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Nov 28, 2021 – November 28, 2021
Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival
The annual Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival is "snowically-distanced" this year. It'due south the 23rd year of this commemoration, and once once more Milwaukee will sparkle with lights and decorations in venues across downtown, including up and down Wisconsin Avenue, where every intersection features iconic chandeliers.
The Jingle Bus is taking this year off again, but you can savor Milwaukee's joyous, open-air winter fest on foot or by car (heck, even by bike if you desire) by visiting all the busy parks too as the dazzling downtown decor on foot or in the car.
A podcast called the MKE Jingle Bus Tour featuring Milwaukee Downtown BID CEO Beth Weirick and Land Trunk Bout founder Eric Paulsen (who also served as a DJ on 95.7 Large FM in Milwaukee during this interview) describing the Holiday Lights at each terminate is available in five brief, illustrative podcast episodes:
Episode one: Community Spirit Park at Cathedral Foursquare Park:
Episode two: HiBEARnation Station at Pere Marquette Park:
Episode three: Scarlet Pointer Park:
Episode 4: Home Is Where the Hearth Is powered by Nosotros Energies at Zeidler Union Square:
Episode v: Wisconsin Avenue – Vel R. Phillips Avenue to Prospect Avenue:
The four decorated parks for the Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival include:
"Community Spirit Park presented by Madison Medical Affiliates" at Cathedral Square Park (520 Due east. Wells Street, U.Due south. 18 & Highway 32), dwelling to over 100 decorated evergreens forth with Santa's Mailbox presented past Educators Credit Union and Serving Older Adults. Children tin drop their letter to Santa in the box through December 13th and receive a personalized response in return.
"Tinsel Boondocks Limited" at Pere Marquette Park (900 N. Plankinton Avenue, but southward of U.S. xviii/State Street) features a lighted scene from the North Pole's special delivery depot. Plus, visit Ideal Property Direction's festive tree lot to option up all of your holiday greenery.
"Home Is Where the Hearth Is powered by We Energies" is a favorite destination for photo ops at Zeidler Foursquare (301 W. Michigan Avenue.) Take a snapshot in Santa's chair and stroll the stunning lighted displays. Plus, in December, Zeidler Union Square volition host Jingle Joy Boxes by Milwaukee Food & City Tours!
Blood-red Pointer Park, a block east of the Milwaukee River across the street from the Marcus Eye for the Performing Arts, features lights, decorations, and a beautiful water ice skating rink in the center of downtown.
Information technology all kicks off Thursday, November 18th at 6:30pm, where Milwaukee's ABC chapter, WISN 12, will feature holiday acts on stage in a televised performance.
The lights and decorations downtown continue all the way through New year's Twenty-four hour period 2022, considering nosotros're all gear up for a new year.
Download their total guide (.pdf) or keep upward on their website for more as we go through the holiday!
Of grade, a TON of road trip routes bring you to downtown Milwaukee: I-94, I-43, I-794, U.S. 18, and Highways 32 and 145 bring yous correct to information technology. Highways 38 (Hunt Avenue/6th Street), 57 (27th Street/Highland/20th Street), 59 (National Avenue), and 175 (Appleton and Lisbon Avenues, Miller Park Style) all bring you lot shut.
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November 27, 2021 – November 27, 2021
Wisconsin Christmas Carnival of Lights
Caledonia in northern Racine County features the Wisconsin Christmas Carnival of Lights, hosted Saturday, November 27th through January 1st at Yogi Bear's Jellystone Military camp Resort along Highway 38. The first Carnival of Lights took identify in 2009 and it has grown in popularity every year since as more than and more families experience the magic that the owners, the Isaacson family, have put together.
Every display at the Christmas Carnival of Lights is one-of-a-kind; all in all, it takes five weeks to set it all up. Each year you'll find something new to run into – and equally information technology keeps growing, in that location are now over TWO 1000000 LIGHTS in the trees!
Relax in the prophylactic and comfort of your machine as y'all wind your way through the campground on a 1.6-mile path, with lights on all sides and high above in the copse. Bank check out 1-of-a-kind hand-crafted displays featuring elves, reindeer, forest friends, beloved children's characters, Santa himself and more than – it's like stepping into one of your favorite Christmas movies. Y'all tin can drive through the Funfair of Lights display and then savor a separate walk-through display, Santa's Workshop, and more than.
Bank check out their "one equus caballus open sleigh," too… well, more than 1 equus caballus. This i seats guests in tiered and comfortable seating, masks are required this yr. Some nights yous can even ride with the big jolly guy, Santa! Make reservations for the sleigh here. You can also book a ride on the Golf Cart Vacation Train for a ride through the grounds and enjoy all the spectacular sights in a way you never could before.
Believers historic period 12 and under can write Santa a alphabetic character on the nights they cannot see him in person and we'll brand sure he receives it. Santa so emails a personalized letter back to each child!
Also explore Santa'south Workshop with "Evy the Evergreen". Evy is a seven pes tall, magical Christmas tree. He talks, leads friends in Christmas Carols and tells stories like "The Night Before Christmas". Evy is available every night to visit with friends and spread Christmas cheer.
Enjoy a variety of beverages bachelor at Santa's Workshop, including hot chocolate, apple cider, lattes, mochas and more.
