Upcoming Events at Palmer Park
WinterFest
December 14, 2025
​​Free Family Holiday Fun in and around the Palmer Park Log Cabin!  Celebrate Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Christmas! Meet Santa & Mrs. Claus!  Enjoy Cookies and Hot Cocoa and Jazz and Holiday Music!  Horse and carriage rides, art-making, holiday magic and decor! This festive community event will take place at the historic Palmer Log Cabin.

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Palmer Park Art Fair
May 31 - June 1, 2025
​Integrity Shows is reinventing the art fair and reviving a wonderful event from the 1970s and 1980s, while giving Detroit its only large outdoor juried art fair. Installations, street art and demonstrations mix with artists' booths and the park's trees and beauty. We are active partners with People for Palmer Park and encourage local business and residents' involvement in our art fair.

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Harvest Festival
September 20, 2025
​​​People for Palmer Park presents its free community Harvest Festival to welcome Autumn, and enjoy nature and harvest time. with dance, music, storytelling, art making, pumpkin picking and harvest related foods. The event includes a variety of family-friendly activities: petting zoo, pony rides, hayrides through the woods, arts & crafts, pumpkin picking, games, and entertainment with music, storytelling and more. 

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Log Cabin Day
August 10, 2025
​​​Take a peek! People for Palmer Park opens the doors of Palmer Park’s 1880's Log Cabin — Detroit’s only authentic log cabin — for a rare day of historic exploration and free family fun. Visitors each year have been treated to a day of old-fashioned ice cream socials, live music, square dancing, blacksmithing, hat-making and parade/contests, prize raffles, Civil War camp, and an afternoon of family fun that will reconnect people of all ages to early Detroit memories and history, and aspirations for continued revival.

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