Craft Fairs & Farmers Markets in Salt Lake City, Utah

Held in Salt Lake City's 9th and 9th neighborhood, this 33rd annual festival takes over the intersection of 900 East and 900 South each September. Expect a mixed vendor lineup — artists and makers, food vendors, local businesses, and nonprofits — plus live music and activities throughout the day. Foot traffic is strong and neighborhood-focused; local restaurants participate with sidewalk sales and specials.

9th West Farmers Market is marking its 20th—and final—year in 2026. Located near the International Peace Gardens on Salt Lake City's west side, the market runs Sundays mid-June through mid-October and draws a community-focused crowd of shoppers looking to buy directly from local producers. This is your last chance to be part of this neighborhood institution.

Held at This Is The Place Heritage Park in early December, Christkindlmarkt SLC is a German-style holiday market run by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a mission to serve the Utah community. Expect wooden vendor booths, food, live entertainment, and family activities set against a heritage-park backdrop. The market celebrates St. Martin's Day with a Lantern Parade and an annual charitable-giving project — vendors and shoppers participate in community service as part of the season.

The 18th annual Craft Lake City DIY Festival, held in early August at the Utah State Fairpark, is Utah's largest local-centric art, music, science and technology festival. Over 500 local artisans, vintage vendors, craft food creators, and STEM exhibitors showcase handmade work—no mass-produced goods. Utah residency and handmade-by-maker requirement enforced; no dealers or representatives. Jury selects from nearly 800 applicants, with 35–40% of exhibitor lineup new each year. Strong draw: 40,000 attendees across music stages, live performances, kids' area, and robotics exhibits. Craft Lake City takes no commission on sales.

Downtown Farmers Market at Pioneer Park runs Saturdays year-round in Salt Lake City, bringing together farmers and growers selling produce, eggs, honey, and yogurt alongside packaged food vendors and a dedicated art and craft vendor track. Strong local coffee presence. Established Saturday crowd shopping for direct-from-producer goods.

Held in downtown Salt Lake City at the Civic Center, Living Traditions Festival is a free three-day multicultural festival in its 40th year. Produced by the Salt Lake City Arts Council in partnership with the Utah Division of Arts & Museums, it celebrates culturally diverse traditions through performances, craft artists, food vendors, demonstrations, and workshops. The festival draws shoppers intentionally seeking to learn about and support Utah-based cultural communities.

Created in 2015, Salt & Honey is run by two female makers in Salt Lake City who wanted to give artisans a place to sell their products. The Holiday Makers Market runs in November–January at two locations (9th & 9th and Fashion Place) with a collection from over 350 rotating independent artists and designers—hand-poured candles, jewelry, art, home goods, and more. 75% of the store is locally made, designed or created. Only original, handmade, unique, vintage, repurposed, or locally designed and produced goods qualify—no resale, MLMs, or party businesses. Food vendors must be cottage certified. Makers can create, test, and refine their products through the markets and retail shop.

Urban Arts Festival is Utah's largest free art festival, held in August at Smith's Ballpark in Salt Lake City. The day-long event features live music across multiple genres, live mural painting by a dozen local muralists, an artist marketplace, skateboard art show, lowrider exhibit, and performances ranging from rap to blues to drag and spoken word. Food vendors, artists, and performers all apply separately — the festival actively seeks a diverse vendor mix to support its community-centered programming. Note the AI policy: artwork wholly or partially generated by AI is not accepted.

In its 50th year, Utah Arts Festival brings 170+ artists, 200+ live performances, 25+ food vendors, and 80+ films to downtown Salt Lake City at Civic Center over four days in mid-June. The juried Artist Marketplace is the core draw — visual artists compete for booth space alongside demonstrating artists, emerging artists, and culinary vendors. The festival also programs dance, theater, music headliners, literary arts, workshops, and a kids' art yard. Draws around 42,000 attendees. Independent nonprofit event.

Longest-running U.S. Asian festival (49th) with a booth marketplace and food vendors.

Held in early June at Library Square in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah Pride Festival is a two-day celebration hosted by the Utah Pride Center and draws over 40,000 attendees. The festival features live performers, food vendors, community organizations, and family programming. Running since 1990, Utah Pride generates strong foot traffic from an established, intentional crowd of LGBTQ+ community members and allies—all profits support the Center's year-round programs serving Utah's LGBTQ+ community.

Utah's largest annual event, running since 1856 in downtown Salt Lake City, draws 320,000+ attendees each September. Food vendors and commercial exhibitors both apply separately—food vendors prepare or cook on-site (BBQ, fry stands, lemonade, ice cream); commercial vendors sell products, services, or prepackaged goods (clothing, handmade items, toys, jarred goods, sealed snacks). The fair pairs classic carnival rides and rodeos with agricultural exhibits, live music, and demo derby. High-traffic draw across an 11-day event.