An annual festival celebrating the peach harvest of Palisade, Colorado. It was established in the late 1800's as Peach Days, and is ongoing. According to oral history interviewee Virgil Hickman, Peach Festivals in the first half of the Twentieth century were "almost a fair", with dances on fruit shipping platforms, a Peach Queen, and displays. The festivities would also include a water fight, with the town fire department and their opponent from another municipality dressed in firemen's gear and spraying each other with fire hoses until one group of men was forced back sufficiently. Peach Days also included kid sack races, stilt, and three-legged races, and a woman's nail driving contest.
