Dust off your hat & pin your calendar, the 2025 Caldwell Chisholm Trail Fest is brewing! Friday: Turtle Pub Crawl with 5 stops!  Saturday: "How the West was RUN" 5K & 2-state 1/2 marathon, Cattle Drive, Old West gunfight, Opera House Dinner & Show, Outdoor Music Fest, Farm & Art, Mutton Bustin!

Schedule of the Event:

May 2, 2025

4th Grade Tram Tour, Self-guided Tours: Turtle Trails, History signs, CAB Mural Walk, "Trails, Rails, & Scales Visitor Center, BQ Museum

Turtle Pub Crawl: 5 stops, $20 tickets 5-8pm. Start at 8 S. Main

Music Lineup:

PUB CRAWL
7:00pm WADE & LOS HOMBRES at JOE B'S
8:00pm SCOTT SHAFFER at SUGAR SISTERS
9:00pm TORI CAMPBELL at BLUFF CREEK DIS

May 3, 2025

FUN & GAMES
- 7AM "How the West was RUN" 5K/Half Marathon 2-state Red Hills route
- Self-guided Tours: Turtle Trails, History signs, Mural Walk, "Trails, Rails, & Scales" Visitor Center, Border Queen Museum
- 9-12AM Shooting Range
- 12:30 Kid games @ Chisholm & First
- 2PM Mutton Bustin Fair Grounds
- 2-5PM Corn Hole Chisholm & First
- Old Tyme Photos at Shooting Gallery
- Buffalo Soldier Camp

MAIN STREET
- 9:00 Roost Dedication Ceremony-upstairs
- 9-12 Farm & Art Market
- 9-12 Ammo blank making, guitar making,
- Shooting Range

10:00 am Cattle Drive
10:30 Humanities speakers-Opera House John Burchill "People, Places, and Politics of 1800s Kansas" Opera House 11:30 "Hall of Fame" Opera House
12:00 High Noon Gunfight
12:15 Saloon Show inside Opera House
3:00 Humanities Speaker Kara Heitz "A New Deal for Public Art in the Free State." in the Upstairs Downtown 7 W Ave A
5:00 Opera House Dinner & Show
25 Main, $25 tix for show & drink, then dinner at Sugar Sisters at 20 S Main

CHISHOLM STAGE ARENA

- Consumption Alley wristband access between Main & Chisholm, Central & First with access to Czech Beer Garden, Joe B's,, Sug's, Bluff Creek Distillery, Last Chance
- Food Trucks & Burger Stand

OUTDOOR MUSIC STAGE

12:30-2:00 Leonard Rinehart
2:30-4:00 Jess Bowling
4:30-6:00 Lora McDonald
6:30-8:00 Sometimes on Sunday
8:30-10:00 Levi Walker
10:30-12:00 Gus Burns

Outdoor Stage Intermission Shows:

Annie Oakley Western Wear fashion 6pm
"Love, Kansas" postcard winners 4pm
Turtle Art Grant Celebration 2pm
SPONSOR Shout-Outs

ALL DAY
- Art Show Creative Vibes Studio
- Upstairs Roost "Wild Women of the West"
- Old Tyme Photos
- Rustic Longhorn boutique and Hat Bar and Vault Saloon opens at 4pm.
- Old Tyme Photos
- Buffalo Soldier Camp
- Annie Oakley's Western Wear at Caldwell Workspace 110 5 Main

Date: May 2-3, 2025

Location: Various Venue in Caldwell, KS

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