SEBASTOPOL: Gravenstein Apple Fair Sebastopol Gravenstein Apple Fair August 10-11, 2024 - 51stAnniversary! Ragle Ranch Regional Park. Live music on 2 stages, arts & crafts vendors, excellent local food, wine, cider & beer, contests & activities, children's corner, life on the farm arena and of course our famous heirloom Gravenstein apples. Location: 500 Ragle Road, Sebastopol, CA. $23 general, $150 VIP, gravensteinapplefair.com
HAYWARD: Garin Apple Festival September 7, 2024, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Garin/Dry Creek Pioneer Regional Park
1320 Garin
Hayward California
Free, $ parking ebparks.org
Garin is home to an antique apple orchard with varieties of apples you won't
find anywhere else. Tour the vintage apple orchard, try hand-cranking ice cream
or pressing apple cider and then taste the fruit of your labor. Music, dancing,
crafts, and old-fashioned games make this event fun for the whole family! Garin is home to an antique
apple orchard with varieties of apples you
won't find anywhere else except at the Apple Festival!
Try your hand at hand-cranking ice cream or pressing apple cider and
then taste the fruit of your labor. Music, dancing, crafts, and old-fashioned
games make this event fun for the whole family! No registration; drop-in.
BOONVILLE: Mendocino County Fair and Apple Show September 13-15, 2024
mendocountyfair.com
Apple Tasting, Cider Tasting, Apple Bowl Football Game. Apple food contests
include Apple Sauce, Apple Cake, Apple Pie, Apple Cider, Apple Juice, Apple
Jelly, Apple Butter, Apple Syrup and Dried Apples.
Apple growing competitions include Largest edible apple by size (not weight,) and over 80 varieties of apples in designated categories: 20 Ounce Pippin | Akane | Ambrosia | Arkansas Black | Arts Apple | Ashmeads Kernel | Baldwin | Belle D'boskoop | Ben Davis | Black Twig | Braeburn | Bramely Seedling | Connell Red | Cook Seedling | Cortland | Cox Orange Pippin | Crab Apple, Red | Crab Apple, Yellow | Criterion | Delicious | Elstar | Fall Pippin | Fameuse | Freyburg | Fuji | Gala | Gold Rush | Golden Delicious | Golden Russet | Granny Smith | Gravenstein, Red | Gravenstein | Hanners Best | Hauer Pippin | Honeycrisp | Jonagold | Jonathan, Red | Jonathan | Jonnee | Kidds Orange Red | King David | King of Tompkin | Lady Apple | Macoun | McIntosh | Melrose | Mutsu | Newtown Pippin | Northern Spy | Orange Pippin | Pink Lady | Pink Pearl | Pride-O-Philo | Prime Gold | Red Delicious | Red Gold | Red Rome | Reinette Pippin | Rhode Island Greening | Rome Beauty | Rubinette | Sierra Beauty | Smokehause | Spartan | Spitzenberg (Esopus) | Splendour | Stayman Winesap | Swaar | Tolman Sweet | Tydeman Red | Wagener | Waltana | Wickson | Winesap, Red | Winter Banana | Yellow Bellflower | York Imperial | Any other variety
ARROYO GRANDE: Arroyo Grande Valley Harvest Festival September 27-28,
2024
Apple Pie Exhibition
agharvestfestival.com
APPLE HILL:
Johnny Appleseed Day September 22, 2024, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at Delfino Farms
applehill.com
APPLE HILL EVENT: Johnny Appleseed's Birthday Celebration all-day
Johnny Appleseed's Birthday honors our folk hero! Bring the kids to participating farms and experience a back-to-the-land experience and a simpler lifestyle. Maybe you'll see Johnny himself, planting a brand new orchard! Visitors of all ages are invited to tour around the hill and enjoy the variety of activities at participating farms.
Always look for the sign of quality: the famous red Apple Hill logo that guarantees you are supporting the small family farms of the Apple Hill Growers.
McCLOUD: Apple Harvest Festival October
12, 2024, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
303 Main St.
McCloud, CA 96057
Free,
mccloudchamber.com
Apple Harvest Festival includes Apple Pie Contest, Fresh
Pressed Apple Juice, Artisan Crafts, Scarecrow Contest, Music, Vendors, Games, Fresh Pressed Apple Juice, and
an Apple Pie contest. Contact: McCloud Chamber of Commerce, mccloudchamber.com
MANTON: Manton Apple Festival October 5, 2024, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Manton School, Manton, California
1st Saturday of October each year
mantonapple.com
Celebrating 32 years in 2024! Live entertainment, apple pie baking and eating contests, arts and crafts vendors, family entertainment and fun for all ages.
