The Festival has spearheaded numerous special projects, including purchasing and developing Taylor Park (including the arched entryway), building the Duluth Festival Center Amphitheater, paving and landscaping the Festival Center Courtyard, increasing the size of the public restrooms, purchasing planters, landscaping the streets of Duluth, erecting the Eastern Continental Divide monument, and many other projects.

Some of the notable projects undertaken by the Festival are shown in the following slideshow.