Do the Bigfoot bash in Northern California’s Willow Creek

Monterey Bay has the Strawberry Festival.

Gilroy has the Garlic Fesitval.

Willow Creek, in lush Humboldt County, doesn’t produce strawberries or garlic; its claim to fame is Bigfoot sightings. That’s right, sasquatch. Yeti. The big-footed creature with the fallen arches that was allegedly first spotted there — and named Bigfoot for the tracks it left — 50 years ago.

So, it’s no surprise that Willow Creek, along California 299, is home to the annual Bigfoot Days, starting Labor Day weekend.

The shindig starts with a Bigfoot Parade on Saturday morning, starring the hairy biped himself (or herself?). (The Bigfoot costume might remind you of the one used in an apparent hoax recently when a couple of men claimed they found a sasquatch corpse in the woods of northern Georgia.)

After the parade, the Willow Creek-China Flat Museum, which includes a Bigfoot exhibit, will host an ice cream social for all the kids. (No word if sasquatch will attend.)

A car show with live bands, food and craft booths at the nearby park round out the festivities. Possible highlight: The appearance of a woman once identified by a now-defunct tabloid as Bigfoot’s baby’s mama. Go to the Bigfoot Days celebration site for more details and directions to the festival.

– Hugo Martín, Los Angeles Times staff writer

[Photo: Willow Creek-China Flat Museum curator Al Hodgson holds what he claims is a plaster cast from the legendary Bigfoot in a 2003 photograph; Robert Durell, Los Angeles Times]

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