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Maine Red Hot Dog Festival
August 9, 2025
Dexter, Maine
Red Hot Dog Festival - Saturday, August 10th from 10am to 5pm, Rain or Shine!
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Maine Red Hot Dog Festival

The Maine Red Hot Dog Festival is a DDA fundraiser designed to attract a large number of people to the town where they will see all that Dexter has to offer, and to simply have fun!

Festival Activities

FREE ADMISSION!

BUN RUN! (5K Race) Sponsored by Millside Fitness! Click HERE to sign up! 

Food, Crafts, and other Vendors!

Beer/Wine Tents!

Hannaford's Red Hot Dog Eating Contest  and Children's Cupcake Eating Contest!

KidZone! - Children's Games!

Magic Wes Wonder!

Dexter Fire Department's Red Hot 'Duck' Race!

Four Red Hot Stages with LIVE ENTERTAINMENT all day!

LOTS of W.A. Bean Red Hot Dogs!

And so much more!!

Our Corporate Sponsors

DDA
Maine Highlands FCU
Hannaford
Lawson Landscape Construction
ACE Hardware
Crosby & Neal Funeral Homes & Cremation Care
The Eastern Gazette
Bean & Sons
Stewarts Property Management & Landscaping
PHD Consulting
AE Robinson
P&L Country Market
Delta Solutions
Skowhegan Savings Bank
Millworks Apparel
Langlais Builders
Rand Hill Farms
Varney Chevrolet