Admission is $20/car – up to eight people per car. Larger passenger vans, campers, limos, and mini buses are $30; large buses or motorhomes are $35. They take cash only, only there is an ATM on site. The Wisconsin Christmas Carnival of Lights will partner with the Ronald McDonald House Charities for the holiday season, donating $1 per motorcar, upward to 4,000 cars.
Hours:
Sunday – Th: 5-9 pm
Fri – Saturday: 5-11 pm
GRAND OPENING November 20th and 21st, so closed the 22nd-26th
Starting November 27th, it's open every day except December 25, Christmas Day
Wisconsin Christmas Funfair of Lights Address:
Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park
8425 State Torso Highway 38
Caledonia, WI 53108
(262) 835-2565
Website
You'll find Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park forth Highway 38 in northern Racine County. It'due south about three miles south of Highway 100, a picayune over 2 miles east and north from I-41/94, and three miles west of Highway 32.
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Nov 27, 2021 – November 27, 2021
Noel Festival Low-cal Park & Christmas Marketplace, Milwaukee
Milwaukee'southward start Noel Festival Low-cal Park & Christmas Market, running from November 27th, 2021 through Jan second, 2002! It happens at the Wisconsin Land Off-white Park Exposition Center. Feel the awe and wonder of over i one thousand thousand glimmering Christmas lights, complemented by a unique artisan market, festive food & drink, daily live entertainment, locally-made gifts and stocking stuffers, and much more… Noel is truly a fairytale world come to life.
The family unit-friendly outcome will transform 90,000 square feet of the Expo Middle into a magical wintertime wonderland. Santa and Mrs. Claus will be there, too!
Here are ten reasons to nourish Noel:
- 1 Million Twinkling Lights you can walk through indoors in comfort while enjoying the dazzler
- A Local Artisan Market. This curated Christmas market has a wide array of festive gifts and stocking stuffers from local boutique businesses and arts and crafts artisans.
- Festive Nutrient & Beverage from a variety of vendors
- Noel Princesses who will be there for greetings and photos
- Santa'southward Village, where yous'll detect elves working on toys for Christmas and Santa himself to greet you lot and hear your wishes
- Live Amusement happening daily with a variety of artists and performers
- Film Perfect Opportunities with all of the lights and decorations, you can calorie-free upwardly for Instagram business relationship
- Kids' Activities including face up painting, interactive light displays and a holiday play park
- Appointment Night Opportunities. All of this adds upwardly to a bully date dark!
- Memories You Tin can Make from all of this, whether information technology's a date dark, family unit night, or if you just want to get into the spirit
Ticketsare all-time purchased in advance and y'all tin can book your appointment and fourth dimension to ensure like shooting fish in a barrel entry and a fun time with some elbow room. Correct now, accept reward of a twenty% discount when you purchase tickets to nourish Noel betwixt Nov. 27 – Dec. 5th. Use promo lawmaking AGIFTFORYOU20.
You'll find the Wisconsin State Fair Park Exposition Center along Highway 59/Greenfield Artery in West Allis, 2 blocks east of Highway 181/84th Street and less than a mile south of I-94 at Exit #306. U.Southward. eighteen, I-41/894, and U.S. 45 all bring y'all close, too!
Noel Festival Lite Park & Christmas Market place Address:
Wisconsin State Fair Park Exposition Center
8200 W. Greenfield Avenue (Highway 59 & Highway 181)
West Allis, WI 53214
Website
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November 26, 2021 – November 26, 2021
Oshkosh Celebration of Lights
The Oshkosh Celebration of Lights lights upwards the Lake Winnebago shoreline at beautiful Menominee Park every holiday flavor! This twelvemonth, it runs from Friday, November 26th through Dominicus, January second, 2022 every evening from five:30pm to 9:00pm.
The lights in the park reverberate beautifully off the Lake Winnebago declension as you lot peruse a 1.2-mile stretch of illuminated holiday wonder. A 100-foot tree, sculptured scenes, twinkling animated light displays and accompanying vacation music makes this role of Oshkosh magical during the holidays.
Forth with walking or driving through Menominee Park, you can enjoy a railroad vehicle ride through the grounds on select nights! In that location'south plenty of social distancing and the carriages are sanitized betwixt each ride. You can book and pay for a carriage at 920-303-9200; they reserve rides in half-hour increments from 6pm to 8:30pm on the evenings of December 8th, ninth, 10th, 15th, 16th, or 20th. The carriages cost $lxx and can agree iv adults and two lap children; the prices includes tickets for driving through the park.
Santa will also be in his Workshop in a not-contact environment November 27 – December 23 from 5:30 – ix:00 pm – Christmas Eve he'll be out with his reindeer delivering presents, of course!
General Admission per carload is $x.00 with $1.00 off for a non-perishable in-engagement nutrient donation. Food pantries across the surface area – scheduled by United Way – benefit from Celebration of Lights, so you lot're helping for the holidays, too! Menominee Park as well has a zoo you can enjoy, whatsoever time of the year.
Oshkosh Celebration of Lights is open every day, v:30pm – nine:00pm. I-41, U.Southward. 45, and Highways 21, 26, 44, 76, and 91 all bring you to Oshkosh!
