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Wildwood Kustom Hot Rod & Muscle Car Boardwalk Show
Wildwood, NJ · Arts & Culture
- When
- September 25–27, 2026
- Where
- Wildwoods Boardwalk & Convention Center · Wildwood · NJ
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Hundreds of hot rods and muscle cars line the Wildwoods Boardwalk and fill the convention center for this collector show, held each spring since 1991. A smaller fall edition follows in September, but the May weekend draws the bigger crowd alongside the town's doo-wop motels.
The history within reach
Chubby Checker first did the Twist in public on a stage here in the summer of 1960 and the dance went round the world.
The largest kite festival in North America, held free to spectators on the beach beside the Wildwoods Convention Center every Memorial Day weekend.
A juried fine arts and crafts festival on Stone Harbor's 2nd Avenue, featuring painting, ceramics, woodworking, jewelry, and glasswork from handpicked makers.
- Cape May County 4-H Fair6.2 mi
Cape May County's 4-H program stages a three-day fair each July at its Court House fairgrounds, with youth livestock and craft exhibits, a midway, and free admission.
One of the oldest seaside resorts in the country, burned nearly flat in 1878 and rebuilt all at once in the gingerbread style of that single decade, so it is now the largest collection of Victorian houses in America, a whole town of them, a National Historic Landmark entire.