Held during the latter part of October, what is better than a day of goose hunting? How about eight days of goose hunting during Kenmare, North Dakota's GooseFest?

During the latter part of October, Kenmare celebrates its GooseFest, an annual hunting festival which falls during the peak migration of snow geese.

Kenmare lies along the Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge and is also situated between the Upper Souris Refuge and the Lostwood Refuge. Each year, the three refuges are hosts to over 400,000 snow geese for several weeks during the fall migration.

Each fall the Kenmare area becomes the center of a true hunter's paradise. Besides the snow geese, hunters will find abundant populations of Canada geese, mallard ducks, Hungarian partridge, sharptail grouse, and ringneck pheasant. After bagging a limit of geese, the avid hunter can spend the afternoon flushing upland game.

The GooseFest celebration includes hunting contests as well as a week-long schedule of entertainment. $52,000 worth of merchandise prizes are awarded to raffle winners and to hunters bagging the largest bird in categories of Canada goose, snow goose, and greenhead duck.

Special events and activities throughout the week include free feeds at local taverns, a goose shoot calcutta, the popular chili cook-off, Ladies' Night Out, family-oriented activities, Goose Hunter's Hall of Fame induction and a final entertaining banquet with presentation of prizes and awards.