Friday, September 27, 2024

  1. Cranberry Festival

    Warrens, WI2024-09-27

    At this huge festival in west-central Wisconsin, there'll be marsh tours, pie-eating contests and more than 1,000 booths selling antiques, produce and arts and crafts. 

  2. Apple Festival

    Gays Mills, WI2024-09-27

    There'll be arts and crafts and music in this southwest Wisconsin village. The big parade is Sunday.

  3. World Music Festival

    Chicago, IL2024-09-27

    Artists and ensembles from 22 countries perform at the Chicago Cultural Center and other venues. Admission is free.

  4. Oktoberfest

    La Crosse, WI2024-09-27

    At this big riverfront festival, there's food, music and carnival rides, plus the opening Torchlight Parade and the Maple Leaf Parade on Saturday morning.

  5. Oktoberfest

    Des Moines, IA2024-09-27

    Take polka-dancing lessons, enter the Bier Maiden or stein-holding contests and win costume prizes at this outdoor fest under tents downtown.

  6. Cornish Festival

    Mineral Point, WI2024-09-27

    In the old lead-mining district in southwest Wisconsin, play shove ha'penny in the Kiddleywink Pub, eat figgyhobbin and pasties, listen to tommyknocker tales and tour Cornish miners' cottages.

  7. Boats and Bluegrass

    Winona, MN2024-09-27

    This family-oriented festival in Prairie Island Park, on the Mississippi River, features disc golf and paddling as well as music. A weekend pass includes camping and canoeing, and kids under 16 are free with an adult ticket. Buy tickets early to save money.

  8. Fall Rendezvous & Harvest Fest

    Sault Ste. Marie, ON2024-09-27

    At the Ermatinger Clergue National Historic Site near the Soo Locks, see War of 1812 reenactments, musket demonstrations, cannon fire and living history.

  9. Oktoberfest

    New Glarus, WI2024-09-27

    There will be music, wagon rides, chainsaw carving, children's activities and, of course, beer from New Glarus Brewing.

  10. Grundy County Corn Festival

    Morris, IL2024-09-27

    The festival in this town on the Illinois River between Ottawa and Joliet offers stagecoach and train rides, a crackerbox derby, a pie-eating contest, music, a carnival, Saturday fireworks and a parade at 2 p.m. Sunday.

  11. Kalona Fall Festival

    Kalona, IA2024-09-27

    This Mennonite community just southwest of Iowa City, famous for its quilts, offers pony rides, a pumpkin-carving contest, demonstrations of Old World artisanry, music and homemade potato chips, apple fritters, ice cream and chicken, biscuits and gravy.

  12. Fall Fest

    Cable, WI2024-09-27

    In the colorful northwest Wisconsin woods, there'll be hay rides, corn maze, a chili cook-off, fish boil, arts and crafts and fireworks.

  13. Bacon Bash

    River Falls, WI2024-09-27

    There will be eating contests, pig crafts, an amateur bacon cook-off and many bacon dishes, including ice cream.

  14. Harvest Fair

    West Allis, WI2024-09-27

    This free festival at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds features lumberjack shows, pumpkin bowling, scarecrow-making, kids' rides and entertainment on three stages.

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