Join us at our fairgrounds for our 42nd Annual Logging Festival. This popular two-day event features an Arts & Crafts Vendor Day, Logging Parade, and Logging Festival.

Schedule:

Friday July 14, 2023

10:00 AM – 4:00 PM: Arts & Crafts Vendor Day  

Join us at our Museum fairgrounds for our 42nd Annual Logging Festival.  Swing by on Friday and explore the items our vendors will be selling in their booths.  Listen to the entertaining music from the Bob Greene Band between 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM!  There will be children’s activities, burying of the beans (around 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM) for the Bean Hole Dinner that will be served on Saturday, cookout, beer garden.

Saturday July 15, 2023

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM: Logging Parade  

We sponsor a morning parade along Rangeley’s Main Street featuring loaded big rig logging trucks, floats, bands, antique cars and much more.

This year’s parade theme is “Woodstock In The Woods”.  Winners for “Best Loaded Truck”, “Most Appropriate to Logging” (logging industry equipment), and “Best Fitting Parade Theme” for floats and other entries will be chosen

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM: Logging Festival

At the conclusion of the morning Logging Parade, The Logging Festival kicks off on Museum fairgrounds with our opening ceremonies followed by our Hall of Fame inductions, famous Bean Hole Dinner, biscuits baked on reflector ovens and our exciting logging competition. Come see the axe throw, hot saw, and crosscut challenge.  

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Date: July 14 - 15, 2023

Location: Maine Forestry Museum -  221 Stratton Rd, Rangeley, ME 04970

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