Hundreds of Highland Games are held throughout the world every year. The format includes competitions in athletics, music and dance.
Audience members enjoy the contests and have hearty helpings of food and drink.
At each Highland Games, vendors provide a variety of Scottish memorabilia and goods. Visitors can be fitted for a kilt, order a set of bag pipes or buy a t-shirt. The Club's inaugural Scottish Gathering and Games, a family picnic with athletic contests, was held in a field at 12th and Market Streets in San Francisco on Thanksgiving Day 1866. Five days previously, on November 24, seventeen Scottish American men had formed the Caledonian Club of San Francisco. By then, the Caledonian Club had grown to 97 members.