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Apple festivals are held through the United States, Canada, Britain, and much of the world.  This page lists the event specifics, contact information website addresses and details for apple festivals, apple pie, apple butter making , applesauce and other apple festivals.  Just click on the link (the name of each is usually a link in blue and underline, to their website) or call the numbers provided, for this year's dates.

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United States

Arkansas

• Arkansas Apple Festival -
  Lincoln, AR. Event dates: the first weekend of October in Lincoln, Arkansas.  It is three days of wholesome family entertainment.

California

• Johnny Appleseed Days Festival -
  Paradise, CA. Event dates: The festival celebrates John Chapman, better known as Johnnu Appleseed, who traveled for most of his life across the U.S., planting apple seeds and encouraging settlers to plant apple orchards.

• Apple Butter Festival at Riley's at Los Rios Rancho -
  39611 S. Oak Glen Road, Oak Glen. Phone: (909) 797-1005. Contact: Devon Riley, email: dvnriley@aol.com. Directions: Take the Yucaipa Blvd. exit from I.S. 10; turn left on Oak Glen Road and follow the signs near the crest of the hill to Riley's at Los Rios Rancho. Event dates: Thanksgiving weekend – November 26th, 27th, and 28th, 2005, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day. The Apple Butter Festival is free to the public and includes a hands-on demonstration of apple butter making the old-time way, outdoor pioneer games, music, carriage rides, and more. Saturday’s events include the “Lighting of the Ranch” at dusk, when the giant pines at the entrance will be illuminated to welcome in the Christmas season. Guests are invited to make apple garlands and popcorn strings to help deck out the ranch for the holidays. An old-fashioned hoedown (tickets required) Saturday night will feature music by the Riley's Mountaineer Band.

• Sierra Apple Festival -
  Motherlode Fairgrounds, Sonora, CA. Date: September 30, 2006

• Sonoma County Gravenstein Apple Fair -
  Ragle Ranch Regional Park, 500 Ragle Road, Sebastopol, CA 95472. Phone: (707) 824-1765 Toll Free: (800) 207-9464 Email: applesnfun@farmtrails.org. 2005 event dates were August 13 and 14, 2005. Event schedule, Directions, Vendors.
  Mark your calendars to come to the 2006!

• Springville Apple Festival -
  Springville, CA. Phone: (559) 539-0619 . Email: FESTIVAL2005@sbcglobal.net. Event dates: October 15 & 16, 2005. Sponsored by the Springville Community Club in mid-October, the Apple Festival is a family oriented, non-profit, alcohol and drug free event that attracts more than 30,000 visitors each year. Schedule of events. Maps and directions. Over 200 craft booths, juried to ensure quality merchandise, will be selling hand made arts and crafts, and food.  Entertainment consists of clowns, music, kid’s mechanical rides, a Pie Eating Contest, and Apple Baking Contest.  Also included are the Apple Run 5K, 10K, and Kid's runs, plus the 2-mile walk on Saturday morning, and the Annual Fat Tire Classic mountain bike race on Sunday morning. The Fat Tire Classic is a challenging and scenic 7-mile mountain ride for adults, with a well-supervised and easier course for children. Free parking is available at the Rodeo Grounds, with free shuttle service, compliments of Eagle Mountain Casino, to and from the downtown area. Apple Run, Fat Tire Classic, Springville Chamber of Commerce, Springville Sierra Rodeo.

Connecticut

• Southington Apple Harvest Festival -
  Southington, CT.

Georgia

• Georgia Apple Festival -
  Ellijay, GA. The Ellijay Lions Club, the Gilmer County Chamber of Commerce, and the cities of Ellijay and East Ellijay invite everyone to come and enjoy the 34th year of the Georgia Apple Festival. There are over 300 vendors with handmade, hand-crafted items, as well as many on-site demonstrations of how selected types of crafts are made. This year promises many new crafts as well as favorites from past festivals. There is a parade and antique car show each year. The parade is on the second Saturday. 32th Annual Georgia Apple Festival  From the mountains of North Georgia  Event dates: October 8^th, 9^th, & 15^th, 16^th, 2005 (Second and third weekends). Producing 600,000 bushels of apples each fall, Ellijay/Gilmer County is Georgia's Apple Capital, so it's only natural that the second and third weekends of October each year, people from all over the nation come to Ellijay to celebrate the apple. Handmade arts and crafts, homegrown entertainment, and plain old fun, combine with every apple product imaginable to make the weekends a family adventure. Throw in the colorful fall leaves, crisp mountain air, sky-blue days, and star-studded nights and you'll want to visit again and again. Sponsored by the Gilmer County Chamber of Commerce and the Ellijay Lions Club, the festivities include a car show and a parade. Call the Gilmer County Chamber of Commerce office for more information (706) 635-7400 – www.georgiaapplefestival.org . Also see ELLIJAY CELEBRATES 34 FUN-FILLED YEARS!
• Apple Pickin' Jubilee at Hillcrest Orchards -
  9696 Hwy. 52 E., Ellijay, Georgia 30536. Phone: 706-273-3838. Fax 706-273-3888. EMail: applelan@ellijay.com. Event dates: September 17th & 18th and 24th & 25th. 9:00 to 6:00 all four days. Adminssion: $5.00 per person.  Pick your own apples, wagon rides, playground, pig races, moonshine museum, entertainment, food, corn maze, petting farm and pony rides. They also have a "festival" on October weekends with the same activities as Apple Pickin' Jubilee except no apple picking, and the admission is $5.00 per person to that one.
• Also see this page for detailed information, including reviews and photos of Georgia apple orchards

