Some of the best summer weekends are due to small town street dances. Its sometimes hard to find out where these are and what weekends, but almost every small town in northern MN and western WI have them around the 4th of July. The best way to find these out is by calling the local city governments of counties. I've been trying to figure out how to get a list of different ones for every weekend one of these summers.
Typically there will be:
-cheap beer
-outgoing crowd of people
-cops drinking with 16 yr old locals
-live music / dancing
-exposed love-handles
-no one you know (which is essential to being crazier than usual)
Last time I was at one of these at a bachelor party, we traded a can of beer for a dog. Luckily we found a someone willing to take it from us at the end of the night.
Cheap and fun things to do around Minneapolis/St.Paul