Cave City Watermelon Festival | Festivals of Arkansas Event Photography

The Cave City is located in north-central Arkansas within the Ozark Mountains. The city is known for growing the sweetest and juiciest watermelon in Arkansas because of the rich, black dirt. The three-day Watermelon Festival is held on the last Thursday-Saturday in July. All photos are available for purchase.

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This was the entrance into the car show. The photo sort of echoes antique car windows.

A row of antique cars at the car show.

All kinds of makes and models from the very old, to new, and even the smallest of cars lined up at the car show.

Flirtin' with Disaster

Some great looking antique cars at the Cave City Watermelon Festival car show.

The children stayed cool playing on water bounce houses.

An award-winning very pink antique car. Looking under the hood.

Pink, pinker and very pink antique car.

One mean roadster!

One foxy rat rod.

The air filter is well protected on the rat rod. A mini spittoon can be found on the right front.

I guess he's a car dork?

The watermelon games start at 3 p.m. Here, the players get informed about the rules for all the games.

Watermelon games players are getting coached before the games begin. All the players work on the local watermelon farms.

The first game is called the watermelon toss. The players toss very large watermelons from one person to the next. The last person stacks them. If a melon is dropped, the team is eliminated.

Watermelon toss competition.

Watermelon toss. The third player in line stacks the melons.

Stacking watermelons for the 2nd team.

Cave City Watermelon Festival Competition

Another team is stacking watermelons. These events attract a big audience.

Cave City Watermelon Festival Melon Toss

Watermelon toss. Same team, a different point of view.

The guy in the red is a local videographer.

A different team at the watermelon toss.

Yep! Women played in the games too.

A different team from a different angle.

Cave City Watermelon Festival watermelon toss and stack.

Watermelon relay race begins.

Getting closer to the win.

Cave City Watermelon Festival watermelon toss.

The watermelon toss gets messy.

Cave City Watermelon Festival watermelon toss. See the melon?

How many watermelons do you see?

Do you the watermelons?

Can you find the watermelons?

He dropped it! He's eliminated from the game.

That was awkward!

Can you find the watermelon? The final 2 tossers.

Oh no! Dropped it!

The Cave City Watermelon Festival is held in late July in Cave City, Arkansas, located in the Ozark Mountains. The city is known for the sweetest and juiciest watermelons in Arkansas. It starts on Thursday and goes through Saturday. Saturday is the biggest day with the most events. There is a car show, a play area for children, the exciting watermelon games, and music concerts each day. Free extremely cold Cave City watermelons are served up to everyone at 4 p.m.

The watermelon games are held at 3 p.m. Saturday. The teams are employees from the local watermelon farmers, who participate in three sets of games; watermelon toss and stack, the watermelon relay race and the watermelon toss. The watermelon toss requires all the teams to play. Team members from one side toss a large watermelon to a team member on the other side and take a step back. In all the games, a team or team member is disqualified if a watermelon is damaged or dropped.