The Annual Wild & Scenic Red RiverFest on 5/18-5/19/2024 takes place at Clay City Park in Powell County. 5/17 preparty event with film screening and live music takes place at Sky Bridge Station. The family friendly event includes a Red River 4-mile Fun Floats, free live music all day, kids & adult activities, rock climbing wall, yoga, fun & education clean water workshops (including Watershed Watch Stream Sampling Certification training!), film screening, cornhole tournament, silent auction, prizes, craft, food & drink vendors and more! Clay City Park is the launch location for the event’s Clay City Loop Fun Float and the takeout is a short .2 mile walk across Main Street. Fun environmental education programming is available at the event tent and you can win prizes for participating! This event is FREE thanks to our wonderful sponsors. Registration is required for the paddle and does cost. There are rentals available or bring your own boat options. Paddle scholarships are available. See below for event schedule. We hope to see you May 17-20, 2024 in the Red River Gorge area of KY!
Red RiverFest is a fun, family friendly event with FREE live music, vendors, presenters and activities ALL DAY.
*paddle registration (required) and event info at www.FriendsOfRedRiverKY.org (Benefiting Friends of Red River)
Friday 5/17 pre-party at Sky Bridge Station
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM - Upper Red River Film Screening w/ Q&A @
8-10 PM - Robert Overbee's Vulgar Movements
Saturday 5/18 at Clay City Park
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM - Screamin Beans Coffee
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM - Yoga with Dr Shira Lewis
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM - Donut Daddy
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM - various craft vendors
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM - EE - Watershed Watch Stream Sampler Certification Training
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM - Gram Durbin
11:00 AM - 7:30 PM - Lady AmVets Food Truck + The Spatzl Factory Food Truck
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - Fun Float launch #1
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM - Possum Queens
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Rock Climbing wall
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Clean Water Event Tent (stamp passport for prizes!)
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM - EE - Drinking Water (KY Rural Water Association)
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM - West 6th ($1 / beer goes to FORR)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM - Taylors & Turinos
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Fun Float launch #2
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM - EE - KY Reptile Zoo
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM - John Haywood
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM - Luna & The Mountain Jets
8:00 PM - 12:00 AM - Perfect Strangers - afterparty at AmVets $10
Sunday 5/19 at Clay City Park
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM - Screamin Beans Coffee
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM - Yoga with Dr Shira Lewis
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM - Donut Daddy
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM - RRGFM/various craft vendors
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Mike Creech's String Theory
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM - EE - Source to Tap (KY Energy & Environment Cabinet)
11:00 AM - 7:30 PM - Clay City Park Food Truck + The Spatzl Factory Food Truck
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - Fun Float launch #1
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM - EE - E.coli Monitoring & Lab Procedures (Daniel Boone National Forest)
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM - EE - RRG Discovery Zone
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM - Renegades
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM - West 6th ($1 / beer goes to FORR)
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM - EE - Drinking Water (KY Rural Water Association)
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM - EE - Water Quality & Biodiversity (Red Oaks Forest School)
2:30 PM - 6:30 PM - Cornhole Tournament ($10/person)
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM - Karly Dawn & Hill Folk
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Fun Float launch #2
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM - Dark Moon Hollow
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM - Widely Grown
EE = environmental education
*check FORR FB and website before event as schedule is subject to change
Are you a maker interested in vending at 6th annual Wild & Scenic Red RiverFest? Vendors can set up as early as 9am on event day (5/18/24). Event concludes at 7:30pm. Contact laura@kwallaince.org for application 😀