Oshkosh Celebration of Lights Address:
Menominee Park
520 Pratt Trail
Oshkosh, WI 54901
(920) 303-9200
Website
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November 26, 2021 – November 26, 2021
WPS Garden of Lights at Green Bay Botanical Garden
The WPS Garden of Lights brings the magic to the Dark-green Bay Botanical Garden for the 25th yr on Thursdays through Sundays from Nov 26th through December 23rd, along with December 26th – December 30th and New year's Solar day, Saturday, January 1st, 2022. Cheque out more than than 300,000 twinkling lights. Observe a spectacular array of botanical-themed calorie-free displays featuring an enchanted icicle forest, glistening flowers, a dazzling 60-foot walk-through caterpillar, and much more. The show is topped off with northeastern Wisconsin's tallest and brightest shining tree. Bask this stunning winter landscape by foot or take a horse-drawn wagon ride.
COVID precautions volition exist in total swing this year. You must pre-buy your tickets online and arrive during the engagement and fourth dimension frame of your tickets, to assistance maintain proper crowd levels. Confront coverings will exist required for indoor facilities at the Green Bay Botanical Garden, and are recommended for outdoor areas where it may be tricky to maintain proper social distancing.
Special features at the WPS Garden of Lights:
- Explore a quarter of a million twinkling lights in botanical-themed light displays
- Indulge in a tasty treat or drinkable from the Winterberry Café (they don't allow carry-ins)
- Bask a model train exhibit set upwardly by the One thousand-Gagers Train Club
- Warm up past the campfire
- Shop for vacation gifts in the WPS Trellis Gift Shop
- Gratis parking onsite; overflow parking is as well free and inside walking altitude
Other Special Dates & Features:
Horse-Drawn Carriage Rideswill be available equally in previous years. Seating volition be express, with up to ten guests per wagon; first come, first served. Tickets for the horse-drawn wagon rides must also exist purchased in advance.
Family Night, Sunday, November 28th
Family Night this year will accept a different and safer look. Children 12 and under will still get gratis walking admission with one paid developed admission, however, the tickets must be purchased in advance. Children will also go a gratis "have dwelling house" craft kit and tin driblet off letters to Santa. Horse-fatigued wagon rides volitionnotexist bachelor on Family Dark.
Letters to Santavolition be available every night earlier Christmas; just identify him in the North Pole mailbox.
Photos with Santawillnot exist available at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens this yr, merely appointments can exist made at the nearby Ambroslus Studios at 2851 South. Packerland Drive by appointment. Call (920) 494-2294 to make one.
The WPS Trellis Souvenir Shopvolition be open every event nighttime from four:30 pm to 9 pm. You lot can store for holiday gifts, dwelling décor, locally handcrafted art and unique gardening items.
You'll find the WPS Garden of Lights inside Green Bay Botanical Garden along Larsen Road, just off Packerland Drive. It's nearly a mile west of I-41, between Highway 54 and Highways 29/32. I-43, U.S. 141, and Highways 57 and 172 all bring yous to Light-green Bay, too.
WPS Garden of Lights Accost:
Dark-green Bay Botanical Garden
2600 Larsen Route
Green Bay, WI 54303
(920) 490-9457
Website
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Nov 19, 2021 – November 19, 2021
Jurassic Quest, Green Bay
The largest and near realistic dinosaur exhibit in North America is dorsum, bigger, and better than ever! More than 100 photorealistic dinosaurs are ready to please families when Jurassic Quest roars into Green Bay's Resch Expo, right across from Lambeau Field, Friday, Nov 19th though Sunday, November 21st – just alee of Thanksgiving!
Jurassic Quest is 1 of the showtime indoor family unit edutainment shows to re-launch since March 2020 due to the pandemic and volition open up with its most beloved and unique experiences for the whole family including more than than 100 life-like dinosaurs, dinosaur themed rides, live dinosaur shows, interactive science and fine art activities, a "Triceratots" soft play area for our littlest explorers, bounce houses and inflatable attractions (socks required), photo opportunities, and more than.
Walk through the Cretaceous, Jurassic and Triassic periods to see the dinos that ruled on land, and "deep swoop" into the "Aboriginal Oceans" exhibit to come face to confront with the largest noon predator that e'er existed – a moving, life-size, 50-foot-long megalodon. Come across the babies, hatched merely at Jurassic Quest: Cammie the Camarasaurus, Tyson the T-Male monarch and Trixie the Triceratops – and, you may even catch one of our star dino trainers: Safari Sarah, Dino Dustin, Helm Caleb, Prehistoric Nick or Park Ranger Marty!
The Jurassic Quest herd of animatronic dinos – from the largest predators to playful baby dinos – are displayed in realistic scenes with some that move and roar, assuasive guests to experience them as they were when they roamed the earth billions of years agone.
Jurassic Quest works in collaboration with leading paleontologists to ensure each dinosaur is painstakingly replicated in every particular, from coloration to teeth size, to textured pare, fur or feathers, drawing on the latest research about how we sympathize dinosaurs and ancient giants of the bounding main looked and moved.
Tickets are timed entry and start at $19, $xviii for Seniors — reserve online to ensure desired date and time. Tickets are besides bachelor on-site and include a 100% ticket guarantee that in the event of a show cancellation or postponement for whatsoever reason, ticket purchases will be automatically refunded for the total buy amount. Tickets are for a timed arrival window, and accelerate ticket purchase is strongly encouraged. Guests can walk through the dinosaur experience at their own step, and strollers are permitted.
