The Old Wadena Society

Members and Supporters

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORTERS

The Five Wings Arts Council provides support to the Society for the Old Wadena Rendezvous and Folklife Festival with funds appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature. The Rendezvous is funded, in part, by the Minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.

The County of Wadena provides support for the educational and interpretive mission of the Society.

Over the years the Old Wadena Society has recieved support for various activities from donors including:

Staples Host Lions

Staples Motley Community Foundation

3M Foundation

Central Lakes College

Arthur Appissomian, formerly of Wadena and now of Florida, created the Old Wadena Society logo.

RED RIVER TRAIL

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

MEMBERS/SUPPORTERS

PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY
Old Wadena Park and the
Crow Wing River

MAP/DIRECTIONS
To the Old Wadena Park

SCHEDULE
Rendezvous and
Folklife Schedules

OTHER PROJECTS
Learn about the Bog Walk interpretive project, Conservation Days, and classes in the folk arts.

SUPPORT
Volunteer, become a member, make a financial gift.

LINKS or CONTACT US

Old Wadena County Park is located at 13491 Old Wadena Circle, Staples, MN 56479

Turk's Cap Lily Old Wadena Society Rendezvous

Turk's Cap Lily Old Wadena Society Rendezvous

Turk's Cap Lily was formerly a common roadside flower in Wadena County. Today it is limited by extensive roadside mowing.

Welcome to Old Wadena

The Old Wadena Society sponsors the annual Old Wadena Rendezvous and Folklife Festival every August in the Old Wadena Park as part of its mission to share information about the natural environment and history of this area of north-central Minnesota. The park is situated on the banks of the Crow Wing River, one of the best canoe rivers in Minnesota. The festival showcases two days of great acoustic music, storytelling for all, Anishinaabe dance and drum, Rendezvouers demonstrating 1840s skills and living coniditions, and artists and artisans displaying their work. In addition the Society carries out other educational and interpretive work about the environment and history of the region.

Our location

A map and directions to Old Wadena County Historic Park will help you get to the park. Its location on the Crow Wing River between the Crow Wing's confluence with the Partridge and the Leaf Rivers in north-central Minnesota was an important hunting and trapping area for Indians and later for the French. Today the park is the centerpiece to a string of parks with campsites along the Crow Wing River in Wadena County. The Park is north and west of Staples and north and east of the city of Wadena in Wadena County.