May 15, 2026

Calendar of Events

Upcoming Events › Heritage

May 29, 2026 – May 31, 2026

Dairyfest 2026, Marshfield

Marshfield features its 45th annual Dairyfest Friday, May 29th through Sunday, May 31st at venues all across the city. This is Hub City’s annual honor of the agricultural industry and Wisconsin’s hardworking dairy farmers! This community tradition has been providing fun for the whole family, during these “dairy-licious” days.

The Marshfield Area Chamber of Commerce & Industry (MACCI) puts on the event, which includes a wide variety of fun activities across the three-day weekend.

Visit Marshfield logo for Marshfield, WisconsinDairyfest Info & Schedule of Events:

What is Dairyfest?

Held annually the weekend after Memorial Day, Dairyfest is a fun community celebration that honors the agriculture industry and local dairy farmers. Dairyfest features a lot of fun events, including the annual Dairyfest Breakfast, a parade, kids’ activities, a Picnic in the Park, and much more. The theme of this year’s celebration is “A Dairy Great Time”!

Friday, May 29th

5:30am-9:30am / Mayor’s Breakfast: Held at the Expo Building at the Central Wisconsin State Fairgrounds, 513 E. 17th St., this traditional event welcomes nearly 2,000 people every year. $10/ticket, kids 6 and under are FREE!

5:00pm-8:00pm / Picnic in the Park: Food trucks will be at Columbia Park, 201 W. Arnold St., until 5:00pm and a variety of food booths will be available throughout the evening. Join the fun in the Park including a Petting Zoo, Educational displays, Marshfield Fire & Rescue hands-on fun, Face painting, Main Street Conservatory of Dance show, Coin & Candy hunt (ages 2-9), Bingo (ages 10-15), and the Marshfield Civic Band Concert. Bring your lawn chairs for a night of fun!

Saturday, May 30th

Additional activities scheduled for Saturday include:

  • 9:00am-4:00pm / Annual Dairyfest Craft Show, 3rd & Chestnut
  • 10:00 am – 3:00 pm North Wood County Historical Society Annual Pie and Ice Cream Social
    Governor W. H. Upham House, 212 West 3rd Street, Marshfield
  • 19th Annual Dairyfest Fling Disc Golf Tournament
  • 11:00am / Dairyfest Downtown Parade, runs from 2nd street and goes South on Central Ave, turns East on 14th Street and ends at the Fairgrounds parking lot.
  • 1:00pm-4:00pm / Family Fun Day at Wenzel Plaza: a UW Madison Marching Band performance, Inflatable fun, plenty of Food Trucks – come hungry! Also enjoy Enoch the Eccentric Magician, DJ Dan Weis of Music Energy, Face painting, and more!
  • 3:00pm-11pm / Annual Outdoor Dairyfest Beer Garden at Nutz Deep II 809 South Central Avenue
  • *USA Sanctioned Dairyfest Coed and Women’s Softball Tournaments
    Central WI State Fairgrounds, 513 East 17th Street
    Central WI State Fairgrounds
    8:00 am to 10:00 pm

Saturday, May 31st

USA Sanctioned Dairyfest Coed and Women’s Softball Tournament
Central WI State Fairgrounds
9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Marshfield Dairyfest Address:

Various locations around town, including the Central Wisconsin State Fairgrounds
513 E. 17th Street
Marshfield, WI 54449
Website




 

Back to StateTrunkTour.com



Start: May 29, 2026
End: May 31, 2026
Venue: Central Wisconsin State Fairgrounds
Phone: 715-387-1261
Address:
513 E. 17th Street, Marshfield, WI, 54449, United States

June 5, 2026 – June 7, 2026

Copperfest

Copperfest is back, June 5-7, 2026!

Copperfest celebrates Wisconsin’s “Copper Country” in Oconto with tons of fun activities, history, food, a big lineup of live music, and more. Come join the fun on June 5th, 6th, and 7th, 2026. It’s easy access off U.S. 41 and Highway 22! This year’s theme is “Disney.”

Enjoy tons of live music , the Artist Village all days, the Grand Parade Saturday morning at 10am, and the Car Show Saturday from 10am-2pm featuring makes and models from a wide variety of eras.

Most events will take place at the American Legion Post 74 Park, 709 Madison Street in Oconto.

Copperfest Live Music Lineup

FRIDAY:
5:00-6:30pm TBA
7:00-11:00pm TBA

SATURDAY
11:30am-2:30pm TBA
3:30pm-6:30pm TBA
7:30pm-11:00pm TBA

SUNDAY
11:30am-2:15pm TBA

Miss CopperfestEntertainers include David Malmberg and Casaday’s Critters.  Saturday and Sunday kids and grown-up alike can enjoy the Trout Pond, racing pigs and ducks, the pie and ice cream social, the crafters and vendors, bounce houses (alright, that’s for kids only), face painting, caricatures, and much more!!

