Editor’s note: This article was published in Grand Traverse Scene magazine’s Fall 2025 issue. Pick up a free copy at area hotels, visitor’s centers, chambers of commerce or at the Record-Eagle building on Front Street. Click here to read GT Scene in its entirety online.
If you love elephant ears, winning stuffies, and that feeling of butterflies in your stomach that you only get on amusement-park rides, then look no further than the Northwest Michigan Fair, which takes place every August in at Grawn.