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Fellsmere Frog Leg Festival
Fellsmere, FL · Food & Drink
- When
- January 21–24, 2027
- Where
- Fellsmere · FL
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A four day January festival built around fried frog leg and gator tail dinners, with hundreds of booths selling gifts, local music and carnival rides. A drive-thru pickup line serves meals to go. Admission and parking are free, and proceeds have supported Fellsmere youth recreation for over three decades.
The history within reach
- Pelican Island10 mi
Theodore Roosevelt signed an executive order protecting a five-acre mangrove island from plume hunters, and in doing so created the first national wildlife refuge, the seed of a system that now covers more ground than the national parks.
Decorated boats wind through the Indian River Lagoon past several public parks and the city marina on a set night before Christmas.
Zora Neale Hurston, who chronicled Black Florida in her writing, spent her last years here writing for the local paper, and was buried in an unmarked grave until Alice Walker came looking in 1973 and put up a stone reading 'A Genius of the South.' The town now keeps a trail of her places, ending at the Garden of Heavenly Rest..
An 800-acre camping festival at Sunshine Grove has brought major touring acts to rural Okeechobee County every March since 2016.
Hundreds of surfers dress as Santa, elves and reindeer to paddle out on Christmas Eve morning while thousands watch from the sand.