The fair has selected more than 340 artists across a dozen categories, including photography, painting, wood, metal and mixed media, and organizers have added a Gourmet Arts area so visitors can sample unique foods and drinks.
The new public marina on Lake Cascade will be a full-service facility, providing various amenities and services to enhance the visitor experience.
The Viking Mississippi calls at three of the state's ports as it covers 600 miles of the Lower Mississippi on its Mississippi Delta Explorer itinerary. The trio of destinations—Natchez, Vicksburg, and Greenville—might not have the global renown of other ports of call on the eight-day journey like New Orleans, Louisiana, or Memphis, Tennessee, but they each have a story to tell in the history of the state and its role in building the United States.
"Tucked in south central Wisconsin, just 3.5 hours north of Chicago and 1.5 hours from Milwaukee, Green Lake has earned the nickname of the 'Hamptons of the Midwest.' Families have been summering there since the 1800s, when the shoreline was dotted with a handful of rustic resorts."
Bon Iver's Eaux Claires Festival is making its return to Eau Claire, Wisconsin for the first time in eight years. Set for July 24th and 25th in a new location, the historic Carson Park, the 2026 edition will be feature sets by Aimee Mann, Dijon, Daniel Caesar, Lil Yachty, Kevin Morby, and something dubbed Bon Dylan.
Country Club Plaza area is one of the best neighborhoods to stay in when visiting Kansas City as a first-time visitor. Modeled after Seville, Spain, it's packed with fountains, Spanish-style architecture, and high-end shopping- plus there's easy access to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
Shouldered by sandstone cliffs, these caves in Bayfield, Wisconsin, form when water-and, notably, waves-that would normally flow through the sandstone freezes instead, birthing icicles, columns, and curtains. During the winter of 2015, the caves attracted just shy of 40,000 tourists within a nine-day period, the Associated Press reported at the time.
When our lakes are frozen, they are truly our greatest asset. There's a long history of ice harvesting in this region, so there was just a lot of commercial activity on these lakes, cutting blocks of ice out of the lakes all winter. Frozen lakes were so important to the city that records of when the ice froze each year go back more than 100 years.
If the name 'Manhattan' conjures images of tall skyscrapers, yellow cabs, and large crowds, you're probably thinking of New York City. Kansas has its own Manhattan, though despite sharing a name with NYC's famous borough, Manhattan in Kansas is utterly different to the Big Apple. This college town is home to the main campus of Kansas State University. Founded in 1855, Manhattan is in the Midwest, surrounded by the tallgrass prairie landscape that once dominated North America.
Many of the great wonders of the world, from iconic buildings to national parks, are preserved and open to the public, but some are tucked away on private land where only a few can enjoy them. One such wonder-a natural spring-fed lake just an hour north of New Orleans-opened to the public for the first time last summer, giving Louisianans and visitors access to a surreal, bright-blue lake lined with white sand beaches.
Set dramatically on the westernmost tip of Lake Superior, Minnesota's northern hub tells stories of grit and grandeur. Over the years, the city has transformed from a rough-and-tumble logging and mining outpost into a destination for both outdoor enthusiasts and culture seekers, completing one of America's great urban renewal stories.