Hopkins Raspberry Festival — Local services in Hopkins

The Raspberry Festival felt like walking around a garage sale with the tables they had to shop from. It wasn't like a typical art fair with nice booths. I would say nearly half of the booths were vendors/companies trying to promote things like a hair salon, chiropractic work, dentistry, etc. There was hardly much indicating raspberries either. I think one local coffee shop had raspberry flavored beer and there was maybe a raspberry sculpture or something. I assumed there would be a lot of raspberry focused items like jams, ice cream, beer, etc. I was not at all impressed and would...

First time ever to visit Hopkins. For us it was like a trip back home to the small communities we had both grown up living in. People were super nice and the parade was fantastic! The only problem we had was we went to get something "raspberry" since that was the name of their festival only to learn there were no raspberries!! Anywhere!! Seems the raspberries on Saturday only..... Very...

I admit, it might have just been the day we went, but aside from a raspberry beer with nondescript advertising in a bookstore/coffee shop bistro, and a single small raspberry mascot at the tail end of the run before the parade, the was nothing to indicate that the festival was related to anything in particular, let alone...