General admission tickets include admission to the dinosaur and marine exhibits, arts and crafts activities, and dinosaur shows. There are rides and activities that crave activity tickets bachelor on site for $5 each, or guests can upgrade to the Kids Unlimited Rides ticket (the best value for children ages 2-12). Dark-green screen photography and animal fine art tattoos are available at a separate cost. Entry is free for children under historic period 2.
Hours are Friday & Sabbatum 9am-8pm, Sunday 9am-6pm. Y'all'll find the Resch Expo at the corner of Oneida Street and Armed services Drive, with Lombardi Artery on the n cease and Lambeau Field right across the street! (Don't worry, there won't exist Packers traffic this weekend – they're playing at Minnesota.) Follow I-41 or Highway 32 off Highway 172 to become to the Titletown District. I-43, U.S. 141, and Highways 29, 32, 54, 57, and 172 all bring yous to Green Bay!
Jurassic Quest Accost:
Resch Expo
840 Armed Forces Drive
Ashwaubenon, WI 54304
Website
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November 19, 2021 – November xix, 2021
Christmas past the Bay, Sturgeon Bay
Kick-off the holiday flavour with Christmas Past the Bay, the weekend of November 19th – 21st! Information technology begins with Sturgeon Bay's "Unwrapping Sturgeon Bay" community auto parade on Friday, Nov 19 offset at 6pm at Sawyer Park. Parade lineup begins at 5pm, come early and decorate your vehicle or pack the kids in with hot cocoa. Cars will parade through Sturgeon Bay every bit stores "unwrap" their festive holiday windows for the very kickoff time! After the determination of the car parade, join usa at the Onetime Bell Tower at 3rd and Kentucky for the tree lighting, caroling, in-store specials, and music by Josh Gregory, Hervy Hodges, and Mike Raye beginning at 7pm. Tree lighting will happen at approximately 8pm.
Christmas By The Bay fun continues Saturday, with the Holiday Parade at 10am featuring floats, music, and a special appearance from none other than SANTA! Subsequently the parade, meet with Santa in his sleigh at the Door County Historical Museum until 1:00 so that he's sure to become your list!
Free trolley rides will exist available throughout Downtown Sturgeon Bay Sat, November 20 from xi:00am – three:00pm with stops located at Community Foundation Foursquare, the Door County Historical Museum, Door Canton Maritime Museum, and Lawless Java.
The Santa Mailbox will be right outside of Destination Sturgeon Bay's door (36 S. third Ave.) then that you tin can drop off your messages whenever y'all take them ready to head to the North Pole. The mailbox will exist out until December 24th!
Stop off the fun-filled weekend of Christmas By the Bay during brunch with Santa at Stone Harbor Resort on Sunday 9:30-11am. Telephone call 920-746-0700 for reservations.
Sturgeon Bay is an piece of cake ride along Highways 42 or 57 from the rest of Wisconsin. Cheque out all sights in town and as much of the rest of the Door Peninsula as possible when y'all go!
Christmas By the Bay Address in Sturgeon Bay:
107 N. First Avenue
Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
(920) 743-6246
Website
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November 13, 2021
Groovy Hartford Craft Exposition
The 36th annual Swell Hartford Arts and crafts Exposition brings over 100 exhibitors to Hartford Spousal relationship Loftier School to give visitors a gamble to observe great holiday gifts and creative items for your dwelling. It takes identify Sabbatum, November 13th, 2021 from 9am to 3pm, equally part of a full 24-hour interval of local celebrations in Hartford. The day includes the annual Hartford Lions Pancake Dinner as well as the local holiday parade, which kicks off at 3pm.
Y'all'll find Hartford Union High School on Cedar Street, w of Highway 83 and south of Highway lx in Hartford. Nearby attractions include the Wisconsin Automotive Museum, Pike Lake Unit of the Kettle Moraine State Forest, Holy Loma, and more! It'due south about 10 minutes west of I-41 at the Highway sixty exit, besides.
Swell Hartford Craft Expo Address:
Hartford Union High School
805 Cedar Street
Hartford, WI 53027
(262) 719-5871
Website
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Nov 11, 2021
The Highground Veterans Twenty-four hours Anniversary
High above surrounding territory (hence the name), The Highground Veterans Memorial Park serves every bit ane of the nation'southward finest tribute locations for American military veterans. The Highground Veterans Twenty-four hours Ceremony takes place Th, November 11th. Due in part to COVID-19 precautionary steps, this event volition be held outdoors and the total length volition be determined in office by weather condition.
THe Highground Veterans Day Ceremony is scheduled to begin at 10am; the Wisconsin KIA/MIA/Pw names from WWII to present twenty-four hours volition be read and honored with the tolling of The Highground Liberty Bell. With all present and accounted for, the Thorp VFW Post #9057 will nowadays Colors on the Plaza at 11am. Equally of this writing, the guest speaker is nevertheless to be adamant.
The Ceremony itself will brainstorm at 3pm.
Veteran support and services will exist onsite for continued resource. Coffee and cookies will be served.
For questions about the ceremony, please contact Bonnie at events@thehighground.u.s.a. or call 715-743-4224.
The Highground is an incredible place to visit any time of year; its 155 acres are staffed at pay tribute to the fallen while honoring the survivors, their service, and their sacrifices. The park includes 15 tributes, iv miles of hiking trails, a souvenir store, and a museum. Throughout the year, the park hosts a diverseness of events including Veterans retreats and reunions, military vehicle expos, motorcycle rides and an almanac bike tour. The campus itself overlooks surrounding territory across the land and hills of rural Clark County and beyond, offering views of 20-xxx miles on some articulate days.
