Welcome to the Brookings Car Festival
Greetings Brookings Area Car Enthusiasts…..
THE 32nd Annual Brookings Car FESTIVAL IS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, June 14 & 15, 2025!
The Brookings Car Festival is an annual event put on by the Brookings Car Club. The second full weekend in June has seen Brookings, SD, filled with hot rods, muscle cars, and trucks since 1993.
We started meeting in January and have planned the events for this year’s 2025 Brookings Car Festival weekend. The activities kick off on Saturday with a Poker Run benefitting the Special Olympics of South Dakota/Brookings, starting from downtown on Main Avenue leaving from Nick’s Hamburger Shop. Registration for the Poker Run is from noon to 1:00 PM at Nick’s and plan to leave from there at 1:00 PM with hands drawn at the Blue Goose in Volga at 4:00 PM. Then there is a Downtown Drive In on the 300 block of 4th Street in Brookings from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM, with specials going on at the downtown establishments in the area.
Then on Sunday we are having the car show in Pioneer Park from 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM. Over the past few years, we have made a change and we went away from the judged car show to more of a Show-N-Shine style format, which seems to have gone over well, so that is our plan again for this year. It will be in the central part of the park like last year, just northwest of the band shell. We won’t be giving out awards for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place like when it was a judged car show, but there will be participation plaques going out to the first 200 entrants in the show. Thanks to our great list of sponsors this year, the cost to enter a vehicle in the show is FREE. There will be NO COST to enter a car, truck, or motorcycle in the show. There will be some food vendors on site and tunes playing with live music from Big Bad and the Wolves from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM. With the great collection of vehicles to view at the show, it should be an afternoon of fun for all in attendance to walk around and enjoy the cars, trucks, and motorcycles on display.
Thank you for the years of your support in attending the Brookings Car Show. We are hoping all the surrounding area car enthusiasts will be looking forward to getting your cars, trucks, and motorcycles out and attending the show to visit with friends and all the other people you meet while at a car show. So, as you have been doing for the past years, get your classics out of the garage, clean them up if need be, and bring them to the Show-N-Shine car show on Sunday.
For further details on times for the events on Saturday and Sunday, please see the Schedule tab on the website, or click on the link on the right to open up the 2025 Brookings Car Show flyer for more information.
Hope to see you at the Brookings Car Festival events on Saturday, June 14th and Sunday, June 15th!
Sincerely,
The Brookings Car Club
