Grand National Roadster Show 2027

Pomona, CA

America's Most Beautiful Roadster trophy + nine buildings of hot rods

Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Collector Car Auction

Scottsdale, AZ

The world's greatest collector-car auction takes over WestWorld

Tucson Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase 2027

Tucson (Tucson Convention Center + 40+ satellite venues, AZ)

Tucson Gem Show 2027 — citywide 3-week trade show, 40+ venues, end of snowbird season.

Rolex 24 At Daytona 2027

Daytona Beach (Daytona International Speedway)

24 hours of endurance racing — and the infield RV scene is half the event.

King of the Hammers 2027 (Race Week)

Johnson Valley OHV Area (BLM, San Bernardino County, CA)

King of the Hammers 2027 — Race Week in Johnson Valley, 8 days of ultra4 + UTV + bike + EV races.

Gasparilla Pirate Festival 2027

Tampa, FL (Bayshore Blvd / downtown)

Tampa's pirate-invasion mega-parade — a fully-rigged ship storms the bay and Bayshore Blvd fills for miles.

Mardi Gras 2027 — New Orleans

New Orleans (French Quarter + Uptown parade route)

Mardi Gras 2027 culminates Feb 9 (Fat Tuesday). RV at Pontchartrain Landing or Bayou Segnette.

Mount Dora Arts Festival 2027

Mount Dora, FL (historic downtown)

A top-ranked fine-arts festival in a hilly antique-shop town north of Orlando — officially Feb 6-7, 2027.

Yosemite Horsetail Firefall 2027

Yosemite National Park

Firefall window — Horsetail Falls glows like lava at sunset.

San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo 2027

San Antonio

One of the biggest stock shows in the country — rodeo, livestock, and concerts across two-plus February weeks.

Pro Basketball All-Star Weekend 2027

Salt Lake City (Delta Center)

Pro Basketball All-Star Weekend — Salt Lake City. Pony Express RV + Mountain Shadows.

Presidents Day Ski Week — Colorado

Summit County (Breckenridge / Frisco / Dillon)

Presidents Day ski weekend — base-camp a winterized rig near Summit County resorts.

Presidents Day Desert Escape — Arizona

Phoenix / Scottsdale / Tucson loop

Presidents Day in the desert — peak snowbird-season weather around Phoenix and Tucson.

Pro Football Championship LXI — SoFi Stadium LA

Inglewood (SoFi Stadium)

Pro Football Championship LXI at SoFi Stadium. Dockweiler State Beach + Bolsa Chica RV-friendly.

Daytona 500 — 2027

Daytona Beach (Daytona International Speedway)

Daytona 500 2027 — infield + outside RV lots sell out 6+ months ahead.

California Desert Wildflower Window 2027

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park / southern deserts

Desert floors that can erupt in color after wet winters — a window worth watching, honestly framed.

Newport Seafood & Wine Festival 2027

Newport, OR (South Beach)

Oregon-coast Dungeness crab and 50+ Northwest wineries under one tent — winter storm-watching season on the side.

Everglades Seafood Festival 2027

Everglades City, FL (Copeland Ave)

Stone crab and swamp country — a three-day fish-camp town's biggest weekend, officially Feb 19-21, 2027.

Platte River Sandhill Crane Migration 2027

Kearney / Grand Island (central Platte River valley)

Hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes on one stretch of river — one of Earth's great migrations.

Swamp Cabbage Festival 2027

LaBelle, FL (Barron Park)

A festival built around Florida's state tree — hearts of palm ('swamp cabbage') on the Caloosahatchee.

Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo 2027 (95th)

Houston (NRG Stadium + NRG Park, TX)

Houston Rodeo 2027 — 95th, 20 days at NRG, world's largest livestock show + concert series.

Florida Strawberry Festival 2027

Plant City, FL (Florida Strawberry Festival grounds)

Eleven days of headline concerts, livestock and shortcake in Florida's winter-strawberry capital.

