Lowdown Verdict
Page is a small town of roughly 7,500, and its events calendar is genuinely thinner than a city like Tucson's or Sedona's -- there is no multi-week citywide spectacle here. What it does have is one legitimate headliner: the Page-Lake Powell Balloon Regatta, billed as Arizona's largest hot air balloon festival, paired with a downtown Chamber Street Fair the same weekend. Everything else on this page is smaller and free, worth folding into a trip that's already built around Antelope Canyon and Lake Powell rather than worth flying in for on its own.
Free to attend: the Chamber Street Fair, the Fourth of July celebration, the Lake Powell Cruisers Car Show, Page Art Fest, Christmas in the Park, and the Farmers Market. Oktoberfest's beer-garden admission isn't listed on the city's event page, so confirm current-year entry cost before you go. The Balloon Regatta itself has some ticketed ride add-ons, but watching the Balloon Glow and browsing the street fair is free. Confirm every date below on the organizer's own site before booking non-refundable travel.
Everywhere else in this guide network, we tell you to plan Page backward from your Antelope Canyon and Lake Powell bookings rather than a list of things to do. The same logic applies here: Page's event calendar is a secondary layer to build around your tour schedule, not a reason to time a trip on its own -- with one exception. The Balloon Regatta is a real, city-defining event that reshapes downtown Page for a long weekend in late October or early November, and it's worth knowing about even if you weren't planning around it.
Seven things make up Page's real annual calendar, running from a car show in May through a holiday event in December. Most are small, free, and low-commitment -- a farmers market, a street fair, a fireworks show -- the kind of thing worth checking the calendar for rather than building a whole itinerary around. Below, we cover what each one actually is, what's fixed and what moves, and where to confirm current dates before you build travel around any of them.
Lake Powell Cruisers Car Show (May)
Page's spring calendar opens with a classic car, truck, and motorcycle show at City Park, typically held on the first Saturday in May. Vintage vehicles line the park alongside live music and vendor booths, drawing collectors from around the region as well as locals out for a Saturday walk. It's a genuinely small-town event -- there's no admission gate, no headline act, and no expectation that visitors fly in for it.
Lowdown verdict: Not worth planning a trip around on its own, but an easy, free stop if your Page dates already land on the first weekend of May. City Park sits close to downtown, so it pairs naturally with a morning coffee run before an afternoon Antelope Canyon tour.
Page Farmers Market (May–Early Fall, Saturdays)
This is a recurring weekly market rather than a single dated festival, but it's worth knowing about if your trip lands in the warmer months. The Page Farmers Market sets up on Saturday mornings, roughly 8 to 11 a.m., at 699 S. Navajo Drive, with local vendors selling produce, eggs, honey, potted plants, soaps, and baked goods. It runs from May into early fall -- the exact closing month has shifted between recent seasons, so treat "early fall" as the safer description rather than a specific end date.
Lowdown verdict: A pleasant, low-key way to spend a Saturday morning before an afternoon tour, and a good source of snacks and water for a canyon or boat day. Check the market's Facebook page for the current season's exact start and end dates before you build a Saturday morning around it.
Page Art Fest (Spring — Date Moves)
The Page Art Fest is a City of Page-hosted evening celebration of local art and creativity, held at the Cultural Arts Building on S. Lake Powell Boulevard, with live entertainment running into the evening. Worth flagging plainly rather than smoothing over: this one's date has genuinely moved between years, not just shifted by a week or two. The 2025 edition ran June 21 from 5 to 10 p.m.; the 2026 edition moved to April 11 from 3 to 8 p.m. -- a full change in season, not a rounding error.
Lowdown verdict: A nice add if the current year's date happens to line up with your trip, but do not assume it repeats on last year's weekend -- confirm the current date on the City of Page's event calendar before you plan around it.
Independence Day Celebration (July 4)
The City of Page runs a full day of Fourth of July programming: a parade at 10 a.m. through downtown, a celebration with family activities at Page Memorial Park from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and an evening concert at Lake Powell National Golf Course from around 7 to 10 p.m., with fireworks following after dark. Because public parking isn't available at the golf course during the evening event, the city runs a free shuttle system from several designated lots -- worth knowing before you drive over expecting to park.
Lowdown verdict: Free, family-friendly, and an easy add if you're already in Page in early July. Ride the shuttle to the evening fireworks rather than trying to drive and park at the golf course -- the city built the shuttle system specifically because parking there fills up.
One planning note worth flagging: early July is also peak heat and peak Antelope Canyon season in Page, with daytime highs often climbing past 95°F. If your trip is built around the Fourth, plan your canyon tour and Horseshoe Bend walk for the early morning or the last hour before sunset, and treat the fireworks evening as your one after-dark outing rather than trying to pack a full day of hiking around the heat and the crowds at the same time.
Oktoberfest (Fall)
Page runs its own small Oktoberfest as one of its signature annual events -- a beer garden with local and imported selections, live music, barrel racing, a brat-eating competition, and a costume contest. It's listed on the official Visit Page Arizona tourism site among the town's recurring signature events, but we were not able to independently confirm a fixed date or weekend for it beyond "fall," so treat the timing as unconfirmed until you check the current year's calendar.
Lowdown verdict: Worth checking for if you're passing through in fall, but confirm the exact date on visitpageaz.com before counting on it -- we could not verify a specific weekend for this one and would rather say so than guess.
