Lake Superior Day 2024

Lake Superior Day at the Lake Superior Estuarium on Barker’s Island in Superior features interactive activities, games, and learning opportunities for kids, adults and families, all focused on learning about and appreciating this Great Lake.

Food vendors include Superior Cubans, Sweeden Sweets and the American Indian Community Housing Organization’s Giinawiind Gigintaawigi’igomin: Together We Grow Program.

This year, attendees can hop on a free shuttle bus that runs between the Superior Public Library and the event on Barker’s Island. Buses run every half hour from the library starting at 11:15 a.m.

Stand-up paddle boarding demonstrations will run from noon to 3 p.m.

Prior to Lake Superior Day events, North Shore Stand Up Paddleboarding hosts the seventh annual Paddle for the People 4K recreational paddle race around Barkers Island. The free race begins at 10 a.m. with mandatory check in from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. (Register online at duluthsup.com. Registration is limited.)

Lake Superior is the cleanest, coldest and clearest of the Great Lakes. The largest lake by surface area in the world, it fuels local shipping, commercial fishing and recreational industries while providing clean drinking water. Every day, each of the 600,000 human residents of the Lake Superior basin use water from the lake for drinking, home use, industrial use or recreation. The lake is essential for countless fish, birds, animals and plants.

Lake Superior Day was started in the early 1990s to highlight the importance of this great water body to the basin’s environment and economy. It is now held every third Sunday in July. This year’s event in Superior is coordinated by the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve with help from the city of Superior, University of Wisconsin-Superior, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Friends of the Lake Superior Reserve, North Shore SUP and Wisconsin Sea Grant.