Choose your stops
Build your own route from the participating cafés and visit during each shop’s posted hours.
Explore the crawl
October 23–25, 2026
Three daysOne cityGreat Coffee.
Explore & celebrate independent cafés across Rockford during a citywide coffee crawl. Check in at each stop, Support your favorites, discover somewhere new, and earn entries into prize drawings.
Look who’s crawling!
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Local coffee. Good company. You’re part of it.
Open your passport and keep crawling.
Fall 2026
Crawl passport
01Visit a participating café
02Scan its unique QR code
03Reach four stops to qualify
Rockford Coffee Crawl × RAD
Wear crawl gear
Merch preorders are now closed. Thanks for supporting local coffee! If you preordered a crawl tee or hat from RAD (Rockford Art Deli), pick up your gear at RAD during crawl weekend.
Pickup at RAD · October 23–25, 2026
Find crawl gear at RAD
Some in-stock crawl gear will be available at RAD during crawl weekend, while supplies last.
Preorders closed
How the crawl works
Your weekend, your route.
Start anywhere, visit cafés, in any order. enjoy coffee & drinks. Let the digital passport keep track of your crawl.
Scan to check in
Each café will display its own QR code. Your passport remembers your information after the first stop.
Earn drawing entries
4 unique café visits qualify you for our Grand Prize. Every additional participating café adds another entry + more ways to win!
Explore the prizes
See the grand prize and other rewards your café visits can help you win.
Crawl, explore, win
Two Grand Prize Winners. A year of coffee.
Two lucky crawlers will each win twelve $15 gift cards to participating cafés of their choice. That’s $180 of local coffee for each winner, with up to three gift cards from any one café.
A year of coffee
Two Grand Prize Winners
Each winner receives 12 $15 gift cards to participating café brands of their choice.
$180 in local coffee for each winner.
Check in at 4 different participating café locations to earn Official Crawler and unlock your first grand-prize entry. Other qualifying achievements add bonus entries or multiply your entries once you’ve earned Official Crawler—including achievements earned before you qualified. Each additional location adds another entry.
More ways to win
Over $500 in total gift card prizes will be awarded after the crawl based on your visits and check-ins.
Plus one free beverage winner at every participating location. Beverage prizes are additional; their value varies by café.
Every stop enters you for chance to win!
Check in for a chance to win a free beverage.
Each café location will give one free beverage to one randomly selected guest who checked in there during crawl weekend. Visit more locations for more location-specific chances to win—one check-in is one chance at that café. Winners receive a digital reward card in their passport to show at the café.
The 2026 route
15 brands
22 public locations
Meet the independent coffee brands already confirmed for this fall’s crawl. Each profile will include its participating locations and crawl-weekend hours.
2 locations
Almoka Coffee House
Amazin Glazin Pastry & Coffee House
DeeDee's Main Street Coffee
Hearth Rock Cafe
Inzombia Coffee
Katie's Cup
La Croûte Bakery Cafe3 locations
Mary’s Market3 locations
Meg’s Daily Grind
Mrs. Buckbee's Wake-N-Bakery2 locations
My Cafe Amore
Rad Fuel Co.2 locations
Rockford Roasting Co.
Rosie’s coffee co
Wired Cafe
Almoka Coffee HouseAmazin Glazin Pastry & Coffee HouseDeeDee's Main Street CoffeeHearth Rock CafeInzombia CoffeeKatie's CupLa Croûte Bakery Cafe3 locationsMary’s Market3 locationsMeg’s Daily GrindMrs. Buckbee's Wake-N-Bakery2 locationsMy Cafe AmoreRad Fuel Co.2 locationsRockford Roasting Co.Rosie’s coffee coWired CafeFree to crawl. Easy to join.
All you’ll need is your name, mobile number, and email for the digital passport.
No ticket required No app to download