What Guest Activities Are Available During the Colorado River Fall Festival?

Guests at the Colorado River Fall Festival have two layers of things to do: activities at and around the Riverside Hotel in Laughlin, Nevada, and day trips to well-known regional attractions. The festival's own guest activities page points to Hoover Dam, Grand Canyon West, and the London Bridge in Lake Havasu, and the site also notes that the Riverside venue makes it easy to extend the trip into a vacation. This applies to anyone attending alongside a York Rite Mason — spouses, partners, family, and friends — not just candidates.

What the festival itself offers guests

The festival runs October 18–20, 2026, at the Riverside Hotel in Laughlin, Nevada, with a 2027 date already set for October 24–26. The event is built around York Rite degree conferrals, but the site is explicit that the weekend is also about camaraderie, fraternalism, education, and cooperation — and that guests are part of that.

For the ladies specifically, there is a parallel program that runs alongside the festival, including:

• A hospitality room
• A Ladies' Luncheon on Tuesday at 11:30 AM
• The Royal Arch Widow's Degree

The site advises registering your guest for the Tuesday luncheon in advance, so that is the one item worth handling at the same time you register yourself.

Nearby attractions and day trips

The guest activities page lists regional destinations that work as day trips from Laughlin:

The site also describes the broader guest experience in Laughlin as including shopping, movies, meals at reasonable prices, and Nevada-style entertainment. Because the Riverside Casino is the annual venue, staying a few extra days and turning the festival into a vacation is presented as a natural option rather than an add-on.

How to plan around the schedule

The conferrals happen Monday and Tuesday, with a Candidate Orientation on Sunday evening and a Fellowship Banquet with entertainment on Monday evening. That leaves gaps during the day for guests to use the hospitality room, take a day trip, or explore the Riverside and the surrounding area.

A practical approach:

1. Register for the festival and register your guest for the Tuesday Ladies' Luncheon at the same time.
2. Check the guest activities page for the current list of suggested destinations before booking any day trips.
3. Decide whether you are treating the trip as a weekend event or a longer vacation — the site frames the Laughlin venue as suited to the latter.
4. If you have questions that the site does not answer, contact the committee directly; the festival also lists [email protected] as a contact address.

What is not specified

The site does not publish prices, transportation arrangements, or whether any guest activities are organized group outings versus self-guided trips. Treat the listed attractions as suggestions to plan yourself unless the committee says otherwise. Registration is described as open for 2026, but the site does not state whether guest registration carries a separate fee.