It’s time to celebrate!

Join us in our year-long anniversary celebration with these community events.

movie-night live-performance fishing
January
  • MLK Parade
  • MLK Weekend Event
  • Movie Night
February
  • Movie Night
  • Swamp to City
  • Arbor Day
  • Okefenokee Opry
  • Chamber of Commerce
    Annual Banquet/Luncheon
  • Father/Daughter Dance
March
  • Steve Bean Youth Art Show
  • Waycross 150th Anniversary
  • Newsies the Musical
  • Beauty & Beard Pageant
  • Jail & Bail at Gazebo
  • Movie Night
  • Easter Egg Hunt
  • Rod Run
  • Mom Prom
April
  • Okefenokee Color Run
  • Swampfest - 20th Annual
  • KCSB/SBC BBQ Competition
May
  • Live Performance
  • Okefenokee Folk Festival/Sue Clark Day
  • Georgia Day
  • Peter Pan
  • Mother/Son Dance
June
  • Juneteenth
  • Kids’ Fishing Rodeo
  • Fathers’ Day Weekend
  • Live Performance at Ritz
July
  • 4th of July Celebration
    (parade & fireworks)
  • Okefenokee Opry
  • Coastal Pines’ 10th
    Anniversary Celebration
  • Laura Walker Park’s
    Old Fashioned 4th of July
August
  • Anniversary Musical Celebration
  • Decades of the Dogs
September
  • Judge Ben Smith Juried Art Competition
  • Chamber Golf Tournament
  • Art & Wine Auction
  • WCHS Homecoming
October
  • Gram Parsons Guitar
    Pull & Tribute Festival
  • Live Performance
  • B52 Bomber Remembrance
  • Gateway Getaway
  • Mayor’s Ball
  • Pumpkinfest
  • Swamptacular
  • Racing for Pinks
  • Forestry Beauty Pageant
  • Spooktacular
November
  • Holiday Lightshow
  • Taste of Chamber
  • Veterans’ Day Celebration
  • Veterans’ Day: Red, White & Blue Color Run
  • Small Business Saturday
  • Butterfly Run
  • Okefenokee Agricultural Fair
December
  • Holiday Lightshow
  • Tree Lighting
  • I’ll Be Home for Christmas
  • Nancy King Up & Coming Youth Art
  • Christmas in the Cross
  • Ware County 200th Anniversary Events
  • Christmas Parade
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Sponsored by the City of Waycross, Ware County and CSX.
Ware County Anniversary