The Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay offers tours of the peninsula's 11 lighthouses by foot, boat, trolley, minibus and airplane.
The festival in this northwest Wisconsin lakes town includes a carnival, art fair, kids' fishing derby, car show, nationally known country bands and, on the last day, a parade followed by a water-ski show. Headliners include Redferrin, BlackHawk and Revisiting Creedence.
This popular street party stretches along the Grand Avenue shopping street between Snelling and Dale avenues. It features six music stages, a fun run, a morning parade, beer gardens and live wrestling.
This festival in the southwest corner of Minnesota features a cow-chip throwing contest, fire-truck ladder rides, duck races, an arts show and a big parade on Saturday.
This street festival in the Northcenter neighborhood, on Lincoln Avenue between Irving Park Road and Warner Avenue, features barbecue plus indie, roots, rock and alt country music.
The festival in this small town just south of Lake Geneva, Wis., is the longest running in the state. There are milk-drinking contests, milking demonstrations, cow-chip lotto, bed races and a parade Saturday.
This Fox Cities festival includes cheese-curd eating, cheese-carving and cheesecake contests and a Saturday cheese parade.
This free downtown festival features an art show, a Global Village, a Culinary Row and music and dance. Sunday is Children's Day, with 10 booths of hands-on activities.
There are concerts, lilac walking tours, a dog and pony show, a family fun area and, on the last day, a big parade.
Artists' studios and gardens will be open along the Mississippi and in the bluffs between Maiden Rock and Pepin in western Wisconsin.
The juried show in this posh southern Minneapolis suburb draws 375 exhibitors and 60,000 people.
The largest of Chicago's free music festivals will be held in Millennium Park. Headliners include Mavis Staples, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and the B.B. King Centennial Tribute band.
See giant show kites and stunt-flying demonstrations along Lake Michigan in Kennedy Park. There will be kite-making workshops and kite-flying lessons and contests, and the first 100 kids will receive free kites.
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