Mid-August in the Valley
Here are a few dates from the August calendar:
August 20 (Thursday): Sun Valley Music Festival closes its 42nd season at the Pavilion.
August 21 to 23: Wood River Valley Studio Tour, artists' studios across the valley, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free and self-paced.
What comes after the studios open
The Studio Tour brings the art experience into artists' own spaces across the Wood River Valley. For three days, the pace is meant to be unhurried, with time to actually talk technique with the person who made the piece. It's a quiet way to explore the valley at your own speed.
After that, the valley's attention shifts north. The Sawtooth Salmon Festival runs August 28 and 29 at Redfish Lake in Stanley, a free celebration of the roughly 900-mile journey Idaho's salmon make from the ocean back to their spawning grounds, with a Shoshone-Bannock Tribe performance among the weekend's events. It's a 60-mile drive over Galena Pass, the same road Tour de Force used for its Huckleberry Drive, and it pulls the crowd out of Ketchum for a change instead of into it. September brings the 13th annual Ketchum Oktoberfest at Sawtooth Brewery, and October closes with the 30th annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival, October 7 through 11, marking a century and a half of sheep moving through this valley.
For more on what makes this stretch of the Wood River Valley tick through every season, the Sun Valley in Summer guide rounds out the wider calendar, and the Sun Valley neighborhood page has more on what year-round life here actually looks like.
