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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!  

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!

Wes Booth, Maine's Master Magician!

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

Burns Bears - Chainsaw Artist!

Four Red Hot Stages with LIVE ENTERTAINMENT all day!

LOTS of W.A. Bean Red Hot Dogs!

And so much more!!

Our Corporate Sponsors

Maine Highlands FCU
DDA
Hannaford
News Center Maine
The Eastern Gazette
Millworks Apparel
Brooks Tire & Auto Sales
Langlais Builders
PHD Consulting
Skowhegan Savings Bank
Stewarts Property Management & Landscaping
Story Teller Guitars
ACE Hardware
Pepsi
Varney Chevrolet
Gerard W Rudmin
Rand Hill Farms
AE Robinson
Bean & Sons
Lawson Landscape Construction