Rally Minnesota 2026 dates and initial information dated 1/14/26

🏁 Rally Minnesota 2026 – Save the Dates 🏁

The forests, the gravel, the noise, the lights—Rally Minnesota is back in 2026, bigger, louder, and more unforgettable than ever.

📍 Headwaters Rally

🗓 May 16, 2026

Headwaters Rally returns to Walker with headquarters once again at Chase on the Lake, home of last year’s now-legendary post-rally party.

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2026 turns it up another notch with:

  • 🎸 Live music

  • 🙌 Enhanced volunteer experience

  • 🏁 A full-throttle rally atmosphere that blends classic stage rally with true Northwoods hospitality

This is the rally where crews, volunteers, and fans all collide for one epic spring weekend.


🌲🔥 Ojibwe Forests Rally

🗓 August 28–29, 2026 | Friday–Saturday

Ojibwe Forests Rally becomes a two-night spectacle, with each day ending under the lights with a SuperSpecial stage.

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Friday – August 28

The rally storms into Soo Pass Ranch

  • 🚗 Rally cars run TWICE on the SuperSpecial

  • 🎶 Live music

  • 🌙 A full evening of speed, sound, and sideways action under the lights

Saturday – August 29

The grand finale lands in downtown Bemidji at the Sanford Center

  • 🏁 SuperSpecial finish right in front of the arena

  • 🎸 Live music on site

  • 🔥 A city-center rally showdown unlike anything else in the region


🚦 Two Rallies. One State. Maximum Attack.

From springtime gravel in the Headwaters to late-summer night stages in the north woods, 2026 is shaping up to be the most aggressive Rally Minnesota season yet.

Crews, volunteers, fans—mark your calendars.
The countdown starts now.