Morgan Hill Mushroom Mardi Gras
Morgan Hill, CA · Food & Drink
- When
- May 29–30, 2027
- Where
- Downtown Morgan Hill Amphitheater · Morgan Hill · CA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
Downtown Morgan Hill closes to traffic for a mushroom-themed festival of food booths, chef demonstrations, and live music each Memorial Day weekend. Founded in 1980 to benefit the local fire department, it now draws more than 20,000 visitors over two days. (2027 dates approximate.)
The history within reach
- Morgan Hill Mushroom Mardi Grassame spot
Downtown Morgan Hill closes to traffic for a mushroom-themed festival of food booths, chef demonstrations, and live music each Memorial Day weekend.
New Almaden, the mercury that made the Gold Rush is the largest mercury mine in North America, worked by Mexican, Chinese, and Cornish labourers whose furnaces poisoned the valley.
The magnitude 6.9 quake struck during the World Series on October 17, 1989, collapsing the Cypress Viaduct and a Bay Bridge span.
The first permanently occupied mountaintop observatory, funded by a piano-maker turned land baron who is buried beneath the telescope pier.
A Swiss immigrant started making cider in the Pajaro Valley and the family has been at it in the same town ever since, in the same round-shouldered bottle with a gold foil neck.