October Apple Festivals and Apple Events in the Southeast

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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