Trail Days - Freedom 250 Celebration

Sat, 06 Jun, 2026 at 09:00 am to Sun, 07 Jun, 2026 at 04:00 pm UTC-07:00

1 Interpretive Center Way, Elko, NV, United States, Nevada 89801 | Elko

California Trail Interpretive Center
Publisher/HostCalifornia Trail Interpretive Center
Trail Days - Freedom 250 Celebration
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The California Trail Center's annual Trail Days is the official Freedom 250 event for the state of Nevada, celebrating the 250th birthday of the USA!
This will be the biggest, most packed with fun Trail Days we've ever done and you're invited!
We'll have all of our traditional activities - wagon rides, archery & axe throwing, sage hut building, gold panning, pioneer camp, Shoshone Village, and more- BUT, we'll also have a bunch of new and exciting additions to the lineup, including a huge stage with live music all weekend.
•🎁This is a FREE* event. The only thing you need your wallet for is food and drinks.
* You are not required to donate to attend but we are largely funded by donations and appreciate any financial support.
•🍔Food and drinks! –Choose from an Authentic Shoshone Taco stand or hamburger/hot dog stand manned by the local VFW. The first 250 lunch patrons (1st 125 each day) will get their meal on a souvenir gold pan.
•🎸🎶🪕Live Music - Outdoor stage with live music all weekend
•🪗Basque and Native Dance presentations
•🏕️Pioneer Camp - Interact with a whole slew of pioneers, mountain men, and merchants on the long trail to California. Learn how to craft a wooden barrel from our Coopers or enlist and march with the Mormon Battalion.
•⛏️ Gold Panning - find your own “gold” the way the 49ers did
•🛖Shoshone Village - Help build a Wickiup (native shelter built from trees and sagebrush), learn about basket weaving, native cooking, natural medicines, and more.
•🏹🪓Archery & Axe Throwing - Practice your hunting skills at our projectiles range. Think you’re a master? There’ll be contests for both each day.
•🎭Drama! - Watch a live gunfight skit performed by Ghost Light Productions
•🍉🥧🏹🪓🏆 Contests and prizes - Watermelon eating, sack races, hoop & stick, pie squares, archery, axe throwing.
•✂️Games and crafts
•🛞Wagon Rides
•👩‍🏫Presentations – Talks on everything from wagons to prospectors to Little House on the Prairie
•🌳operate a crosscut saw with the USFS
•➕and more!
More details and event schedule coming soon!
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1 Interpretive Center Way, Elko, NV, United States, Nevada 89801

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