Pine Cone Festival

Free family fun at the Annual Pine Cone Festival! Featured TWICE in the Auto Club’s Westways Magazine as one of the “5 Worth the Drive” this is a great community event.Join us at Rim Nordic/Snow Valley, on Highway 18 between Big Bear and Running Springs. The Festival’s theme is fire prevention, forest health and family fun. Come meet our VIP Smokey Bear and check out all the fire engines and other first responders, compete in the World Famous Pine Cone Olympics, enter your Coulter or sugar pine cone in the World’s Largest Pine Cone contest, or bring your creative design to the Pine Cone Craft contest – all for prizes galore! Check out the amazing vendor booths with wonderful items for early holiday shopping and great food vendors to satisfy your taste buds. There will be music all day, including Mountain Fifes & Drums, Little Bear Valley Blues and Dan Arroyo. Admission is FREE!