Bridgefest
Mid June (2027 dates TBA)The Portage Lake Lift Bridge is the heaviest lift bridge in the world, and the only link between Houghton and Hancock - so the Keweenaw throws it a party. Fireworks over the…
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Canal Colors Festival
Early October (2027 dates TBA)Steep hills rise on both sides of the Portage Canal, so when the leaves turn here the color shows up twice - once in the trees and again reflected across the water. That's the…
Festival details for Canal Colors Festival →Michigan Tech Winter Carnival
Feb 3-6, 2027Students spend weeks building enormous snow statues across campus, working through all-nighters in genuine Keweenaw cold, all judged on one weekend. One of the oldest and largest…
Festival details for Michigan Tech Winter Carnival →Parade of Nations and Multicultural Festival
Mid-September (2027 dates TBA)Michigan Tech draws students from dozens of countries to a town in the Keweenaw, and once a year they march down the street in national dress carrying flags, followed by a…
Festival details for Parade of Nations and Multicultural Festival →Plaidurday
First Friday of OctoberPlaidurday began in 2010 when Bugsy Sailor, a Yooper who kept getting teased at his Lansing job for always wearing plaid, decided the pattern deserved its own holiday - and it…
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