Americade works hard behind the scenes, in many ways, to be a good member of its host community. Here's how:

We limit the size of our event to be good neighbors. We put our money where our mouth is. By strongly discouraging illegally loud motorcycles from attending our convention, this inevitably reduces the number of potential attendees to Americade. We do this because we don't want our attendees to offend our host community, as has happened with several other large motorcycle gatherings. Needless to say, this limits our growth, but we know that continuing to be good guests is the right thing to do.

We support local law enforcement during the convention.

We work with many charities (nearly 30), either by helping them fundraise at Americade, and/or by making outright donations to them.

We give most of our charitable donations to LOCAL charities, because we want to support our host community.

We'll even pay more to buy locally. To support local suppliers and vendors, we often pay more than the lowest out-of-area quote.

Americade is 10 local folks, working full time, year round to make this event what it is, plus 220+ great volunteers (yes, volunteers) who help during the event.