Firebaugh Cantaloupe Roundup

Don’t miss the 2026 Firebaugh Cantaloupe Roundup happening from Sept. 24 to 27!

You can grab your carnival ride tickets at City Hall:

• Golden Day Ticket (4-day pass) for $85
• Daily Ticket $35

Music

• Hard Times
• Califas
• Dinamita
• Mariachi Honor de Mexico
• Grupo Azteca de Valle
• Mas Entertainment DJs

Food & Drinks

Cantaloupe Roundup includes food booths selling Mexican foods such as tacos, burritos, quesadillas, tortas, churros, nachos, flautas and tostadas. Then there’s seafood like shrimp (camarones), chicken, salad, ramen, pizza, hamburgers, hot dogs, BBQ tri-tip, corn dogs and French fries, popcorn, caramel apples, funnel cakes, Sno Cones, cookies, ice cream, cotton candy, shaved ice, aguas frescas, sodas, beer, lemonade, and of course, cantaloupe!

Carnival

Kiddie rides include miniature trains and vehicles that go round in circles, swings, bumper cars, Ferris wheel and the giant slide. There’s a carnival midway with all the fun games where you can toss something and if it lands in the right spot, you win a big prize like a stuffed animal. The carnival like Zipper, giant swings, hammer, tilt-a-whirl and others offering extreme thrills cater to the big kid crowd. The carnival is a top attraction at Cantaloupe Roundup.

Why Cantaloupe?

Firebaugh is home to cantaloupe growers and packers like a big carnival contributor, Westside Produce, a nationally recognized grower, packer, and shipper of the finest quality cantaloupe / honeydew melons. Many attending the annual Firebaugh Cantaloupe Roundup work the fields and other jobs related to growing cantaloupe. Sometimes free cantaloupe fruit is given away at the festival by companies that grow and pack cantaloupe. Such companies host booths and seminars at the annual event, teaching how to grow cantaloupe and answering questions. In 2009 Perez Packing Inc. in Firebaugh and Crown Jewels Marketing & Distributing LLC in Fresno formed a strategic alliance returned the marketing of the Firebaugh company’s melons to its valley roots. Crown Jewels provides marketing for the locally grown cantaloupes and honeydews that are packed and placed in cold storage at the Firebaugh packinghouse. The company, which is over 70 years old, grows 2,500 acres of melons in the Firebaugh area, producing about 2.2 million cartons of cantaloupes and about 300,000 cartons of honeydews. Harvesting of both melons begins annually about July 1, continuing through September.