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 Lake
Havasu City has become a
“Special Events Mecca.”
Near-perfect
weather facilitates many special events in Lake Havasu City.
Annual events such as the Skat-Trak World Championships (the
culmination of the professional personal watercraft tour),
the Relics and Rods Run to the Sun (a pre-1960 specialty
street rod car show), and the Winterblast Western Pyrotechnics
Convention and Fireworks Show attract avid audiences. Currently,
Lake Havasu is hosting one of its largest events, the Festival
of Lights, featuring more than a million lights illuminating
the London Bridge and surrounding shops of the English Village
from late November through early January.  The Festival of
Lights creates a dazzling classic holiday scene for visitors
from throughout the country. For those seeking a charming
small town Dickens-like holiday atmosphere, the Festival
of Lights is hard to
beat.
Many people travel to Lake Havasu to visit the city’s most popular man-made
attraction - the world-famous London Bridge. Purchased for $2,460,000 by city
founder Robert McCulloch, the famous span of England’s River Thames was
relocated to its Lake Havasu home in 1971, block by sequentially numbered block.
Each October, Lake Havasu City celebrates the arrival of the world’s largest
antique during London Bridge Days, an annual celebration featuring High Tea with
the “Queen,” music concerts under the bridge and a grand parade. For
those still wondering, yes
it really is the actual London Bridge – replete with pocks left by
a Nazi strafing run during WWII.
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