A Good Idea

In January of 2009, a small group of Lakeside residents came together at the 8th Street Grill to dream of a festival that would draw people to the small town of Lakeside. A festival that would showcase the amazing natural beauty of the old fashioned downtown nestled on the shore of the magnificent, historic Ten Mile Lake. Out of that meeting came the First Annual Lakeside Crawdad Festival.

The first festival, set on Mother’s Day weekend, 2009, was designed to start long before most other coastal events, to offer something for everyone: a crawdad race for children, a wide array of vendors from all over the western coast , wine tasting, excellent music, food eating contests, food cooking contests, and good family fun, all done to a Cajun theme.

The committee took the risk of ordering 800 pounds of fresh, live crawdads from Louisiana for a crawfish boil, with no idea if the weather and area interest would bring anyone at all to a weekend festival in this small fishing resort town. The 800 pounds of crawdads were sold out by mid Saturday to the over 7000 people who came to enjoy a Cajun weekend.

We have doubled our amount of crawdad's for this year and hope to run out!

Come join us at the 2nd Annual Lakeside Crawdad Festival and Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler! Let the good times roll!