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Welcome to the Official website of
Lakeside Crawdad Festival!

First order of business for our 4th Annual Lakeside Crawdad Festival on Mothers' Day Weekend May 10, 11, 12, 2013 - Is for you to have FIVE TIMES THE FUN! We look forward to seeing you this year and enjoying all our improved, ever-growing, and popular regional festival has to offer. Due to increasing problems we are asking NO DOGS, PLEASE!

Participating Wineries
Henry Estate Winery

Henry Estate Winery Five generations of the Henry family have farmed the Umpqua Valley, and currently three generations run the estate.

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Rivers Edge Winery

River's Edge Winery River's Edge Winery, founded in 1998, specializes in the production of the highest quality pinot noir wines.

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HV Cellars

HV Cellars HV Cellars is a family owned and run vineyard and winery. The first and largest estate winery in Coos County. HV Cellars offers hand crafted small batch award winning varietal and fruit wines

The Festival

A Good Idea

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In January of 2009, a small group of Lakeside residents came together 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.

Come join us at the 4th Annual Lakeside Crawdad Festival and Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler! Let the good times roll!

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Event Schedule 2013 At-a-Glance

  • Friday, May 10th
  • FESTIVAL HOURS: 4:00pm to 8:00pm
  • 5:00 - 8:00pm - Big Creek Rendezvous (LIVE MUSIC)
  • 4:00 - 8:00pm - Street Fair
  • 6:00pm - Eating Contest

  • Saturday, May 11th
  • FESTIVAL HOURS: 9:00am to 8:00pm
  • 9:00am - 8:00pm - Street Fair
  • 9:00am - 12:00pm - Andrew Grade (LIVE MUSIC)
  • 10:00am - 2:00pm - Car Show - see contact page for details
  • 11:00am - 8:00pm - Crawdad Boil
    Wine and Beer Garden
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm - Crawdad Races (Sponsored by STEP)
  • 1:00pm - 4:00pm - Done Deal (LIVE MUSIC)
  • 5:00 - 8:00pm - Slow Burn (LIVE MUSIC)
  • 6:00pm - Eating Contest

  • Sunday, May 12th
  • FESTIVAL HOURS: 9:00am to 3:00pm
  • 9:00am to 3:00pm - Street Fair
  • 11:00am - 3:00pm - Big Creek Rendezvous (LIVE MUSIC)
  • 11:00am - 3:00pm - Crawdad Boil
    Wine and Beer Garden
  • 2:00pm - Prize Drawings
  • 3pm - Closing, looking forward to 2014

Born of 2009 summer’s well attended event, this year will bring even more venders, bands, and a foot stompin' good ole' time on Tenmile Lake. Thank you to all our volunteers. Get Hooked on Lakeside!!!

Rod Schilling

Mayor Pro-Tem of Lakeside, Oregon