Cranberry Fest Maps

  Click here for Map of Activities throughout the City

  Click here for Map of Cranberry Fest Festival Grounds

Cranberry Fest Events:

Click here for the American Heart Association Fitness brochure:       Walk - Run - Bicycle.  2009 information coming soon

Thursday, October 1st

Cranberry Marsh & Winery Tours - 11:00am & 11:30am.  Tours leave from the Eagle River Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center. 

Call 800-359-6315 for reservations.

Friday, October 2nd

Cranberry Marsh & Winery Tours - 10:00am - Noon.  Leaving every half hour.  Tours leave from the Eagle River Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center. 

Call 800-359-6315 for reservations.

Cranberry Fest Activities

Saturday, October 3rd

9:00am - 4:00pm

Free Shuttle Bus to all the various festival locations: Festival Grounds (Vilas County Fairgrounds-Hwy 70W), Downtown Eagle River, and the Eagle River Derby Track(Hwy 45N).  Shuttle Availiable from 9:00am - 5:00pm.

Free parking available at the Eagle River Derby Track.

Cranberry Marsh & Winery Tours 9:00am - 3:00pm.  Leaving every twenty minutes.  Tours leave from the Eagle River Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center. 

Call 800-359-6315 for reservations.

Fresh Cranberry and Craisin Salesrry Cranberry Fest Festival Grounds (Hwy70W), Eagle River Chamber of Commerce (201 N. Railroad St.), Corner of Hwy 70W & Railroad St. and Downtown Eagle River.

Cranberry Festival Grounds Activities (Vilas County Fairgrounds - Hwy 70W)  Free Shuttle Bus available to all other activities.  Availiable from 9:00am - 5:00pm.

Cranberry Pancake Breakfast          

   7am - 10am

Arts & Crafts Fair   9am - 4pm

Cranberry Fitness Run   8:30 a.m.

Cranberry Fitness Walk   10:00 a.m.

Cranberry Bake Sale

Cranberry Food Products and Souvenirs

Cranberry Beer and Soda

Cook-Off Recipe Booklets for sale

Make A Wish Foundation's World's Largest Cranberry Cheesecake

Family Entertainment

A variety of foods with or without Cranberries

Eagle River Derby Track Activites (Hwy 45 N)  FREE PARKING & Free Shuttle Bus available to all other activities.  Availiable from 9:00am - 5:00pm.

Cranberry Fest Market Place - Eagle River Derby Track,  8:00am - 4:00pm

Downtown Eagle River Activities  Free Shuttle Bus available to all other activities.  Availiable from 9:00am - 5:00pm.

Open Air Antique and Farmers Market, 9:00am - 4:00pm

Library Used Books Sale and Cranberry Video, Olson Memorial Library

Cranberry Country Quilters Show and Sale, First Congregational Church

First Congregational Church Luncheon, 11:00am - 2:00pm

Entertainment

Mini Cranberry Bog Display - Northwoods Childrens Museum

Evening Activities in Eagle River

Nordmarka Spaghetti Dinner at the Eagle River Inn, 4:30 - 8:00pm

First National Bank's Cranberry Fest Dance at Eagle Water's Resort,

7:30 - 11:30pm

"Baby Backs and Blues" at the Hi-Pines Resort, 5:00pm - 11:00pm

Cranberry Fest Activities

Sunday, October 4th

9:00am - 3:00pm

Cranberry Marsh & Winery Tours

10:00am - 2:00pm.  Leaving every hour.  Tours leave from the Eagle River Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center. 

Call 800-359-6315 for reservations.

Fresh Cranberry and Craisin Salesrry Cranberry Fest Festival Grounds (Hwy70W), Eagle River Chamber of Commerce (201 N. Railroad St.), Corner of Hwy 70W & Railroad St. and Downtown Eagle River.

Cranberry Festival Grounds Activities  (Vilas County fairgrounds - Hwy 70W)

Arts & Crafts Fair - 9am - 3pm

Cranberry Fest Crafter Items Auction

11:30am - Make A Wish Founation Tent

Cranberry Fitness Bike Tour, 10:30am

Cranberry Bake Sale

Cranberry Food Products and Souvenirs

Cook-Off Recipe Booklets for sale

Cranberry Beer and Soda

Family Entertainment

A variety of foods with or without Cranberries

Eagle River Derby Track Activites (Hwy 45 N) 

Cranberry Fest Market Place - Eagle River Derby Track,  8:00am - 3:00pm

Downtown Eagle River Activities 

Open Air Antique Market,

9:00am - 4:00pm

Enjoy The Celebration of Cranberries

October 3rd - 4th, 2009

Cranberry Fest has something for everyone - arts and crafts, cranberry food sales, a bakery, entertainment, Cranberry Fest Souveniers, fitness events and more.

With more than 40,000 people attending the festival annually, this event is one of the highlights of the fall season in Eagle River.

While you are at Cranberry Fest, check out the food tent where you will find soups, cranberry brats, char-broiled chicken sandwiches and much more.  Then visit the Information Headquarters tent where you can purchase fresh cranberry bakery goods and event souvenirs.  Don't forget to save room for our famous World's Largest Cranberry Cheesecake and support the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

How about taking home some fresh locally grown cranberries or craisins? Approximately 10,000 pounds of premium select cranberries will be sold during the festival event.  Cookbooks are also available to learn new and unique ways to use cranberries.

More Than Just Cranberries

In addition to the marvelous cranberry dishes and cranberry events, there will be over 350 Arts-n-Crafts vendors from all over the country selling all types of handmade arts and crafts on Cranberry Fest's festival grounds (Vilas County Fairgrounds - Hwy 70 W). In Downtown Eagle River you will find activities which include an open air antique market, farmers market, Cranberry Fest luncheon, Cranberry Country Quilters show and sale, food and lots of entertainment. At the Eagle River Derby Track (Hwy 45 N) you can enjoy the splendor of the Cranberry Fest Annex. 

Arts-N-Crafts Vendors

If you are a creator of arts-n-crafts, you will want to display your fine talents at Cranberry Fest in Eagle River, WI.  

2009 Application

For Application click here.

For Rule and Regulations click here. 

For Cranberry Fest Booth Layout click here.

Application deadline is March 1, 2009 or until full.

(Please note that all arts and crafts must be hand made by the seller - no buy/sell items allowed.   Should you have a buy/sell item or would be interested in showcasing your items at the Cranberry Fest Annex, please contact the Eagle River Derby Track at 715-479-4424.)

A Tradition of Cranberries

Cranberries are unlike any other fruit in the world. All around the globe, the cranberry plays an important role in our holiday traditions and a healthy way of life.

The history of the cranberry dates back hundreds of years. Native Americans, long before the Pilgrims arrived in 1620, mixed deer meat and mashed cranberries to make pemmican—a survival cake that kept for long periods of time. They also believed in the medicinal qualities of cranberries. Medicine men valued the cranberry as an ingredient in poultices to draw poison from arrow wounds. The rich red juice of the cranberry served as a natural dye for rugs, blankets and clothing. The Delaware Indians in New Jersey revered the cranberry as a symbol of peace.