Get ready to shuffle, trump, and play your way to victory in the most exciting card tournament of the year...the Annual World Euchre Championships in New Glarus, Wisconsin.
It's the New Glarus Bike Rodeo, sponsored by the New Glarus Police Department and New Glarus Chamber of Commerce, open to kids in grades K-4!
Polka, polka, polka!
The Heidi Play is held every year in June. It is a way to share the Swiss heritage of New Glarus by telling the traditional folk tale of Heidi
Everything’s better dipped in cheddar!
Get those dancing feet and stomachs ready!
Bop all around New Glarus to find deals at businesses and around the neighborhood!
New Glarus Firefest is a family event featuring fire truck rides, fire hose water fights, bouncy house, and more. Food and beer tent, live music in the evening.
Celebrate Swiss Independence Day with a program of traditional Swiss entertainment. Enjoy choral folklore music, yodeling, flag throwing, talerschwingen, alphorn playing, and accordion music. Learn More >
Come celebrate and remember the first settlers of New Glarus at a special ecumenical service held at the replica settler's church on the museum grounds. Free admission!
Join the Friends of New Glarus Woods for their (delayed!) 2nd annual run!
Share with your family the story of Swiss independence, written by German playwright Friedrich Schiller. It's a live theater presentation with intricate costumes and a lively cast that includes goats, cows and horses. More than 200 local volunteers join to make each colorful performance come to life.
Annual arts & crafts fair by local artisans and craftmakers
Free entertainment, free food & carnival rides for the whole family!
Oktoberfest offers many spirited activities in downtown New Glarus including live music, great food, local beer, wagon rides, chainsaw carving, plus plenty of family fun. Live music in the festival tent all weekend!
The perfect New Glarus outing for families and car enthusiasts! From street rods to hogs, you won't want to miss this fun day. . .
Join the Friends of the Chalet of the Golden Fleece for a New Glarus Wine Walk! Our fundraising event features local New Glarus businesses where you can stop, enjoy a wine tasting, sample some snacks, browse the shops, and socialize with your friends. It's a great way to have a fun night out and support our museum and local history.
Connect with 19th century Swiss immigrant life at our annual Harvest Fest where daily routines and responsibilities of the past – cheese making, blacksmithing, yarn spinning, basket weaving – are re-created. Enjoy a Swiss brätzeli cookie-making demonstration. Talk to Civil War re-enactors, the “Bee Man,” a wheelwright and a sausage maker. For those of you who are feeling ambitious, practice your three Rs in a one-room schoolhouse. After all that work, relax and enjoy some live music on our picturesque grounds . . .
It's a Halloween pub crawl! Grab your friends and haunt the bars of downtown New Glarus!
Come to downtown New Glarus for a spooktacular afternoon of trick or treating at local businesses!
One of the town’s most favorite annual holiday traditions continues this year!
Kick off the season of delights in downtown New Glarus at our Holiday Tree Lighting. . .
Tis the season for outdoor holiday shopping and spirit in New Glarus!
Winterfest: All veterans/patriotic festival & reunion. Open to the public!
Silversterchlausen is an ancient New Year’s celebration from Appenzell, Switzerland. New Glarus is the only place in the country that also celebrates!
Join the Friends of the New Glarus Woods State Park for their annual snowshoe hike!
Join the New Glarus Lions Club for their annual golf outing. All proceeds go to helping children in need!
BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS!
FNGPL Annual Book Sale is on SATURDAY and SUNDAY of Labor Day Weekend! We have Children's Books, Adult Fiction and Non-Fiction, Music CDS and DVDs!
Proceeds benefit the New Glarus Public Library.
Sign up for a wonderful afternoon of Whiskey, Wine, Cheese, Mead, apps and other food pairings! This event always promises to be a good time!
Visit the Swiss Center of North America after Volksfest to learn more about what they do.
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