As springtime nears, many Americans are making plans to attend one or more festivals across the country.
There are dozens of music festivals scheduled for 2016, but there are dozens of other festivals covering everything from food to arts and crafts.
Here is a list of 2016 festivals you may want to consider visiting.
Alternative festivals
Burning Man — Black Rock City, Nevada
• Coney Island Mermaid Parade — New York City, New York
• Exotic Erotic Ball — San Francisco, California
• How Weird Street Faire — San Francisco, California
• King Mango Strut — Coral Gables, Florida
• New York’s Village Halloween Parade — New York City, New York
• Porcupine Freedom Festival — Lancaster, New Hampshire
• Rainbow Gathering — national and regional locations, worldwide
• Roswell UFO Festival — Roswell, New Mexico
• Sawdust Art Festival — Laguna Beach, California
• SLUG Queen — Eugene, Oregon
Arts and crafts festivals
Allentown Arts Festival — Buffalo, New York
• Amish Acres Arts & Crafts Festival — Nappanee, Indiana
• Ann Arbor Art Fairs — Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Bayou City Art Festival - Houston, Texas
• Catoctin Colorfest — Thurmont, Maryland
• Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts — State College, Pennsylvania
• Cherry Creek Arts Festival — Cherry Creek, Colorado
• Detroit Festival of the Arts — Detroit, Michigan
• Dogwood Arts Festival — Knoxville, Tennessee
• Festival of the Arts — Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Festival of Murals — Wayne County, Indiana
• Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival — Half Moon Bay, California
• Lake Eden Arts Festival — Black Mountain, North Carolina
• Sawdust Art Festival — Laguna Beach, California
• St. James Art Fair — Louisville, Kentucky
• Summer Camp Music Festival — Chillicothe, Illinois
• Vermont Quilt Festival — Essex, Vermont
Beer festivals
Great American Beer Festival (established 1982) — Denver, Colorado
• Houston Beer Fest (established 2011) — Houston, Texas
• Oregon Brewers Festival (established 1988) — Portland, Oregon
Celebration/talk festivity
Cheeseburger in Caseville — Caseville, Michigan
• ComFest — Columbus, Ohio
• Friendship Festival — Buffalo, New York and Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada
• Gasparilla Pirate Festival — Tampa, Florida
• Hessler Street Fair — Cleveland, Ohio
• Minneapolis Aquatennial — Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Pecan Street Festival — Austin, Texas
• Red River Revel — Shreveport, Louisiana
• Saint Paul Winter Carnival — Saint Paul, Minnesota
Culture, heritage and folk festivals
Aloha Festivals — Hawaii
• Arlington International Film Festival — Arlington, Massachusetts
• Borderfest — Rio Grande Valley, Texas
• Cleveland Feast of the Assumption Festival — Cleveland, Ohio
• Dublin Irish Festival — Dublin, Ohio
• Feast of San Gennaro — New York City, New York
• Festival Latinoamericano — Provo, Utah
• FinnFestUSA
• Folkmoot — Waynesville, North Carolina
• Frendly Gathering — Timber Ridge, Vermont
• Greek Food Festival of Dallas — Dallas, Texas
• Hungarian Festival — New Brunswick, New Jersey
• Indy Irish Festival — Indianapolis, Indiana
• International Children’s Festival — Washington, DC
• Johnny Appleseed Festival — Fort Wayne, Indiana
• Kansas City Irish Fest — Kansas City, Missouri
• Little Italy Festival — Clinton, Indiana
• Lowell Folk Festival — Lowell, Massachusetts
• New Jersey Folk Festival — New Brunswick, NJ
• New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — New Orleans, Louisiana
• North Texas Irish Festival — Dallas, Texas
• Northwest Folklife Festival — Seattle, Washington
• Pepper Jelly Festival — Thomaston, Alabama
• Pittsburgh Folk Festival — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Portugal Day Festival — Newark, New Jersey
• Riverfront Irish Festival — Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
• Taste of Polonia — Chicago, Illinois
• Texas Folklife Festival — San Antonio, Texas
• Tulip Time Festival — Holland, Michigan
