Rathdrum Days kicks off Friday with All American Summer celebration
Rathdrum Days opened Friday with live music, a Kid Zone and a beer garden at Majestic Park, while Main Street will lose parking Saturday morning.
Rathdrum Days began Friday with an All American Summer theme that put Majestic Park and Main Street at the center of a two-day downtown surge in Rathdrum. Chamber listings put the celebration on July 17-18, with Friday night at Majestic Park and Saturday built around a parade, vendors, food, crafts, a car show and family activities.
The weekend also put a familiar local face in front of the parade. Rathdrum Parks and Recreation Director Eric Singer and his wife Dana were pictured in event coverage, and Eric Singer was named grand marshal for Saturday’s parade. The city’s public Application for Parade and Public Assembly document also lists Singer as Parks and Recreation Director, tying him directly to the civic machinery that helps stage the event.
Friday night ran from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. PDT, with live music, a Kid Zone and a beer garden at Majestic Park. The chamber’s Friday Night Vendor Info page invited nonprofits to participate at the park during the evening market-night style opening, and vendor setup information posted online said check-in and setup began Friday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Food vendors were allowed to begin at 2 p.m., giving early-arriving operators a head start before the crowd.
Saturday shifts the focus from the park to the parade route and downtown business corridor. Rathdrum Parks and Recreation posted that there would be no parking on Main Street from 6 a.m. to noon Saturday for the parade, a direct traffic and access impact for anyone heading downtown. Chamber listings describe Saturday as family fun with vendors for food, crafts and other businesses, along with the parade, car show and additional activities, the parts of the weekend most likely to drive foot traffic past local merchants.
That pattern has become familiar in Rathdrum. A 2023 preview described Rathdrum Days as starting with a market-night style evening at Majestic Park, and a 2024 parade story carried the theme Heroes among us. This year’s All American Summer banner fits the same mold: a short, concentrated festival that funnels spending, volunteer work and weekend traffic into a handful of visible places, with Majestic Park on Friday and Main Street on Saturday carrying the load.
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