A major auction titled Treasures From The Golden Road in April will offer more than 300 pieces of Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia memorabilia sourced from the personal archives of insiders Big Steve Parish, Trixie Garcia, and Ram Rod Shurtliff.

Items span stage dressing, Winterland Ballroom memorabilia, sketchbooks, working songbooks, and various speaker cabinets from the band’s era, with highlights including Garcia’s 1939 Gibson Super 400N and a 1988 Dobro Model 64 'Tree of Life' resonator guitar, plus amps, effects pedals, and personalized items like a Madison Square Garden tie-dye director’s chair and a Louisville Slugger bat.

Registration and additional details for the auction are available on JuliensAuctions.com.

Garcia’s visual art is represented by a small black pastel sketchbook and an original airbrush piece from his mid-80s experimentation, showcasing his private artistic side.

Julien’s Auctions is hosting the sale, with statements from Big Steve Parish adding historical context about the items’ significance.

The live event will be held in San Francisco at The Box SF and streamed online on April 22, featuring guitars, drums, cymbals, road cases, amplifiers, Mu-Tron pedals, backstage passes, handwritten setlists/lyrics, and tour itineraries, including a piece marked by a cigarette burn.

Backstage history includes a Winterland dressing room plaque from Bill Graham and five telegrams from Graham to the band in 1981, highlighting the promoter’s distinctive wit.

Collectors can browse all 326 items on Julien’s Auctions’ website and register to bid through the provided links, with an official trailer available.

Registration to bid is required, with options for in-person or online participation, and the auction begins at 10 a.m. PT on April 22.

Other notable pieces include the 1988 Dobro Model 64 'Tree of Life' resonator, vintage posters and artwork, Bill Graham telegrams, and a Hard Truckers speaker cabinet tied to influential moments in the Dead’s touring history.

Highlights also feature two Mu-Tron effect pedals used by Garcia, Owsley Stanley’s leather belt with a lightning bolt buckle, a Winterland 1978 cowbell, Garcia’s original sketches, custom in-ear monitors, and an official Maryland State Police assessment of the Grateful Dead.