Cave City Watermelon Festival — Local services in Cave City

My family is from Cave City and I love this place. It’s a small town with great people. CAVE CITY WATERMELONS ARE THE BEST! If you read the one star review at the bottom I don’t think they were in the right place or reviewing the wrong cave city. As you can tell from my photos there are plenty of watermelons during the festival. This is a three day event and people from all over the country come to participate. The towns population is only about 2000 so don’t expect a big city. I got spend last summer at this festival with my late Mawmaw. She loved Cave City and the festival. I went when I was a kid and enjoyed it just as much then. They have a car show, good band, fire works, lots of food, local and out of state venders. They have all kinds of nice gift shops. This really is a great thing to at least experience once. I will one day take my kid there to experience it as well. I have a lot of great memories of this place and the festival seems to get bigger every year. You can google their website and see the list of all the things going on. Hope this review helps you make a decision to at least...

Edit: Logistics: Traffic isn't moving at 1030 am. Things to do: good Vendor & booth friendliness: very good Police presence: good Music: good. This was my first visit. We are out of towners. I went with family at ages 13, 60 and 80. Getting around the vendors and booths was easy enough, even with a walker. We arrived just after the parade. We parked at the high school and took the free bus to the fairgrounds. Everything was free; parking, bus, entertainment. While awaiting our bus ride we shopped the Koala craft fair. Very nice. We stayed at the Watermelon fest a couple of hours. Then we left for a few hours until it got closer to 630pm for the music. We spent that interim at a local restaurant, the dollar store and the Red Door Flea Market. We enjoyed all of it. I recommend the annual Cave City...

The most boring festival that had NO watermelon except a red party cup for $4.00. No ride, a little entertainment....we drove almost 2 hours for this.....not one cave city watermelon to be bought, on the streets they were selling from Costa Rica ( take off you produce stickers people.!!) The food was over priced festival grease... they gave away melon at the end of the last day. The li e was hours... What a waste of time and the pain it caused my body was unnecessary if they would have been truethful!!! Not worth it at all!!! Shame on You...