DOWNEAST EVENTS
For more information on these and other events, visit downeastacadia. com / events. Local Visitor Centers and Chambers of Commerce( see page 1) also offer events calendars on their websites.
Eastport 4th of July Celebration
Bon voyage to Maine Maritime Academy’ s TSSOM State of Maine
Machias Blueberry Festival
DOWNEAST ACADIA EVENTS
APRIL
24th Annual Smelt Fry and Fisheries Celebration, Columbia Falls
MAY
Down East Sunrise Trail Opening, Region-wide 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 2026 Acadia Birding Festival, Mount Desert Island
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 Machias ATV Jamboree, Machias Moosabec Summerfest, Jonesport Monteux Music Festival, Hancock
JULY
July 4th Old Home Week, Eastport
Bastille Day, Castine Flamingo Festival, Southwest Harbor Bar Harbor Music Festival, Bar Harbor Abbe Museum Presents: DAWNLAND Festival of Arts & Ideas, College of the Atlantic Campus, Bar Harbor 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 Puckerbrush Primitive Gathering, Columbia Falls Addison Days, Addison Maine Open Farm Day, Statewide
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, statewide 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 Fogfest, Campobello Maine Outdoor Film Festival, Milbridge
SEPTEMBER
Eastport Pirate Festival, Eastport International Maritime Film Festival, Bucksport Machias Fiber Festival, Machias Maine Open Lighthouse Day, statewide Blue Hill Fair, Blue Hill
OCTOBER
Acadia’ s Oktoberfest, Mount Desert Island Art of Ellsworth, Ellsworth Autumn Gold, Ellsworth Witches of Eastport, Eastport Maine Craft Weekend, region-wide Mount Desert Island Marathon, Mount Desert Island
NOVEMBER
Cranberry Bounce, Pembroke Early Bird Pajama Sales & Bed Races, Bar Harbor Take Pride in Acadia Day, Bar Harbor
DECEMBER
The Great Sardine & Maple Leaf Drop, Eastport
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