Tomorrow in Lovells! Leaky Waders 1K Fun Run and the Lovells Arts & Crafts Fair

Come help us celebrate the opening of the 2025 Trout Season! Arts & Crafts! Conservation Ambassadors! The Leaky Waders 1K! Hot Dog Lunch! 50/50 Raffle! FUN, FUN, FUN! FUN for Everyone!

Registration for the Leaky Waders 1K starts at 9 AM at the Lovells Township Hall at 8405 Twin Bridge Rd, Grayling 49738. Or, you can pre-register on our website HERE. The race starts at 11 am and a bus will bring participants from Township Hall to the starting line at 10:45. Participants must wear chest waders and they will run, walk or saunter from the Lovells Riverside Tavern to the finish line at Township Hall. There's a variety of prizes for winners and all participants receive souvenirs. First place winners will have their name inscribed on our winners' plaque on display in the Museum of Trout Fishing History.

The Arts & Crafts Fair presents a wonderful variety of art and objects by talented Northern Michigan creators. Grayling artist Dan Feldhauser, fly fishing artist Stacy McKellip, Lovells artists Chris White, Nancy Klein and Nathan Baker will all be there along with Cabin Lamp Designs from Traverse City. Art and Objects will be avaiable for purchase and the artists will be joined by Ambassadors from several conservation groups including Trout Unlimited, Au Sable North Branch Area Foundation and Casting for Recovery..

Hot dog lunch will be available for a donation and it is opening day for our two museums. The Museum of Trout FIshing History will feature exhibits on Bamboo Rod Making and Peter Jones will be on hand to discuss cane...how to select it, how to treat it and how to cut it. We will also be adding Mark Hendricks to our Unsung Heroes of the Au Sable. The Lone Pine Schoolhouse will feature a quilting exhibit.

Join us and celebrate the start of a new season! And be sure to thank all the area merchants who have donated prizes for race participants, we are so fortunate to have such good neighbors: North Branch Outing Club, Lovells Riverside Tavern, Lovells EZ Mart (Blarney Castle), Kelloggs Bridge Grocery, Tip'n The Mitten,, Dairy Queen, The Rialto Theatre.