Page-Lake Powell Balloon Regatta & Chamber Street Fair (Late October / Early November)
This is Page's real headline event, and the one genuinely worth planning a trip around. The Page-Lake Powell Balloon Regatta is billed as Arizona's largest hot air balloon festival -- a four-day weekend based at Lake Powell National Golf Course where dozens of balloons launch over the lake and the surrounding red rock. The 2026 edition runs November 5–8.
Running the same weekend, the Page Lake Powell Chamber Street Fair -- organized by a Chamber that has served the area since the 1960s -- takes over downtown, typically the first weekend of November (November 6–7 in 2026), with concessionaire and artisan booths, kid-friendly activities, and daily live entertainment. The two events share their signature moment: the Saturday-night Balloon Glow, when dozens of tethered balloons light up in Page's downtown streets, parks, and parking lots in a coordinated performance run by the Regatta's own pilots.
Lowdown verdict: The one event on this page worth building a Page trip around, especially if you can catch the Saturday Balloon Glow. Book lodging and your Antelope Canyon tour well ahead of this weekend -- November is already a strong shoulder-season month for Page, and the Regatta adds a genuine demand spike on top of that.
Find Page Tours on Viator
Antelope Canyon tours and Lake Powell boat trips book out fast around the Balloon Regatta weekend -- useful for filling the days around any event on this page.
Find Page Tours on Viator →Affiliate link — we earn a small commission at no cost to you.
Page 3-Day Itinerary
Horseshoe Bend, Antelope Canyon, Glen Canyon Dam, and Lake Powell -- a base plan to build event days around.
See the 3-Day Plan →Christmas in the Park (December)
Page closes out its year with a City of Page holiday event -- festive lights, visits with Santa, hot cocoa, a tree lighting, and local musical performances. We were not able to confirm a fixed date for this one either; it's a genuine December event, but the specific evening varies by year, so check the City of Page's event calendar as the holidays approach.
Lowdown verdict: A small, cozy local event rather than a visitor draw -- worth a stop if you're in Page over the holidays, but not a reason to time a trip. Winter is already Page's quietest, cheapest season for Antelope Canyon tours and lodging, so a Christmas-in-the-Park visit pairs naturally with that off-season timing.
What We Left Off This List
A few things worth mentioning that didn't make the calendar above, and why. The Page Lake Powell Chamber also runs a Best of Page Banquet and monthly member mixers, but both are Chamber-member networking events rather than anything a visitor would attend, so we left them off a visitor-facing calendar. We also saw references to stargazing nights at the Horseshoe Bend parking area on specific dates, but couldn't confirm a stable, officially run schedule behind them, so we're flagging that rather than presenting an unverified date as fact -- check with the City of Page directly if that's specifically what you're after. And we excluded resort-run guest programming, like seasonal brunches or holiday dinners hosted by Lake Powell's marina resorts -- those are amenities for paying guests rather than open community events, and belong in a lodging guide, not an events calendar.
Confirm Before You Book
The pattern worth internalizing from this page: Page's calendar is small enough that a lot of it runs on volunteer and municipal bandwidth rather than a dedicated events staff, and that shows up as real date instability -- the Art Fest's move from June to April is the clearest example, but Oktoberfest and Christmas in the Park's dates were genuinely unconfirmable at the time of writing. The Balloon Regatta and the Fourth of July celebration are the two most dependable dates here, since both are tied to a fixed weekend or a fixed federal holiday. For everything else, the Page Lake Powell Chamber of Commerce (pagechamber.com) and the City of Page's own event calendar (visitpageaz.com and events.pageaz.gov) are the sources that update in real time -- check them directly rather than trusting this page's specific dates once you're more than a few months out.
Building a Trip Around One of These Events
If you're choosing one, the Balloon Regatta weekend is the obvious pick -- it's genuinely unique, it's free to watch, and November's mild temperatures make it one of the more comfortable times to also be touring Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend. Just remember it also means booking your canyon tour and lodging further ahead than a typical November weekend, since the Regatta pulls extra visitors into a town with a limited number of hotel rooms.
If you'd rather not build a trip around a specific date, the Fourth of July celebration and the Farmers Market are the easiest to fold into a trip you're already taking for other reasons -- neither requires advance planning beyond knowing they exist. For the booking-first logic that governs everything else about a Page trip, see our travel-planning guide, and for how to sequence a few days around Antelope Canyon and Lake Powell regardless of the calendar, see the 3-day itinerary.
Whichever event you build around, remember that Page's own calendar is secondary to the reservations that actually make or break a trip here. A Balloon Regatta weekend with no Antelope Canyon slot booked is still a good weekend, but it's not the trip most visitors come for -- and a canyon tour booked without checking whether it lands on the same days as the Regatta can mean paying peak-weekend hotel rates without realizing why. Check both calendars -- the tour operator's booking page and the event dates on this page -- before you lock in either one.
Frequently Asked Questions
Plan Your Visit
For the full picture of how to sequence a Page trip around Antelope Canyon, Horseshoe Bend, and Lake Powell, start with our 3-day itinerary. For the booking-first playbook that governs the whole trip, see the travel-planning guide, and for month-by-month weather and crowd patterns, see best time to visit Page, AZ. If your dates land around the Balloon Regatta or the Fourth of July, book lodging early -- see our where-to-stay guide for the town's hotel, motel, and camping options.