Ive been a few times,and a few years I didnt know it was even on. Always seems to be very word of mouth,and I just found out about it this year a week or so before it happened. Unfortunately for myself,and others I have seen there in the past,we were all at the Gold Crown at Granite City Illinois that day,and I didnt feel like driving all the way across Illinois to check it out,and then drive back to Granite City. I dont really know what the ideal date would be for it,other than on Gold Crown weekend.