You'll notice The Highground along U.S. 10 just west Neillsville; Highway 73 also brings you lot to Neillsville, inside a few miles of The Highground.
Highground Veterans Day Ceremony Address:
The Highground Veterans Memorial Park
W7031 Ridge Road (U.S. 10)
Neillsville, WI 54456
(715) 743-4244
Website
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November 6, 2021
Downtown Racine Beer & Bacon Walk
Arts and crafts beer and bacon lovers, this is for you! Racine Downtown hosts its 2nd almanac Downtown Racine Beer & Bacon Walk on Saturday, November 6th, 2021. Equally you walk the streets of downtown, savor beer samples from local breweries, paired with delicious bacon and bacon-infused bites across xx different locations.
Breweries involved include Littleport Brewing Company, located just off Main Street in downtown Racine;Public Craft Brewing Co. out of Kenosha; Kings & Convicts Brewing Visitor from Highwood, Illinois; City Lights Brewing Visitor from Milwaukee; and Lakefront Brewing out of Milwaukee. What kinds of food pairings might be there? Glad yous asked! Enjoy maple salary mini-crullers, chicken and salary street tacos, bacon hash brown fritters, night chocolate-covered bacon with candied pecans… and that's just some of them!
Hungry still? Thirsty yet? It all happens Sabbatum afternoon, November 6th. Tickets are $30 for all those brews and salary bites; $xl VIP tickets include a 16oz pint glass to go along, 1 complimentary total-cascade of any beer, and a gratis salary-infused shot at Marci'south on Main. Yous tin can purchase them online or get your tickets by calling 262-634-6002.
It's piece of cake to get to downtown Racine, along the cute shores of Lake Michigan. Just head due east from I-41/94 via Highway 20 (Exit #333), County 1000 (Exit #329), or Highway 11 (Exit #335) approximately 8 miles; or Highway 38 can bring you in from Milwaukee, and Highway 32 brings you to downtown Racine n from Kenosha and Illinois or southward from Oak Creek and Milwaukee's south suburbs. Lots of options, and lots to do and see once y'all get at that place!
Downtown Racine Beer & Salary Walk Accost:
425 Main Street (Highway 20, betwixt Highways 32 & 38)
Racine, WI 53403
(262) 634-6002
Website
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November four, 2021 – Nov 4, 2021
Driftless Picture Festival
The Driftless Movie Festival celebrates this unique region that escaped the glaciers of the water ice age and its inspiration for many talented artists and filmmakers. Happening November 4 – 7, 2021 this year, the Driftless Film Festival brings together the all-time of new contained cinema with the mural, artistic energy, and local atmosphere of Southwest Wisconsin. At present in its eighth year, Driftless continues to provide a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience for audiences and filmmakers alike.
Founded in 2009 by filmmakers Darren Burrows and Nicholas Langholff, Driftless was built-in of a beloved for independent films, an appreciation of the unusual region, and the joy of spending a weekend immersed in the charm Mineral Point'due south galleries, shops, restaurants, and confined. It is this delightful marriage of place and cinematic story that is the cadre of the Driftless vision today.
The Driftless Film Festival screens each of its films in the Mineral Point Opera House. Beautifully restored in 2009, it retains the temper of its origins as a 1915 vaudeville house. Brought to life past motion picture screenings and live performances year round, the Opera House is both an elegant testament to Mineral Signal's passion for preservation and a showcase infinite for some of the best entertainment in the region.
Each year the festival hosts filmmakers from across the state. Special guests have included Mark Metcalf (Animal Firm, Seinfeld, Lilliputian Red), Anthony Arendt (Muscle Shoals, Avatar), and Matt Adams (We Cause Scenes) among many others. Not only do visiting filmmakers present revealing Q&A discussions during the festival, but the weekend provides an opportunity for filmmakers and attendees to mingle outside the screenings.
From popular festival hits to locally-produced art, the Driftless Film Festival seeks to showcase the virtually idea-provoking, innovative, and creative contained picture palace of our time. These films volition hitting home in a place that feels like habitation, and of course Pendarvis, "Milkshake Rag Aisle," and other places to enjoy in town also makes the trip worthwhile.
2021 Features will exist announced soon.
The Driftless Film Festival runs Thursday, Nov fourth through Sunday, November 7th, so you have several days' worth of options for when to attend! Check their website for a total slate of films and other activities. Tickets for individual screenings vary; you can as well purchase a $50 laissez passer that gets yous in to everything. BUY TICKETS ONLINE Here.
Go the full slate of films HERE
Driftless Flick Festival Principal Address:
Mineral Point Opera Business firm
139 Loftier Street
Mineral Point, WI 53565
(608) 260-8725
Website
Enjoy a drive with exceptional scenery, as the Driftless Area of Wisconsin is ridiculously beautiful. Hit Highways 23, 39, or U.Due south. 151 to attain Mineral Point, s of Dodgeville and northeast of Platteville and take it all in!
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October thirty, 2021 – October 30, 2021
Wisconsin FearFest
Wisconsin FearFest is now inbound its final weekend at the Contrivance County Fairgrounds, with TONS of Halloween fun… and spooky stuff!
