For more than 70 years, Lehi has been honoring its heritage during the last full week of June with the Round-Up celebration.

The Lehi Round-up name was coined by Ethel Hunger, as part of a contest to name the city celebration. The title honors the farm and ranch legacy of Lehi pioneers, according to festival organizers.

That year, just months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Lehi’s mayor and city council formed a civic improvement association, and that group was tasked to start a city celebration. A volunteer committee still organizes and runs the annual festival.

Though city leaders formed the committee to start and run the city celebration in 1941, the rodeo had been a part of the city for several years before that. It started in 1937 and celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2012. To celebrate that anniversary, cowboys and cowgirls drove cattle down Main Street as part of the Round-up, just like they did in 1937.

Tradition is the theme running through each year’s celebration, punctuated by the rodeo and parades. The Lehi Round-up Rodeo is a three-night event and a major stop on the Wilderness Circuit for professional cowboys and cowgirls. There’s also the stock parade on the Thursday night of the festival, miniature float parade on Friday night and a grand parade Saturday morning.

The miniature parade features mostly children, who are riding on elaborately designed and decorated tiny floats, or walking alongside the floats, designed by local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wards. There also are people riding horses and other parade staples.

Some events have been happening since the festival’s inception while other events or features are tweaked or added every year — like having food trucks, an outdoor movie night and pool day, or hosting a run and golf tournament.

For more information about this year’s Round-up go to https://www.lehi-ut.gov/roundup.