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Rondo Days

Saint Paul, MN · Festival

When

July 17, 2027

Where

Martin Luther King Recreation Center · Saint Paul · MN

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

Rondo Days is Saint Paul's largest African American sponsored festival, honoring the historic Rondo neighborhood that was divided when Interstate 94 was built through it in the 1960s. The day includes a parade, a drill team competition, live music, and food vendors centered at the Martin Luther King Recreation Center. It was founded in 1982 by Floyd G. Smaller and Marvin R. Anderson.

The history within reach

• Rondo Dayssame spot

  Rondo Days is Saint Paul's largest African American sponsored festival, honoring the historic Rondo neighborhood that was divided when Interstate 94 was built through it in the 1960s.

• The Cathedral of Saint Paul0.3 mi

  Archbishop Ireland put a domed basilica on the highest point in the city, deliberately facing the Capitol across the valley.

• The Minnesota State Capitol0.4 mi

  Cass Gilbert's dome is the second-largest unsupported marble dome in the world after St.

• James J. Hill and the Great Northern0.5 mi

  Hill pushed a railway to Puget Sound with no federal land grant and no subsidy, surveying easy grades instead of taking the money, and it was the only northern transcontinental that never went bankrupt.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald0.5 mi

  Born in a St.