Friday, September 19, 2025

  1. Bacon Bash

    River Falls, WI2025-09-19

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

  2. Riot Fest

    Chicago, IL2025-09-19

    This Douglass Park music festival also features a circus sideshow revue and carnival.

  3. Audubon Days

    Mayville, WI2025-09-19

    The festival in this town next to big Horicon Marsh features bed races, a car show, craft fair, bag tournament and music.

  4. Fox Cities Irish Fest

    Appleton, WI2025-09-19

    In Appleton's Jones Park, there's music all day, plus dancing, cultural programs and, for the children, fairy stories and magic.

  5. Unplugged music festival

    Grand Marais, MN2025-09-19

    The harbor-side North House Folk School celebrates with storytelling, traditional workshops, an artisan marketplace and concerts by songwriter/musicians.

  6. German Fest

    Guttenberg, IA2025-09-19

    There will be music, dancing, children's games and lock and dam tours in this antebellum town on the Mississippi River.

  7. Hot Air Balloon Days

    Creston, IA2025-09-19

    In this town southwest of Des Moines, there are balloon races and night glows, a parade with marching-band contest, an arts and crafts fair and a flea market.

  8. Apple Days

    Excelsior, MN2025-09-19

    On the shore of Lake Minnetonka, there's a history tour, apple pie-eating contest, music and a street dance.

  9. Oktoberfest

    Chippewa Falls, WI2025-09-19

    Expect entertainment on four stages, kids' activities, keg-rolling, sauerkraut-eating and stein-holding contests and a parade at 3 p.m. Saturday.

  10. Applefest USA

    La Crescent, MN2025-09-19

    This bluff town, across the Mississippi River from La Crosse, celebrates fall with apple-orchard tours, a 5K run, children's activities, music, kickball and cornhole tournaments, a noon Saturday kiddie parade and a grand parade at 1 p.m. Sunday.

  11. Pufferbilly Days

    Boone, IA2025-09-19

    This festival in central Iowa, just west of Ames, is named for a steam engine and features a spike-driving contest, mud volleyball and rides on the Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad. A parade is Saturday.

  12. Mahkato Wacipi

    Mankato, MN2025-09-19

    This traditional powwow in Land of Memories Park commemorates the 38 Dakota who were hanged after the 1862 U.S.-Dakota war.

  13. Midwest Viking Festival

    Green Bay, WI2025-09-19

    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.

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