Jump, Jump, Piggies! Grab your frog and go! 🐹 💚 💚 💚 🐸 🐸 🐸 🥕

Got a remarkable jumper in your herd?

Inspired by author Mark Twain’s famous tall tale, the annual Calaveras County Fair & Jumping Frog Jubilee takes place over four lively days during the third weekend in May in “Frogtown” — Angels Camp, California, a historic Gold Rush mining town tucked into the Sierra foothills.

Twain’s celebrated short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, tells the tale of Jim Smiley, an inveterate gambler willing to wager on absolutely anything. Smiley catches a frog he names Dan’l Webster and spends three months carefully training him to jump. When a stranger arrives in camp, Smiley proudly offers a $40 bet that Dan’l can out-jump any frog in Calaveras County.

Today, the frogs of Calaveras County continue the tradition in considerably more sporting fashion. The competition remains one of the most famous frog-jumping contests in the world, with expertly trained amphibian athletes leaping remarkable distances. The standing record is still held by Rosie the Ribeter, whose three consecutive jumps in 1986 totaled an astonishing 21 feet, 5¾ inches.

Ribbit! Ribbit!

Wheek! Wheek!