News & Updates - Since 1969, the year the City of Wheat Ridge, CO was founded, the Wheat Ridge Carnation Festival has attracted thousands of people from Wheat Ridge and surrounding communities. This, our forty-second festival, will prove exciting with two nights of fireworks, great headline entertainers, a spaghetti dinner and a Chili Cook-off, food vendors, the beer garden, and a large midway carnival with crafts and fun. . . . (read more)