To register, click on the appropriate application:

vendor applications for the following categories are open:  Food Truck/Trailor Vendor  Food Tent/Canopy Vendor Arts & Craft Vendor Activity/Family Friendly Vendor  Commercial/Retail Vendor Nonprofit Vendor (non food) The vendor application deadline will be Tuesday, June 13th. 6:00pm EST/4:00pm MST

Despite its name, the Strawberry Festival is and has always been a vendor street fair with arts and craft and food vendors alike. The Strawberry Festival happened in early June for the festival’s first 28 years. Eventually, our hard working Downtown Billings team grew tired of the inconsistent June weather literally raining or even snowing on the day’s fun and moved the festival to early July. The new early July date offered more consistent weather, larger crowds, and allowed the Strawberry Festival and HarvestFest to bookend the farmer’s market season in downtown Billings. 

Strawberries are not a common Montana crop and while some growers do produce them, our organization struggles to find consistent product year to year. In turn, the DBA has tried various ways over the last 32 years to incorporate the festival’s namesake into the event. The late Ziggy Ziegler, a founder of the Downtown Billings Association, wandered the festival in a large rubber strawberry costume for decades. For over ten years there was a group of chefs and cooks who grouped up to craft a sixty-foot strawberry shortcake on-site to be sold by the slice in the afternoon as a fundraiser. However, in a post COVID era the giant shortcake is a thing of the past. Each year over fifty percent of the festival’s vendors have incorporated some sort of strawberry theme into their menu or products offered that day while many of the downtown brick and mortar restaurants, sweet shops, bakeries, bars, and breweries have strawberry themed menus for the downtown visitors to enjoy. 

If you are interested in sponsoring the Strawberry Festival or any other downtown Billings event, please email our Community Engagement & Events Director, Lindsay at LRichardson@downtownbillings.com and she can share current sponsorship opportunities.

2023 Event Sponsorship Opportunities Packet 

Our sponsors are amazing. Their sponsorships allow us to cover the costs of our large free community events and allow us to make these events a success and memorable for the whole community.

Our events wouldn’t be possible without the help of awesome volunteers like you. We appreciate all the extra help we can get, whether it’s assistance during the 5:30am vendor arrival/check-in or helping at the Skypoint info booth. All volunteers are provided with food and beverage voucher, bottled water, and any items needed to perform position. 

Click to sign up to volunteer at the 7/8/2023 Strawberry Festival! 

or email info@downtownbillings.com if you are interested in helping. 

  We know!!! We’re bummed too but BUT dogs, cats, and other small animals are not allowed at the Strawberry Festival or any other large downtown public event. The city ordinance is for the safety of all including your dogs! AND while we don’t make the rules, we totally understand the city’s ordinance. Events like Strawberry Fest are loud and crowded and can be stressful  for a dog. Not to mention the heat of the hot  pavement being harmful.

May 17, 2022 – Get ready for the Billings Strawberry Festival! (KSVI – Local ABC/FOX station)
March 30, 2021 – the return of downtown events starts with the 30th strawberry festival
Aug 5, 2020 – Downtown Billings Strawberry Festival Cancelled (KTVQ)
May 7, 2020 – The 29th Annual Strawberry Festival Postponed (KGHL)
June 8, 2019 – Strawberry Festival celebrates with rain in downtown Billings (KTVQ)
Jun 5, 2019 – Strawberry Festival returns to downtown with live entertainment and a 60-foot long dessert (Billings Gazette)