• World of Nations Celebration — Jacksonville, Florida
• World’s Largest Disco — Buffalo, New York
• Ypsilanti Heritage Festival — Ypsilanti, Michigan
Earth and nature festivals
NY Green Fest — Alfred, New York
Film festivals
List of film festivals in the United States
Fine art and theatre festivals
• Alabama Shakespeare Festival — Montgomery, Alabama
• Allentown Art Festival — Buffalo, New York
• Arizona Renaissance Festival — Apache Junction, Arizona
• Artscape — Baltimore, Maryland
• Bristol Renaissance Faire — Kenosha, Wisconsin
• Carolina Renaissance Festival — Huntersville, North Carolina
• Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts — State College, Pennsylvania
• Curtain Up! — Buffalo, New York
• Grand Cities Art Fest — Grand Forks, North Dakota/East Grand Forks, Minnesota
• Kansas City Renaissance Festival — Bonner Springs, Kansas
• Maryland Renaissance Festival — Crownsville, Maryland
• MasterWorks Festival — Cedarville, Ohio
• Minnesota Renaissance Festival — Shakopee, Minnesota
• New York Renaissance Faire — Tuxedo, New York
• North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Performance Festival — Manteo, North Carolina
• Oregon Shakespeare Festival — Ashland, Oregon
• The River To River Festival — New York, New York
• Savannah Music Festival — Savannah, Georgia
• Sterling Renaissance Festival — Sterling, New York
• True/False Film Festival — Columbia, Missouri
• Utah Shakespearean Festival — Cedar City, Utah
Flower festivals
• International Cherry Blossom Festival — Macon, Georgia
• Lilac Festival — Rochester, New York
• Lompoc Valley Flower Festival — Lompoc, California
• National Cherry Blossom Festival — Washington, D.C.
• Philadelphia Flower Show — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Portland Rose Festival — Portland, Oregon
• Seattle Hempfest — Seattle, Washington
• Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival — Winchester, Virginia
• Texas Rose Festival — Tyler, Texas
• Tulip Festival — Holland, Michigan
• Washington State Apple Blossom Festival — Wenatchee, Washington
Food, harvest and wild game festivals
For food festivals in the United States, see also: Category:Food festivals in the United States.
• Banana Split Festival — Wilmington, Ohio
• Barnesville Pumpkin Festival — Barnesville, Ohio
• Brushy Mountain Apple Festival — North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
• Circleville Pumpkin Show — Circleville, Ohio
• Delmarva Chicken Festival — Delmarva Peninsula
• Festival of the Fish — Vermilion, Ohio
• Florida food festivals — Florida
• Gilroy Garlic Festival — Gilroy, California
• Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival — Half Moon Bay, California
• Jackson County Apple Festival — Jackson, Ohio
• Kentucky Apple Festival — Paintsville, Kentucky
• Lexington Barbecue Festival — Lexington, North Carolina
• Louisiana Fur and Wildlife Festival — Cameron, Louisiana
• Morton Pumpkin Festival — Morton, Illinois
• National Buffalo Wing Festival — Buffalo, New York
• National Cherry Festival — Traverse City, Michigan
• National Cornbread Festival National Cornbread Festival — South Pittsburg, Tennessee
• North Carolina Wine Festival — Clemmons, North Carolina
• Norwalk Oyster Festival — Norwalk, Connecticut
• Parker County Peach Festival — Weatherford, Texas
• Paso Robles Wine Festival — Paso Robles, California
• Roanoke-Chowan Pork-Fest — Murfreesboro, North Carolina
• Schmeckfest — Freeman, South Dakota
• Strawberry Festival — Poteet, Texas
• Sweet Corn Festival — Fairborn, Ohio
• Taste of Buffalo — Buffalo, New York• Taste of Chicago — Chicago, Illinois
• A Taste of Colorado
• Yadkin Valley Wine Festival — Elkin, North Carolina
• Yambilee Festival — Opelousas, Louisiana
Holiday festivals
• Christmas on the River — Demopolis, Alabama
• New Orleans Mardi Gras — New Orleans, Louisiana
• Spirit of America Festival — Decatur, Alabama
• West Side Nut Club Fall Festival — Evansville, Indiana
LGBT festivals
• Capital Pride — Washington, D.C.
