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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:11:00

The site has been an airfield, a Cold War Nike missile base, and - since 1970 - the permanent home of what Guinness certified as the World's Largest Music Festival. Henry Maier Festival Park, 75 acres on Lake Michigan at 200 North Harbor Drive in Milwaukee, is the purpose-built festival ground of Summerfest and the densest concentration of permanent outdoor stages in America. Summerfest itself began in 1968, the brainchild of Mayor Henry Maier after a visit to Munich's Oktoberfest, scattered ac...