Illinois

• Long Grove Apple Festival -
  Long Grove, IL. Event dates: hours are 10 AM to 6 PM daily. Admission is FREE and so is the parking (There is a charge at the Church parking lot). Long Grove restaurants, such as the Apple Haus and outdoor food booths serve apple pies (4,000 were sold last year), apple cider, and apple muffins, apple cinnamon pretzels, apple salsa, and taffy apple beer mug sundaes.

• Murphysboro Apple Festival -
  203 South 13th Street - PO Box 606, Murphysboro, IL 62966. Phone: 800.406.8774.  Fax: 618.684.2010. Email: executive@GlobalEyes.net. Event dates: September 12, 2005 thru September 18, 2005. The Murphysboro Apple Festival is the longest, continuous running festival in Southern Illinois, featuring the largest parade in our region! Tens of thousands of people come out every year to enjoy the events and shows. This family oriented event is a time-honored tradition!

Indiana

• Fort Wayne Johnny Appleseed Festival -
  Fort Wayne, IN. Celebrate the pioneer spirit of Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) who planted apple trees in the Indiana frontier in the early 1800's.

• Nappanee Apple Festival -
  Nappanee, IN. Phone: 574-773-7812. Fax: 574-773-4691. Email: info@nappaneeapplefestival.org. Apples galore! Classic Car cruise ins, apple peeling contest, an apple bake-off, and antique fire truck show are just a few of the traditional events that make this festival great! Dozens of craft exhibitors, parade  with bands, brightly colored floats and of course the Apple Festival Queen! There is no admission charge. Crates of the fresh fruit dotting the downtown sidewalks. Food booths run by the Rotary to the sororities. From fritters to cobbler and Dutch apple pie, you'll find no short lines, but plenty of time to catch up on the fall gossip. Sweet cider is the drink of the day and the apple butter boiling in the copper kettle can be taken home, if you're the patient type.
• Spencer Indiana Apple Butter Festival
  Spencer Indiana. Event dates: September 17th and 18th. Held on the Square. There are a lot of craft booths and contests and a parade on Sunday at 1:00pm.
• Stumler Orchard and Restaurant's annual AppleFest.
  Galena, IN. Event dates: Saturday, October 2, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday, October 3, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. This is the 22nd year for the event. There will be fun for all with arts and crafts, flea market, demonstrations, pony rides, petting zoo and family games. There will be a kiddie tractor pull with registration both days at 1 p.m. with the pull being held at 1:30 p.m. There will also be pumpkin painting, hayrides to the pumpkin patch to pick your own pumpkin, or pumpkins available in all shapes and sizes. “Ol Hess” the magical clown will be on the grounds both days from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. making balloon animals and doing his magical tricks. Antique gas engines and tractors will have a “Show & Swap Meet” both days. Plenty of food will be available outside under the tent, including barbecue, country fries, fish, brats, chili and bean soup, cornbread, chicken and dumplings and much more. Inside the restaurant there will be fried chicken and roast pork dinners. Also available will be apple dumplings, pumpkin pie and fried apple pies. Caramel apples, as well as plenty of plain apples, will be available for purchase at the farm market. Riverside Cloggers will perform on Saturday at 1 p.m., along with other dance groups. Rainbow Dance Group will perform on Sunday at 2 p.m. There will be live music both days as well. Directions to Stumlers: Take I-64 west to Exit 119, go to Galena and turn right onto Navilleton Road. Follow Stumler Orchard and Restaurant’s red and white signs.

Kentucky

• Casey County Apple Festival -
  Liberty, KY Casey County Apple Festival.  Event dates: September 17 to 24, 2005.

Maine

• Annual Apple Fest -
  Monmouth Museum, Main Street, Monmouth, ME. Event dates: Saturday, September 30, 2006, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. The Apple Fest serves as the Museum's end of season fund raising event and brings the community together for a day full of fun and interesting activities for adults and children. Thanks to kind donations of homemade apple pies from Monmouth's great cooks, Apple Fest is the Museum's way of celebrating the apple for which Monmouth orchards are famous. The Apple Fest also exposes people to a variety of apple related activities such as cider pressing, apple arts and crafts, stenciling, displays of apple varieties, and historic artifacts associated with the harvesting and processing of apples.
  

