Elma Trail Days

Elma Trail Days is the town's annual festival, occurring the weekend of the 2nd Saturday of July each year.

The event has a few preliminary activities in the week leading up to the festival, such as a family-friendly "Chalk the Walk" event on Wednesday and a "Show and Shine" car show the first Monday of July, but the majority of festival activities take place Friday through Saturday evening and end with the Trailhead Visitor Center open and a euchre tournament by the American Legion Sunday afternoon. Some annual features of the festival include a kid's pedal tractor pull & ball games, a ribeye steak sandwich meal in the park with additional entertainment, food trucks & beverage garden, operating late into the night with a fireworks display at 10 :00 p.m. Saturday activities begin with a 5k walk/run, community breakfast, 11:00 a.m. parade, and then a full day & evening of fun in the Elma City Park. Saturday including food trucks & beverage garden which should offer more food options... Live music will be on the stage at night (charge at the gate), show & shine car event, inflatable bounce house & other kid's activities fill the afternoon & evening.