Apple Festivals in the Southeast continue throughout the month of October, offering great family fun, delicious treats and a chance to enjoy the picturesque countryside at the peak of the fall foliage season.
October Apple Festivals
- Salem Apple Butter Festival
Salem, West Virginia - October 2 - 5, 2008
This eagerly awaited festival, held at Depot Park in downtown Salem, adjacent to the restored Salem Depot, features a large selection of arts, crafts, food vendors, quilt and apple butter judging, talent contests, a celebrity auction, auto show, petting zoo, bingo, pet parade, children's games, and more. - Unicoi County Apple Festival
Erwin, Tennessee - October 3 - 4, 2008
An annual tradition for both local residents and visitors, more than 100,000 festival goers fill the streets of downtown Erwin during the first Friday and Saturday of October for entertainment on two stages, a nationally ranked crafts fair and delicious treats available from more than 300 vendors, contests and a bushel of down-home fellowship at the county's largest event. - Brushy Mountain Apple Festival
North Wilkesboro, North Carolina - October 4, 2008
This popular annual festival, held on the first Saturday in October, attracts over 160,000 visitors and features arts and crafts, food including freshly baked fried apple pies, entertainment and more. - Fall Harvest Festival at MountainRose Vineyards
Wise, Virginia - October 4, 2008
An old-fashioned apple butter stir-off, hayrides, pumpkin painting and caramel apples. - Apple Harvest Festival at Marker-Miller Orchards Farm Market
Winchester, Virginia - October 11 - 12, 2008
Enjoy a choice of 20 varieties of apples with pick your own options available, plus apple cobbler and apple caramel sundaes and music each day from 1 - 3 p.m. For kids, there is a barrel train, antique tractors, an apple pitch and room to run. Hot dogs and country ham sandwiches may be purchased for lunch and wagon rides around the farm are scheduled throughout the day. (Also, check out the Pumpkin Festival on October 25th.) - Apple Butter Festival
Berkeley Springs, West Virginia - October 11 - 12, 2008
Enjoy good old fashioned mountain fun at this annual festival including all day apple butter baking, exhibits, more than 200 vendors offering everything from traditional crafts and antiques to home canned goods and mountain cooking, a beard and mustache contest, musical entertainment featuring Dixieland, bluegrass and more, an egg toss, quilt drawing and many other fun activities. - Burlington Old-Fashioned Apple Harvest Festival
Burlington, West Virginia - October 4 - 5, 2008
This Burlington tradition offers three large tents filled with handmade items and a flea market, country food and an array of apple delights, all day old-fashioned apple butter making, fiddle, banjo and mandolin music, a parade, fireworks, chicken barbeque and more. - Apple Harvest Festival at Carter Mountain Orchard
Charlottesville, Virginia - October 4 - 5 and 11 - 12, 2008
Carter Mountain Orchard's biggest celebration of the year features music, crafts, food, hayrides, apple butter, apple cider, apple donuts, apple pie, and all things apple. - Apple Butter Makin' Festivals
Tyro, Virginia - October 4 and October 18, 2008
On the first and third Saturdays of October, this more than 30 year Flippin-Seaman tradition features old-fashioned apple butter makin', pumpkin picking, games, food, crafters, a corn maze, live music and more. - Sky Meadows - October Fall Farm Fest Weekends
Delaplane, Virginia - October Weekends from October 4 - October 26, 2008
Visit the Sky Meadows State Park Visitor Center for a wholesome farm living experience. Pick pumpkins, squeeze cider, make apple butter, play in the hay and rock on the back porch, listen to some tales and enjoy regional music. - Douthat State Park Apple Day - A Celebration of Appalachian Heritage
Millboro, Virginia - October 11, 2008
Spend a fun-filled day in the park with apple butter making, frontier games, frontier hides, campfire cooking, hayrides, traditional Appalachian artisan demonstrations, bluegrass music, clogging and great food, including a pig roast. - 2007 Georgia Apple Festival
Ellijay and East Ellijay, Georgia - October 11 - 12 and 18 - 19, 2008
The 37th year of the Georgia Apple Festival features over 300 vendors with handmade and hand-crafted items, as well as many on-site demonstrations, plus an antique car show on October 13th, a parade on October 20th and more.. - Graves Mountain Apple Harvest Festival
Syria, Virginia - October 11 - 12 and 18 - 19, 2008
Enjoy good food and entertainment, including bluegrass music, cloggers, arts and crafts, hayrides and horseback riding, farm animals, watching apple butter and Brunswick Stew being cooked over an open fire. Orchards will be open for apple picking or select your own from apple bins. - The Mountain State Apple Harvest Festival
Martinsburg, West Virginia - October 16 - 19, 2008
Enjoy music and dancing plus a Friday evening fireworks show and an array of events throughout the festival, including an apple pie baking contest, parade, arts and crafts from over 135 juried crafters, food vendors, and live entertainment. - Taylorsville Hometown Apple Festival
Taylorsville, North Carolina - October 18, 2008
Always the third Saturday in October, this hometown festival features entertainment, carriage rides, a Kid's Korner, food vendors, arts and crafts, several apple contests and more. - Apple Butter Festival
Hot Springs, Virginia - Date to be confirmed
This local church festival features homemade apple pies, a craft sale, auction and country gospel music. - Apple Dumpling Festival
Stuart, Virginia - October 18, 2008
Stuart's annual Apple Dumpling Festival, held in the quaint and historic downtown Depot area, features local musical entertainment, arts and crafts and lots of delicious food, including apple pies, apple butter and Stuart's famous apple dumplings. - Amherst County Apple Harvest Festival
Amherst, Virginia - October 18 - 19, 2008
Held the third Saturday and Sunday in October this festival offers everything and anything having to do with apples.
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