Nardin Heritage Day

The 2026 Nardin Heritage Day is Saturday, May 23, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in downtown Nardin. Admission to the event and museum tours are free. Sales of food and drink or other purchases are cash only, so be sure to stop by an ATM before arriving.

This year’s celebration will be the 49th time Nardin has hosted visitors. Many festivities are planned from a gunfighter show by Guthrie Gunfighters and blacksmith demonstrations to watching a Model T being put together and running in 10 minutes. One of Crow’s sons is in a band called North of 50 that will be providing the western music. There will be plenty of kid-friendly fun including inflatables, Chester the Clown, an ice cream shoppe, and turtle races.

The parade starts at 10:30 a.m.; visitors will see antique cars and trucks, tractors, horse-drawn vehicles, mule teams, bikes, horse riders, and floats.

Following the gunfight, around 11:30 a.m., is the lunch feed at the pecan grove that Crow’s dad planted on the west side of Main Street with hamburgers, polish sausage, hot dogs and all the trimmings, homemade pies, and more for a fee.

The general store will be open as well as the saloon, which will be dispensing ice-cold sarsaparilla. Nardin’s Heritage House will be open too. The celebration concludes with an antique tractor pull around 1 p.m. south of town at the railroad tracks.

Deer Creek Mercantile will also be set up in their vintage camper with a pop-up sale of flower bouquets and more.

Read more about Nardin’s history: nwokbuzz.com/nardin-heritage-day

Photo credit: Nardin Heritage Day, Brittany Webster/Deer Creek Mercantile