Perryville Mayfest

Name: Perryville Mayfest
Start: 2027-05-05
End: 2027-05-08
Location: Downtown Perryville

Perryville, MO · Festival

When: May 5–8, 2027
Where: Downtown Perryville · Perryville · MO
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

Downtown Perryville closes for a Mother's Day weekend of a 5K run, carnival, parade, art show, car show, and beer garden. The Perryville Area Chamber of Commerce has run it for more than 40 years; the 2027 edition is its 42nd. (2027 dates approximate, based on the fixed Mother's Day weekend slot.)

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Perryville Mayfestsame spot
Downtown Perryville closes for a Mother's Day weekend of a 5K run, carnival, parade, art show, car show, and beer garden.
Where the Saxons landed and started a synod16 mi
About seven hundred Saxon Lutherans sailed in 1838 rather than accept a state church at home, lost a ship on the way, and settled this ridge in Perry County.
Tower Rock, the island that appears in droughts20 mi
A limestone knob standing in the Mississippi that boatmen feared for the current around it, and that Ulysses Grant kept out of private hands by executive order in 1871 as a navigation landmark.
Ste. Genevieve, the French town older than the state20 mi
Founded by French colonists out of the Illinois Country decades before Missouri existed, and the reason the state has any French colonial architecture left at all.
Jour de Fete20 mi
Historic downtown Ste.