Daytona Bike Week 2027 (86th Annual)

Daytona Beach (Main Street + Daytona International Speedway, FL)

Daytona Bike Week 2027 — 10 days of Main Street, Speedway laps, A1A coastline.

Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race 2027 (55th)

Anchorage ceremonial start + Willow restart, AK

Iditarod 2027 — 1,000 mi Anchorage to Nome, ceremonial start Mar 6, restart in Willow.

Grant Seafood Festival 2027

Grant-Valkaria, FL (Grant Community Center grounds)

The east coast's longest-running seafood festival — all-volunteer, no admission, pure Space Coast.

Spring Break — Texas Gulf Coast

Port Aransas / South Padre Island

Texas spring break on the Gulf — drive-on beach camping at Port Aransas and South Padre.

The Mint 400 2027

Las Vegas / Primm

The Great American Off-Road Race — trophy trucks in the desert south of Vegas.

SXSW Austin 2027

Austin (Convention Center + downtown venues)

SXSW 10-day music + tech + film festival. McKinney Falls SP + Pecan Grove RV.

Twelve Hours of Sebring 2027

Sebring (Sebring International Raceway)

America's oldest endurance race — and its most famous trackside camping culture.

Moab Easter Jeep Safari 2027 (61st)

Moab (BLM + Manti-La Sal NF trails, UT)

Easter Jeep Safari 2027 — 61st RR4WD event, 9 days of guided runs on Moab BLM + NF trails.

Texas Bluebonnet Season 2027

Hill Country (Burnet / Llano / Fredericksburg)

Roadsides gone blue across the Hill Country — Texas's signature spring window.

Spring Break — Southern California Coast

San Diego / Orange County beaches

California coast spring break — beachfront state-park RV sites from San Diego to OC.

Easter Weekend — Great Smoky Mountains

Gatlinburg / Pigeon Forge

Easter weekend in the Smokies — spring wildflowers and Gatlinburg-area RV resorts.

Easter Weekend — Utah Red Rock Parks

Moab / Arches gateway

Easter in Utah red-rock country — spring desert weather around Moab and Arches.

Zion NP Timed Entry Window 2027

Zion National Park

Zion timed-entry shuttle window — RVs must use lots outside park.

Utah Mighty 5 spring 2027

Zion, Bryce, Capitol Reef, Arches, Canyonlands

Utah Mighty 5 spring 2027 — pre-summer crowds, mild temps.

Tennessee spring off-road season — Windrock & Royal Blue

Windrock Park & Royal Blue WMA, Oliver Springs / Coal Creek

Appalachian spring wheeling — green hills, flowing creeks, and hundreds of miles of marked OHV trail.

Skagit Valley Tulip Festival 2027

Mount Vernon, WA (Skagit Valley)

A whole valley of commercial tulip fields in bloom north of Seattle — a month-long driving-and-garden festival.

Women's College Basketball Final — Columbus 2027

Columbus (Nationwide Arena)

Women's College Basketball Final at Nationwide Arena, Columbus. Alum Creek State Park + Cross Creek Camping nearby.

Men's College Basketball Final — Detroit 2027

Detroit (Ford Field)

College Basketball Final at Ford Field, Detroit. Lake St. Clair Metropark + Belle Isle nearby.

The Masters Tournament 2027 (91st)

Augusta (Augusta National Golf Club, GA)

The Masters 2027 — 91st at Augusta National, second full week of April, badges via the lottery.

SUN 'n FUN Aerospace Expo 2027

Lakeland (Lakeland Linder International Airport)

One of the largest aviation events in the world — daily airshows, warbirds, and camping on the field.

Desert Music + Country Festivals 2027

Indio (Empire Polo Club)

Two Desert Music Festival weekends + Country Music Festival country fest. RV camping is THE way to do Indio.

MotoGP Grand Prix of the Americas 2027

Austin (Circuit of the Americas)

The world's fastest motorcycle racers at COTA — spring weekend, on-site RV camping.

