Kim Reeder a board member of the Box Elder Chamber of commerse pushing T-shits at Peach Days in Brigham City on Friday Sept. 9, 2023.
BRIGHAM CITY – One of Brigham City’s biggest assets is its peaches and its biggest celebration is Peach Days. The historic Main Street is filled with blankets and chairs saving places for Saturday’s 10 a.m. parade. The annual celebration started in 1904 as a day-off to celebrate an abundance of peaches and it continues to this day.
Monica Holdoway, the executive director of the Box Elder Chamber of Commerce, said this year they have 175 retail venders and 35 food vendors.
“Tagge’s Fruit and Veggie Farms has a peach stand on the corner of Main Steet Forrest St.,” she said. “This is the busiest time of year for the fruit stands on the highway.”
Tagge’s not only has fresh handpicked peaches, but they also have peach jams, peach salsa and other peach specialties.
“We are expecting over 35,000 visitors this year,” she said. “We already have 870 cars signed up for the Saturday’s car show that will be held Watkins and Pioneer Parks at 800 W. Forest St. and we have a Harley and custom motorcycle show.”
There are two free concerts. One Friday night, Vocolocity, is an all-vocal band from Northern Utah that creates “rad harmonies, gnarly beats and wicked sounds.” The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. on the Main Street stage next to the Brigham City Academy Center, located at 58 North Main St.
Saturday night Waiting For James will take the stage. They are a family band that claims to play just about any style of music and harmonize in a way that only a family can. The concert will also be on stage at 7:30 p.m.
City of Fun Carnival will give the children the thrill of riding a merry-go-round or the teenager the thrill of more aggressive rides.
Holdoway said their Peach Days T-shirts are a big hit with people at the festival.
“We have people buy and collect our Peach Day T-shirts,” she said. “We have a new design every year.”
There are also 5K and 10K races on Saturday morning starting at 8 a.m.
Several events take place throughout the week, but most of the events take place Friday and Saturday, September 8 and 9. Festivities will be going on from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on both days.
Lots of great peaches can be found this year in Brigham City and along Fruitway.
Kortney Olsen, from Tagge’s Fruit and Veggie Farms, said they have plenty of peaches to sell.
“We have donut peaches, that are kind of fun,” she said. “They can fit more in a bag.”
A donut peach is flatter than a regular peach.
“We have produced a lot of peaches this year and we had a good garden for produce,” she said. “Prices are little higher than last year but not that much.”