SPOKANE, Wash. — It's an Inland Northwest tradition. Pig Out in the Park is returning to Riverfront Park for its 40th year on Wednesday.
The food and music festival runs from Wednesday, Aug. 28 to Monday, Sept. 2 from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Admission is free.
The most important question: What can you eat? The event offers 57 booths with 245 menu items, and four adult beverage gardens.
Visitors can enjoy everything from chocolate-dipped cheesecake and berries, Greek eats, sausage sandwiches, crepes, poke, deep fried cheese curds, mac and cheese, and tacos.
Special Hours with $4 bites run from 3 to 5 p.m. and 9 to 10 p.m. daily.
Pig Out also features a public market with more than a dozen vendors, featuring everything from clothing to macarons.
A free music festival runs every day, with headliners ranging from local artists to big names in music, like rapper Coolio and Creed's lead vocalist Scott Stapp. The two musicians are taking the stage this year.
Coolio performs at 8:30 p.m. on Friday and Stapp performs on Thursday at 7 p.m.
The full music line-up is available on the Pig Out in the Park website.
To accommodate the construction in the park, this year’s Pig Out event is planned near the Numerica Skate Ribbon and other areas along Spokane Falls Boulevard, in addition to the Clocktower Meadow and the Lilac Bowl.
Parking meters do not need to be plugged on Labor Day.
Pig Out in the Park costs hundreds of thousands of dollars every year, but vendors help offset the cost by paying a fee to participate.
Organizer Bill Burk told KREM that Pig Out has an economic impact on the Spokane community of about $4.5 million every year, with $1 million in sales on site between the park and vendor revenues.
