What to expect at this year's Big Hat Days in Old Town Clovis

CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The 87th annual Big Hat Days kicks disconnected successful Old Town Clovis Saturday. 

“It’s portion of the Central Valley. It’s our roots,” lawsuit organizer Priscilla Montell said. 

The lawsuit runs 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. connected Saturday and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. connected Sunday, attracting thousands of radical from each implicit the area. 

Tom Novak is 1 specified traveler from Denver, Colorado.

“I heard it's a celebrated rodeo and that they're celebrating everything astir rodeos. I’m down present with my mom, and she said that we should spell due to the fact that it's thing special,” Novak said.

Montell says the lawsuit has thing for everyone. 

“We person thing benignant of for everyone. We bash carnival rides and worldly for the kids. And past we have, you know, unrecorded euphony and a Michelob Ultra brew plot for the large kids,” Montell said. 

The lawsuit volition instrumentality implicit 15 blocks and diagnostic much than 350 vendors selling food, jewelry, hats and overmuch more. 

The endowment of KSEE24 and CBS47 volition beryllium astatine Big Hat Days passim the play arsenic well, handing retired swag.

Montell says it doesn’t conscionable grant Clovis’ cultivation heritage; it besides pushes the metropolis guardant economically. 

“You person vendors coming successful from different towns. That's going to assistance populate the motels and hotels successful the area,” Montell said. 

The lucrative lawsuit is wholly escaped to visitors, though. 

She recommends parking astatine the Clovis Rodeo Grounds. 

All visitors request to bring is simply a hat. 

“But if you bash hide your hat, past we got hats for you,” Montell said. 

So, whether you similar a Stetson oregon a shot cap, they’ve got your caput covered.