Celebrate an Exciting Frost Fest Event
Lake of the Woods, the Walleye Capital of the World™, is well known for its excellent fishery and is a destination well worth visiting. It does get “frosty” up in this north country, but that doesn’t stop anyone from enjoying the great outdoors. So, we celebrate each season.
Lake of the Woods and Baudette, itself, serve up some great celebrations throughout the year. Willie Walleye Day takes place the first weekend of June with vendors and concerts and a street dance to celebrate Willie Walleye, our famous icon of the area.
July 4th is a great national day to celebrate our country’s freedom and Baudette knows how to celebrate that day for sure. As a matter of fact, it is known to have the very best display of fireworks in the northern area. Again, there are vendors, food vendors, children’s activities, entertainment, a parade and the traditional street dance.
People from all over travel here and many people travel home for this great event. Many celebrate school reunions during this period of time. The park in the center of town known as Willie Walleye Park is on Baudette Bay where thousands of people sit on the grounds to watch this great display of fireworks over the bay. This alone is a site to behold and gives a nostalgic feeling of days past and families gathering to spend time together.
Lake of the Woods County Fair Board has chosen over three days of entertainment to celebrate the county fair. Horse Shows, outside entertainment, races and the like, happen at the fair grounds located right in the city of Baudette. The Chamber of Commerce also features outdoor movie nights and Crazy Daze to help celebrate.
Speaking of the Chamber of Commerce, this volunteer organization is instrumental in establishing the protocol for many of these celebrations. It sells buttons to raise monies for many events and these monies also pay for the great displays of fireworks. They sponsor an Easter Egg hunt for children in the spring and also serve the community at Halloween with treats for the kids.
This brings us to this great winter season. To celebrate the upcoming Christmas Season, the community offers a huge annual Craft Fair called Holiday Extravaganza held at Lake of the Woods School Commons. The Fair will be held November 20th with doors opening at 9:00 a.m. at the School located on Hwy 11 west of Baudette about 1 mile. Crafters from all over display their wares and many many people attend from across the northland.
As the tempe
ratures drop everyone gets excited to celebrate Frost Fest. This year’s Frost Fest is set to celebrate the oncome of winter on December 4th. A winter parade complete with decorated fish hous
es will lead off at 2:00 p.m. traveling through the Main Ave of town. At 3:00 p.m. Santa will make his appearance at the restored Baudette Depot located at the north end of Main Ave. Visitors will be treated to refreshments provided by the Depot Preservation Committee as they serve in the beautifully decorated building.
The Women of Today/the Chamber/ and the Rotary will be serving a supper from 4-6:00 p.m. at the Moose Club. All are welcome. Also while dinner is being served, the annual tree lighting will happen downtown at 5:00 p.m. Everyone looks forward to the beauty that this tree brings to celebrate the season. Button sales have been available during this time as well as local businesses decorating their windows for a contest. At the tree lighting ceremony, winners of both the button sales and the decorating contest will be announced. Winners of the button sales will receive Chamber Bucks in the amounts of $150.00, $75.00 and $50.00.
The huge climax of this great celebration will happen at 7:00 p.m. when a fireworks display will be shot off over the Baudette Bay much like that of July 4th. Do you like to celebrate? Well, come to Baudette for this sweet time and stay at one of our 50 plus resorts. Maybe the ice will be one and fishing will also be something to celebrate.
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