Toad Suck Daze gets hopping in Conway

CONWAY, Ark.- Conway is hopping into the 43rd year of Toad Suck Daze and this year event coordinators say it will be better than ever.

Toad Suck Daze is the largest, free family festival in Arkansas with more than 100,000 attendees every year.

Since its inception in 1982, it has contributed more than $2.4 million in scholarships, endowments, STEM education, preschool funding, arts education, and community development.

Toad Suck Daze is sponsored by Baptist Health, Chris Crain Hyundai, and Genesis of Conway; and this year they experienced a record in charitable giving of $220,500, and are displaying a new amphibian exhibit at the Little Rock Zoo.

The exhibit will renovate a portion of the reptile house at the zoo and feature aquatic and non-aquatic animals in six tanks.

Species include: Dying Poison Dart Frogs, Bumblebee Dart Frogs, Emerald Tree Boa, Amazon Tree Boa, Solomon Island Leaf Frogs, Prehensile-tailed Skink, Philippine tree Skink, Amazon Milk Frogs, Fringed Leaf Frogs and more.

They will also have headliner entertainment including, Arkansauce, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes and Sad Daddy, Arkansas native Matt Stell, and Former American Idol winner and fellow Arkansas native Kris Allen.

Toad Suck Daze will also host two family movie nights, sponsored by Bargain Brothers, at the Caldwell Toyota Toadal Kids Zone. Friday night’s movie will be Encanto and Saturday night’s movie will be Space Jam: A New Legacy.

For more information, visit ConwayArkansas.org.

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