RANGELEY — Don your favorite flannel shirt and head to Rangeley on Saturday to catch the color and excitement of the Maine woods.

 The 31st annual Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum Festival Days, which began Friday, continues Saturday with a full day of activities.

The day’s festivities kick off with a huge parade along Rangeley’s Main Street, featuring at least 50 floats, according to Judy Morton, executive director of the Rangeley Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce.

Participating in Saturday’s parade will be Gov. Paul LePage with his wife, Anne LePage, and daughter Lauren; the winners of the Little Miss and Mister Wood Chip pageant contest; and 2011 Loggers Hall of Fame inductees William “Bunk” Spiller of Rangeley and Elijah White Jr. of Carthage.

At 11 a.m., following the parade, the festival’s action moves to the Logging Museum on Route 16 about a mile northwest of downtown Rangeley.

The museum’s festival activities include an old-fashioned bean-hole supper at 11:30 a.m., French fiddling music by Dawn Roy and Friends, storytelling by Galen “Jeep” Wilcox, children’s games, a craft fair, museum and forest displays, trail hiking, kayak rentals on Haley Pond, logging equipment displays and chain saw carving demonstrations by “The Mad Whittler.”

The festival’s marquee afternoon event is a woodsmen’s competition at 12:30 p.m., featuring some of Maine’s best woodsmen pitting themselves against one another and the clock in competitive events, including double-blade ax tossing, cross-cut-saw team challenges, pulp piling, stock chain saw, dot splits and pulp throwing.

Admission for the Logging Museum Festival is $3 for adults and $1 for children ages 6 to 17; children 5 and under are free.

For more information contact the Rangeley Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce at 864-5364.

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