Massachusetts

• Apple Squeeze Festival -
  Lenox, MA. Phone: 413-637-3646. Event dates: September 24 to 25, 2005.  Celebrates autumn and the first apple pressing for cider. The village of Lenox becomes a country fair with live entertainment, crafts, face painting, sidewalk vendors, dog show and a giant-pumpkin contest. Lots to eat with apple pies, pancakes and cider at this festival.

• Johnny Appleseed Days Festival -
  Leominster, MA. The Johny Appleseed Festival began in 1994 and today, the event has two days of celebration, including the Johnny Appleseed 5K Road Race, and the Johnny Appleseed Parade. Johnny Appleseed is celebrated by the city of his birth.

Michigan

• Niles Michigan's Best Festival -
  Niles, MI. Event dates: September 29 thru October 2, 2005. We are a four day festival based in Niles, Michigan. The festival is one of the top festivals in the State of Michigan. Four Flags Area Apple Festival is on the corner of Lake and 17th Street. We offer Carnival rides, Food vendors, Arts and Crafts on Saturday and Sunday with over 190 booths, Parades, Contests, FREE Entertainment, and Much Much MORE for all to enjoy!!!

• Other Michigan Apple Festivals -
  There are so many apple festivals in Michigan that it would be impractical to list them all here, and thankfully, the Michigan department of Agriculture lists many of them! Festivals that they don't list will be listed here, along with some of the bigger ones:
  St. Johns--Fenton Applefest, St. Johns Church, Fenton; 810-629-2251. In September, call for this year's dates.

  • Applefest & Craft Show, Coldwater, MI. Phone: 517-279-9375. In September, call for this year's dates.

  • Belding Applefest, Belding, MI. Phone: 616-794-2210. In September, call for this year's dates.

  • Holly Ciderfest Weekend, Holly, MI. Phone: 248-634-8981. In September, call for this year's dates.

  • Fall Harvest Days,  Greenfield Village, Dearborn, MI. Phone: 313-271-1620. September  and Oct.

  • Apple Cider Century Bike Ride, River Valley High School, Three Oaks, MI. Phone: 616-756-3361.

  • St. Simon Apple Fest, Ludington, MI. Phone: 231-843-8606. In October, call for this year's dates.

  • Charlevoix Apple Festival, Charlevoix, MI. Phone: 231-547-2101. In October, call for this year's dates.

  • Armada Applefest, Armada, MI. Phone: 810-784-8520. In October, call for this year's dates.

  • Apple Butter Festival, Fenner Arboretum, Lansing, MI. Phone: 517-483-4224. In October, call for this year's dates.

Minnesota

• Afton Apple Orchards annual apple festival
  14421 90th Avenue South, Afton, MN. Phone: 651-436-8385.  Directions: From Saint Paul: I94 east to Manning Ave South. Right on Manning 9 miles to 90th St. Turn left on 90th. Go 2 1/2 miles to Afton Apple Orchard on right. Follow signs. The apple festival is held on the 2nd and 3rd weekends in October at Afton Apple Orchard in Washington County. We have hayrides, large playground, petting farm, straw mountain, concessions, cider pressing demonstrations, face painting and plenty of other apple time favorites. 10am to 6pm Saturdays and Sundays. Call 651-436-8385 for more information. 
• Kimmswick Apple Butter Festival - October
  Downtown Kimmswick, MO in Jefferson County. The Apple Butter Festival is estimated to draw near 100,000 people. The Apple Butter Festival is FREE, $5+ for parking. Paid parking will be available off of Highway K with just a short walk into town. Visitors may park at Windsor School campus and ride a free shuttle bus into the Festival. The busses will run throughout the day shuttling visitors to/from the parking area at the School. There will be hundred's of vendor booths throughout the city park selling a variety of crafts and food items. Live entertainment will also be provided by the City of Kimmswick and the Kimmswick Merchants.The Apple Butter Festival started in 1977 and has been growing larger and larger each year ever since. All of the town shops are open and accessible only via foot traffic. Don't forget to buy some of the famous apple butter made fresh during the festival by the Kimmswick Historical Society at the Apple Butter Pavilion on Market Street. From past experience, we have found that the best time to arrive at the Apple Butter Festival is between 10am and 11am on Sunday morning due to the fact that many people are in church. To reserve a booth for this years Apple Butter Festival, call (636) 464-7407.

Nebraska

• Apple Jack Festival -
  Nebraska City, Nebraska. Ranked one of the Top 10 Fall Festivals in North America by the Society of American Travel Writers, Nebraska City’s apple harvest celebration is fun for the whole family. Take part in the festivities all weekend long with a parade, a car show, the AppleJack Fun Run/Walk, AppleJam Fest, and an array of craft shows. Then head out to Arbor Day Farm, Kimmel Orchard, and Union Orchard to pick your own apples and stock up on all of the tasty apple treats!

