Your Guide to the 2025 Katy Rice Harvest Festival
If you’re looking for family-friendly fun near Grange, the Katy Rice Harvest Festival is the place to be. This year’s festival returns Oct. 11-12 to Downtown Katy, kicking off its 44th year with carnival rides, shopping, farm animals, and live music.
The annual festival celebrates Katy’s agricultural roots, the area having once been called “The Rice & Gas Capitol of the World.”
What to expect
Grab your tickets to this year’s festival and feel good about giving back to the community, as funds from the Katy Rice Harvest Festival go to the Rotary Club of Katy’s local scholarships and grants.
This year’s multi-day event features:
- more than 100 craft and vendor booths
- food trucks
- a carnival
- beer garden
- toddler zone
- an agricultural adventure area featuring farm animals
The live music schedule includes performances from county music artists Sawyer Brown, Kylie Frey, Brazos County Line, Colton Black, Bri Bagwell, and Holly Tucker.
New this year, a car show will also be held both days in the nearby Wells Fargo parking lot.
Hours: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, and noon-6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12
Location: Historic Town Square in front of Katy City Hall, located at 910 Avenue C, Katy
Admission: $10 (adults, one-day), free (children ages 12 and younger)
Carnival tickets are sold separately.
Free shuttle service is available over the weekend to the festival grounds from the designated parking areas.
Local history
The annual Rice Harvest Festival remembers Katy’s roots. Rice farming took place on the acreage that’s now Grange by Johnson Development, a sponsor of this year’s festival. Like the festival, Grange is rooted in Katy’s agricultural history; our very name—Grange—means a farm or agricultural estate.
Settled in the 1890s, Katy became a thriving agricultural community in the early 1900s, most notably for rice farming, the last of which continued until around 1987.
The first concrete rice dryers in Texas were built in Katy and still stand today with one of the historic rice dryers having been converted to an entertainment venue, The Dryer, in 2021. There are plans to unveil a museum there detailing Katy’s agricultural history in 2027.
If you’re looking for a place that carries the charm of yesteryear and honors Katy’s rich history, find your new home today in Grange.
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