Poteet Strawberry Festival 2027

Poteet, TX (Strawberry Festival grounds, TX-16)

The 'Strawberry Capital of Texas' throws a rodeo-and-country-music berry blowout south of San Antonio.

World Grits Festival 2027

St. George, SC (downtown, Parler Ave)

A whole festival for grits — including the legendary 'Rolling in the Grits' contest — off I-95 in the Lowcountry.

Fiesta San Antonio 2027

San Antonio, TX (citywide)

Eleven days of parades, cascarones and puro San Antonio — the city's whole spring in one party.

Thunder Over Louisville 2027

Louisville (Ohio River waterfront)

A daytime airshow and one of North America's largest annual fireworks shows — Derby season's opening blast.

Boston Marathon 2027 (131st)

Hopkinton to Boston (Patriots' Day route, MA)

Boston Marathon 2027 — 131st running, Hopkinton to Boylston Street, Patriots' Day Monday.

MerleFest 2027 (40th)

Wilkesboro (Wilkes Community College campus, NC)

MerleFest 2027 — 40th anniversary Americana + bluegrass weekend in the Blue Ridge foothills.

Vidalia Onion Festival 2027

Vidalia, GA (downtown + airport grounds)

The famous sweet onion's hometown party — air show, rodeo, country concerts and onion everything.

Country Music Festival 2027

Indio (Empire Polo Club)

Country Music Festival 2027 — country music at Empire Polo Club, post-Desert Music Festival weekend.

NORRA Mexican 1000 2027

Baja California, Mexico (U.S. staging: San Diego, CA)

The 'Happiest Race on Earth' — a multi-day vintage + modern off-road rally down the Baja peninsula.

Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival 2027

Fernandina Beach, FL (Amelia Island, historic downtown)

Birthplace-of-the-shrimping-industry festival on Amelia Island — 300+ artisans, a pirate parade, free admission.

Kentucky Derby 153

Louisville (Churchill Downs)

Kentucky Derby 153 — Churchill Downs.

Tulip Time Festival 2027

Holland, MI (citywide)

Millions of tulips, Dutch dancers in klompen and a working windmill — America's classic spring heritage festival.

F1 Miami GP 2027

Miami Gardens (Hard Rock Stadium circuit)

F1 Miami 2027 — Hard Rock Stadium circuit.

Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival 2027

Breaux Bridge, LA (Parc Hardy)

The 'Crawfish Capital of the World' turns out for Cajun and zydeco on three stages and crawfish every way.

World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest 2027

Memphis, TN

Memphis in May's world championship of pork — the Super Bowl week of barbecue towns.

Overland Expo West 2027

Flagstaff (Fort Tuthill County Park, AZ — elevation 6,910 ft)

Overland Expo West 2027 — Fort Tuthill, Flagstaff, 4 days of overland rigs, training, gear.

Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas 2027

Las Vegas (Las Vegas Motor Speedway)

EDC Las Vegas 2027 — RV camping on LVMS grounds.

Yellowstone summer season 2027

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone summer 2027 — full-loop access window.

Grand Canyon North Rim 2027

Grand Canyon National Park

North Rim 5-month window — less crowded than South Rim.

Preakness Stakes 2027 (152nd)

Baltimore (Pimlico Race Course, MD)

Preakness 2027 — second jewel of the Triple Crown, two weeks after the Derby at Pimlico.

Kenai Peninsula Salmon Season 2027

Soldotna / Kenai River

The summer salmon runs that define Alaska's road-trip peninsula — fish from the bank below your campsite.

Acadia NP summer season 2027

Bar Harbor

Acadia summer + Cadillac Mountain sunrise reservation.

Kerrville Folk Festival 2027

Kerrville, TX (Quiet Valley Ranch)

The longest continuously running music festival in the US — 18 days of songwriters and campfire circles on a Hill Country ranch.

