Events and Entertainment
Residents of Gun Barrel love to celebrate and events are plentiful, including lots of music, amazing food from local vendors, family-friendly games and activities. Fireworks abound around the lake to top off special evenings.
July Fest is a coveted celebration at the City Park, bringing the entire lake community together. The Event features all genres of music, from country to hard, giving visitors a wide variety. Take your family and head to the festival for an evening of entertainment and fun. The City of Gun Barrel puts on July Fest and the Christmas Parade and beginning this year the Halloween Haunted Trail. Add Legacy Events Center and SeaScape Travel and Events.
Annual festivities attract thousands of attendees to Gun Barrel City
Events & Entertainment
CR Legacy Event Center
Welcome to CR Legacy Event Center, the best place in the Cedar Creek Lake area to host your Special Occasions in a Uniquely Elegant Way. Our 9,500 square. ft. Venue, our Astonishing Interior, our delicious food, and our service will make your event an unforgettable one. We host events such as weddings and proms as well corporate and fundraising events.
We strongly believe that the Greatest Legacy One Can Hold, Are One’s Most Memorable Occasions. Don’t just leave your mark, CR Legacy Event Center invites you to Create your Legacy and Leave a Lasting Impression for you and your Guests. Book your event Today!
Hometown Cinemas
Plan a visit to the 8-screen, local cinema to view the latest blockbuster movies with all the ingredients of a winning movie night-popcorn, candy, soda and lots of fun. Hometown Cinemas hosts private birthday parties, corporate events, anniversaries and school group and organization events.
Gun Barrel BINGO
Located conveniently on Main Street with the greatest specials in the city, Gun Barrel BINGO offers many variations of BINGO, pull tabs and more. You will be warmly welcomed by residents for a fun-filled evening of games that will keep you coming back again and again.
Thunder Over Cedar Creek Lake
Thunder Over Cedar Creek Lake is the highlight of the incredible Fourth of July celebrations on the lake. This spectacular air show is widely regarded as the premiere air show in Texas. Thunder entertains and amazes with aerial acrobatics and an up close and personal experience with the power of fighter jets, both civilian and military. The entire air show performance takes place over Cedar Creek Lake. Presented by the Pinnacle Golf and Country Club south of Gun Barrel, and hosted by a field of local businesses and benefactors, Thunder raises features jet fighter planes and the Cedar Creek Veterans Foundation.
Hundreds of people - possibly thousands - take in the show from their boats on Cedar Creek Lake. The show ends with spectacular fireworks that are seen and heard everywhere in the lake area.