• Fantasia Fair — Provincetown, Massachusetts
• Frameline — San Francisco, California
• Newfest — New York City
• Outfest — Los Angeles, California
• PeaceOUT World Homo Hop Festival — Oakland, California
• Southern Decadence — New Orleans, Louisiana
• Utah Pride Festival — Salt Lake City, Utah
• White Party — Palm Springs, California
Music festivals
.¡Globalquerque! — Albuquerque, New Mexico
• 10,000 Lakes Festival — Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
• 311 Pow Wow Festival — Live Oak, Florida
• 80/35 Music Festival — Des Moines, Iowa
• All Good Music Festival & Campout — Thornville, Ohio and other various locations over the years
• All Points West Music & Arts Festival — Jersey City, New Jersey
• American MusicFest — Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• ARTSaha! — Omaha, Nebraska
• Atlantic Music Festival — Waterville, Maine
• Austin City Limits Music Festival — Austin, Texas
• Backwoods Music Festival — Stroud, Oklahoma
• The Bamboozle — Asbury Park, New Jersey and East Rutherford, New Jersey
• Banjo Jubilee Jazz Festival — San Jose, California
• Bay Area Indie Music Festival — San Francisco, California
• Bay Area Rock Festival — San Francisco, California
• Bayfest — Mobile, Alabama
• Beale Street Music Festival — Memphis, Tennessee
• Bele Chere — Asheville, North Carolina
• Bellingham Festival of Music — Bellingham, Washington
• Big Spring Jam — Huntsville, Alabama
• The Big Up Music & Arts Festival — Ghent, New York
• Blast Furnace Blues Festival — Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• Blossom Festival — Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
• Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival — Manchester, Tennessee
• Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion — Bristol, Tennessee/Bristol, Virginia
• Britt Festival — Jacksonville, Oregon
• Budweiser Made in America Festival — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• BUKU Music + Art Project — New Orleans, Louisiana
• Bumbershoot — Seattle, Washington
• Bunbury Music Festival — Cincinnati, Ohio
• Buzz Bake Sale — West Palm Beach, Florida
• Buzzfest — Nashville, Tennessee and Houston, Texas
• Camp Bisco — Mariaville Lake, New York
• Camp Creek — Oxford, Maine and other various locations over the years
• Capitol Hill Block Party — Seattle, Washington
• Central Park SummerStage — New York, New York
• Chicago Blues Festival — Chicago, Illinois
• Clearwater Festival — Croton-on-Hudson, New York
• CMJ Music Marathon — New York City
• Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival — Indio, California
• Comstock Music Festivals — Comstock, Nebraska
• Cornerstone Festival — Bushnell, Illinois
• Country Stampede Music Festival — Manhattan, Kansas
• Dally in the Alley — Detroit, Michigan
• Dave Matthews Band Caravan — Atlantic City, New Jersey; Chicago, Illinois; Manhattan, New York; and George, Washington
• Decibel Festival — Seattle, Washington
• Detroit Electronic Music Festival — Detroit, Michigan
• Dillo Day — Evanston, Illinois
• Diversafest LLC DFEST — Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Drop Dead Festival — New York, New York
• Electric Daisy Carnival — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Electric Daisy Carnival — New York, New York
• Electric Daisy Carnival — Orlando, Florida
• Electric Forest — Rothbury, Michigan
• Electric Zoo Festival — New York, New York
• Electronic Music Midwest — Kansas City, Kansas and Louisville, Illinois
• Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival — Marin County, California
• The Fest — Gainesville, Florida
• Festival International de Louisiane — Lafayette, Louisiana
• Festivals Acadiens — Lafayette, Louisiana
• Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance — Trumansburg, New York
• Firefly Music Festival — Dover, Delaware
• FloydFest — Floyd, Virginia
• Forecastle Festival — Louisville, Kentucky
• Free Press Summer Fest — Houston, Texas
• French Quarter Festival — New Orleans, Louisiana
• Fun Fun Fun Fest — Austin, Texas
• Gathering of the Juggalos — Cave-In-Rock, Illinois and other various locations over the years
• Gathering of the Vibes — Bridgeport, Connecticut and other various locations over the years
• Governors Ball Music Festival — New York, New York
• Grand Point North Festival — Burlington, Vermont
• Grant Park Music Festival — Chicago, Illinois
• Great Blue Heron Music Festival — Sherman, New York
• Great Hudson River Revival — Croton-on-Hudson, New York
• Hangout Music Festival — Gulf Shores, Alabama
• Hard — Los Angeles, California and other various locations over the years
• Hardly Strictly Bluegrass — San Francisco, California
• Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival — San Francisco, California
• Harvest of Hope Fest — St. Augustine, Florida
• HeavenFest Music Festival — Denver, Colorado
• HFStival — Washington, D.C.
