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 Lavetta Simmons. 

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 $10 ticket includes 2 pieces of 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 “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! 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, May 31 at 7:00 pm for Nathan Ast Band and BLANE HOWARD live in concert. The event will be held at Skubitz Plaza, 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 Liberty Theatre. After the Good Ol’ Days Festival street fair join us at Skubitz Plaza for Left of Center.  The show will be Saturday, June 1st at 7:00 pm. FREE of Charge!

Celebrating 43 years in Fort Scott, Kansas. Come “Where our history comes to life” and join us for a fun-filled weekend at the 2024 Good Ol’ Days Festival!