Undead and deadicated
It takes an undead community to produce this festival. Davis is a town full of volunteers, community organizers, working artists and an unusually engaged public, and philanthropy runs deep here. It shows on the one Saturday a year when all of these people, and many more behind the scenes, come together so that the town gets a FREE Halloween festival and children with disabilities get custom trykes.
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Who produces the festival
Davis Odd Fellows Lodge #169
The Davis Odd Fellows Lodge #169 has hosted the Zombie Bike Parade Festival since it began. Chartered in 1870, the Lodge is Davis' oldest continually operating organization, with more than 400 members open to all.
davislodge.orgThe Bike Campaign
The Bike Campaign, founded in 2011 by Maria Contreras Tebbutt, makes cycling available to everyone, including children with disabilities and seniors, through its Bike Garage locations in Davis and Woodland.
www.thebikecampaign.orgDavis Bike Club
Davis Bike Club has organized recreational and competitive cycling in Yolo County since 1979 and joined as a host of the festival starting in 2024.
davisbikeclub.orgNorCal Trykers
NorCal Trykers, a chapter of National AMBUCS, provides free custom therapeutic tricycles to children with special needs. It is the festival's beneficiary: seven years of fundraising have delivered 42 trykes.
norcaltrykers.comCity of Davis
The City of Davis partners on route permitting, Bike Loop signage and the Community Park Bike Pump Track, and named the festival a Best Event in Yolo County.
www.cityofdavis.orgVisit Yolo
Visit Yolo (Visit Davis) promotes the Zombie Bike Parade Festival to visitors as one of Davis' signature Halloweekend events.
www.visityolo.comHallmark Properties
Hallmark Properties, led by Lawson and Marianne Youmans, has been a top sponsor since 2021, funding the Skydance Skydiving grand finale and other festival highlights.
Action Flipbooks
Roaming photographers and the 360 degree video booth at the festival, and the reason a good share of the photographs on this site exist. They have covered the parade for years.
www.actionflipbooks.comThe City of Davis crew
A festival that closes streets, fills a park and drops skydivers into the middle of town does not happen because somebody had a good idea. It happens because City of Davis staff show up, year after year, and make it possible.
Look at the picture below. In 2019 that was one person. Every year since, more of them have joined in, from public works to police to fire, and they have turned a small ride into something a whole town can come to. Several of them now treat Halloween weekend as theirs too.
We are lucky to live somewhere the answer is usually "how do we make that work" rather than "no". To everyone at the City who has worn a hi-vis vest on a Saturday in October so that a few thousand zombies could ride safely through their own town: thank you. This festival is yours as much as ours.
With particular thanks to Heather Doherty, Matthew Trevino, Deanne Machado and Dave Knighton. We know this list is missing people. If you are one of them, tell us and we will put that right.
