Solon Beef Days kicked off on Friday without any issues, but a Saturday morning event has been canceled due to the ...

While the storms may clear up around parade time, there’s a lot of setup and preparation that happens well before spectators ...

Pieper repeated as the winner of the Solon Beef Days Hay Bale Toss after tossing a bale of hay an astounding 13 feet into the ...

Iowa football offensive lineman Kade Pieper won the Hay Bale Toss at Solon Beef Days on July 18, 2025. Pieper is now a ...

Solon Beef Days is back Friday and with it, the famous hay bale toss.Contestants will start throwing hay bales over a designated height starting at 7 p.m. Frid ...

Iowa offensive lineman Kade Pieper won his second-straight Beef Days Hay Bale Toss, but as always, a good time was had by all.

Iowa football offensive lineman Kade Pieper won the Solon Beef Days Hay Bale Toss open men’s division for the second consecutive year.

SOLON — If you like red meat, you won't have a beef with the annual festival taking over Solon this weekend. Solon Beef Days kicks off at 5 p.m. Friday and runs late into the night Saturday. The ...

For Darin Grice of Solon, it meant flipping hundreds of burgers for the hundreds in attendance. For Eliot Jones, a chairman for the 43rd Solon Beef Days, it meant money raised for the town with a ...

All told, Solon Beef Days brings an estimated 25,000 visitors over the weekend to the community of 2,000 residents and is easily the city’s biggest fundraising event.

Solon Beef Days will kick off its 46th year Friday night. The festival will feature a variety of entertainment, a parade, beer tent, a carnival and the popular steak dinners.

Just be ready for Solon Beef Days 2021, for July 16 and 17. After having to call off the 2020 event because of the pandemic, the final days and hours of prep work are in place.