‘Modesto GarageFest’ rocks the yard gross sales and enjoyable, one-of-a-kind finds – NBC Bay Space

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN ALMOND BLOSSOM SEASON, which begins to flower across the center of February, and May the Fourth, when Modesto honors hometown boy and celebrated director George Lucas, a really large yard sale beckons. This is not the form of shop-around occurring that’s beholden to a single spot, nevertheless: The Modesto GarageFest boasts dozens and dozens and extra dozens heaped upon these dozens of yard, storage, and sidewalk gross sales. “Imagine a day where the entire city of Modesto turns into a giant treasure map — with over 250 garage sales happening all at once!” marveled the Downtown Modesto staff in 2025. It’s a bounty of thrifty potentialities to contemplate, particularly when a loyal seeker of yard gross sales may solely make three or 4 stops over a mean weekend.

APRIL 18… is the 2026 date, and the map might be reside on the day of the sale. Scratch that: Make that the very early morning of the sale, at 4 a.m., giving up-with-the-sun consumers an opportunity to get up, coffee-up, and peruse the digital map earlier than heading out because the morning brightens. Books, toys, dwelling items, garments, and an assortment of basic yard sale discoveries will grace the lawns and driveways of some hundred Modesto houses and places, and your name to motion, per Visit Modesto, is to “… enjoy the rush while it lasts!” And final, it won’t: The map will solely be reside for 12 hours. Love the big-a-tude of this distinctive merch-and-more providing? The Golden State is dwelling to a couple citywide yard gross sales, with the well-known Morro Bay event occurring earlier within the spring every year.

MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU, MODESTO-STYLE: And in case you’re hoping to land your spacecraft in Modesto simply two weeks and a day after the sale concludes for the May the Fourth Be With You celebration, you may need to head for tenth Street Plaza, the place a Death Star piñata and vigorous mild saber battle awaits.