BUTLER — Registration is open for this year’s Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival June 12-14.

The annual festival, which celebrates Butler as the home of the Jeep, routinely brings in about 2,000 Jeepers. Even more visitors attend the three-day festival and participate in other activities.

It again will be at Cooper’s Lake Campground in Muddy Creek Township, although the Jeep parade and Jeep invasion will be in downtown Butler the evening of June 12.

Patti Jo Lambert, a spokesman for the Butler County Tourism and Convention Bureau, said that Jeep registration for the festival will be available until May 17.

Anyone wanting to participate in the Jeep Parade and the Jeep Invasion must register because there won’t be any on-site registration for those events. However, regular spectators can still buy tickets at the gate.

The Jeep parade, which has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest, is again expected to attract record numbers.

Anyone can register for the parade or the Jeep invasion at the festival’s website at www.bantamjeepfestival.com.

A special addition to this year’s parade will be the 75 Years of Jeeps exhibit to celebrate the 75th birthday of the Bantam Jeep.

Lambert said it will feature one Jeep from every year from 1940 to 2015.

Anyone registering for the Jeep parade or invasion will be given the chance to submit a picture and to nominate his Jeep for the event.

Those wanting to participate in the 75 Years of Jeeps event must register before March 31 to be considered.