Annual Heritage Festival & Craft Show

General information

Heritage Festival features fun activities for all ages

  • Traditional tradesmen & artisans demonstrating “lost arts”
  • Live entertainment on three stages a variety of genres including Native American, blues, Cajun, folk, bluegrass, traditional storytellers and magicians
  • Cowboys with their chuckwagons
  • Mountain Man Camp
  • Fun for Young’uns Area (stilts, paper pumpkins, milk the “cow,” rope making, candle dipping, candy in the haystack, hayrides, and much more!)
  • Handmade craft show with more than 70 vendors
  • Saturday evening ghost stories from 8-9:30 p.m.
  • Tours of the Boone County History & Culture Center and Village at Boone Junction
  • Great food, including local food trucks and festival favorites!

Visitors will be taken back to the traditions of the past. Listen, learn, and see history as it comes alive. See artisans and tradesmen dressed in 19th century attire demonstrating their trades and selling their wares. A large contemporary handmade craft area will also be featured

Stage schedules

Stage schedule for Heritage Festival

Parking

On site parking is limited. Just south of the park is the Discovery Office Park development and the Columbia Sports Fieldhouse, 4251 Philips Farm Road. Parking will be allowed in these lots. Although these lots are within walking distance to the park, free shuttles will be available.  Shuttles will drop off at the Boone County History & Culture Center and run both days from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Please do not park in the Blue Acres Trailer Park. 

Handicapped parking

Located in the parking lots south of the museum and the lot off Nifong Road behind the Maplewood Barn. You must have a handicapped parking tag. If these lots fill, one of the shuttles is equipped with a lift. There are some sidewalks at the park but they are not interconnecting. The grounds can be difficult for wheelchairs. Use the sidewalk north of the museum for the best access to the park from the museum and the sidewalk from the Nifong Lot that goes to the Maplewood Barn Stage then through the children’s area. 

Shuttle

The shuttles will run from Discovery Office Park to the front of the museum both days. This is an easy way to park and ride with a convenient drop off and pick up location. One shuttle bus will have a lift. 

ATM

Some of the vendors are cash only; there are no ATM services at Nifong Park.

Pets

We discourage bringing pets to the festival but if you do choose to bring your dog, they must be on a 4-foot leash.

Map

 

Stay overnight during the Heritage Festival! For more information on overnight accommodations, visit the Columbia Convention & Visitors Bureau Web site.

The Heritage Festival is coordinated by Columbia Parks and Recreation.

Call 573.874.7475opens phone dialer for more information. 

Sponsors

Columbia CVB
KPLA
KFRU
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Missouri Arts Council Logo
Boone County History and Culture Center