ENCelebrate Sacramento’s local art scene at the 35th annual Chalk It Up! Festival, happening Saturday, August 30 through Monday, September 1, 2025, at Fremont Park (16th & 17th Streets between P & Q Streets).
This free, family-friendly event features:
Three days of live music
Local vendors and food trucks
Fun kids’ activities
And hundreds of volunteer artists creating incredible chalk art masterpieces on the sidewalks surrounding the park — including a transit-themed creation sponsored by SacRT!
Getting there is easy with SacRT! Ride bus or light rail fare-free with a special Chalk It Up flyer — just print or screenshot the flyer to show as your ticket.
Plan Your Trip on SacRT
Visit sacrt.com/planyourtrip to enter your starting location and destination (Fremont Park, Sacramento) to find the best transit options to get to the festival. The 16th Street Light Rail station is the closest light rail stop to the festival.
About Chalk It Up!
Chalk It Up! will dispatch Chalk Art Volunteers to create their chalk art work in other areas of Downtown Sacramento. And with the “Map Me” map (available at ChalkItUp.org), chalk art fans will be able to find their way around Fremont Park.
First established in 1991, Chalk It Up! is best known for the three-day chalk art festival held over Labor Day weekend. Fremont Park is turned into an explosion of chalk art masterpieces, the best of Sacramento live music, interactive art activities and crafts for artists of all ages, local crafts, food and drink.
Funds raised at this annual festival help support Chalk It Up’s mission to empower and support the next generation of Sacramento artists through targeted art grants for young artists and the programs which inspire them. Since 2012, Chalk It Up has awarded in excess of $50,000 in grants to local schools and community organizations to benefit Sacramento Youth Art Education.
Learn more at chalkitup.org.