Backyard Beats at Sweetwater Park
2026 Details
Saturday, May 23
5 p.m. to 8. p.m.
Sweetwater Park
This FREE concert is all about creating memorable experiences with your family, friends, and neighbors in your own backyard! Enjoy outstanding performances from national and regional acts, celebrating diverse talents and bringing the community together through music.
This FREE concert is all about creating memorable experiences with your family, friends, and neighbors in your own backyard! Enjoy outstanding performances from national and regional acts, celebrating diverse talents and bringing the community together through music.
This year’s concert will be centered around our Southern Street Eats food truck showdown! The culinary challenge for this year’s event? Mouth-watering BBQ.
For just $15, your exclusive tasting pass gets you a sample of each unique BBQ dish from the participating trucks. It also includes a People’s Choice token so you can vote for your favorite dish and help the winning truck score a cash prize!
(Please note: You must have a pass to sample the competition dishes and participate in the judging).
Not only will you get to enjoy one of kind dishes, but you will be supporting a great cause; $5 from every pass sold goes directly to support the Highlands Ranch Band Booster Club. Come for the delicious Southern BBQ, cast your vote, and stick around for an incredible evening featuring live music from our headliner!
Food Trucks
Click on each to learn more!
*Rebel Cookie Dough is not a part of the BBQ Food Truck Sampler Showdown
Headliners
Crush: The Bon Jovi Concert Experience
Crush: The Bon Jovi Concert Experience have been mesmerizing their audiences with their live stage show and authentic musical renditions of Bon Jovi’s greatest hits for the better part of a decade! At a Crush Bon Jovi Concert Experience show you’ll witness a 100% full-on, no-holds-barred, exciting musical experience that has to be seen to be believed! You will hear all the big hits like Living on a Prayer, It’s My Life, You Give Love a Bad Name, Wanted Dead or Alive and much more!
FAQs
What to Bring
Items Allowed
- Blankets and Tarps
- Lawn or Camping Chairs
- Canopies or Tents, must be properly secured
- Strollers or Wagons
- Small propane grills
- Coolers
- Plastic or Aluminum
- Well behaved dogs on leash
Prohibited Items
- Glass
- Weapons
- Smoking of any kind must be outside park
- Charcoal Grills
- Drones
- Fireworks
- Illegal Drugs
- Unlicensed or Unapproved Vending
- Professional Photography or Videography
Parking
Street parking is available on the perimeter of Sweetwater Park. The HUB parking lot is also available during events and easily connects to the Willow Creek Trail just at the edge of the Cook Creek Pool parking lot. The Willow Creek Trail leads you directly into Sweetwater Park.
We encourage Lone Tree Residents to take Link On Demand, which will pick you up at your home and take you directly to the park. For more info on how to utilize Link on Demand, click the link.
Handicap Parking will be available across from the entrance into the park, at the intersection of Lodgepole and Sweetwater Rd. Follow the posted signs. Golf cart shuttles will be driving around the entrance to help escort folks needing extra assistance into the park.
What's Available Onsite
- Kids activities – crafts, inflatable games, yard games, playground
- Portable Restrooms
- Trash
- Food for purchase through the food trucks
- Drinks for purchase through the food trucks
Delays or Cancellation Due to Weather
City Events are RAIN OR SHINE, so come properly prepared for any type of weather.
Events that are cut short or cancelled due to dangerous weather will not be rescheduled. Cancellation will only occur if there is lightning in the area or extreme hail.
To stay up to date on event happenings, be sure to stay connected via texts, email and social media.
