Ann Arbor Summer Festival (A2SF) / Top of the Park
- Dates
- Expected June 2027
- Status
- Expected
- Venue
- Top of the Park, Ingalls Mall & Washington Street
- Price
- Not announced
- Camping
- None on site
- Last checked
- Aug 31, 2026
Ann Arbor Summer Festival (A2SF) / Top of the Park comes to Ann Arbor, MI, Expected June 2027. Froligo tracks ticket prices, attendee feedback and travel details.
The experience
What's special
The Ann Arbor Summer Festival (A2SF) is a nearly four-week performing-arts festival each June on the University of Michigan campus in downtown Ann Arbor, anchored by Top of the Park, a free nightly outdoor series of concerts, movies, spectacle, and family activities on Ingalls Mall. A parallel ticketed indoor series brings touring music, comedy, dance, and contemporary circus to campus venues. Community-donation funded rather than city-funded, the festival has run in some form since the 1980s and is built around free, low-barrier access alongside a small slate of paid headline shows
What people love
Attendees describe strong personal loyalty to the event, with some saying they donate every visit and would be devastated to see it disappear, and multi-generational family attendance is common. The festival's street-chalk art, particularly by a well-known local artist, draws consistent enthusiasm online. That affection is paired with recurring grumbling about the free program having been shortened from its historical month-long run due to post-pandemic funding pressure, plus occasional site-logistics complaints such as blocked bike parking and uneven sound in the smaller tented programming area
Last time around (2026)
The 2026 edition ran June 12-28 on Ingalls Mall, with free nightly outdoor programming across two stages plus movies themed around "unique June holidays," a new After Dark DJ series, and an added food vendor. The indoor ticketed series headlined with The Avett Brothers and Mike Patton's AVTT/PTTN collaboration at Hill Auditorium and Ira Glass's "Stories for a Saturday Night" at the Power Center
Listen
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Lineup
2027 lineup not yet announced. Here's who played in 2026:
Getting there
Nearest airport DTW.
How do I get to Ann Arbor Summer Festival (A2SF) / Top of the Park?
By car
Most people drive to Ann Arbor Summer Festival (A2SF) / Top of the Park. The nearest major airport is DTW, and from there it is a straightforward drive to the venue. Check current road and traffic conditions before you set off, and see parking below.
By train
No direct passenger rail to the venue was found. Drive, fly in, or use a shuttle instead.
By bus & public transit
Scheduled intercity coach running daily direct trips from DTW's Evans and McNamara Terminals to Blake Transit Center in downtown Ann Arbor a short walk (under 10 min) from Top of the Park / Ingalls Mall. This is the genuine official ground-transport option for this route, not a generic city bus; TheRide's own airport-service page confirms the DTW-to-BTC routing. Reservations recommended via michiganflyer.com; walk-on riders accepted by card
Book / info →Taxi & rideshare
Both rideshare apps and taxi/limo operate at DTW; a $4.00 rideshare pickup surcharge (Wayne County Airport Authority policy) is folded automatically into the quoted fare. Faster but pricier than the AirRide coach
Book / info →Taxis and rideshare such as Uber and Lyft can be limited near the venue, especially late at night or in rural areas. Agree a pickup point and time in advance and keep a backup plan.
🅿 Parking
On site parking available. Cost A2SF's own Directions & Parking page names five University of Michigan/City of Ann Arbor structures serving Top of the Park (Palmer Drive the recommended one, avoiding downtown construction; Maynard Street; Thayer Street; Fletcher Street; Liberty Square Garage), each with its own approach-street guidance, but does not publish per-structure hourly/daily rates on the page as fetched Downtown on-street meters run 8am-6pm Mon-Sat (free after 6pm and all day Sunday) per a secondary Ann Arbor visitor-info source The festival's own page actively steers attendees toward biking and transit/rideshare over driving.
🚙 Car hire
Compare car hire at DTW
Not really needed for the festival itself Top of the Park sits in walkable downtown Ann Arbor with structured parking, biking, and the AirRide coach all viable but A2SF runs as a month-long series with satellite programming, so a car suits attendees who want to combine it with wider southeast-Michigan travel
Search car hire →Live price search coming soon.
Where
Venue
Top of the Park, Ingalls Mall & Washington Street
Camping & Accommodation
Where can I stay near Ann Arbor Summer Festival (A2SF) / Top of the Park?
No on site camping. Here is where to stay nearby.
Hotels nearby 4
300 S Thayer St effectively adjacent to Ingalls Mall/Rackham, on the University of Michigan campus edge; a 2-3 minute walk to Top of the Park. No airport or venue shuttle confirmed (offers valet parking instead)
Link coming soon615 East Huron St at State St a few blocks from Ingalls Mall, roughly a 10-minute walk to Top of the Park through central campus
Link coming soon120 West Huron St downtown core, roughly a 10-15 minute walk to Top of the Park; extended-stay suites suit multi-day A2SF visitors
Link coming soonListed as a 1-2 minute walk to the Rackham Building and Power Center and 2 minutes to Ingalls Mall
Link coming soonAirbnb & private camping
Ann Arbor's short-term-rental market sees a seasonal bump around University of Michigan events and summer festival season generally; A2SF itself spans roughly a month with programming most evenings, so it reads more like sustained summer demand than a single-weekend price spike
Search Airbnb →No campground exists at or near the downtown venue itself, but Hipcamp does list a genuine set of private-land camping/glamping properties within roughly an hour of Ann Arbor (farms, retreat centers, state-park-adjacent land) A fringe option for attendees who'd rather camp than hotel and don't mind the drive
Search Hipcamp →Pricing
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