New Jersey

New York

• Apple Harvest Festival -
  Ithaca, NY (downtown). Phone: (607) 277-8679. Event dates: noon on October 1st Sample local wines and cider, stock up on local produce, savor locally baked goods, be entertained by musicians, and more. Plan to experience a play performed by Johnny Appleseed, a puppet show performed by Tom Knight, the "History of Apples by Ray" discussion, a climbing wall, and great music in the Bernie Milton Pavilion. Farmer's Market Friday will close at 6:00 p.m. On Saturday and Sunday the Commons will again be filled with great food, produce and entertainment, plus a craft show and amusement rides will appear on Cayuga and State St. The festivities begin at 11:00 a.m. and continue to 6:00 p.m. each day. Plan to experience live music and community dances plus an apple pie eating contest, the hand made craft fair, amusement rides and more.
• Hilton Applefest -
  Hilton Community Center, Hilton, NY. Phone: 716-234-3378..
• LaFayette Apple Festival -
  LaFayette, New York. Bringing Community, Non-profit organizations, Friends, Artists,
  and Crafters together to promote apples, small town America, and obtain monies for future endeavors. Event dates: October 8 & 9, 2005, Hours: Saturday 9 am to 6 pm and Sunday 9 am to 5 pm. Free Parking. Admission: $4 Admissions ($3 advanced tickets available at LaFayette McDonald's). Pie Contest, Scarecrow Contest, King and Queen Contest. Please No Pets. Map & Directions.
• Oct. : Niagara's Apple Country Festival, Niagara County Fairgrounds, Lockport, NY. Phone: 716-433-3828.
• Oct.: Hudson River Apple Festival -
  West Strand Park, Kingston, NY. Phone: 845-334-2760.
• Queens County Farm Museum Apple Festival - apple festival and corn maze
  7350 Little Neck Parkway. Floral Park, NY 11004. Phone: (718) 347-3276. Email: info@queensfarm.org. October 2007: Apple Festival, Sunday in early October, 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m (one-day event, see website for exact date each year). A large variety of apples, apple products, and freshly pressed cider will be available. The nation's largest apple cobbler will be baked on site. Enjoy cider pressing demonstrations while leaning fun apple facts at this delightful event. Vendors will have a variety of collectibles for sale, food, hayrides and free children's games will make this event fun for all ages. Admission: free

North Carolina

• Brushy Mountain Apple Festival -
  North Wilkesboro, NC. Event dates: October 1, 2005. The Brushy Mountain Apple Festival is one of the largest one-day arts and crafts festivals in the Southeast. The Brushy Mountain Apple Festival is not just this club's largest fundraiser, but has become a one of Wilkes County's biggest fundraisers. Over 100 civic, church and other non-profit organizations participate in the festival. Over 160,000 people visit this festival during the day and it's FREE.
• Eden Apple Festival -
  201 E. Meadow Road, Eden, NC 27288. Phone: 336-627-5148. Fax: 336-623-2730. Contact: Janet Lester. Event dates: 10/15/2005 to 10/15/2005.
• North Carolina Apple Festival -
  Hendersonville , NC. Labor Day weekend! Schedule of events.  Ongoing entertainment will be staged in front of the Historic Courthouse on Main Street, beginning at 9:30 or 10 a.m. each day and continuing until 10 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Some seating is available, but festivalgoers may want to bring chairs.

Ohio

• Applebutterfest -
  Grand Rapids, OH. Historical reenactments with demonstrations and presentations of pioneer skills such as candle dipping, blacksmithing, pottery making, basket weaving, quilt making and metal spinning.
• Apple Butter Stirrin' Festival
  Coshocton, OH. Surrounding hills, crafts, live music and apple butter simmering over an open fire at this event for over 30 years. Event dates: The Craft Show and Sale runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Enjoy live entertainment from the Main Stage 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday and from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
• Burton Apple Butter Festival, Century Village Museum
  St. Rts. 168 & 87, Burton,. OH. October 7-8 - The annual celebration of Fall. Enjoy the aroma of sweet apples simmering over a wood fire in old-fashioned copper kettles, warm apple butter, fine arts and crafts show, storytellers, games and more. Visit the five fully furnished homes where pioneer crafts such as weaving, rug hooking and spinning can be enjoyed. Admission (in 2006): $5 adults, $3 children ages 6-12, seniors and children under 6 free. Hours: 10 am to 5 p.m. Call for information 440-834-1492.
• Enon Apple Butter Festival -
  Enon, OH. See apple butter being made the old fashion way in 50 gallon copper kettles, cooked over open fires. Canning and selling of the apple butter is done at the festival in the afternoon as it becomes ready. Admission to the festival grounds is free. Free parking is available.
• Jackson County Apple Festival -
  Jackson, Ohio. Phone: 740-286-1339. The Jackson County Apple Festival has been welcoming people into Jackson from near and far for 64 years and become one of the largest and most respected festivals in Ohio. Event dates: September 20, 2005 thru September 24, 2005. Schedule of events.
• Oak Harbor Apple Butter Festival
  October 14-15, 2006. Oak Harbor Apple Festival, downtown Oak Harbor in Ottawa County. A weekend of family fun, food, entertainment, vendors, grand parade, apple dumplings and apple pies, apple treats, crafters, contests, car show on Sunday. Find it here. Free admission. Call for information 419-898-0479.
• Van Wert County Apple Festival - festival
  Van Wert County Fairgrounds, 1055 S Washington St, Van Wert, OH 45891. Phone: 419-238-9270. Fax: 419-238-6408. Email: info@vanwertcountyfair.com. Event dates: Friday, October 14, 2005, 4:00pm-9:00pm and Saturday, October 15, 2005, 9:00am-5:00pm. Fall Demolition Derby: Van Wert County Fairgrounds on
  Sunday, October 16, 2005 at 1:00pm. Free Admission, Free Parking, Free Wagon Rides, Free Entertainment, Free Activities, Food & Crafts, Apples, Cider, Apple Pie, Apple Dumplings, Apple Butter, Hot Caramel Corn, Hot Sandwiches, Indian Tacos, Chili, Beverages, & More. Apple Exhibits & Informational Pamphlets, Outdoor Cooking, Huge Craft Exhibit with over 90 Crafters, Antique Tractor Pull - Grandstand - Saturday - Weigh-In 8:00am - Pull 10:00am, Mile Fun Run - North Gate - Saturday - 11:00am, Children's Games - Tent at South End of Commercial Bldg (Kingsley Church), Puppet Show - Entertainment Tent - Saturday - Hourly beginning at Noon (Calvary Church), Flu Shot Clinic - Friday Evening & Saturday Morning, Child Photo IDs - Sheriff's Bldg on Fairgrounds - Saturday - 10:00am-2:00pm.