• High Sierra Music Festival — Quincy, California
• Homegrown Music Festival — Duluth, Minnesota
• Hopscotch Music Festival — Raleigh, North Carolina
• How Weird Street Faire — San Francisco, California
• Huck Finn Jubilee — Ontario, California
• iHeartRadio Music Festival — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Jacksonville Jazz Festival — Jacksonville, Florida
• Jamboree in the Hills — Morristown, Ohio
• Kahbang Music, Art & Film Festival — Bangor, Maine
• Kanrocksas Music Festival — Kansas City, Kansas
• La Musica — Sarasota, Florida
• Lake Eden Arts Festival — Black Mountain, North Carolina
• Langerado Music Festival — Big Cypress Indian Reservation, Florida and other various locations over the years
• Levitation — Austin, Texas
• Litchfield Jazz Festival — Goshen, Connecticut
• Lockn’ Festival — Arrington, Virginia
• Lollapalooza — Chicago, Illinois, previously a touring festival
• Long Beach Blues Festival — Long Beach, California
• LouFest — St. Louis, Missouri
• Lowell Folk Festival — Lowell, Massachusetts
• MAHA Music Festival — Omaha, Nebraska
• Maryland Deathfest — Baltimore, Maryland
• MasterWorks Festival — Cedarville, Ohio
• Mendocino Music Festival — Mendocino, California
• MerleFest — Wilkesboro, North Carolina
• MidPoint Music Festival — Cincinnati, Ohio
• Mile High Music Festival — Commerce City, Colorado
• Mile of Music — Appleton, WI
• Mississippi River Festival — Edwardsville, Illinois
• moe.down — Turin, New York
• Monolith Festival — Morrison, Colorado
• Monster Massive — Los Angeles, California
• Monterey International Pop Music Festival — Monterey, California
• Moogfest — Asheville, North Carolina
• Moondance Jam — Walker, Minnesota
• Mostly Mozart — New York City, New York
• Mountain Jam — Hunter, New York
• Mucklewain — Pinewood, Tennessee
• Muddy Roots Music Festival — Cookeville, Tennessee
• Music from Angel Fire — Angel Fire, Taos, Raton, Las Vegas, New Mexico
• Music Midtown — Atlanta, Georgia
• MusicfestNW — Portland, Oregon
• Musikfest — Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• Nateva Music & Camping Festival — Oxford, Maine
• Naukabout Music Festival — East Falmouth, Massachusetts
• NEARfest — Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• Nerdapalooza — Eureka, California
• New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — New Orleans, Louisiana
• Newport Folk Festival — Newport, Rhode Island
• Newport Jazz Festival — Newport, Rhode Island
• Newport Music Festival — Newport, Rhode Island
• Newport Pop Festival — Costa Mesa, California
• Nocturnal Wonderland — San Bernardino, California and Thorndale, Texas
• Noise Pop Festival — San Francisco, California
• Norman Music Festival — Norman, Oklahoma
• Northwest Folklife Festival — Seattle, Washington
• Ojai Music Festival — Ojai, California
• OK Mozart Festival — Bartlesville, Oklahoma
• Old Settler’s Music Festival — Austin, Texas
• Old Songs Festival — Altamont, New York
• On the Waterfront Festival — Rockford, Illinois
• Oregon Bach Festival — Eugene, Oregon
• Oregon Festival of American Music — Eugene, Oregon
• Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival — San Francisco, California
• PDX Pop Now! — Portland, Oregon
• The Peach Music Festival — Scranton, Pennsylvania
• Philadelphia Folk Festival — Upper Salford, Pennsylvania
• Phish festivals — various locations over the years
• Pitchfork Music Festival — Chicago, Illinois
• Planetfest — Jacksonville, Florida
• Pointfest — St. Louis, Missouri
• ProgPower USA — Atlanta, Georgia
• Pygmalion Music Festival — Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
• Re:Generation — North Plains, Oregon
• Ravinia Festival — Highland Park, Illinois
• Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival — Red Bank, New Jersey
• Red Sky Music Festival — Omaha, Nebraska
• Riot Fest — Chicago, Illinois
• Rites of Spring Festival — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• River To River Festival — New York, New York
• Riverbend Festival — Chattanooga, Tennessee
• RiverJazz Music Festival — Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• Rochester International Jazz Festival — Rochester, New York
• Rock the Bells — San Bernardino, California and other various locations over the years