Synchronous Fireflies, Great Smoky Mountains 2027

Elkmont (Great Smoky Mountains National Park)

Thousands of fireflies flashing in unison — a two-week natural light show with a lottery at the door.

Florida Folk Festival 2027

White Springs, FL (Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park)

America's oldest state folk festival, on the banks of the Suwannee — and you can camp in the park it's held in.

Memorial Day — Lake of the Ozarks

Lake of the Ozarks

Memorial Day on Lake of the Ozarks — the unofficial start of lake season.

Rocky Mountain NP — Trail Ridge Road 2027

Estes Park / Grand Lake

Trail Ridge Road open — highest paved through-road in US (12,183ft).

Indianapolis 500 — 111th Running (2027)

Speedway, IN (Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval)

Indy 500 2027 — Memorial Day Sunday, the world's largest single-day sporting event.

Denali NP summer season 2027

Denali National Park

Denali summer access — Park Road open beyond Mile 15.

Pro Hockey Finals 2027

Host cities not yet announced

Pro Hockey Finals Final 2027 — host cities TBD. Subscribe to PickRV NHL Final alerts.

Pro Basketball Finals 2027

Host cities not yet announced

Pro Basketball Finals 2027 — same TBD playbook. Stay subscribed to PickRV Pro Basketball Finals alerts.

CMA Music Festival 2027 — Nashville

Nashville (Nissan Stadium + downtown)

CMA Fest 2027 — country music takes over downtown Nashville.

Belmont Stakes 2027 (159th)

Elmont NY (Belmont Park) — verify venue, renovation may extend Saratoga hosting

Belmont Stakes 2027 — third Triple Crown jewel, 1.5 mi 'Test of the Champion.'

Tennessee Music Festival 2027

Manchester (Great Stage Park)

Tennessee Music Festival 2027 — 4-day festival built for RV camping.

Laconia Motorcycle Week 2027

Laconia / Weirs Beach (Lakes Region)

One of America's oldest motorcycle rallies — nine June days on Lake Winnipesaukee.

Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2027 (54th)

Telluride (Town Park, CO — elevation 8,750 ft)

Telluride Bluegrass 2027 — four nights of strings inside a box canyon at 8,750 ft.

Summerfest Milwaukee 2027

Milwaukee (Henry Maier Festival Park)

One of the world's largest music festivals — weeks of stages on Milwaukee's lakefront.

Electric Forest 2027

Rothbury (Double JJ Resort)

Four nights in Sherwood Forest — the most camping-native major festival in the Midwest.

Glacier NP — Going-to-the-Sun Road 2027

Glacier National Park

Going-to-the-Sun Road full-open. Vehicles >21ft prohibited Logan Pass area.

Pikes Peak International Hill Climb 2027

Colorado Springs (Pikes Peak Highway)

The Race to the Clouds — 156 turns to a 14,115-foot summit, one morning a year.

July 4th — Lake Travis

Lake Travis (Austin)

July 4th on Lake Travis — the biggest lake weekend of the Texas summer.

July 4th — Lake Havasu

Lake Havasu City

July 4th on Lake Havasu — Arizona's marquee summer water weekend.

World Series of Poker Main Event 2027

Las Vegas (Horseshoe + Paris Las Vegas, NV)

WSOP Main Event 2027 — $10,000 buy-in, 10,000+ entrants, two-week grind on the Strip.

National Cherry Festival 2027

Traverse City, MI (Open Space, Grand Traverse Bay)

America's cherry capital throws an eight-day July festival on Grand Traverse Bay — air show, parades, fireworks.

Under the Big Sky 2027

Whitefish (Big Mountain Ranch)

Country and Americana on a working ranch outside Whitefish — with Glacier National Park next door.

San Diego Comic-Con 2027

San Diego

SDCC 2027 — pop culture's biggest weekend.

Newport Folk Festival 2027

Newport (Fort Adams State Park, RI)

Newport Folk 2027 — three days inside Fort Adams, water shuttle from Goat Island, no RVs on grounds.