Oregon

• Molalla Apple Festival -
  Molalla, OR. Phone: 503-829-6941. Event dates: Early October, call for this year's dates. Apple Festival features exhibits, living demonstrations & apple treats.
• Smith Berry Barn -
  24500 SW Scholls Ferry Road, Hillsboro, Oregon, 97123 Phone: 503-628-2172. Event dates: U Apple Festival Oct. 19 and 20. Pumpkin Patch and hayrides Oct. 12 to 31st. Many other fruits, vegetables and nuts, honey, jam, hayrides, country store open daily thru Dec. 23, & more. Local crafts, antiques, gifts, and much more. We also feature herbs, perennials, and hanging baskets.  March - Dec. 23, Monday to Saturday. 9am-7pm, Sunday 10am-5pm , Directions: Scholls Ferry Road. 10 miles SW of Washington Square in Scholls.

Pennsylvania

• Annual Harvest Festival at Reading Terminal Market -
  Filbert Street, Philadelphia, PA. Event dates: October 14 and 15, 2006 from 10am to 4pm. They shut down Filbert Street and turn it into an urban farm closed to vehicle traffic. There is authentic farm tractor for a hayride, hot apple cider, Pennsylvania chesses and autumn harvest fruits,  vegetables and more. There is also a Market sidewalk sale and live bluegrass music. Phone: (215) 922-2317. 
• Apple Butter Festival -
  United Church of Christ, 1201 N Chester Road, West Chester. Phone: (610)-692-2951. Event dates: October 7th, 2006, 9 am to 4 p.m.  Food, crafts, candles, furniture sale, used-book sale, more.
• Franklin Apple Fest -
  Franklin, PA. Event dates: October 7-9, 2005.  Applefest On-Going Events; or Friday Events; or Saturday Events; or Sunday Events. For more information contact the Franklin Chamber of Commerce at Phone: 814-432-5823 or 888-547-2377.
• Hickory Apple Festival -
  Hickory, Pennsylvania. Phone: (724) 356-FEST. Event dates: October 1st and 2nd, 2005. for more information see: Music, Arts/Crafts, Kid's Activities, Food, Directions. Two days of great live music, exceptional arts and crafts, and lots of activities for kids and adults. Look for antique machines and vehicles, cornmeal grinding, chainsaw sculpting, spinning, weaving, quilting, pie eating, apple bobbing, a moonwalk, pony rides, a baby farm animal petting zoo, face and hair painting, clowns, balloon animals, a Native American village, a boy scout encampment, and much more. Don't forget our delicious homemade food, apple pies, dumplings, apple cakes, apple crisp, fresh apples, cider, caramel and candy apples, apple butter, apple syrup, apple pizza, and other apple items.  Free General Admission & Free Parking (Limited Handicapped Parking). Free Shuttle Service. No Pets & No Soliciting.   
• The National Apple Harvest Festival -
  Gettysburg, PA. Event dates: the first two weekends in October. Celebrating beautiful crafts, great music and wonderful food for forty years. The festival has something for everyone with hundreds of arts and crafts dealers, demonstrations, contests, food stands, and entertainment. The festival is located in the heart of Pennsylvania Apple country, near historic Gettysburg, and is within a two hour drive of Washington DC, Baltimore MD, and Harrisburg PA. Schedule, General Information, Local Info, History, Traveling In,  Map of Grounds, Photo Contest.