Get ready for congenital-up the suspense beyond over 9 opportunities to get scared – or freaked out. Every night you can enjoy a variety of themed-activities and food. Entry into the festival and parking will be costless. Yet several of the activities volition require access. If y'all enjoy a good haunted house, Wisconsin Fear Fest volition exist offer ii options. The outdoor haunted house, Blackout Biohazard, volition be zombie themed. While The 13th Ward Asylum is the indoor haunted business firm, with a scary hospital setting. Admission is only $25 to experience both haunted business firm attractions. To avoid the full general admission line, yous may buy a VIP pass for $10 more.
For $49.95, you can experience every allure, including:
- ii haunted houses
- Escape Room
- Axe Throwing
- Haunted Hayride
- Paintball Gallery
- The Midway
- and much more!
The Midway opens at vi p.m., haunted attractions open at vii p.m. Friday, Saturday, and Dominicus night, October 29th, 30th, and 31st. You tin get to FearFest via Highway 33 between U.S. 151 past Beaver Dam and Highway 26. You lot'll observe the Dodge County Fairgrounds right along Highway 33 for easy access!
Wisconsin FearFest Accost:
Dodge Canton Fairgrounds
N6885 High Point Road
Beaver Dam, WI 53916
(904) 510-9873
Website
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Ghoulees in the Coulees
Norskedalen hosts Ghoulees in the Coulees events Th, October 28th through Saturday, October 30th, 2021 providing a fun, yet scary and haunting, feel for the whole family in this cute natural and cultural area near Coon Valley in southeastern La Crosse Canton.
At Ghoulees in the Coulees, you lot can accept a half-mile walk through chilling and thrilling spook stations along one of their wooded trails lined past hundreds of carved, lit pumpkins. In one case you navigate this, you'll regain your wits and end upward with a treat and hot apple cider at Bekkum Homestead, a historic homestead over 100 years one-time, illuminated simply by the light of the moon and jack-'o-lanterns.
Along with the hike, yous tin enjoy storytelling, fortune-telling, grabbing a snack around the roaring fireplace, and walking through the haunted barns and other buildings. While information technology tin can exist fun for kids of all ages, you may want to program earlier hikes while it'due south still light out for the very immature and "faint of center." Earlier hikes around 5-7pm, hikes are less scary (the spooks do not try to scare y'all, only may offering a high-five, handshake, or wave). Conversely, seven-10:30pm, hikes are SUPER SCARY. They mean it! Chilling ghost stories designed to give you goosebumps volition also be told at the end of your hike, making regaining your wits tricky for some. Fortune tellers will as well be in that location to peer into your time to come.
Family-friendly fox-or-treating takes identify Th, October 28th. Norskedalen's Ghoulees in the Coulees Haunted Hikes take identify Friday and Saturday October 29th & 30th. Friday slot times range from 5:xxx p.thou. – eight:30 p.m. (notation: most Friday slots are sold out already!); Saturday slot times run from 4:30 p.m. to just after eight:00 p.thou.
Tickets for the hikes are $35 per person. Advance reservations are required.
You'll find Norskedalen (which means "Norwegian Valley") along County PI between Highway 162 and U.S. fourteen/61 merely due north of Coon Valley in southern La Crosse County. It's a beautiful drive through the Driftess Area, right as the trees drop the residual of their colorful leaves.
Address for Ghoulees in the Coulees:
Norskedalen Nature & Heritage Middle
N455 O Ophus Road
Coon Valley, WI 54623
(608) 452-3424
Website
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Monument Mash at Monument Square, Racine
The ninth annual Monument Brew at Monument Foursquare in downtown Racine is happening Sat, Oct 30th, 2021 from 2:00 p.one thousand. to 4:00 p.k. It'due south a fun family issue that lets kids enjoy trick-or-treating with the downtown businesses, freaky face painting, ghoulish games, a bone-rattling boisterous firm, and a "daringly devilish" DJ playing "haunting hits" – we're guessing "Monster Mash" and "Thriller" might be two songs on the playlist, just that's just our guess.
From 3:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.grand., a costume contest volition be held for kids across three divisions, as well as a pumpkin decorating and etching contest. You tin enjoy some cool prizes, too!
You tin can also check out the Underground Railroad Quilt Exhibit throughout downtown, also as the Downtown Candy Crawl, which runs from noon until iii p.grand. Lots of options in Racine on Saturday , hit Highways xi, xx, 32, or 38 and become downtown to explore information technology all!
Monument Mash Address:
Monument Square
502 Main Street
Racine, WI 53403
(262) 636-9131
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Halloween Zoo Boo at Lincoln Park Zoo
The Halloween Zoo Boo takes identify at Manitowoc's Lincoln Park Zoo Saturday, Oct 30th, 2021, with family unit fun for all ages. Enjoy games, activities, a costume contest, and enough of food along with all the fun the zoo has to offer. It volition be a howling skillful time from ane:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.! A minor entrance fee of $1.00 will be charged for children xiv and under.
