Join us for the 43rd Annual Good Ol' Days Festival!
Where our History Comes to Life, Fort Scott, Kansas - May 31 - June 1, 2024
Come on back to the 43rd annual Good Ol' Days!
The 43rd Annual Fort Scott Good Ol’ Days Festival kicks off on Friday May 31 with The largest parade in Bourbon County. Be sure to bring your lawn chair and line up along Main street between 6th street running north to Wall Street, then west to National, then back south to 6th Street. This years Grand Marshall is TBD.
The first year had several locations where events took place, the pool, Frary field, Gunn park, and downtown. Eventually it was realized that everything should be downtown, and that’s where we are 43 years later.
You know we couldn’t host a Good Ol’ Days Festival without the Good Ol’ Chicken Dinner! Enjoy a dinner from Chicken Mary’s right here in Downtown Fort Scott! The meal will be available for pick-up behind the Lowell Milken Center on Friday, May 31st from 4:30-6 pm. The $9 ticket includes chicken, 2 sides, bread & a bottle of water.
The Downtown Good Ol’ Days Parade kicks off Friday night at 6 pm. This year’s theme is “Back to the bricks.” It’s the biggest parade of the year here in Fort Scott so you sure don’t want to miss out! Or have some fun and build a parade float to enter instead!
Have we mentioned that this year’s Good Ol’ Days Festival will be bigger & better than ever, so we decided to have not one, but two concerts! Join us Friday, June 2nd at 7:00 pm for Whiskey Outlaws and Bobby Degonia live in concert. The event will be held at The Pavilion, Free of charge! Bring your lawn chair.
We’ll get started bright and early Saturday, June 1st with the Dragoon Charge at 8am! Then downtown Fort Scott will come alive with craft vendors, food trucks, pony rides, live entertainment and so much more! If you make something awesome that you want to show off sign up as a vendor! (application) Red Garter will perform its first show and will continue all day on Saturday beginning at 10 am at 3rd and main. After the Good Ol’ Days Festival street fair join us at The Pavilion for 80’s and Out. The show will be Saturday, June 3rd at 7:00 pm. FREE of Charge!
Celebrating 43 years in Fort Scott, Kansas. Come “Back to the Bricks” and join us for a fun-filled weekend at the 2024 Good Ol’ Days Festival!
Tickets on sale Spring 2024!
Tickets for the Good Ol’ Days events are on sale soon!
Purchase them in person at the Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce and Regional Tourism Center at 231 E. Wall St.
Thank you to our 2023 Sponsors
Prime Platinum Sponsor
City of Fort Scott
Platinum Sponsors
Crawford Sales
KOAM News Now
Gold Sponsors
Pete’s of Erie, Inc.
Southside Storage
Silver Sponsors
Briggs Auto
Don’s Spirits & Wines
Evergy
Janet Braun
Liberty Savings
Niece Products of Kansas
Bronze Sponsors
Timothy Emerson
Bids & Dibs, Inc
Billiard Hammer Harman Insurance
Bourbon county Bar Association
Cheney Witt Chapel, Inc.
Clifton Chiropractic
Craw Kan
Davis & Associates Tax and Consulting Inc.
Diehl Banwart Bolton CPA’s
Don Doherty – RPS Benefits by Design
Fort Scott Livestock Market
Fort Scott Tribune
Holmtown Pub
Karen and Randy Nichols
KTCCU
Labconco
Medicalodges, Inc
Mitch and Colleen Quick
Old Fort Auto
Peerless Products
R & R Equipment
Reed & Patricia Hartford
Riggs Chiropractic of Fort Scott
Gil Gregory
Old Fort Auto
Sonic Drive-In
Steve & Terri Floyd
R & R Equipment
Tim & Cheryl VanHoecke
Travis & Gina Shelton
Wise Tax & Accounting
Alan & Billie Jo Drake
Craig & Dana McKenney
Crain Insurance Agency, Inc
David Renard
FormsOne
La Hacienda
Mertz Tax Service
Sekan Printing
David & Jara Martin
Robert Eckles
Jackie Warren
Roger & Charlene Sipe
Dr. & Mrs. John Durling
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Join us for Good Ol’ Days!
If you are a craft vendor, have a trendy food truck, want to show off your awesome talent, or want to enter the parade, the Good Ol’ Days applications are ready!