South Carolina

• South Carolina Apple Festival -
  Westminster, SC 29693. Phone: (864) 647-7223. Email: Festival@WestminsterSC.com. Event dates: September 5, 2005 to September 10, 2005. Annually starts the week after Labor Day through the next weekend. Celebrates the beginning of apple harvest season in Oconee County, the largest apple-producing area in the state. The annual festival is held in Westminster, since 1961.  Whether you enjoy whitewater rafting, shopping for arts and crafts, browsing antique shops, attending a world championship rodeo or just kicking back and listening to live musical entertainment, the Apple Festival offers something for everyone in the family. Most of the events are free and are planned with the entire family in mind. Also see: Media Resources, 2005 Schedule of Events, Entertainment Schedule, and Scenes from the 2004 Festival.

Tennessee

• Unicoi County Apple Festival -
  100 South Main Avenue, P.O. Box 713, Erwin, Tennessee 37650. Phone: (423) 743-3000. Fax (423) 743-0942. Email: info@unicoicounty.org. Event dates: Friday and Saturday, October 7 & 8, from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Unicoi County Chamber of Commerce. 2005 is the 28th year of the event. Over three hundred vendors lining the streets drawing an estimated attendance of 90,000.

Texas

• Medina Apple Fest -
  Medina, TX. Event dates: Apple Fest - July 23rd thru 30th, 2005. Map and directions. Click here for a printable PDF version of the schedule of events. FAQs.

Vermont

• Belmont Cider Days -
  Belmont Green, Mt. Holly, VT. Event dates: October 7th & 8th, Saturday 10am -4pm and Sunday 12-4pm.
  Every year the townspeople gather on the village green for two days of apple cider pressing, apple pie eating, and local artisans and crafters selling there wares. There's cheese sampling by Crowley Cheese, a local cheese company that has been making cheese in this town for over 100 years (Still doing it all by hand). Local service organizations sponsor tables for fun raising. The first day of the festival (Saturday) starts with a pancake breakfast at the Mt. Holly Grange and the Cider Days begins promptly afterwards. After a day on the green a Public Dinner is held from 5-7pm at the Odd Fellows Hall in Belmont. (This was an old toy factory at the turn of the century which made sleds and wagons.) Sunday's Cider Days starts at 11 am and goes to 4pm culminating with a last minute cider pressing.

• Burlington Old Fashioned Apple Harvest Festival
  Burlington, WV. Free admission to the two-day event with live country, bluegrass, and southern gospel music performed on-stage See Burlington's Famous Apple Butter being made the old-fashioned-way in open-air kettles! Also, a 3-acre flea market;  tents filled with handmade items. Loads of food, such as apple specialties, country ham sandwiches, funnel cakes, and more! Heritage quilts on display, a parade, music, games, pony rides and fun for the whole family!

• Dummerston Apple Pie Festival - Oct 12, 2008 from 9 am until sold out.
  Dummerston Center. Phone: (802) 254-9158. A full 1,500 apple pies are made by many church members and friends.

• Vermont Apple Festival & Craft Show -
  Riverside Middle School, Springfield, Vermont. Event dates: The 23rd Annual Vermont Apple Festival & Craft Show will be held on Saturday, October 8, 2005 from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday, October 9, 2005 from 10 am to 4 pm. Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for seniors and $1 for children 6-12, under 5 free.  On Sunday, there's the annual Apple Pie contest! As always, there will be two categories for Best Pies, Traditional & Non-Traditional. Pies need to be in by 10:30 am on Sunday and the Contest will take place at Noon! See the RULES link at the top of the page for our Apple Pie contest! Directions: FROM I-91 - Take Exit 7 and follow Route 11 West. The Apple Festival will be on your right-hand side just after McDonalds. Wellwood Orchards is the Official Orchard of the Vermont Apple Festival.

Virginia

• Apple-Butter-Making Festival, Flippen-Seaman Orchard, Nelson, VA. Phone: 804-277-5824. Event dates: In October, call for this year's dates.
• Boones Mill Apple Festival, Boones Mill, VA. Phone: 540-334-5975.  Event dates: In September, call for this year's dates.
• Carter Mountain Apple Festival, Charlottesville, VA. Phone: 804-977-1833.  Event dates: In October, call for this year's dates.
• Chilhowie Community Apple Festival, Chilhowie, VA. Phone: 540-646-8213. Event dates: In September, call for this year's dates.
• Graves Mountain Apple Harvest Festival -
  Graves’ Mountain Lodge Inc., Route 670, Syria, Virginia 22743. Phone: 540-923-4231.  Fax 540-923-4312. Over 65 Arts & Craft vendors, as well as Graves Mountain Food, Hay Mountain. Event dates: October 8 -9, 2005 and October 15 - 16, 2005, 10:00AM-4:30PM Daily, Rain or Shine. Free Admission / Free Parking. Come and see nature’s way of blanketing the mountains with stunning color during the month of October. Enjoy fun filled days complete with good food and entertainment including bluegrass music, cloggers, arts and crafts, hayrides and horseback rides. Experience the days of yesteryear watching apple butter and Brunswick stew being cooked in kettles over and open fire. Our orchards are open for apple picking or you may select your own from the apple bins at the picnic pavilion. Visit the farm and the animals.

