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Festivals in Marquette, Michigan

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Art on the Rocks

Late July (2027 dates TBA)

In 1959, thirty-five artists propped their work on the black rocky hillside beneath the Father Marquette statue, and the organizer named the show for exactly where it stood. Five…

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Festival of the Angry Bear

Late April (spring thaw)

When Lake Superior's shore finally starts to thaw each April, Marquette 'wakes the bear' - a fur-clad, street-closing block party that celebrates Yoopers emerging from a long…

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Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival

Next-to-last full weekend of July (Fri-Sun)

Inspired by the Wheatland Festival downstate, a handful of people from Deerton, Munising, and Marquette raised money through bake sales, basketball games, and dances to throw the…

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Marquette Blueberry Festival

Late July (2027 dates TBA)

One Friday every July, downtown Marquette closes Washington and Front Streets and goes entirely blue. Restaurants get inventive - blueberry pizza, blueberry brats, blueberry beer…

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Marquette HarborFest

Late August (2027 dates TBA)

It started in 1984 as a seafood feast - the Rotary boiling lobster and Lake Superior whitefish for an end-of-summer meal on the shore - and over forty years it grew into a free…

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Marquette Trails Festival

Late June

Marquette has built one of the best trail networks in the Midwest, and the festival celebrates it - mountain bike races, trail runs, group rides, and a town where the singletrack…

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U.P. Fall Beer Festival

Mid September (2027 dates TBA)

Michigan ranks sixth in the nation for breweries and cheerfully calls itself the Great Beer State, and once a year the Brewers Guild hauls that reputation north to the Lake…

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UP 200 Sled Dog Race

Feb 11-15, 2027

On a February night, downtown Marquette trucks in snow to bury three blocks of Washington Street, and at seven o'clock twelve-dog teams launch from the chute straight into the…

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