When: June 14, 2025 at 11 AM
Where: On the shore of the Frankenmuth Fish Passage Rock Ramp, downtown Frankenmuth, Michigan
Cost: Duck Race Tickets are $10 each
The Great Duck Race takes place each year just below the dam on the beautiful Cass River after the Bavarian Kinder Tag Parade. Hundreds of yellow rubber ducks are placed into the Cass River to flock toward the finish line. This is a favorite event for local residents and visitors who descend on the downtown area during the Bavarian Festival weekend.
Prizes: Golden Duck: Splashtastic Package *Donated by Zehnders Splash Village
*Splashtastic Package is an “eat, sleep and play” package which includes four family style chicken dinners, a Dragonfly Room for one night at Zehnder’s Splash Village which includes four waterpark passes, 4 breakfast passes and 18 holes of golf for four including carts at the Fortress!
Champion Quacker: $1000.00
Master Peeper: $500.00
Waddle Warrior: $250.00
In addition 20 Lucky Ducks Win $25
You must be 18 years old to purchase a ticket.
Please contact Frankenmuth Morning Rotary Club at fmrotary1@gmail.com with questions.
The Great Duck Race is one of the Frankenmuth Morning Rotary Club's largest fundraisers. All proceeds from the Great Duck Race are used for the Morning Rotary's local and international community projects, scholarships, and donations. Some of these projects include:
Equipment for the Frankenmuth High School science lab, Dictionary/Thesaurus school donation, Annual adoption of families for Christmas, Two $2,000 Scholarships, two $2,000 trade scholarships, Oratorical contest for grades 3-5, Annual school supply drive, Unsung Hero Award, High School Volunteer of the Year, International Water and Sanitation Projects, Ongoing polio eradication efforts.
Duck Tickets are available from any Morning Rotarian and also at Rummel Portrait Studios, 130 W. Tuscola St. Frankenmuth, MI (989) 652-9909.