Brickyard 400 — Indianapolis 2027

Indianapolis (Indianapolis Motor Speedway)

NASCAR Brickyard 400 2027 at IMS.

IRONMAN Lake Placid 2027

Lake Placid (Adirondacks)

One of the longest-running IRONMAN races in North America — a full-distance day in the Adirondacks.

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2027 (74th)

Oshkosh (Wittman Regional Airport, WI)

AirVenture Oshkosh 2027 — 74th EAA fly-in, world's busiest airport for one week.

Lollapalooza Chicago 2027

Chicago (Grant Park)

Lollapalooza 2027 — return to Grant Park.

WE Fest 2027

Detroit Lakes (Soo Pass Ranch)

One of the country's longest-running country music camping festivals — lakes-country August at Soo Pass Ranch.

Sturgis Motorcycle Rally 2027

Sturgis

Sturgis 87th — Black Hills rally tradition continues.

Bonneville Speed Week 2027

Bonneville Salt Flats (near Wendover)

Land-speed racing on the salt — hot rods chasing 300+ mph on a lakebed like nowhere else on Earth.

Perseid Meteor Shower 2027 — Utah Dark Sky Parks

Natural Bridges + Capitol Reef + Bryce Canyon (UT)

Perseids peak under Utah's IDA dark skies — up to ~100 meteors/hour, no telescope needed.

Knoxville Nationals 2027

Knoxville (Knoxville Raceway)

Dirt-track royalty at the Sprint Car Capital of the World — sprint car racing's signature August week.

Iowa State Fair 2027

Des Moines (Iowa State Fairgrounds)

America's most iconic state fair — eleven days, a butter cow, and a campground on the grounds.

Aurora Borealis season 2027-2028

Brooks Range / Fairbanks / Denali

Aurora season — Sep-Mar peak with darkest skies.

Chicago Air and Water Show 2027

Chicago (North Avenue Beach lakefront)

Jet teams over Lake Michigan with the skyline as backdrop — one of the largest free shows of its kind.

Leadville Trail 100 Run 2027

Leadville (Sawatch Range)

The Race Across the Sky — 100 miles between 9,200 and 12,600 feet, through the night.

Great New York State Fair 2027

Syracuse (New York State Fairgrounds)

One of the nation's oldest state fairs — thirteen days in Syracuse with an RV park on the grounds.

Minnesota State Fair 2027

Falcon Heights (Minnesota State Fairgrounds)

The Great Minnesota Get-Together — twelve days ending Labor Day, one of the largest fairs in the nation.

Desert Arts Gathering 2027

the desert playa

Black Rock Desert. Bring your own EVERYTHING. RVs are the standard housing.

NHRA U.S. Nationals 2027

Brownsburg (Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park)

Drag racing's biggest weekend — Labor Day at Indy, with camping steps from the staging lanes.

Elk Rut in Rocky Mountain National Park 2027

Estes Park (Rocky Mountain National Park)

Bull elk bugling across golden meadows — the Rockies' signature fall wildlife show.

Labor Day — Outer Banks

Outer Banks (Cape Hatteras)

Labor Day on the Outer Banks — last big beach weekend before fall rates drop.

Labor Day — Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe (North + South Shore)

Labor Day at Tahoe — warm water and the last full summer lake weekend.

Colorado Springs Labor Day Lift Off 2027

Colorado Springs (Memorial Park)

Dozens of balloons rising over Prospect Lake with Pikes Peak behind them — three free mornings.

The Great Reno Balloon Race 2027

Reno (Rancho San Rafael Regional Park)

Dawn Patrol balloons glowing against a dark Nevada sky — billed as the largest free ballooning event in the U.S.

Pendleton Round-Up 2027 (117th)

Pendleton (Round-Up Grounds, OR)

Pendleton Round-Up 2027 — 117th PRCA rodeo, Westward Ho! Parade, Indian Village, four days.

