Tall Stacks

Tall Stacks, formally known as the Tall Stacks Music, Arts, and Heritage Festival, was a festival held every three or four years in the Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, area, which celebrated the city's heritage of the riverboat.

The festival typically featured a number of vintage and replica steamboats from across the eastern United States, which docked along the Ohio River shoreline in Cincinnati and across the river in Covington and Newport, Kentucky.

After the 2009 event was cancelled a festival was tentatively scheduled for 2010, but was not held due to the poor economy and lack of corporate sponsors.

[1] The first Tall Stacks festival was held in October 1988 as a part of Cincinnati's bicentennial celebration.

Fourteen riverboats made appearances in the three-day festival, which included tours of the boats, cruises and races between the rivals Delta Queen and Belle of Louisville — a renewal of their annual race during the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Belle of Louisville , Natchez , and Majestic preparing for 2006 Tall Stacks
The Belle of Louisville docks next to the Natchez in Cincinnati for Tall Stacks.
Numerous river boats along the Ohio River during the 2006 festival.