Five Hundred Vintage Vehicles, Twenty Rockabilly Bands, and a Warm Arizona February on the Colorado

The Lake Havasu Rockabilly Reunion runs February 13 through 15, 2026, at Lake Havasu State Park, with 500-plus vintage vehicles, 20 rockabilly and tribute bands, the largest pin-up beauty pageant west of the Mississippi, 150-plus vendors, and a family zone, all in mild winter desert conditions on the Colorado River shoreline below the London Bridge.

Event details

The Lake Havasu Rockabilly Reunion returns February 13 through 15, 2026, to Lake Havasu State Park in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, for a three-day celebration of 1950s and 1960s culture set on the Colorado River shoreline below the London Bridge. Over 500 vintage vehicles, including cars, motorcycles, and trucks, fill the show field across all three days, representing one of the most concentrated displays of mid-century American automotive design assembled west of the Mississippi in any given year. Twenty rockabilly bands and tribute acts perform across the weekend’s stage schedule, covering the sonic territory from early Sun Records country-rockabilly through the British Invasion period that closed the era the event celebrates.

The Show Field, the Pageant, and the Vendors

The vehicle show field is the event’s most immediately engaging visual feature for first-time attendees: 500-plus vehicles parked across the state park’s open grounds in the warm Arizona February sunshine, each with its owner available to discuss the restoration history, mechanical details, and provenance of their machine. The pin-up beauty pageant, billed as the largest west of the Mississippi, runs Saturday afternoon and draws a competitive field of participants whose period-accurate costuming constitutes a significant part of the event’s visual texture throughout the entire weekend. More than 150 vendors cover goods ranging from vintage apparel and period accessories to retro home goods, automotive supplies, and specialty food items. The family zone operates throughout the weekend with programming scaled for children who arrive with enthusiast parents who need their younger travelers engaged independently.

Good to Know: Lake Havasu City in mid-February averages highs near 68 degrees Fahrenheit and lows in the mid-40s, which makes the three-day outdoor show format comfortable across all programming hours without the heat management demands of a summer event in the Arizona desert. The London Bridge, relocated stone by stone from London in 1971, sits at the Bridgewater Channel a short walk from the state park show field. For children who have been walking the car show for several hours, the bridge provides a logical destination for a family walk and a conversation about one of the more genuinely improbable pieces of 20th-century American civic acquisition.

Lake Havasu for the Weekend

The event’s three-day run over Valentine’s Day weekend makes it one of the more logistically complex lodging windows in Lake Havasu City’s calendar, as the festival crowd competes with the holiday travel market for available accommodation. Booking well in advance, ideally months before the February dates, is not optional in practical terms. For families and couples combining the Rockabilly Reunion with a broader Lake Havasu City stay, Lake.com lists the Lake Havasu City vacation rental inventory, including waterfront properties on the Bridgewater Channel that combine direct lake access with proximity to the state park show field. Kayak and paddleboard rentals operate along the channel through winter, providing a morning-on-the-water option before the afternoon concert sessions begin.