Colorado Aspen Gold Season 2027

Kebler Pass / Maroon Bells / San Juan Mountains

Whole mountainsides turning gold at once — Colorado's three-week high-country show.

State Fair of Texas 2027

Dallas (Fair Park)

Big Tex, fried-everything, and the Red River rivalry — 24 days at historic Fair Park.

Vermont fall foliage peak 2027

Stowe / Killington / NEK

Vermont peak foliage 2027 — northern New England.

MCAS Miramar Air Show 2027

San Diego (Marine Corps Air Station Miramar)

One of the largest military air shows in the country — jet teams over San Diego.

Blue Ridge Parkway Fall Foliage 2027

Asheville / Boone corridor (Blue Ridge Parkway)

America's most visited scenic road at its peak — weeks of color rolling down the mountainsides.

Austin City Limits Music Festival 2027

Austin (Zilker Park)

ACL Fest 2027 — 2 weekends in Zilker Park.

Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta 2027

Albuquerque

Balloon Fiesta 2027 — RV camping on-site at Balloon Fiesta Park.

Motul Petit Le Mans 2027

Braselton (Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta)

IMSA's 10-hour season finale in the north Georgia hills — camp on the hillsides above the esses.

Barber Vintage Festival 2027

Leeds (Barber Motorsports Park)

Vintage motorcycles, swap meet acres, and the world's largest motorcycle museum — camp on-site.

Ironman World Championship — Kona 2027

Kailua-Kona (Big Island, HI)

Ironman Kona 2027 — 2.4 mi swim, 112 mi bike, 26.2 mi run on the Queen K Highway.

Chicago Marathon 2027

Chicago (Grant Park start/finish)

One of the six World Marathon Majors — a flat, fast loop through 29 Chicago neighborhoods.

Great Smoky Mountains foliage peak 2027

Cades Cove / Newfound Gap / Roaring Fork

Smokies foliage 2027 — mid-Oct elevations 3000-5000ft.

F1 United States Grand Prix — Austin 2027

Austin (Circuit of the Americas)

F1 USGP at COTA. RV camping on-site at COTA.

Halloween Campground Weekends — Michigan

Northern Michigan / Lake Michigan shore

Halloween campground weekends — trick-or-treat trails and fall color in northern Michigan.

Monarch Butterfly Overwintering Season, California Coast 2027-2028

Pismo Beach / Pacific Grove (central coast groves)

Thousands of monarchs clustering in coastal groves — a walkable winter wildlife window.

Marine Corps Marathon 2027

Arlington / Washington D.C.

The People's Marathon — monuments, Marines at every mile, and a finish at the Iwo Jima Memorial.

Bosque del Apache Crane & Snow Goose Season 2027-2028

San Antonio, NM (Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge)

Sandhill cranes and snow goose blast-offs at dawn — the Southwest's premier winter wildlife window.

SEMA Show 2027

Las Vegas (Las Vegas Convention Center, NV)

SEMA Show 2027 — Specialty Equipment trade show, LVCC, four days, trade-only badging.

F1 Las Vegas GP 2027

Las Vegas Strip circuit

F1 Vegas 2027 — Strip street circuit, night race.

Thanksgiving — Florida Snowbird Season

Central + Gulf Coast Florida

Thanksgiving in Florida — the snowbird-season arrival surge meets family travel.

Thanksgiving — Texas State Parks

Texas Hill Country + state parks

Thanksgiving in Texas state parks — mild weather and family RV gatherings.

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2027

New York City

Macy's Parade 2027 — same Manhattan route, same Jersey City RV play.

National Finals Rodeo 2027

Las Vegas (Thomas & Mack Center)

Rodeo's world championship — ten December nights that turn all of Las Vegas western.

Geminid Meteor Shower 2027 — Southern Arizona

Kartchner Caverns SP + Oracle SP (southern AZ)

The year's strongest meteor shower — ~120/hour — over mild southern-Arizona desert in December.

