Special Thanks to Mineral County for the monetary Donation this year!

Armed Forces Day Celebration
Hawthorne, Nevada
  • HISTORY & INFORMATION
  • 2025 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
  • FUNDRAISING
  • MEMORIES
  • PARADE APPLICATION & FEES
  • VENDOR PACKETS & FEES
  • More
    • HISTORY & INFORMATION
    • 2025 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
    • FUNDRAISING
    • MEMORIES
    • PARADE APPLICATION & FEES
    • VENDOR PACKETS & FEES
Armed Forces Day Celebration
Hawthorne, Nevada
  • HISTORY & INFORMATION
  • 2025 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
  • FUNDRAISING
  • MEMORIES
  • PARADE APPLICATION & FEES
  • VENDOR PACKETS & FEES

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Armed Forces Day Celebration Events & Vendor List!

Parade! Come roll down the parade path with Cecil the Sea Serpent!

Parade! Come roll down the parade path with Cecil the Sea Serpent!

Parade! Come roll down the parade path with Cecil the Sea Serpent!

We May have a few Surprise entries this year... But we love the return entries as well....so go to the Parade page and enter now. (All entries with payments received by March 1st will be half off) 

Youth Events! Good Old Fashioned Family Fun!

Parade! Come roll down the parade path with Cecil the Sea Serpent!

Parade! Come roll down the parade path with Cecil the Sea Serpent!

We will have Water slides, Sprinklers, and a Pirate Ship with a Castle to defend! Bouncing fun for all! There will be yard Yahtzee, Big Jenga, Shooting game, velcro darts, Sand Table play, and some easy table games. . Go to the fundraiser page and buy your wristbands at pre-sale prices. $10 for 1 day and $15 for 2 days. Prices go up $5 each on 5/15/25

Food Vendors Confirmed to Attend Our Event!

Parade! Come roll down the parade path with Cecil the Sea Serpent!

Food Vendors Confirmed to Attend Our Event!

Alicia's Mexican Food, Betty Boo Bakery, Garcia's Cotton Candy+, Glazed & Confused Mini Donuts, Hungary Express, Jedi Churros, Kingz Concessions, New Life-Hungry Digger, Papa Changos, Pop Warner Cheer, Sharon's Sweets, Snowie Shaved Ice, Southwest Smokers BBQ, TnD Tacos, Tacos El Yusa, Wendes Hit and Miss Ice Cream, Wild West Burgers

64th Annual Walker Lake Juried Art Show

64th Annual Walker Lake Juried Art Show

Food Vendors Confirmed to Attend Our Event!

Held this year at the USO Building 

(Convention Center on 9th and Main st) 

Friday, May 16th 10am to 5pm

Saturday, May 17th, 10am - 5pm

Entries need to be turned in at the lobby of the USO Building directly to the Mineral County Council on the Arts Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 9-11, 2025


Music Music Everywhere

64th Annual Walker Lake Juried Art Show

Merchandise/Information Vendors!

Please see the flyers below. 

The El Capitan will have DJ Staci

Chooch's Log Cabin - Out To Lunch band

Plaza on Maine - Jakota Wass

Gils- Tabb Shackleton, Jason Perl, Los Pistoleros, Megapantallica, & Moral Demise. 

Merchandise/Information Vendors!

64th Annual Walker Lake Juried Art Show

Merchandise/Information Vendors!

Beautiful Souls Jewelry, Bridger Mountain Trading, Fanci-Full of Whimsey, J&K Enterprises, Krafty Kreations, MadebyMeliandCo w/Handmade treasures by Paula, Mineral County & Walker Lake Fire and EMS, New York Fashion, Rock On, Roots, Tillies Nevada, Trends, Walker Basin Conservancy, World Financial Group, The Church Ministry Tent, Renewal by Anderson, Nevadaworks, Nevada Dept of Veterans Services,  Moxy Up, Family Search, CASAT/UNR, UNR Cooperative Extension Hawthorne Office, and also Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation will be selling raffle tickets for a firearm. See the flyer below

Events hosted by the AFD committee will Need Volunteers

Youth Events at the Rest Area park on Friday and Saturday will need volunteers. Free admission for your children if you actively help monitor. 

*Fun Fact- Fake money from our fundraisers (Easter bags etc) can be saved and used to buy items at the youth events.


No upcoming events.

List of Events Hosted by other organizations and Businesses.

SEE FLYERS BELOW! Ribs and family fun at the American Legion. Tattoos at Studio Black. Opioid Awareness rodeo. Cowboy Breakfast and more at the Senior Center. Live band at Chooch's Log Cabin.  Bighorns & Buses Camping and More. Live Bands at Gils. FIREWORKS and a DJ at the El Capitan... Barleys Sports Bar is sponsoring horseshoes Thursday, Cornhole Friday night, Live entertainment throughout Friday and Saturday and a Car Show Saturday morning before the parade in Joe's Parking lot with 1st, 2nd, 3rd overall, as well as a band in Friday and Saturday! Steet Dance! Old Nevada Pizza will have "Moody's bloody marys" Saturday 9am,-3pm and breakfast pizzas 8am-10am. They will also be set up at the Rodeo. Pancake breakfast at the Elks lodge Saturday 7-10 and Full breakfast Sunday 8-11am. The Senior Center will have a Cowboy Breakfast

The Elks in conjunction with the Boy Scout troops will hold a flag ceremony at 11am in front of the grandstand.


Files coming soon.

Flyers for AFD Community Sponsored events !

    FIREWORKS!! At around 9pm Friday evening of AFD Courtesy of the El Capitan, Travel LOdge, Northstar Casinos.


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