DOWNEAST ACADIA EVENTS
For more information on these and other events, visit downeastacadia. com / events. Local Visitor Centers and Chambers of Commerce( see page 3) also offer events calendars on their websites.
Open Farm Day at Darthia Farm
West Quoddy Lighthouse
Machias Blueberry Festival
DOWNEAST ACADIA EVENTS
MARCH
Maine Maple Sunday, Statewide
MAY
Down East Spring Birding Festival, Cobscook Bay Area Pennamaquan Alewife Festival, Pembroke East Grand Adventure Race, Danforth Spring Birds of Acadia with Puffin Cruise, Winter Harbor Wings Waves & Woods Birding Festival, Stonington & Deer Isle
JUNE
Acadia Birding Festival, Mount Desert Island Art in the Park, Bar Harbor Rhubarb Festival, Perry Wings & Wheels Airplane & Car Show, Eastport The Bay of Fundy International Marathon, Lubec & Campobello Island DownEast Pride, Eastport & Lubec Margaretta Days and Downeast Revolutionary War Reenactors’ skirmishes, Machias Monteux Music Festival, Hancock
JULY
July 4th Old Home Week, Eastport Abbe Museum Presents: DAWNLAND Festival of Arts & Ideas, College of the Atlantic Campus, Bar Harbor
Flamingo Festival, Southwest Harbor Bar Harbor Music Festival, Bar Harbor Bastille Day, Castine Downeast Rock & Roots Music Festival, Ellsworth Bucksport Bay Festival, Bucksport Campobello Fog Fest, Campobello Island, NB, CA Down East Sunrise Trail Relay, Ellsworth to Eastport Grand Lake Stream Folk Art Festival, Grand Lake Stream Maine Open Farm Day, State-wide Monteux Music Festival, Hancock Puckerbrush Primitive Gathering, Columbia Falls
AUGUST
Mermaid Festival, Eastport Artisan Market, Wilson Museum, Castine International Homecoming, Calais and St. Stephen, NB, CA Passamaquoddy Days, Sipayik Machias Wild Blueberry Festival, Machias Washington County Fair, Pembroke Maine Wild Blueberry Weekend, State-wide Schoodic Arts Festival, Winter Harbor West Grand Lake Race, Grand Lake Stream Winter Harbor Lobster Festival, Winter Harbor
Eastport Salmon and Seafood Festival, Eastport, Labor Day Weekend
SEPTEMBER
20th Eastport Pirate Festival, Eastport International Maritime Film Festival, Bucksport Machias Fiber Festival, Machias Maine Open Lighthouse Day, State-wide Blue Hill Fair, Blue Hill
OCTOBER
Acadia’ s Oktoberfest, Mount Desert Island Art of Ellsworth, Ellsworth Autumn Gold, Ellsworth Fright at the Fort, Bucksport Witches of Eastport, Eastport Maine Craft Weekend, Region-wide Mount Desert Island Marathon, Mount Desert Island
NOVEMBER
Downeast Cider + Cheese Festival, Ellsworth Cranberry Bounce, Pembroke Early Bird Pajama Sales & Bed Races, Bar Harbor Take Price in Acadia, Bar Harbor
DECEMBER
The Great Sardine & Maple Leaf Drop, Eastport
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