• Leed's Annual Apple Fest -
  Markham, VA. Sponsored by Stribling Orchard, providing the site of the Annual Leeds Apple Fest. Hot dogs and ice cream, see apple butter being made in a huge copper kettle, live music, face painting, pony rides, wagon rides, craft shopping, and civil war living history displays.

• Tarara Vineyard Apple Days
  Leesburg, VA. Phone: 703-771-7100. Event dates: In September, call for this year's dates.
• Winchester Apple-Harvest Festival, Winchester City Park, Winchester, VA. Phone: 540-662-3996. Event dates: In September, call for this year's dates.

Washington (state)

• Fall Fruit Show -
  Tukwila , WA. Sponsored by the Western Cascade Fruit Society. Saturday October 17, 10:00am - 5:00pm, Sunday October 18, 10:00am - 4:00pm, Tukwila Community Center, 12424 42nd Avenue South. $3.00 admission includes parking, apple tasting, and apple identification. Children under 16 attend free. This show presents the opportunity for people to try dozens of different apple types, as well as pears and other fruit, learn about growing apples, purchase apples from WSU's Western Washington Fruit Research station, Mt. Vernon. There are talks given, and experts on hand to help people identify that mystery apple growing in their front yard! Bring 5 to 6 apples with their stems, NOT washed, and as free of blemishes as possible. The reason they aren't washed is that the bloom, or the surface coating on an apple, can be an identifying factor. This show's a great opportunity to expand your knowledge and dreams of a home fruit garden. Fruit trees are generally planted in late winter, so plan now.

• Green Bluff Apple Festival -
  Spokane area, WA. Event dates: Held over six weekends. Apples, fresh pressed cider, and other produce, live music, great food, craft booths, corn and straw mazes, and animals.

• Washington Apple Harvest Festival -
  Wenatchee, WA.  "Apple Bin Rally" races! Enter your best apple dessert in the the Apple Dessert contest. Apple pie eating contest, apple tasting, horse drawn wagon up, children's activities in Centennial Park, perfomers, vendor booths, live music and a beer garden at the Convention Center Plaza. Event dates: Festival runs from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm.

West Virginia

• Apple Butter Festival -
  Phone: 304-782-3565. Event dates: early October.
  PO Box 293, Salem, WV 26426. Email: martins6@earthlink.net.  More info: Parking, Photos, Schedule, Sam Warner 5 K Race, Shuttle, Visitor Info, Winners. Daily- Bingo, Children's games, Apple Butter making, Petting Zoo, Queen's Coronation, 5k Run, Bicycle Poker Ride, Grand Feature Parade, Celebrity Auction, Fireworks, Antique cars and Truck Show
• Apple Harvest Festival - apple butter making, arts and crafts, flea market, music, antique auto show, quilts.
  Phone: 304-788-2342. Event dates: October 1 and 2, 2005. The festival is located on U.S. Routes 50/220 in Burlington, WV, and is easily reached by taking U.S. Route 50 west from I-81 or U.S. 220 south from I-68. Open: Festival grounds are open from 10:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. both days, with parking and shuttle bus services available nearby. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2005: All Day Old-Fashioned Apple Butter Making, 11:00 am Fiddle, Banjo, Mandolin – Youth Div., 4:00 pm Grand Feature Parade. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2005: 10:00 am Antique Auto, Tractor,
  and Small Engine Show, 11:00 am Chicken Barbeque, 12:00 pm Fiddle, Banjo, Mandolin – Adult & Senior Divisions. ABSOLUTELY NO PETS (Service animals permitted).
• Apple Butter Festival -
  304 Fairfax Street, Berkeley Springs, WV 25411. Phone: 304-258-3738. Event dates: October 8 & 9, 2005. Email: tbs@intrepid.net. The 30th annual Apple Butter Festival is a traditional fall harvest celebration. It fills the streets and park of the historic town of Berkeley Springs with apple butter made in copper kettles you can stir, more than 200 vendors of food, art, crafts and produce; music from the bandstand, games & contests.
• Autumn Fest - Apple Butter making/ Chair caning/ Pottery/ Live Country Music/ Horse Show/ Walk for Women/ Animal Judging- Livestock/ Livestock Sale/ Food Vendors/ Games/ Baking Contests/ Crafters/ Antique Car Show
  Wetzel County 4-H Campgrounds, New Martinsville, WV. Event dates: mid-October. Directions: 2 miles east of New Martinsville on Route 7. Anyone know more about this one?
• Clay County Golden Delicious Festival -
  PO Box 416, Clay, WV 25043. Phone: 304-587-4455 (William Dunn). Email: bgdunn@charter.net. Event dates: mid-September: September 15-18, 2005; September 14-17, 2006; September 13-16, 2007; September 18-21, 2008; September 17-20, 2009; September 16-19, 2010. Chili Cook-Off-Sunday September 18th: Best Chili wins $1000.00. Schedule of events. Recognizes Clay county as the birthplace of the Golden Delicious apple. Parades, fireworks, music, archery shoot, chili cook-off, ox roast, baking contests, outdoor drama, ox roast, baking contests, outdoor drama, bike trek, apple butter making, duck race, bingo, amusement rides, quilt show!
• Mountain State Apple Harvest Festival -
  Martinsburg, WV. One of West Virginia's largest festivals. Event dates: October 13-16, 2005. Email: info@travelwv.com. Activities: Parade, Craft Show, Apple Pie Baking Contest, Baby Appleseed, Apple Trample, Free Live Entertainment, Great Pancake Breakfasts, Car Shows Dancing
  Fireworks Great Family Entertainment, And don't miss the coronation of Queen Pomona XXVI! See the Schedule of Events. For more than 25 years, the Mountain Sate Apple Harvest Festival has celebrated the rich agricultural heritage of this part of West Virginia, highlighting the role of the apple in that tradition.

