There will be dachshund racing, stein-hoisting and brat-eating competitions as well as music and dancing at the War Memorial on the lakefront.
The Door County Maritime Museum sponsors tours by air, land and water to lighthouses on the peninsula, some of which can be visited only during festival weekends. Reserve as early as possible.
The Lions Club puts on this riverfront festival, which includes wiener-dog races, polka lessons, nail-driving, pumpkin-decorating and a beanbag tournament.
This festival at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds features craft beer, music, dancing and such competitions as stein-holding and nail-striking.
This self-guided 50-mile route in the scenic hills of southwest Wisconsin includes pop-up art installations and pasture performances.
In this northeast Wisconsin lakes town, there will be marsh tours, music, a cranberry beer and wine garden, an antiques market, fiber-art show and crafts fair.
This festival just north of Milwaukee features music and food plus goofy contests: best lederhosen/dirndl, sauerkraut-eating, a German spelling bee and a live Glockenspiel show.
It's the 63rd year of this big festival on Lake Superior, which features orchard tours, history walks, an apple-peeling contest, live music and a big parade at 2 p.m. Sunday.
There's German music and food at this Amana Colonies village, plus contests that include the Eisenmann, or Iron Man, competition: Teams roll kegs, walk a balance beam with full steins of beer and saw logs. The parade is at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Every year, this northern suburb of Chicago tries to break the record for most lighted jack-o-lanterns. In addition to all-you-can-carve stations, there will be costume, pie-eating and carving contests.
This juried arts festival along the banks of the St. Croix River includes music and food vendors.
There's a market, Fun Zone for kids, classic car and tractor show, entertainment stage, beer garden and a parade at 1 p.m. Sunday.
This town west of Madison offers vintage and handmade goods, live music and food trucks.
Listen to the blues at the historic Indian Crossing Casino.
This southern Minnesota festival is great for families, with a voyageur encampment of more than 1,000 reenactors dancing, demonstrating, competing and pulling visitors back into the fur-trade era.
In the bluffs above Trempealeau, this festival features a 10-foot apple pie, a hunt for a Silver Apple, a race of floating wooden apples and a bicycle tour with a 20-mile route through apple orchards and hillier 35- and 60-mile routes.
This town near Wisconsin Rapids calls itself the Giant Pumpkin Capital of Wisconsin and features a pumpkin-pie eating contest, pumpkin rolling and carving, a carnival and craft show.
On the 400 Block downtown, there will be free pumpkins, kids' tractor pulls, a petting zoo and other children's activities.
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay hosts this free outdoor festival that celebrates the crafts, food and traditions of medieval Scandinavia. Events include battle demonstrations.
In Lanesboro and the other towns along the Root River Valley State Trail in southeast Minnesota, enjoy music, wagon rides and free samples from local restaurants and growers.
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