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This "porktacular", two-day festival celebrates all things bacon and features cook-off competitions, pig-themed activities for the entire family, live music, merchandise from local artists and much, much more!

Bacon lovers will be in hog heaven while sampling various "baconlicious" bacon-inspired dishes ranging from Pig Wings to bacon-wrapped delights from the region's best local restaurants, food vendors and trucks.

Sample every "baconlicious" bacon-inspired dish; then cast your vote for the People's Choice Winner.

Young and old will squeal with delight over the variety of pig-themed

contests including a Pet Costume Parade, Kid's Eating, Pig Wing Eating,

Pig Calling/Impersonation Contests and more! Piggle(s) of all ages will go

hog wild for the quirky official Pig Pardon, "When Pigs Fly" as plush pigs are flung from the rooftops and "When Pigs Float" as plastic pigs float down the Kinnickinnic River.

Bring the piggy bank and browse the marketplace with a "twist" as some 60 merchandise vendors share their unique products such as homemade jams, specialty dips and sauces, bacon-scented candles and lotions, bacon novelties, gifts and apparel for all ages! Bacon lovers will go oinkers over the selection

of local microbrews and wines while enjoying hours of musical entertainment.

Thank you for a truly “porktacular” Bacon Bash 2017!

See you again on September 15-16, 2018!

The nation's largest FREE bacon festival!

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Join us at the 6th Annual Bacon Bash

September 15-16, 2018

as we continue to celebrate all things bacon!

Thousands of bacon lovers converged on River Falls from the upper Midwest for the
5th Annual Bacon Bash!
"Porktacular" events included cook-off competitions, pig themed activities for the entire family,
arts & crafts fair, live music, microbrews and more!

Pig Pardoning

Bacon lover in costume

Bacon Bash volunteers

FFA Corn Box

Bacon-centric food vendors including Croix Valley Foods (pictured)

Bacon Bash crowds enjoying

40+ bacon-themed dishes

Great American Cook-Out Demonstration

Bacon Bash Kid's Bacon Cook-Off

Grand Champion

Bacon Bash Kid’s Eating Competition

Bacon Bash Merchant vendors

Bacon Bash 2017 People’s Choice Award Winner and defending 2016 winner:

Croix Valley Foods

Bacon lovers in costumes

Bacon Bash Pig Impersonation Contest

Bacon Bash Pig Wing

Eating Contest Winners

Bacon Bash musical entertainment from the Roe Family Singers

UW-River Falls Falcon Foods

sweet bacon treat

Riverwalk Square When Pigs Fly event

Bacon Bash 2017 World Food Championship Qualifier and Golden Ticket Winner from Smokey Treats BBQ

Bacon Bash Car Cruze In

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The 2018 Bacon Bash will feature "bacon-licious" dishes ranging from pig wings to bacon-wrapped delights served by the region's best local restaurants and food vendors. In addition, the 2018 Bacon Bash will feature unique merchant vendors providing items from creative confections and fashionable finds to paintings and garden art. For more information on participation, please contact us.