UTL Wrestling will also be on display Sunday afternoon!

Hours for the Artist Village are Friday 5PM-9PM, Saturday 10AM-5PM, Sunday 10AM-3PM. Explore over 120 artists and crafters from all over the state!

For all the latest, check their Facebook page.

U.S. 41 and Highway 22 bring you there! You’ll find Oconto at the eastern end of Highway 22, right at U.S. 41. It’s about eight miles east of U.S. 141 and 10 miles south of Highway 64. Copperfest is in town, and just east past downtown is the shores of Green Bay, with lakeside parks and piers and a view across the bay to Door County. It’s only about half an hour from the city of Green Bay and twenty minutes from Marinette.

Oconto Copperfest Address:

American Legion Post 74 Park
709 Madison Street
Oconto, WI 54153
(920) 604-3636
Website




 

 

Back to StateTrunkTour.com



Start: June 5, 2026
End: June 7, 2026
Venue: American Legion Post 74 Park
Phone: 920-373-1998
Address:
709 Madison Street, Oconto, WI, 54153, United States

June 5, 2026 – June 6, 2026

Shawano Sundrop Dayz

Shawano SunDrop Dayz 2026 hits Friday, June 5th and Saturday, June 6th to celebrate the tasty citrus soda this town began making in the 1950s! SunDrop helps usher in summer with a wide variety of family-friendly activities, live performances, music, food, beverages. You can even enjoy tours and tastings at the SunDrop Museum.

Sun Drop soda is being made and bottled in returnable glass bottles. Tour the Sun Drop museum at 920 S. Franklin Street and experience fun interactive displays. Most importantly, visit the tasting room and sample their different soda flavors. They include Farmer’s Brew butterscotch root beer, rhu-berry, caramel apple, blue raspberry, black cherry, cream, or the original “Golden Soda” Sun Drop. Horse wagon rides will be available between the museum and the park so you can enjoy a ride to the tours and tastings!

Friday late afternoon into the evening, kids can enjoy the Kidz Zone with inflatables and more. Afterwards, all can enjoy live music from Spark Spark Bang! and Driftwood during the evening. Saturday, June 1st opens early with a Flea Market at 6am on Main Street. At 9am, the 5k Run/Walk kicks off. Both the Craft Fair and Kidz Zone fire up at 10am. The muscle comes out in the early afternoon with the Strongman Competition at 1pm and the Lumberjack Competition continuing from there through 5pm. For music, the Oneida Smoke Dancers will perform starting at Noon. Also, Wet Possum takes the stage at 3pm and the GLAM BAND plays from 6:45pm until 10 (at least.)

SunDrop Dayz is also a fundraiser, and the festival has raised over $100,000 for local charities since its inception in 2016. Sponsors keep admission FREE and there are plenty of vendors offering their crafts, food, beer, soda, and more for sale.

Shawano SunDrop Dayz Address:

Shawano is easily accessible via the Highway 29 expressway as well as Highways 22, 47, and 55 (which also sometimes joins 29 on the bypass). Memorial Park itself, where the festivities are centered, is along Main Street/Highway 22. Within blocks you’ll find Stubborn Brothers Brewing and the Mountain-Bay Trail.

909 S. Lincoln Street one block north of Lieg Street east of Main (Highway 22)
Shawano, WI
Website




Back to StateTrunkTour.com

Start: June 5, 2026
End: June 6, 2026

June 13, 2026

Sister Bay Roofing of the Goats Parade



Well, THIS is an interestingly-named event: the Roofing of the Goats Parade takes place at Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant & Butik in Sister Bay, Wisconsin on Saturday, June 13th, 2026 at 11:00 am right along Highway 42.

All goats are invited to participate in the 12th annual Roofing of the Goats parade! Don’t have a goat? Then line up and watch the famous Al Johnson’s goats while they head down the streets to climb up onto the sod roof. They will be joined by many of their local Door County goat friends who will also be at the festivities. Goat costumes, goatees, Viking hats, and other creative endeavors are encouraged. The parade begins at the corner of Mill Road and Highway 42 in downtown Sister Bay, and goes a trot, kick and a leap down the road to Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant. The parade culminates with the roofing of the first goats of the season at Al Johnson’s (weather permitting – the goats don’t go on the roof in rain or snow). The Goat Parade will be followed by Al Johnson’s annual Goat Fest, located at Stabbur Beer Garden, next to the restaurant. Goat Fest will feature all day festivities including: live music, kid’s games, various beverages, great food, and a Swedish Pancake Eating contest. Other businesses throughout town will also be celebrating with specials.

