CRANBERRY FESTIVALS

Warrens Cranberry Festival
September 26-28, 2008
Warrens, WI
608-378-4200
www.cranfest.com

The Warrens Cranberry Festival, the largest and oldest of the state’s cranberry festivals, kicks off on September 26 for a three-day run. Some of the events include cranberry marsh tours, arts and crafts, antique and flea market, farmers market, food booths, spaghetti feed, steak fry, pancake breakfast, recipe contest, biggest berry contest, quilt block contest, needlework and quilt contest, photography contest and a gigantic parade.

Cranberry Colorama
September 27, 2008
Manitowish Waters, WI
715-543-8488
888-626-9877
www.manitowishwaters.org/cranberry_color.htm

The Cranberry Colorama in Manitowish Waters features cranberry harvest tours at the marshes on Little Trout Lake, a craft and flea market, airplane rides, pontoon rides, cranberry recipe contest cook-off and Taste of Musky and Harvest Dinner.

Stone Lake Cranberry Festival
October 4, 2008
Stone Lake, WI
715-865-3378
www.stonelakecranberryfestival.com

The Stone Lake Cranberry Festival is a one-day festival saluting cranberry growing in the northwest. Events include cranberry bake-off contest, cranberry marsh tours, pancake breakfast, crafts, parade, street entertainment, helicopter rides and crate derby.

Eagle River Cranberry Festival
October 4-5, 2008
Eagle River, WI
715-479-6400
800-359-6315
www.eagleriver.org/CranberryFest.asp

The Eagle River Cranberry Festival will feature Cranberry Fitness Weekend, which includes a walk, run or bike tour to benefit the American Heart Association of Wisconsin. Also, enjoy cranberry marsh and winery tours, specialty cranberry food items, arts and crafts show, cranberry baking contest and bake sale, specialty foods and beverages, family fun entertainment and music, farmers market and antique market, the world’s largest cranberry cheesecake, harvest hoe down and bog bridge tournament.