Manitowoc offers its Lincoln Park Zoo free to the community and visitors all year, with a wide multifariousness of animals to see and learn most, including:
- Asiatic Black Acquit
- Bald Eagles
- Bison
- Cougar
- Dall Sheep
- Ducks,
- African Spurred Tortoise
- Russian Tortoise
- Brawl Pythons
- Bull Ophidian
- Box Turtles
- Chilean Rose Tarantula
- Native Herp Tank
- Honey Bee Hive
- Native Vocal Birds
- Great Horned Owl
- Geese
- Goats
- Grey Wolf
- Lynx
- Prairie Dogs
- Red-Tailed Militarist
- Tundra Swan
- Turkey Vulture
- White-Tailed Deer
- and an Amphibian Tank
There's also an Educational Center where you can larn more than nigh the animals and their native habitats – which are sometimes right around hither and sometimes from quite far abroad!
Yous'll hands observe the Lincoln Park Zoo on 8th Street on the northward side of Manitowoc, just off U.Due south. 10 and Highway 42. It's almost five minutes eastward of I-43 via Leave #152!
Halloween Zoo Boo Address:
Lincoln Park Zoo
1215 N. 8th Street
Manitowoc, WI 54220
(920) 683-4685
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Farm Wisconsin Discovery Centre Play a joke on or Treat Spooktacular
The Farm Wisconsin Discovery Center hosts its annual Trick Or Treat Spooktacular on Saturday, Oct 30th, 2021 from 10 a.m. to 2p.grand. Show up in your best costumes and participate in multiple autumn- and Halloween-related activities, consummate a scavenger hunt, and receive a bag full of Wisconsin-sourced goodies!
All special activities are included with regular admission to Farm Wisconsin.
$sixteen Adult
$12 Senior
$viii Youth (4-18)
Don't forget to shop in their Farm House Store for an array of gifts and unique items! Plus, you can visit Ice Foam Acres – serving 16 different flavors of Cedar Crest ice cream.
Trick or Care for Spooktacular Address:
Subcontract Wisconsin Discovery Eye
7001 Gass Lake Road
Manitowoc, WI 54220
(920) 726-6000
Website
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October thirty, 2021 – October 30, 2021
Jurassic Quest
The largest and nearly realistic dinosaur exhibit in North America is back, bigger, and better than e'er! More than 100 photorealistic dinosaurs are ready to delight families when Jurassic Quest roars into the Wisconsin Center Fri, October 29th though Sunday, October 31st – just in time for Halloween.
Jurassic Quest is one of the first indoor family unit edutainment shows to re-launch since March 2020 due to the pandemic and will open with its about honey and unique experiences for the whole family including more than than 100 life-like dinosaurs, dinosaur themed rides, live dinosaur shows, interactive science and art activities, a "Triceratots" soft play area for our littlest explorers, bounce houses and inflatable attractions (socks required), photo opportunities, and more than.
Walk through the Cretaceous, Jurassic and Triassic periods to encounter the dinos that ruled on land, and "deep dive" into the "Ancient Oceans" exhibit to come face to face with the largest apex predator that always existed – a moving, life-size, 50-foot-long megalodon. Run into the babies, hatched only at Jurassic Quest: Cammie the Camarasaurus, Tyson the T-Rex and Trixie the Triceratops – and, you may even catch one of our star dino trainers: Safari Sarah, Dino Dustin, Captain Caleb, Prehistoric Nick or Park Ranger Marty!
The Jurassic Quest herd of animatronic dinos – from the largest predators to playful baby dinos – are displayed in realistic scenes with some that move and roar, assuasive guests to experience them as they were when they roamed the earth billions of years ago.
Jurassic Quest works in collaboration with leading paleontologists to ensure each dinosaur is painstakingly replicated in every particular, from coloration to teeth size, to textured peel, fur or feathers, drawing on the latest inquiry about how nosotros understand dinosaurs and ancient giants of the bounding main looked and moved.
Tickets are timed entry and kickoff at $nineteen — reserve online to ensure desired engagement and time. Tickets are also available on-site and include a 100% ticket guarantee that in the event of a show cancellation or postponement for any reason, ticket purchases will be automatically refunded for the full purchase amount. Tickets are for a timed arrival window, and advance ticket purchase is strongly encouraged.
Guests tin walk through the dinosaur experience at their ain pace, and strollers are permitted. Street parking is available and there are ample public garages around the Wisconsin Center. Consult www.spothero.com for more than information.
General admission tickets include access to the dinosaur and marine exhibits, arts and crafts activities, and dinosaur shows. There are rides and activities that require activity tickets bachelor on site for $five each, or guests can upgrade to the Kids Unlimited Rides ticket (the all-time value for children ages ii-12). Green screen photography and brute fine art tattoos are available at a split cost. Entry is gratuitous for children under age 2.
Jurassic Quest Address:
Wisconsin Heart
400 Westward. Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53203
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October 23, 2021
Manty Monster Mash
The 2d annual Manty Monster Mash is happening Sabbatum, Oct 23rd at the Manitowoc County Expo Middle! From 10am – 3pm, enjoy this indoor art, craft, and vendor fair featuring over lxx booths in total – approximately 85% of them focus on handmade arts & crafts. Categories include:
- Bath, Body & Scent
- Fashion & Article of clothing
- Food & Snack
- Health & Beauty
- Domicile Goods & Decor
- Jewelry & Gemstone
- Local Entertainment
- Metalwork
- Painting & Illustration
- Paper Crafts
- Prints & Photography
- Textile Crafts
- Woodwork
Head within the Manitowoc Canton Expo Eye'south Merchant Edifice for this spook-tacular celebration that includes Play a trick on or Treating at every vendor booth. This show is costume friendly, but non necessary! Just feel free to exist creative.
