Join us for the 44th Annual Good Ol' Days Festival!

The 44th Annual Fort Scott Good Ol’ Days Festival kicks off on Friday June 6th, 2025 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 Kenny Clary. Parade Info

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 44 years later!!

The Downtown Good Ol’ Days Parade kicks off Friday night at 6 pm. This year’s theme is “Where our history comes to life.”  It’s the biggest parade of the year here in Fort Scott so you sure don’t want to miss out! Click HERE to enter a float into the parade!!!

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 FIVE concerts! Concert List Join us Friday, June 6th at 7:30 pm for the KC ALL STARS, the “Premier Kansas City Dance Band 2024”. The event will be held at Skubitz Plaza, Free of charge! Bring your lawn chair.

We’ll get started bright and early Saturday, June 7th with the Tom Davis Memorial 5k Run/Walk at 9am! 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 The Liberty Theatre. The Care to Share Stage on Skubitz Plaza will be jamming starting at 11am all the way to 11pm! Holly Crays and Band will begin playing at 11am, Ty Ellis & The Flatliners play at 1pm, and Left of Center starts at 4pm. At 7:00 pm the Clarksdale Caravan feat. Anthony “Big A” Sherrod, Heather Crosse & Lee Williams, with special guest Shinetop will take the stage ALL the way from Clarksdale, Mississippi.  FREE of Charge!!!

Celebrating 44 years in Fort Scott, Kansas. Come experience “44 years of crafting memories” and join us for a fun-filled weekend at the 2025 Good Ol’ Days Festival!!