Christmas Week — Colorado Ski Towns

Steamboat Springs / Summit County

Christmas in a Colorado ski town — winterized rig basecamp near the slopes.

Christmas Week — Lake Tahoe Ski Country

South Lake Tahoe

Christmas at Tahoe — winterized rig basecamp for the Sierra ski week.

Oregon Whale Watch Weeks 2027-2028

Depoe Bay / central Oregon coast

Gray whales streaming past Oregon's headlands — volunteer-staffed viewpoints the whole coast down.

New Year — Florida Snowbird Peak

Gulf Coast + Florida Keys

New Year in Florida — deep snowbird season and warm-weather holiday trips.

CES 2028 — Las Vegas

Las Vegas

CES 2028 — RV the cheapest reliable Vegas convention-week base.

National Western Stock Show 2028

Denver (National Western Complex)

Denver's January institution since 1906 — 16 days of rodeo, stock show, and the Kick-Off Parade through downtown.

Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo 2028

Fort Worth (Will Rogers Memorial Center / Dickies Arena)

The world's original indoor rodeo — three-plus weeks of stock show tradition dating to 1896.

King of the Hammers 2028 (Race Week)

Johnson Valley OHV Area (BLM, San Bernardino County)

King of the Hammers Race Week — Ultra4 + UTV + EV racing inside a self-built desert RV city.

Pro Football Championship LXII

Host city not yet announced

Pro Football Championship LXII host city to be announced. PickRV will publish RV park recommendations when confirmed.

Daytona 500 — 2028

Daytona Beach (Daytona International Speedway)

Daytona 500 2028 — RV tradition continues.

Mardi Gras 2028 — New Orleans

New Orleans

Mardi Gras 2028 — Fat Tuesday Feb 29 (leap year).

Spring Break — Arizona Desert + Parks

Lake Havasu / Sedona / Grand Canyon gateway

Arizona spring break — Lake Havasu water days and Sedona red-rock basecamps.

Spring Break — Florida Gulf Coast

Panama City Beach / Destin

Florida Panhandle spring break — emerald-water beaches and Gulf-side RV resorts.

SXSW Austin 2028

Austin

SXSW 2028 — 10-day music + tech + film.

Men's College Basketball Final — San Antonio 2028

San Antonio (Alamodome)

College Basketball Final at the Alamodome. KOA + Hill Country RV parks within 30 min.

Easter Jeep Safari 2028 (Moab)

Moab

Moab's biggest off-road week — nine days of guided trail runs on red-rock slickrock.

Desert Music + Country Festivals 2028

Indio (Empire Polo Club)

Desert Music Festival 2028 — RV camping in the polo fields.

Easter Weekend — Texas Hill Country

Fredericksburg / Guadalupe River

Easter in the Hill Country — wildflower season and Guadalupe River RV parks.

Country Music Festival 2028

Indio (Empire Polo Club)

Country Music Festival 2028 — Indio polo fields, post-Desert Music Festival weekend 2.

Big Sur International Marathon 2028

Big Sur to Carmel (Highway 1)

26.2 miles up a closed Highway 1 — routinely called the most scenic marathon in America.

F1 Miami GP 2028

Miami Gardens

F1 Miami 2028 — Hard Rock Stadium circuit.

Kentucky Derby 2028 (154th)

Louisville (Churchill Downs, KY)

Kentucky Derby 2028 — 154th running, first Saturday in May, two-week Derby Festival prelude.

Yellowstone summer season 2028

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone 2028 — full-loop access window.

Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas 2028

Las Vegas (Las Vegas Motor Speedway)

EDC Las Vegas 2028 — RV camping is the EDC experience.

Overland Expo West 2028

Fort Tuthill County Park, Flagstaff

Overland Expo's flagship Western show — exhibitors, hands-on training, and a tent-and-rig base camp.

Acadia NP summer season 2028

Bar Harbor

Acadia 2028 — Cadillac Mountain sunrise reservation window.

