Roy Days, and the three other days this city marks.

It ran from 17 July to 1 August in 2026, a sixteen day run finishing on the Saturday at the start of August. Roy City has published no 2027 date for the festival or for any of its other events, so a two week July run ending on an early August Saturday is the pattern the record supports rather than a rule the city has printed. The city runs the festival from its own web address and the old organizer site now redirects there, which makes Roy City's own Roy Days page the only place a future date will appear.

On 1900 West, at nine in the morning on the final Saturday. That is the whole of what Roy City publishes about it: the street and the time, with no start point, no end point, no direction of travel, no staging area and no road closure times. 1900 West is the north to south spine through the middle of the city and city hall sits on it, so anywhere along it works. Take a spot by half past eight, and treat any detailed route map you find elsewhere as somebody's reconstruction rather than the city's.

Not at the launch site. The city states plainly that the fireworks are launched from Eagle Lake Golf Course and that spectators will not be allowed at the golf course. The show goes up at ten at night on the final Saturday. The sensible places are George E. Wahlen Park at 4200 S 2175 W, where the rest of the day has already been happening, a street on the southern or western half of the grid with a clear view, or your own block. Park before nine rather than after.

Almost everything free. A community breakfast from half past six until nine at the Hope Center, a five kilometer run and a two mile walk at seven from the fire station, the parade at nine on 1900 West, then vendor booths, a fun zone and entertainment at George E. Wahlen Park from eleven until seven with a car show running eleven until three, and fireworks at ten at night. There is a gap between seven and ten with nothing published in it, which locals use to go home and eat.

Turning up does not. Every event on the city's published Saturday program is free to attend. Taking part costs a little: a parade application is ten dollars, a salmon bake ticket is fifteen, and vendor booths run from seventy dollars for a non profit through a hundred and twenty without power and a hundred and seventy with it, up to two hundred and twenty for a food vendor. The arts council contests inside the festival are cheaper again, a dollar for the bookmark contest and five for the junior high and high school poetry contest.

A surprising amount. Roy City's consolidated fee schedule prices a salmon bake, an art show with adult, youth and junior categories, a bookmark contest and a poetry contest for junior high and high school pupils, none of which appears on the published schedule page. They are city run and real. If you have recently moved to Roy and want a way into the town, an entry form for one of those is a better introduction than a chair on the parade route, and the fee ordinance is where you find out they exist.

Three, and it dates all three by rule rather than by calendar, which is quietly sensible. The Easter egg hunt is the Saturday before Easter Sunday at ten in the morning at George E. Wahlen Park, for children up to twelve. The Pumpkin Splash is the Saturday before Halloween at the Roy Recreation Complex and takes pre registration online. The holiday tree lighting is the Monday before Thanksgiving, free, with performances from local elementary schools and an appearance from Santa. The city publishes no venue for the tree lighting and no cost for the other two.

Not one that Roy City publishes. No farmers market, no summer concert series and no rodeo appears on any Roy City page or in any other issuing body source, and the four recurring events on the city's own community events page are the whole of the published municipal year: the egg hunt, Roy Days, the Pumpkin Splash and the tree lighting. That is a modest calendar for a city of thirty eight thousand people, and it is worth knowing before you move here on the assumption of a busier one.

Roy City itself. The festival runs from the city's own web address, the schedule page credits Roy City staff, and the fees for everything inside it, from the parade application to the vendor booths to the arts council contests, sit in the city's consolidated fee schedule adopted as Ordinance 26-7. The separate organizer web address that used to carry the event now redirects to the city's pages. That matters practically: the city's phone number reaches the people who run it, and parks and recreation is on 801-774-1048.