2026 Muscoda Morel Mushroom Festival

Get ready for the 45th Annual Morel Mushroom Festival!

• Kicking off Friday night @ 5pm with our 5th Annual Car Cruise-In located @ the Riverdale Bus Garage. Food trucks Jovita's and Cooke's Kitchen will be at the Cruise-In.
• Our 3rd Annual Antique & Farm Tractor Pull is also Friday night. Weigh-ins start @ 5pm and pulls start @ 6pm located @ West Nebraska Street.
• American Legion Burger & Beverage Stand located @ Mushroom Headquarters Friday night 5pm-8pm.
• Thunder Showers Bounce Houses @ Pickering Park.

Saturday is a fun filled day!
• Starting off with St. Johns Pancake Breakfast from 7am-11am @ Parish Hall (116 W. Beech St.).
• The Lions Club CASI Chili Cookoff opens at 7am - cooks meeting @10 - judging @1pm located @ Walnut Street.
• Half Twisted Half Knot will be here from 8am-4pm located @ Walnut Street.
• Fresh mushrooms will be available to purchase @ Mushroom Headquarters from 9am-2pm.
• Fried Mushrooms will be available to purchase @ Mushroom Headquarters from 9am-4pm or until gone.
• American Legion Food & Beverage stand will also be @ Mushroom Headquarters from 9am-5pm.
• The Tasting Area will be located at Mushroom Headquarters from 9am-4pm including Meister Cheese, Mandi Kneads Dough, The Buzz Club, Wild Hills Winery, Spurgeon Winery & Gillingham Meads.
• Live music from "3 Souls Band" @ Mushroom Headquarters from 11am-3pm.
• Mushroom Fest apparel will also be available at Mushroom Headquarters.
• Coed Unlimited Softball Tournament will be held @ Jaycee Ballpark starting @ 9am.
• Riverdale Varsity Baseball Invitational @ Pickering Park @9am.
• Thunder Showers Bounce Houses @ Pickering Park 10am-5pm.
• Tiny Acres Farms Petting Zoo 11am-2pm by Riverdale Bus Garage
• Railroad Park Activities 9am-5pm including LEO Club Food Stand (including mushroom brats), Arts & Crafts Vendors, Food Vendors & Bartels Chainsaw Carving will be located @ Clare Bank Parking Lot.
• Lectures at the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway Board office
1. 10:00am Ken Thiede – The Fires of Muscoda - Historian Ken Thiede will describe significant fires that changed the architecture and shaped the economy of Muscoda over the past 120 years.
2. 11:00am Mark Cupp – The Mounds of the Muscoda Area - Mark Cupp, Lower Wisconsin State Riverway Board Executive Director and local effigy mounds authority, will present information on the people who inhabited the lower Wisconsin River valley over 1000 years ago and who built earthworks in the shapes of animals.
• Driftless Area & Local Wisconsin Beer Samples will be located @ Sportsmen's Lounge Patio from 11am-3pm (10 samples for $15).
• The Kindschi Pedal Pulls & Dash for Cash / Culvers Tokens @ 11am @ Riverdale Bus Garage.
• Lower Wisconsin Riverway Office will have historic lectures @ 202 N. Wisc. Ave.
• Three Eagles Foundation will be giving a tour @ Frank's Hill / Wisconsin Effigy Mounds @ 1pm (Hwy60 & Hwy193).
• The 45th Annual Morel Mushroom Fest Parade starts @ 3pm down Wisconsin Avenue.
• The Wisconsin Badger Marching Band will put on a performance after the parade @ W. Nebraska Street / Wisconsin Ave.
• The Muscoda Volunteer Fire Department Steak Feed is @ 4:30 until gone @ Muscoda Fire Dept. (701 N Wisconsin Avenue).
• Muscoda Mudcats Baseball game @ Pickering Park @ 6pm.
• At dusk enjoy the fireworks along the beautiful Wisconsin River.

It's not done yet!
• Sunday @ 9:30am non-denominational Cowboy Church featuring Monty Berger @ Presbyterian Church (402 N. 2nd Street).
• Corn Hole Tournament @ Jaycee's Ball Park @ 12pm