Memorial Day — Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe (South Shore)

Memorial Day at Tahoe — alpine-lake season opener on the South Shore.

Memorial Day — Great Smoky Mountains

Townsend / Gatlinburg gateway

Memorial Day in the Smokies — summer-season opener at America's most-visited park.

Tennessee Music Festival 2028

Manchester (Great Stage Park)

Tennessee Music Festival 2028 — RV camping is the standard.

CMA Music Festival 2028 — Nashville

Nashville

CMA Fest 2028 — Nashville country music block party.

US Swim Trials 2028 — Indianapolis

Indianapolis (Lucas Oil Stadium pool conversion)

US Swim Trials at Lucas Oil Stadium (pool conversion).

US Track + Field Trials 2028 — Eugene

Eugene (Hayward Field)

US Track + Field US Trials — Hayward Field, Eugene OR.

Glacier NP — Going-to-the-Sun Road 2028

Glacier National Park

Glacier 2028 — Going-to-the-Sun open window.

July 4th — Lake of the Ozarks

Lake of the Ozarks

July 4th on Lake of the Ozarks — Midwest's peak summer lake holiday.

July 4th — Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe (South Shore)

July 4th at Tahoe — alpine-lake fireworks and peak Sierra summer demand.

2028 LA Games — Opening Ceremony

Los Angeles (multi-venue)

Summer Games Los Angeles. RV camping at Dockweiler Beach + Bonelli Park as private bookings.

San Diego Comic-Con International 2028

San Diego (San Diego Convention Center, Gaslamp Quarter, CA)

SDCC 2028 (expected late July) — Thu-Sun at the Convention Center; confirm dates on comic-con.org.

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2028

Oshkosh (Wittman Regional Airport)

The world's greatest aviation celebration — a week when Oshkosh becomes the busiest airport on Earth.

Ohio State Fair 2028

Columbus (Ohio Expo Center)

One of America's largest state fairs — twelve summer days at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus.

Lollapalooza Chicago 2028

Chicago (Grant Park)

Lollapalooza 2028 — Grant Park, Chicago.

Wisconsin State Fair 2028

West Allis (Wisconsin State Fair Park)

Cream puffs, the Milwaukee Mile, and eleven August days — with an RV park across the street.

Perseid Meteor Shower 2028 — Cherry Springs Dark Skies

Cherry Springs State Park (Pennsylvania Wilds)

The year's most reliable meteor shower over the darkest skies in the East.

Adaptive Games 2028 — LA

Los Angeles (multi-venue)

Adaptive Games 2028 — LA. Accessible RV rentals available — coordinate with PickRV concierge.

Desert Arts Gathering 2028

the desert playa

Desert Arts Gathering 2028. the desert playa — radical self-reliance applies.

Labor Day — Lake of the Ozarks

Lake of the Ozarks

Labor Day on Lake of the Ozarks — the Midwest summer's farewell weekend.

Austin City Limits Music Festival 2028

Austin (Zilker Park)

ACL 2028 — Zilker Park, 2 weekends.

Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta 2028

Albuquerque (Balloon Fiesta Park)

Balloon Fiesta 2028 — RV camping on-site at Balloon Fiesta Park.

F1 United States Grand Prix — Austin 2028

Austin (Circuit of the Americas)

F1 USGP at COTA 2028.

Halloween Campground Weekends — Tennessee

Smoky Mountains foothills

Halloween in the Smokies foothills — fall foliage and decorated campground loops.

F1 Las Vegas GP 2028

Las Vegas

F1 Vegas 2028 — Strip street circuit night race.

Thanksgiving — Arizona Snowbird Season

Phoenix / Mesa / Tucson

Thanksgiving in Arizona — mild desert weather and the snowbird-season ramp.

Christmas Week — Utah Ski Country

Park City / Heber Valley

Christmas near Park City — Heber Valley winter RV basecamp for the slopes.