Sister Bay Roofing of the Goats Parade

Returning this year is the Goat Drop Contest. You can help support the Northern Door Food Pantry and have some fun. With a purchase of a goat drop sticker, you will be entered in to win a Trek Fat Tire Cruiser bike from Husby’s and Flanigan’s Distributing, a $100 gift card from Al Johnson’s, or a Lunch and Farm Tour from Door County Creamery. Stickers will be placed on the street along the parade route. To win, a Goat must make a deposit on your sticker during the Goat parade. All proceeds will go to the Northern Door Food Pantry at the Sister Bay Baptist Church. Stickers will be available for purchase at the parade, or if you can’t attend you can still join in on the fun and purchase your stickers online. You do not need to be present to win! Buy your stickers HERE.

Parade line up begins on the southeast corner of Highway 42 (N. Bay Shore Dr.) and Mill Road, and begins at 11:00 a.m. Don’t be late…the goats walk fast!

After the parade, Goat Fest at Al Johnson’s will begin, and includes Live Music, Kids Games and Crafts, a Swedish Pancake Eating Contest and more.

Sister Bay Roofing of the Goats Parade Address:

Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant & Butik
10698 N. Bay Shore Road (Highway 42)
Sister Bay, WI 54234
(920) 854-2626
Website




Al Johnson's in Sister Bay is unmistakeable as you drive by.

Back to StateTrunkTour.com



Start: June 13, 2026 10:30 am
End: June 13, 2026 5:00 pm
Venue: Al Johnson's Swedish Butik
Phone: 920-854-2626
Address:
10698 N. Bay Shore Road, Sister Bay, WI, 54234, United States

July 11, 2026 – September 6, 2026

Bristol Renaissance Faire


bristolrenfaire_logo01Along the Wisconsin-Illinois border you can go back to the 16th century at the Bristol Renaissance Faire. A plethora of entertainment, great food, performances, and a marketplace filled with crafts, art, musical instruments, clothes, jewelry, and more await. You’ll find plenty of colorful characters in period costumery, performers twirling fire, people mashing their mouths into giant turkey legs, wandering minstrels, swordfights, jousting… the list goes on and on. It’s a great summer weekend activity just west of Kenosha on the Illinois border!

Bristol Renaissance Faire runs Saturdays and Sundays July 5th though Labor Day, September 1st (yes, it runs that Monday and that’s the only Monday.)

Bristol Renaissance Faire

The Kid’s Kingdom features the Castle Stage where children can get knighted, a face-painting area (don’t worry, it washes off eventually), hobbit houses, an entrance area with five huge thrones that provide great photo opportunities, and an air-conditioned rest area.

A giant turkey leg slathered in barbecue sauce is an essential part of the Bristol Renaissance Faire experience, but they also offer everything from Cornish pasties and bakery goods to vegan items and gelato. The number of entertainment stages now totals sixteen. Comedic sword-fighting, ropewalking, juggling, fire-whipping, acrobatics, chalk art, a variety of musicians, and more. The Marketplace offers the work of nearly 175 artisans and crafters; you can find Scottish kilts, leather masks, bamboo flutes, jester socks, stage-combat-approved swords, steampunkery, and much more. Glass blowing and blacksmithing activities frequently happen in the Marketplace as well as a variety of other crafting.

Tickets range from $40 for adults to $15 for children ages 5-12. Seniors (62+) and Military with ID are $38. Kids 4 and under are free. Season passes can be purchased for $225. You can also get discounted tickets at Menard’s and if you join Friends of the Faire you can also get discounts. U.S. 41, I-41/94, Highway 165, and the state line border the “Fairegrounds,” with U.S. 45 and Highway 50 also getting you close!

Bristol Renaissance Faire Location:

12550 120th Avenue
Kenosha, WI 53142
(877) 395-7773
Website

Instagram




Back to StateTrunkTour.com



Start: July 11, 2026
End: September 6, 2026
Venue: Bristol Renaissance Faire
Phone: 877-435-9849
Address:
12550 120th Avenue, Kenosha, WI, 53142, United States
Cost: 40

July 23, 2026 – July 25, 2026

Hub City Days

Hub City Days logoMarshfield is known as “Hub City” and its 20th annual Hub City Days celebrates the city’s heritage, present, and future. Check out a weekend of fun July 23-25, 2026, including a big screen movie shown right on Central Avenue and Wenzel Family Plaza!

The massive Car & Bike Show, Family Zone with bounce houses and kids’ games, the Craft Show, the Brew Fest and Beer Garden, tons of live music and more are all ready!

Hub City Days, Marshfield

Hub City Days train

The Hub City Brew Fest will feature craft beers from all over Wisconsin and the Midwest! The Car Show will be right on Central Avenue (Historic Highway 13).

You can reach Marshfield via U.S. 10 or Highways 13, 80, and 97. It’s right in the center of Wisconsin, hence the name “Hub City”!