Wisconsin

• Bayfield Apple Festival -
  Bayfield, WI. 44th Annual Bayfield Apple Festival.  Join us this Fall in Bayfield! Event dates: October 7, 8, 9, 2005.   Schedule of events. 

Canada

British Columbia

• Apple Harvest Hoedown and Quilt Show -
  Vernon, British Columbia, Canada. Music, square dancing, apple contest, games, quilting shows and demos.

• Salt Spring Island Annual Apple Festival -
  Salt Springs Island, British Columbia, Canada. Apple tasting. Choose which orchards to visit using the map they supply!
• UBC Apple Festival -
  Vancouver, BC. Event dates: October 15 and 16, 2005 from 11 am to 4 pm. Located throughout the grounds of the Botanical Garden. Free admission. One of the most talked about and enjoyed events in Vancouver. A family event for all ages, the UBC Apple Festival celebrates one of British Columbia's favourite fruits. All are welcome to attend, from children learning about the diversity of apples to those who remember tasting heritage apples in their youth. Every year, between 11,500 and 13,500 kilograms (25,000 and 30,000 lbs) of apples are sold to a hungry public. Also available for sale are many varieties of apple trees grafted onto dwarfing root stock, perfect for the home garden or patio. New owners of apple trees often attend one of the espalier and pruning demonstrations. One of the most popular activities at the Apple Festival is apple tasting. For $2.00, curious eventgoers can taste up to 60 varieties of new and heritage apples grown in British Columbia. Learn the history of those varieties from the Friends of the Garden's "published in-house" Apple Booklet.

Manitoba

• Corn & Apple Festival -
  Morden, MB, Canada. Phone: (204) 822-5630. Fax: (204) 822-2041. Email: chamber@mordenmb.com. Event dates: August 26th - 28th , 2005. A community of 6200, located in south central Manitoba one hour from Winnipeg.

Nova Scotia

• Old Time Apple Festival -
  Berwick,Nova Scotia, Canada. May be discontinued - their website has not been updated in 2 years.
• Wolfville Annual Apple Harvest Festival -
  Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. Event dates: 6th Annual Apple Harvest Festival October 17-18-19, 2003. Food and drink, children's activities, music, outdoor farm market, apple produce displays and sales, petting zoo, children's bouncy castles, clowns, magicians, balloons, and face painting.

Ontario

• Meaford Apple Harvest Craft Show -
  At the Meaford Arena & Curling Clubon Collingwood Street, West Meaford, Ontario, Canada. Event dates: Saturday, September 30th. 10am to 7pm and Sunday, October 1st. 10am to 5pm. Admission: $4.00 12 and under $1.00 Over 200 exhibits to visit and shop at including needlework, leather, blacksmithing, woodworking, colonial tinware, wooden and stuffed toys, collectibles, stained glass, pottery, folk art, paintings in various media, photography ...... and much, much more.
• St. George Apple Harvest Festival
  St. George Village, Brant County, Ontario, Canada. Event dates: every year on the 3rd weekend in September. For over 20 years St. George has hosted our Apple Harvest Festival in Southern Ontario. We offer apples of all kinds, pies, dumplings, craft show, antiques, children's activities, entertainment and much more. Something a-peeling for everyone and it's Free! See this page for a map!

   

   

Britain (England, Scotland and Wales)

• Apple Connoisseur Weekend -
  The Brogdale Horticultural Trust, Nr Faversham, Kent, Tel: 01795 535286. Event dates: 15+ 16th October and 22+23rd October: Apple Festival, The Brogdale Horticultural Trust, Near Faversham, Kent, Tel: 01795 535286,
• Apple Affair -
  West Dean Gardens, near Chichester, West Sussex, Tel: 01243 818210. Event dates: 15th + 16th October.
• Apple Day -
  Common Ground. Event dates: 21st October. Find out about country-wide Apple Day events here

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Australia

• Franklin Apple Harvest Festival -
  Franklin, Tamar Valley, Tasmania, Australia. Heritage themes, traditional music and local culture. Historical!
• Stanthorpe Apple & Grape Harvest Festival -
  Stanthorpe, Australia. Australia’s leading harvest festival

   

   

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