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Festivals in Manistee, Michigan

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Manistee LaborFest

Labor Day weekend

Manistee closes out summer with a Labor Day festival on the riverwalk - music, food, and a Victorian downtown built on lumber money.

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Manistee National Forest Festival

Last week of June through July 4

It began in the late 1800s as 'Homecoming,' a Fourth of July celebration built to welcome back everyone who'd left town - then in 1936 got renamed for the new national forest…

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Victorian Sleighbell Parade & Old Christmas Weekend

Dec 3-6, 2026

Since 1989, Belgian draft horses have hauled a 30-foot Christmas tree down River Street while 10,000-plus people follow it to the end of the street for the lighting. Only…

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