Farmer's Market on the Rum

It's Back! It's Fresh! It's Growing!

Wednesdays, June 19 – Sept 25, 2024
3 – 7 p.m.15 weeks

(no market on July 3)

Riverfront Memorial Park Parking Lot
2201 Second Avenue, Anoka

The City of Anoka is planning a fresh season of the farmers market with a plentiful amount of produce and a great selection of cottage foods, farmstead products, flowers, etc . Selection will grow as the season grows!

Coon Rapids Tree Lighting Festival

Saturday, Dec. 14 from 3:30-6 p.m.
Countdown to Tree Lighting and Fireworks at 5:30 p.m.

Boulevard Plaza, 11002 Crooked Lake Blvd.

Join us for a community celebration! Enjoy cocoa and cookies, take pictures with Santa and listen to live music. There will be fire pits to keep warm and fun activities for kids. Make sure you stay for the countdown to a twinkling light display on the tree and fireworks!

More details to come for the 2024 event.

Coon Rapids Fourth of July Celebration


Celebrate Independence Day with three days of free events, culminating with a fireworks display on July 4 at 10 p.m. on the grounds of the Coon Rapids Ice Center. 

COON RAPIDS FIRE SOCIAL GROUP, COON RAPIDS NORTH STAR LIONS AND COON RAPIDS COMMUNITY STRENGTH FOUNDATION HOST COON RAPIDS 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION.

LOCATED ON THE GROUNDS OF THE COON RAPIDS ICE CENTER

11000 CROOKED LAKE BOULEVARD

Coon Rapids Farmers Market

The Coon Rapids Farmers Market is open every Wednesday for shopping starting late June to October. Find fresh vegetables, berries, flowers, honeys, jams, breads and more!

Note: No farmers market July 3.

Special EventsJune 19: Market Kick-OffJuly 17: Kids DayAug. 21: Senior DaySept. 18: Customer Appreciation Day

Sustainable Safari

Minnesota's most interactive wildlife experience. Feed and pet animals from around the world (some you might not have heard of): capybara, kangaroo, goats, armadillos, African crested porcupines, prairie dogs, Patagonian mara, white-tailed deer, and dozens more.

ADMISSION: Sustainable Safari offers daily affordable all-day admission and free daily educational wildlife shows. No reservations are required for general admission. We offer discounted admission tickets for educators, seniors, first responders, and the military.

Christmas with a Whole Lotta Soul

Sometimes it happens when you’re looking through an old family photo album. Other times the thought may come with the smell of a tasty treat baking in the oven. Or maybe it comes later, during the act of hanging an ornament on a tree. But something will eventually trigger the words, “OK, now it feels like Christmas.”

Christmas on the Prairie

Featuring Boyd Lee, Aimée Lee and Mary Jane Alm With special guest, Grammy Award-winner, Pat Donohue

Back for their sixth year, some of your favorite Minnesota musicians get together for a very special holiday collaboration. It’s a not-to-be-missed cornucopia of Christmas conviviality, the familiar and the fresh, the fond and the frivolous. Featuring singers extraordinaire Mary Jane Alm, Aimée Lee and Boyd Lee, Prairie Home Companion regulars Richard Kriehn, Gary Raynor, Joe Savage and Peter Johnson, plus special guest, Grammy Award-winning singer/guitarist Pat Donohue.

Cheese, Wine and Beer Gala

The Image Committee is excited to announce the ever-popular Cheese, Wine and Beer Gala has returned! It will be held on Saturday, June 1st from 2-5 pm. This year’s event will be hosted at a new venue, nestled in a beautiful vineyard, amidst apple trees and natural beauty. It will take place on the grounds of South by Southeast Brewery, located at 51146 US Hwy 52, Pine Island.

The 2024 Gala promises to be even better with additional space for guests and vendors, and plenty of parking.

Celtic Holiday Hooley

Returning by popular demand is Celtic Holiday Hooley! Come for some warm-fuzzies and holiday family fun! This hosted variety show is a party for all ages with Irish music, stories, sketches, step dance, caroling and more. Beyond that, it’s wacky good fun for everyone with brief guest appearances from well-known holiday characters including The Grinch and yes, even Santa Claus! Presented by the O’Shea Irish Dancers (who appeared at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres in sold-out performances of Kickin’ It Irish). Choreography and music by original Riverdancer, Cormac O’Sé, of Dublin.