Sawtooth Salmon Festival

SAWTOOTH SALMON FESTIVAL

Cancelled 2024

Salmon Fest Canceled After seeing winds increase and the Wapiti Fire double in size in less than two days - moving west of the Stanley Lake area - IRU and the Sawtooth Association have decided to CANCEL Sawtooth Salmon Festival. If you're in the area or at Redfish Lake and want to learn about salmon we will have salmon activities at the Stanley Museum and the Redfish Lake Visitors Center. Thank you for understanding, safety is our first priority.

Join SIHA and IRU for this FREE, family friendly event is all about celebrating Idaho’s wild salmon and steelhead! We will have bus tours out to the river to see wild salmon spawning with educational interpretive talks.

Various vendors with salmon education related activities will be going on all day. Hang out and enjoy music, entertainment and a BBQ lunch for purchase mid-day.

More details to follow!

JOIN US AS A VENDOR! Are you a nonprofit or for-profit business interested in joining us with a booth? Find out more and sign up here.

SPONSOR THIS EVENT! Contact us (info@discoversawtooth.org) to learn how you can become a sponsor of Salmon Fest and our efforts to teach people about Idaho’s wild salmon and steelhead!

VOLUNTEER! Sign up to volunteer (naturalists@discoversawtooth.org). We can always use help with setup, clean up, staffing activity booths and the Museum, parking and more!

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Schedule of Events

Friday:

5pm – Salmon Stories with Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Members at the Stanley Museum – Sponsored in part by DL Evans Bank.
7pm – Sip & Splash with IRU’s Artist in Residence, Stacey Barker, at Sawtooth Spirt ($35/person) – sign-up here!

Saturday:

10am – Drive yourself to the Pettit Lake weir to learn about the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes’ sockeye recovery efforts
11am-5pm: Information booths and activities on the Stanley Museum Lawn available all day! Burrito, Pizza and Snow Cone food trucks. Traditional Skills demonstration – fish trap basket class by Shoshone-Bannock tribal elder Sam Galloway
11:25am – Welcome to Salmon Fest!
11:30am – Salmon Redd Tour departs; Live music by Bloom & Brother
12:30pm – Shoshone-Bannock Tribes interpretive sign dedication followed by singing and dancing demonstration by Shoshone-Bannock tribal members
1:30pm – Salmon Redd Tour departs
2:15pm – Live Music: David Henry Duo
3:30pm – Final Salmon Redd Tour departs
3:30pm – Live Music: David Henry Duo
4:30pm – Last call for raffle tickets + Thank yous!