Hub City Days Schedule:

Thursday, July 23rd

DOWNTOWN BUSINESS AFTER 5

5 – 7 PM | Elk’s Club

Main Street welcomes MACCI’s monthly business networking event downtown to kick off Hub City Days! Enjoy live music with Curtis Samuel, appetizers, and drinks.

Questions? Contact MACCI: ​(715) 384-3454

MOVIE IN THE PLAZA

Dusk | Wenzel Family Plaza

Grab some fundraiser concessions alfresco in the Wenzel Family Plaza. Don’t forget your lawn chairs, picnic blankets, and your fam! Movie hint: “Smile, Smile,”, Rated PG

Books will be given to kids in attendance thanks to the generosity of the Friends of Marshfield Public Library. (One per household while supplies last.)

Friday, July 24th

SHOP HOP

5 – 7 PM | Downtown Marshfield

Streets will be closed to traffic Central Ave – Veteran’s to 4th St. for pedestrians to enjoy evening shopping and dining downtown.

+ Wander the streets to discover more!

Win Hub City Brew Fest tickets! *Shop downtown this evening and bring your receipt to the Main Street Marshfield tent at Wenzel Family Plaza between 7-9 p.m. You’ll receive an entry for each receipt you show with your 21+ ID. Winners will be announced at 9 p.m. Tickets will be held at Hub City Brew Fest for those not present for the announcement.*

BIKE CRUISE & BIKE ACTIVITIES

5:30-7 PM | Downtown Marshfield

Enjoy a group bicycle ride into downtown from a predetermined Marshfield trail location (TBD). Once downtown, park your bike to shop & dine or enjoy a variety of bike activities set up on Central Ave, including a safety station, local trail updates, summer community ride info, and the bikeshare program. All group ride participants earn a free ice cream at Hiller’s Ice Cream Bike, located near Northside Cycle.

HUB CITY CONCERT SERIES FEATURING ADAM GRUEL AND THE SPACE BURRITOS

7 – 10 PM | Wenzel Family Plaza

Grab your picnic blanket or lawn chairs for a leisurely night out on the grass. Main Street Marshfield will be selling beer, seltzer, and soft drinks to raise funds for downtown events and programming!

Saturday, July 25th

CAR SHOW

10 AM – 3 PM | Downtown Marshfield

The Hub City Days Car Show spans over 10 city blocks, features 500+ car/bike entries, a live DJ, kids games, tons of door prizes, free t-shirts for veterans, veteran appreciation raffle (2 PM), and kids-only raffle (2 PM). It’s the car show you can’t miss! Car show vehicle awards are presented at 3 PM. Car show vehicle registration is free with a suggested donation of a non-perishable food item.

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT & BEER GARDEN

11 AM – 11 PM | Wenzel Family Plaza

Enjoy live music with no cover charge! Bands will play 11 AM to 11 PM thanks to our day stage sponsor, Prevail Bank, and main stage sponsors, Marshfield Insurance & West Bend.

11 AM – 3 PM Live Music: Modern Throwback

3 – 7 PM Live Music: Tim Dorsey

7 – 11 PM Live Music: Shirts and Skins

Rain location: Central WI Fairgrounds Expo Building

HUB CITY BREW FEST

12 – 3 PM | Wenzel Family Plaza

Participants receive a souvenir pint glass. Enjoy seating and beer tasting exclusive to Brew Fest attendees. $30/ticket. Tickets on sale here: eventbrite.com

Rain location: Central WI Fairgrounds Expo Building

HORSE POWER SHOW

10 AM – 3 PM | Upham Mansion

Visit the Governor Upham House and walk through an exhibit of horse-drawn carriages dating from the early 1900s.

FAMILY ZONE

10 AM – 3 PM | Veteran’s Park

Find family fun at the Family Zone! Kiddie Cars, Marshfield Fire Dept, Hiller’s Bounce Houses, face painting, and more all in the relaxing shade of Veteran’s Park. Reis Martial Arts’ demonstrations will begin at 11AM. Performances by Main Street Conservatory of Dance will begin at 12PM and 1PM.

NEW: HUB CITY DAYS CRAFT SHOW

10 AM – 3 PM | 100 Block of South Central Avenue Peruse local craft vendors conveniently located near live music and the start of the car show. Wander through the sidewalks to see what local shops have in store for the day and take something home to commemorate the event.

Find out more here from Visit Marshfield.

You can easily reach Marshfield via U.S. 10 or Highways 13, 80, and 97. Head to the Hub!




Visit Marshfield logo for Marshfield, Wisconsin

Check out our State Trunk Tour Marshfield Podcast with Matt McLean from VISIT Marshfield, where we talk Hub City Days, the city and all the things to do and see in it, here or stream it below!




 

Back to StateTrunkTour.com



Start: July 23, 2026
End: July 25, 2026
Venue: Downtown Marshfield
Phone: 715-387-3299
Address:
139 S. Central Avenue, Marshfield, WI, 54449, United States