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Head of the Lakes Fair
Superior, WI · Festival
- When
- July 20–24, 2027
- Where
- 4700 Tower Ave · Superior · WI
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
A five-day agricultural and carnival fair at the westernmost tip of Lake Superior, with midway rides, livestock shows, and stock car racing at the adjoining Superior Speedway. It has run for decades as the Twin Ports region's main county-style fair.
The history within reach
- Head of the Lakes Fairsame spot
A five-day agricultural and carnival fair at the westernmost tip of Lake Superior, with midway rides, livestock shows, and stock car racing at the adjoining Superior Speedway.
Superior's shipyards built the whalebacks, cigar-shaped steel freighters that shed water over rounded decks, a design of Alexander McDougall's that hauled ore and grain around the lakes for decades.
- The Aerial Lift Bridge6.7 mi
Built first as a transfer bridge carrying a gondola slung under the span, then converted in 1929 to lift its whole roadway 135 feet in under a minute.
- Grandma's Marathon7.0 mi
A point-to-point course down the North Shore of Lake Superior, named for the Duluth restaurant that sponsored the first running in 1977..
- The Duluth lynchings7.4 mi
Six Black circus workers were accused of assaulting a white woman on a false charge, a doctor found no evidence any assault had occurred.