{"id":25424,"date":"2018-09-18T15:58:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T22:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25424"},"modified":"2018-09-18T15:58:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T22:58:34","slug":"west-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/west-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating The West at Fests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cowbgirl.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to be a cowboy or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/culture\/california-cowgirls.html\">cowgirl<\/a> to be a fan of the West and all it \u00a0represents. Besides the dust, dirt, cattle, roping, horses &amp; saddles, boots &amp; spurs, ranching, home on the range, and true grit, there&#8217;s cowboy entertainment to make you feel like you belong. Cowboy poetry and songs, parades, re-enactments, gatherings and festivals all attract Californians and visitors who long for what seemed like simpler times.<\/p>\n<p>Dust off your boots, pull out your chaps and put on your hat for a feel-good celebration to honor our Western heritage!<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-cowboy-festivals.html\">California Cowboy Festivals<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>September 2018<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PARADISE: Dutch Oven Cook Off Sept.22<\/li>\n<li>WILLITS: Emandal Cowboy Poetry Sept.22<\/li>\n<li>SUTTER CREEK: Sutter Creek Heritage Days Sept.22-23<\/li>\n<li>RAYMOND: Raymond Old West Fest Sept.29<\/li>\n<li>YERMO: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/calico-days.html\">Calico Days<\/a>\u00a0 Sept.29-30<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>October 2018<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VISALIA: Cowboy Roundup<\/li>\n<li>BUENA PARK: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/buena-park-silverado-days.html\"> Buena Park Silverado Days<\/a><\/li>\n<li>NORCO: Norco Horse Affair<\/li>\n<li>OAKDALE: Oakdale Cowboy Museum Annual Dinner<\/li>\n<li>OAKLAND: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/oakland-black-cowboy.html\"> Oakland Black Cowboy Parade &amp; Festival <\/a><\/li>\n<li>PARADISE: The Bride and the Brigand and\u00a0 Big Jack Davis and the Champagne Robbery shows at Gold Nugget Museum<\/li>\n<li>SAN JUAN BAUTISTA: Living History Days<\/li>\n<li>LONE PINE: Lone Pine Film Festival<\/li>\n<li>POWAY: Rendezvous in Poway<\/li>\n<li>ANGELS CAMP: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/angels-camp-twainfest.html\">Mark Twain Wild West Fest<\/a><\/li>\n<li>MOORPARK:\u00a0 Western Weekend at Underwood Farms<\/li>\n<li>TWENTYNINE PALMS: Pioneer Days<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>November 2018<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MONTEREY: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/monterey-cowboy-festival.html\">Monterey Cowboy &amp; Music Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li>DEATH VALLEY:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/death-valley-encampment.html\"> Death Valley 49ers Encampment<\/a><\/li>\n<li>LOOMIS: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/loomis-cowboy-poetry-contest.html\">Cowpoke Fall Gathering<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SONORA: Sonora Craft &amp; Music Festival<\/li>\n<li>OAKDALE: Cowboy Christmas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t have to be a cowboy or cowgirl to be a fan of the West and all it \u00a0represents. Besides the dust, dirt, cattle, roping, horses &amp; saddles, boots &amp; spurs, ranching, home on the range, and true grit, there&#8217;s cowboy entertainment to make you feel like you belong. Cowboy poetry and songs, parades, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25424"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25426,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25424\/revisions\/25426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}