Events Calendar

Come to the Sawmill Center for the Arts for the 2-day Herb & Fiber Festival. This marks the 41st year for this signature festival that draws hundreds of people looking to start their gardens and get closer to nature. There will be hanging baskets, bedding flats, perennials, annuals, garden artists and herbs. The annual soup luncheon […]

Come to the Sawmill Center for the Arts for the 2-day Herb & Fiber Festival. This marks the 41st year for this signature festival that draws hundreds of people looking to start their gardens and get closer to nature. There will be hanging baskets, bedding flats, perennials, annuals, garden artists and herbs.

Children 12 years and under are permitted to fish freshly stocked Tom’s Run from the Swinging Bridge to the Children’s Fishing Pond. Registration and prize give-away will be held at the Children's Fishing Pond behind the Park Office. This event is sponsored by the Marienville Rod & Gun Club, PA Fish & Boat Commission, Cook […]

Clarion County Community Theater presents: "Play On!" This is a hilarious story of a theater group trying desperately to put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty author who keeps revising the script. Act I is a rehearsal of the dreadful show, Act II is the near disastrous dress rehearsal, and […]

This festival is great fun for adults and kids alike. For more action-packed weekends in Clarion during the summer, the town’s Main Street welcomes visitors to enjoy pop-up shops featuring local businesses and an exciting lineup of events including a planetarium, scavenger hunt, yoga in the park, and outdoor concert. Each summer month has its […]

Limited to just 75 cyclists! Online registration closes at 12:00 PM on Friday, June 6 OR when participants registration maximum is reached. Day-of registration will be available on Saturday, June 7, until 8:15 AM, if spots are still available. The Clarion Summer Outdoor Festival Committee invites cyclists 16 years and older in good physical condition […]

Cook Forest State Park will host a series of living history events depicting life during the French & Indian War.  Highlights of this full two-day encampment include woodland natives, cannon and musket firing, cooking, primitive skills, blacksmithing, tinsmithing, pottery, children’s games, sutler camp, renown living historians, French & Indian War Era artisans, and live tactical […]

This is World Class Entertainment from the Best of the Best as Downbeat Magazine’s 2024 #1 Rising Star Male Vocalist Benny Benack III is back with his father, Pittsburgh legend, Benny Benack II, and his phenomenal NYC band on Saturday, June 14 at 7:30 PM. It will be ‘A Hot Time in the Old Town’as one of the most virtuosic and […]

Please meet at the new parking lot at the Cooksburg Canoe Launch for an intermediate skill level kayaking class.  Remember to bring your swimsuits, sturdy river sneakers, change of clothes, and lunch.  Everyone WILL get wet!  Designed to integrate skills learned in ACA’s Introduction to Kayaking, we will be focusing on T-Rescues, self recovery, buddy assists, […]

Friends of Cook Forest and Slapstick Productions present Comedy in the Forest at Verna Leith Theatre with Brent Terhune, Tracie Jayne, and David Kaye! Door opens at 6:00 pm. Showtime is at 7:00 pm. 50/50 Raffle & Basket Raffle Proceeds will benefit the Ridge Campground Playground Project.

Please join us for an interpretive  guided float down the National Wild & Scenic Clarion River.  Wildlife and lumber history abound along this secluded stretch of the river.  Fishing is excellent.  Help us document wood duck nesting success, river otter sign, and bald eagle nests while we kayak through the Steel Trap.  This is a true […]