A record crowd of 14,478 people attended PrideFest '98. Not only were the festival grounds expanded to include another premier stage, for the first time PrideFest had August dates. The date change was necessary to accommodate the 95th Harley-Davidson Anniversary Celebration, which had been scheduled years in advance to occur in June. Fortunately, the month of August had five weekends in 1998, making way for a late summer Pride celebration. The incredible August weather played well to the success of this banner year.

The Board of Directors for 1998 Pride was (in the order they were listed in the Pride records):

• Jane Baudelaire
• Ted Berg
• Jill Clark
• Susan Cook
• Charles Daniels (partial year)
• Rick Finger
• Nike Hall
• Chris Klein
• Mike Lisowski
• Sharon Mahos
• Bob Moore
• John Prentice
• Kathy Prodoehl
• Sheldon Schur
• Del Slowik