Sidney Gold Rush Days is a family-oriented outdoor festival. It is held in Legion Park, Sidney, Nebraska, during the second weekend of June. The festival emphasizes the history of the Sidney to Deadwood Gold Rush Trail in the late 1870’s. Lots of activities are provided for children. Activities include free entertainment, quick draw competitions, wagon rides, hands-on gold panning, craft projects, and much more.  We have craftsmen demonstrating various traditional crafts such as blacksmithing and woodworking.  Plus, lots of food and merchandise vendors.

The event will include living history campsites, demonstrations and educational talks by Peter and Kathy Gibbs on Lakota culture, and reenactors with Buffalo Soldiers of the American West on the Ninth and Tenth United States Cavalry regiments made up of African-Americans.

Many other presentations and performances will take place throughout the festival. For full details, visit the Sidney Gold Rush Days website.