STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK
The Trailing of the Sheep Festival has been selected one of the Top 10 Best Fall Festivals by USA Today readers as the time approaches for the 29th festival.
The festival was initially selected as one of USA Today’s 20 Best Fall Festival nominees by a panel of travel experts and editors. It garnered enough votes by readers to come in fifth on the list of award winners.
“We are privileged that the Trailing of the Sheep Festival has secured yet another prestigious award, and we are excited to showcase our 29th annual event in just a few weeks,” said Laura Musbach Drake, Trailing of the Sheep Festival’s Executive Director.
Other 10 Best festivals include the Dia de los Muertos celebration in Mesilla, N.M., which includes a candlelight procession and Aztec dancers; Seven Springs Autumnfest in Pennsylvania with its pumpkin patch, hay maze and chairlift rides; the Harvest Moon Festival in Ely, Minn., which showcases arts and crafts, and the Verona Fall Fest, which includes an outdoor movie and bonfire, games and crafts and live tunes in Verona, Wis.
The list also includes AppleFest, with its Artist & Crafter Market, apple cider and soda, cider donuts in Westminster, Mass.; the Sea Witch Festival, which features a magic show, costumes, monster art and Sea Witch hunt in Rehoboth Beach, Del.; the Jack Pine Glass Pumpkin Festival, which features hundreds of blown glass pumpkins in Laurelville, Ohio, and Fall for Greenville, a smorgasbord of food coupled with 80 musical acts on seven stages in Greenville, S.C.
Topping the list was the West Side Nut Club Fall Festival, which includes live entertainment, carnival rides, a fall parade and 130 food booths spread over several streets in Evansville, Ind.
This year’s Trailing of the Sheep Festival runs Oct. 8-12 and will feature a Sheep Folklife Fair, sheep tales, a Love of Lamb dine-around, wool craft classes and, of course, the annual Trailing of the Sheep Parade featuring more than a thousand sheep strutting down Ketchum’s Main Street.
To learn more, visit https://trailingofthesheep.org/.