Festival of Adventures & MUD RIVER MUSIC FEST

Festival of Adventures Event Map

Public Admission: Sept. 15 & 16, 2007

City Park - Aitkin, Minnesota

Our festival grounds encompasses a pinery logging camp, immigrant settlers camp, food area, William Aitkin's trading camp, Zebulon Pike's Camp and the rendezvous encampment.

The scenic Mud river is the picturesque backdrop setting for the rendezvous encampment and the pioneering/logging camps. There are also two stages where live entertainment performs during the festival. Pow Wow dancing takes place in the William Aitkin trading camp area.

There is nearby parking available for period campers and traders. Public parking is available along Minnesota Ave. and near the City Park . There are two main entrances to the festival grounds: both are located in the vicinity of the City Park along 1st Street Southwest. The only public access to the event will be from the south side of the river, along 1st Street Southwest.

The event is open to the public on Saturday and Sunday, September 15-16 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is priced to encourage family enjoyment.

Friday, September 14 is School Day and access to the grounds are closed to the general public that entire day.

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"Festival of Adventures" is a trademark/servicemark of the Aitkin Festival of Adventures Committee

In addition to our Festival of Adventures fur trade rendezvous, we also offer an 1890s pinery camp experience. In the era that followed the statewide Jack Pine harvest, White Oak became an important replacement to Jack Pine. During the pinery camp era, White Oak was cut as a hardwood. White Oak was used in the making of furniture and for cooperage. As the river pigs floated the White Oak logs to the mill, deer would gather along the river to drink. Deer and the river were the constant companions of the men as they floated White Oak to the mill each spring.