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Lake Superior Day 2023
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Lake Superior Day at the Lake Superior Estuarium on Barker’s Island in Superior features live music, kids’ activities, stand-up paddle boarding, raffle prizes, informational booths and food vendors all focused on celebrating and appreciating the Great Lake.
Teague Alexy performs at 11 a.m. The Gemstones Honoring AfroGeode perform at 1 p.m.
Stand-up paddle boarding demonstrations run from noon to 3 p.m.
Food will be available for purchase from Superior Cubans, the AICHO Community Garden Program and Sweeden Sweets.
Prior to the main event, North Shore Stand Up Paddleboarding hosts the sixth 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 through the Google Form. Registration is limited.)
Help take care of Lake Superior as part of the Wisconsin Point Spotted Knapweed Pull, happening from 9 to 11 a.m.
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, the Friends of the Lake Superior Reserve, North Shore SUP and Wisconsin Sea Grant.
