Maine 2025 Festivals

Maine 2025 Festivals

Maine 2025 Festivals are looking to be fantastic this year! Many Maine festivals celebrate the people, resources, and industries that shaped the character of our beautiful state, including boats, lobsters, clams, oysters, blueberries, strawberries, potato blossoms, maple syrup, our forests, rivers, and Indigenous peoples. Other fun festivals include pirates, hot air balloons, Moxie, whoopie pies, chili, and more! Maine festivals are always fun for the whole family and offer something for everyone. Start planning your 2025 Maine festival adventures using the calendar below!

Please Note: If no location is listed behind the event, it is being held in the town that is included in the event name. Dates below with an asterisk (*) next to them are not confirmed and are my best guess based on previous dates the festival was held. Asterisks will be removed once I have confirmed the dates, and the event will then be added to the Google Calendar!

Maine 2025 Festivals

January

• 25 Camden Winterfest

February

• 2 Tri-Town Winterfest, Poland
  • 11am-3pm
• 7-9 Rangeley Pond Hockey Festival
• 14-15 The 15th Annual Snowshoe Festival, Western Foothills Land Trust, Roberts Farm Preserve, 64 Roberts Rd, Norway
• 14-22 Somerset SnowFest
  • Featuring a range of activities including an ice-fishing derby, kite-flying derby, downhill kayak race, winter triathlon, and one of the Northeast’s only equestrian skijoring competition, this is a not-to-be-missed winter festival. SnowFest takes place in southern Somerset County, Maine, in the heart of the beautiful Kennebec River Valley.
• 21-23 Annual Belfast Ice Festival & State of Maine Ice Carving Championship

March

• Coming soon!

April

• 26 Portland Chowderfest
  • Tickets required, see website

May

• 3* Kennebunk Annual May Day Festival
• 11* Annual Chowderfest on the Pier, Old Orchard Beach
• 17* Annual Beerfest, Old Orchard Beach
• 17 Fiddlers and Fiddlehead Festival, Patten Lumbermen’s Museum, 61 Shin Pond Rd, Patten
• 24-25 Trail Running Festival at Pineland Farms, New Gloucester
• 29-June 1 26th Annual Acadia Birding Festival, Mount Desert Island, Southwest Harbor, Acadia National Park

June

• 6-7 White Nose Pete Fly Fishing Festival, Rangeley
• 14 Maine Whoopie Pie Festival, Dover-Foxcroft
  • $6 per person, kids 12 and under free
• 19-22 La Kermesse Franco-Americaine Festival, St. Louis Field, Biddeford
• 20-22 High Peaks PaddleFest, The Rangeley Oquossoc Adventure Rendezvous (ROAR), Rangeley Lakes
• 20-22 2025 Midsommar Swedish Heritage Festival, 116 Station Road, New Sweden
• 22-28 63rd Annual Windjammer Days, Boothbay Harbor
  • Harbor Aglow, Pirates of the Dark Rose, Gathering of the Fleet, parades & fireworks
• 28 South Berwick Strawberry Festival
  • Road race & fun walk, music, activities, food, free trolley service & parking
• 28-29 The Maine Oyster Festival, Freeport

July

• 5* Wayne Annual Strawberry Festival
• 9-11 Maine’s Wild Blueberry Festival, Union Fairgrounds, Union
  • $20 admission
• 10 RGSA Annual Strawberry Festival, Oquossoc
• 11-12* 44th Annual Logging Festival, Maine Forestry Museum grounds, Rangeley
• 11-13* 41st Annual Moxie Days Moxie Festival, Lisbon
• 12-13 North Atlantic Blues Festival, Rockland
• 12-13 Abbe Museum Dawnland Festival, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor
• 12-20 Maine Potato Blossom Festival, Fort Fairfield
  • Live entertainment, rides for kids, athletic events, parade, fireworks
• 18-20 57th Annual Yarmouth Clam Festival
• 18-20 Maine Celtic Celebration, Belfast
• 18-20* Rockland Maritime Heritage Days
• 19-20 21st Annual Native American Pow Wow, Wells Harbor Park, 331 Harbor Road, Wells
• 20-25* 19th Annual Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail Festival, Greenville
• 26* The Maine Artisan Bread Fair, Skowhegan State Fairgrounds
  • 9am-3pm
• 30-August 3 Maine Lobster Festival, Rockland
  • The biggest celebration of lobster in the world

August

• July 31-3* Skowhegan River Fest
• 7-9*- Forest Heritage Days, Greenville
• 1-2* Wilton Blueberry Festival
• 14* Rangeley Blueberry Festival
• 14-17 Madawaska Acadian Festival
• 15-17 47th Annual Machias Wild Blueberry Festival
• 15-17 Belfast Harbor Fest
• 15-17* Lewiston-Auburn Balloon Festival
• 16-17 Maine Highland Games and Scottish Festival, Windsor Fairgrounds
• 22-24 Crown of Maine Balloon Fest, Presque Isle
• 23* 24th Annual Wells Chili-Fest
• 29-30* Camden Windjammer Festival
• 30-31 36th Eastport Salmon & Seafood Festival
  • Crab rolls, clam chowder, salmon barbecue, music, museums, youth fishing derby

September

• 4-7* 51st International Seaplane Fly-In, Moosehead Lake, Greenville
• 4-7 Eastport Pirate Festival
• 7* The Maine Cheese Festival, Manson Park, Pittsfield
• 12-14 Trails End Festival, Millinocket
• 20* 27th Annual Bethel Harvestfest
• 27* 21st Maine Lakes Brewfest, Bridgton
• 27* Apple Pumpkin Festival, Livermore Falls
• 27-28* Pemaquid Oyster Festival, Mine Oyster Restaurant, Boothbay Harbor

October

• 3-5 26th Annual Freeport Fall Festival
• 4* Chili, Chowder, & BrewFest, Bath Freight Shed, 27 Commercial St, Bath
• 11* Swine & Stein Brewfest, Water St, Gardiner
• 11-13 Damariscotta Pumpkinfest & Regatta
• 11-12* 57th Annual Fall Foliage Festival, Boothbay Railway Village
• 11-12* Sunday River Fall Festival, Sunday River Ski Resort, Newry
• 18 40th Annual Harvestfest & Kidsfest, Short Sands Beach, York Beach
• 19 Great Maine Apple Day, MOFGA, Unity
• 23-25* Harvest on the Harbor, Portland
• 24-26 22nd Annual OgunquitFest, Ogunquit
• 11-13*- Maine Maple Fall Fest Weekend, various sugar houses across the state
• 18*- HarvestFest, Kennebunk

November

• Coming Soon!

December

• 12-14 39th Annual Christmas by the Sea, Ogunquit
  • Tree and bridge lighting, concerts, children’s activities, parade, bonfire, fireworks, & Santa!