100-mile garage sale

5K-9 fundraiser and 100-mile Garage Sale coincide

May 13, 2026

Photographer Ben Threinen captured some images from what was an eventful weekend. At left are two athletes participating in the Hiawatha Animal Humane Society’s annual 5K-9 fun run or walk along the Riverwalk from Ohuta Beach toward Hok-Si-La and back. At right, three people contemplate some old...

100-mile sale is officially back

May 5, 2021

“The 100 mile Garage Sale is back bigger and better than ever,” according to Larry Nielson of Mississippi Valley Partners (MVP), the organization that puts on the annual event that stretches up and down the river valley from Hastings and Prescott in the north to Winona and Fountain City in the...

Come sale anyway?

Sep 9, 2020

After being rescheduled from May to this weekend, the official 100-Mile Garage Sale was called off entirely last month. But that hasn’t stopped dozens of people from advertising sales this weekend. Whether the pandemic keeps shoppers away remains to be seen. “A few weeks ago, Mississippi Valley...

100-mile garage sale postponed

Apr 1, 2020

The 100-mile garage sale initially scheduled for April 30 through May 3 has been postponed, according to Larry Nielson of Mississippi Valley Partners, which organizes the event. “We decided this morning (March 30) that with the ‘Stay in Place order’ extended through April and medical experts...

Sales bring family and friends together

May 8, 2019

Another 100-mile Garage Sale weekend has come and gone, and maybe, just maybe, what you bought and sold didn’t mean as much as who you bought and sold with. At right, Georgia Donohue gets an assist from her grandmother, Lola Threinen, in order to examine a pair of Raggedy Anne and Andy dolls. Below...

100-mile Garage Sale 2018

May 3, 2018

Garage sales up and down the Mississippi River from Hastings to Winona. Scads of ads in this week's Shopper.

100-mile garage sale is this weekend

May 3, 2018

By the time you read this, chances are good that in a garage, yard or driveway along the Mississippi, garage sale weekend has already begun. The annual 100-mile Garage Sale officially runs May 3 through May 6 in river communities in both Minnesota and Wisconsin from Hastings to Winona. This week’s...

Big garage sale is here

May 3, 2017

If you are reading this, then chances are the 100-mile garage sale has already begun. The annual massive sale is actually hundreds of smaller sales in communities along the Mississippi River stretching from Prescott, Wis., in the north to Winona in the south. The official sale starts today (...

100-mile garage sale is May 4-7

Apr 20, 2017

From Winona to Red Wing and Prescott, Wis., down to Fountain City, Wis., the 100-mile garage sale returns to the Mississippi River Valley May 4-7. People can view sale listings or post their own for free at 100milegaragesale.org. The Lake City Shopper offers discount rates for garage sale ads paid...