• Rock the Garden — Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Rock N Resort Music Festival — North Lawrence, Ohio
• Rock on the Range — Columbus, Ohio
• Rockfest — Kansas City, Missouri
• Rocklahoma — Pryor, Oklahoma
• Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival — Columbia, Missouri
• Rothbury Music Festival — Rothbury, Michigan
• Sacramento Jazz Jubilee — Sacramento, California
• Sasquatch! Music Festival — George, Washington
• Satchmo SummerFest — New Orleans, Louisiana
• Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival — Silk Hope, North Carolina
• Sierra Nevada World Music Festival — Boonville, California
• Signal - The Southeast Electronic Music Festival — Chapel Hill and Carrboro, North Carolina
• Sisters Folk Festival — Sisters, Oregon
• Sitka Jazz Festival — Sitka, Alaska
• Sitka Summer Music Festival — Sitka, Alaska
• Sloss Music and Arts Festival — Birmingham, Alabama
• SmokeOut Festival — San Bernardino, California
• Solid Sound Festival — North Adams, Massachusetts
• Sonshine Festival — Willmar, Minnesota
• Soulfest — Gilford, New Hampshire
• South by Southwest — Austin, Texas
• South Padre International Music Festival — South Padre Island, Texas
• Springing the Blues Festival — Jacksonville Beach, Florida
• Stagecoach Festival — Indio, California
• Stars & Stripes Festival — Sterling Heights, Michigan
• Street Scene — San Diego, California
• Summer Camp Music Festival — Chillicothe, Illinois
• Summerfest — Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• SunFest — West Palm Beach, Florida
• Sun God Festival — La Jolla, California
• Takoma Park Folk Festival — Takoma Park, Maryland
• Tanglewood Music Festival — Lenox, Massachusetts
• Telluride Bluegrass Festival — Telluride, Colorado
• Together as One — Los Angeles, California
• Treasure Island Music Festival — San Francisco, California
• Treefort Music Fest — Boise, Idaho
• Ultra Music Festival — Miami, Florida
• US Festival — San Bernardino, California
• Vegoose — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Virgin Festival — Baltimore, Maryland
• Voodoo Music Experience — New Orleans, Louisiana
• Wakarusa Music & Camping Festival — Ozark, Arkansas
• Wanee Festival — Live Oak, Florida
• Warped Tour — varying locations
• Waterfront Blues Festival — Portland, Oregon
• WE Fest — Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
• Woodstock Mozart Festival — Woodstock, Illinois
• Woodstock Music & Art Fair — Bethel, New York and other various locations over the years
• Xclamation Festival — Modesto, California
• Yosemite International Jazz Festival — Coarsegold, California
Pagan festivals
• Faerieworlds — Eugene, Oregon
• Heartland Pagan Festival — Tonganoxie, Kansas
• Pagan Spirit Gathering — near Salem, Missouri
• Starwood Festival — Wisteria Campground in Pomeroy, Ohio
Pioneer festivals
• Days of ’47 Parade — Salt Lake City, Utah
• Pioneer Day (Utah) — Utah state holiday with multiple celebrations throughout the state
• Pioneer Days (Ohio) — Kalida, Ohio
Religious festivals
• Cornerstone Festival — Bushnell, Illinois
• Creation Festival — the Gorge Amphitheater in George, Washington and Agape Farm in Mount Union, Pennsylvania
• LifeLight Festival — Sioux Falls, South Dakota
• Sonshine Festival — Willmar, Minnesota
• Vaisakhi — Yuba City, California
• X-Day (Church of the SubGenius) — Wisteria Campground in Pomeroy, Ohio
Renaissance fairs
• Days of ’47 Rodeo — Salt Lake City, Utah
• Kentucky Derby Festival — Louisville, Kentucky
Science festivals
• World Science Festival — New York City
Seasonal festivals
• Apple Blossom Festival — Winchester, Virginia
• Autumnfest — Woonsocket, Rhode Island
• Evansville Freedom Festival — Evansville, Indiana
• Sawdust Art Festival — Laguna Beach, California
• Three Rivers Festival — Fort Wayne, Indiana
• West Side Nut Club Fall Festival — Evansville, Indiana
• Woollybear Festival — Vermilion, Ohio
Sports festivals
• Arnold Sports Festival — Columbus, Ohio
• Bridge Day — Fayetteville, West Virginia
Storytelling festivals
• National Storytelling Festival — Jonesborough, Tennessee
• Southern Ohio Storytelling Festival — Chillicothe, Ohio
• Timpanogos Storytelling Festival — Orem, Utah
Transportation festivals
• Dragging the Gut Festival — McMinnville, Oregon
• Segway Fest — varying locations
• Tall Stacks — Cincinnati, Ohio