Admission is Gratuitous. Parking is Costless. Fun is pretty much guaranteed.
You'll discover the Manitowoc County Expo Centre just off U.Southward. 151 & Highway 42 on the west side of Manitowoc, right nearly Exit #149 off I-43. U.S. 10 comes in from the northward and west, as well – information technology's piece of cake to access!
Manty Monster Mash Address:
Manitowoc County Expo Grounds
4921 Expo Bulldoze
Manitowoc, WI 54220
(920) 683-4378
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October 22, 2021 – October 22, 2021
NEW Zoo Boo
The NEW Zoo (NE Wisconsin Zoo, that's what "NEW" stands for) northwest of Green Bay celebrates the North Shore Bank NEW Zoo Boo once once again in 2021! Information technology's happening this year on the Friday-Saturday weekends of Oct viii-9, 15-sixteen, and 22-23. For 2020 in that location volition be no hay rides or giant inflatables, but otherwise bear witness up in costume and relish all treats and no tricks. As the NEW Zoo notes on its website, "this year, every guest over the age of ane tin can receive a bag of candy on arrival (yep, even the grown-ups)! The Zoo will be filled with festive, family-friendly Halloween decorations, so enjoy the sights of the Halloween season while visiting the animals. Be sure to ride the carousel and walk through the Happy Haunted Maze in the Children's Zoo. The Canis familiaris House volition besides be on-site selling their total menu, including their famous, fresh battered cheese curds. Families can participate in Due north Shore Depository financial institution's Zoo Scavenger Hunt, and the first 500 families to end during each time slot can pick upwardly a prize (while supplies final)."
Festivities for the NEW Zoo Boo run 3-8pm each twenty-four hours. The Adventure Park will be open up for regular hours, 10am – 6pm, on all Saturdays and Sundays in Oct.
Regarding COVID precautions, the NEW Zoo website states: "To encourage comfortable social distancing throughout the Zoo, this yr'south event volition feature Timed Entries, with limited capacity for each inflow window. Guests must buy tickets in advance that correspond to the date and time you wish to attend. Each night, guests tin can choose to get in during a 60- or ninety-infinitesimal inflow window, from iii:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.one thousand., from 4:00 p.m. to v:00 p.k., from five:00 p.1000. to 6:00 p.m., or from 6:00 p.m. to seven:30 p.m. Gates will shut at 7:30 p.m., and guests can stay in the Zoo as long as they wish after inflow."
Tickets are bachelor at newzoo.org. Tickets are $fifteen per person; kids under iii are free. Everyone aged 3 and in a higher place must accept a ticket or a bar code (emailed afterwards your online buy) for entry. Tickets will be available at the gate each day only if they have not sold out in advance or online. Zoo Pass Members will receive one free ticket (per membership) on arrival, the same way every bit in past years OR Members tin can pickup your ticket in accelerate by stopping into the Zoo's gift store anytime during regular business hours. All other tickets needed by Members should be purchased in accelerate."
The NEW Zoo Boo is accessible via U.S. 41/141 just north of Dark-green Bay; Highways 29, 32, 54, 57, and 172 are all close by.
The NEW Zoo website offers upwardly details, directions, and more than!
NEW Zoo Boo Event Address:
4418 Reforestation Road
Green Bay, WI 54313
(920) 434-7841
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Oct 21, 2021 – Oct 21, 2021
Milwaukee Canton Bulldoze-Thru Boo at the Zoo
The Milwaukee County Zoo is going bulldoze-thru again this yr! The Milwaukee County Bulldoze-Thru Boo at the Zoo lets you drive on Zoo pathways and take in a diverseness of Halloween-themed areas, carved pumpkins and illuminated light shows. The ride is particularly designed for kids of all ages, including people who are kids at eye. The road is a thirty-minute, 1.5-mile Halloween ride that travels on the broad and winding pathways through the Zoo. For safety purposes, animals are non viewable during these evenings.
New this year! Guests can trick-or-treat from their vehicles! Tasty treats will exist handed-out along the road.
This event is a merry-not-scary ride, appropriate for kids of all ages, and kids at heart. Concession stops will be available along the route to purchase snacks and treats. Trade areas volition be available to buy a favorite memento.
Boo at the Zoo Bulldoze-Thru Admission is $55 per carload for general visitors, $fifty per carload for Zoo Pass members. Advance tickets are available online only and cannot be purchased at the Zoo. Vehicles will be admitted into the Zoo at the specified time, in 30-minute intervals. Entries are allowed simply at the purchased time; last car comprisal for the evening is ix p.m. Tickets are not-transferrable and non-refundable. Gain go to support the Milwaukee County Zoological Club and the two,000+ animals they care for.
The Milwaukee County Zoo is hands accessible via I-94, I-41/894, U.Southward. 18, U.S. 45, or Highway 100. Information technology's substantially in the center of all those major arteries! Enter the zoo off U.S. eighteen/Bluemound Route betwixt Highway 100 and the Zoo State highway, which is I-41/U.S. 45.
Milwaukee County Drive-Thru Boo at the Zoo Accost:
Milwaukee Canton Zoo
10001 W. Bluemound Route (U.S. xviii)
Milwaukee, WI 53226
(414) 256-5466
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