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Things Heat Up With The Port Huron Chili Festival 2024

Save the dates for the 2024 Port Huron Chili Festival in February 2 & 3rd. All are located in Downtown Port Huron. You will be able to stroll while enjoying…

Giant roaster filled to the top with Chili . red glow of the chili with chunks of meat ready to eat

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Save the dates for the 2024 Port Huron Chili Festival in February 2 & 3rd. All are located in Downtown Port Huron. You will be able to stroll while enjoying outdoor activities such as ice sculptures, a s'more station, carriage rides, bed races, chili competition, live music, and much more!

Port Huron Chili Festival is back for 2024

Pt Huron Chili Fest Flyer

2024 Port Huron Chili Festival flyer

About the Port Huron Chili Festival Event

For two solid days of fun planned which include the challenging bed races. Music to melt ice too. A hot cocoa run and ice sculptures that are brilliant masterpieces. The best 16 plus chili makers to find out who is, "Best in Chili ."

Festivities are hosted by the Downtown Development Authority and McMorran Place.

Music Entertainment Highlights to Look For From Local Rockers

Local Band Sunset Blvd on stage playing to a live crowdscott randall

Sunset Blvd Rockin On Stage in Front Of A Huge Crowd

Thursday enjoy dinner and a show at 6 pm Bob Kerrigan Duo (Los Gringos)

Friday at 7 pm the rock and roll heats up with one amazing band. "The Sunset Blvd Band." They will transport you back to 1987, with loud guitars, big hair, and the hits. All things 80s rock (with a touch of pop) that made the 1980s the best decade for music.

From the 80's Motley Crue, Poison, Bon Jovi & GNR, to Michael Jackson, Heart & Joan Jett, this band delivers the best of the Good-Time Era, per Coast Guard Fest!!!

Saturday Morning 9am wake up to one of the most popular bands in the Metro Detroit area, "Band Wagon." over the last few years this band has drawn a following of fans from all over. They are Premier Professional Metro Detroit Cover Band. All Styles and Genre's.  Enjoy 2 sets of classic rock at 9am & 4:30pm

Saturday Night 8:30pm  The Gasoline Gypsies  are on stage. Enjoy Made-in-Michigan Americana Rock.  Original, genre-transcending, rock & roll delivered by four guys who love their craft. With three-part vocal harmonies, driving guitar and bass riffs, their songs are powerful and intense, yet simple and honest.

The Gasoline Gypsies are the Made-in-Michigan, Americana Rock that checks all the boxes for what makes a great headliner

Chili Fest Event Calendar 

Port Huron Heats Up with 2024 Chilly Fest: Bed Races, Chili Cook-Off, and Live Music on Tap

                    Port Huron  set to host streets frosty fun.  Don't forget the free carriage rides courtesy of local sponsors, and the adorable Fuzzy Penguin Hun

                                               For More Info On The Port Huron Chili Festival Click On The Local Link Here

Port Huron City of the Week Factoids 2023

Congratulations to Port Huron,
You’re the WCSX City of the Week from Monday, February 27th – March 3rd!

Below are some important facts about Port Huron that you can use to pass our Port Huron City of the Week Quiz!

The First Fort!

The French built Fort St. Joseph where Port Huron would later take shape in 1688, 13 years before Fort Pontchartrain (Detroit!)

The Road to Port Huron!

Gratiot Avenue runs from Detroit to Port Huron and was completed by 1836.

Light The Bulb!

World famous inventor Thomas Edison (invented the light bulb, the phonograph, etc.) was raised in Port Huron in the 1850's.

That's a big bridge!

Port Huron is an International boarder crossing to Canada via the Blue Water Bridge.

Sail Away!

Since 1925, Port Huron has been the starting location of the annual Port Huron to Mackinac sail boat race, the world's longest continually run long distance fresh water boat race.

Born in Mt Clemens, Screamin’ Scott has been a part of the Detroit airwaves for 30-plus years. With 40 years of experience in radio. When he’s not out on the streets for WCSX, you can find him devoting time to local charities with his, “Screamin Angels”; and for 16 years with Rock 4 Tots charity. And last 10 years with his local band, "Chit!." Screamin Scott likes to write about nostalgic Detroit area memories, classic rock, and local metro Detroit topics.