Band line up: Shooting Stars,
Mountain Messengers,
Sugar Pine,
Birdfeeder and
Rock Creek Harmony
FORTUNA: Apple Harvest Festival October 5, 2024
Fortuna, CA 95540
Free admission,
sunnyfortuna.com | fortunaappleharvest.org
A city-wide celebration of the fall apple harvest. Free hayrides around town,
orchard BBQ, live music, apple pie contest, merchant and vendor street sales,
children's games and much more. Admission Free. Sample some tasty
apples and treats in northern California's Humboldt County every
October. Apple sampling, cider tasting, as well as other food-tasting
opportunities. This festival delivers an old-fashioned feel down a blocked-off
street. The festival is complete with barbecue, fresh apple pies for sale, and
live music. Wagons carry visitors from one booth to the next for an easy journey
through the festivities from morning to early evening.
TEHACHAPI: Tehachapi Apple Festival October
12-13, 2024, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.
Tehachapi Fairgrounds
Green Street & Tehachapi Blvd.
D0wntown, Centennial Plaza
Tehachapi, CA
Free admission,
tehachapiapplefestival.com
Apple Fest Rodeo on Saturday, Apple Drop, Apples galore!
PARADISE: Johnny Appleseed Days
Festival October 5-6, 2024
Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
First Full Weekend in October
Terry Ashe Park, 6626 Skyway, Paradise, CA
The second largest event on the Paradise Ridge is just around the corner. The
annual Johnny Appleseed Days festival, recognizing the early 19th Century
American folk (known as John Chapman) hero who traveled for decades across the
Midwest planting apple seeds and encouraging settlers to plant apple orchards
paradisechamber.com/johnny-appleseed-days
SPRINGVILLE:
Springville Apple Festival October 19, 2024, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Springville Apple Festival
35680 Highway 190
Springville, CA 93265
springvilleapplefestival.org
Located in the north east of California near Sacramento, the town of
Springfield holds an annual apple festival for a weekend in October. This
festival has taken place for 30 years, and draws more than 30,000 people each
year. The festival consists of 200 booths of arts and crafts and food. Also, a
pie eating contest and apple baking contest.
LOS MOLINOS / DAIRYVILLE: Dairyville Orchard Festival October 19, 2024, 10 a.m.-4
p.m.
Lassen View School
10818 State Highway 99E
Los Molinos, CA
dairyvillefestival.com
facebook.com/DairyvilleOrchardFestival
Always the third Saturday in October, this festival includes taste and buy
opportunities-- California's finest and freshest Walnuts, Almonds, dried Plums, Figs, Pecans,
Pistachios, local olive oils and the famous Dairyville Chocolate Dipped Prunes.
Live entertainment, lil' farmers' corner,
unique arts and crafts with over 60 vendors, huge display of antique tractors
and orchard equipment, fantastic food, raffles and silent auction and more local
produce! There is never an entry or parking fee!
FOREST CITY: Forest
City Annual Apple Harvest Celebration October 12, 2024, 12-4 p.m.
sierracountychamber.com
Location
Dance Hall, Forest City, Pliocene Ridge, CA
Celebrate the Annual Apple Harvest Celebration 12-4pm in Forest City held at the Dance Hall.
Featuring our regionally famous apple dessert contest with prizes in 3 categories.
Live Music, Stamp Mill firing, BBQ lunch available to purchase.
Historical tours of the National Register townsite and Museum.
OAK GLEN: Apple Butter Festival Thanksgiving
Weekend
Riley's at Los Rios Rancho
39611 Oak Glen Rd. #13, Yucaipa, CA Free admission, losriosrancho.com
Harvest Dinner & Dance
Pioneer families made a custom of gathering together in late fall to cook up
apple butter from the last apples of the season.
AVILA BEACH: Apple Festival Postponed until further notice! Check website for updates
San Luis Yacht Club
Avila Beach, CA
Sponsors:
Avila Beach Community Center Healing Garden and Avila Beach Civic Association
21+ only, tickets: $ ,
at the San Luis Yacht Club and from 4:30 - 7 p.m. in the beautiful Avila Beach Community Center Healing Garden. Avila Beach Civic Association celebrates its 60th birthday
with an afternoon of live music, appetizers and small bites, wine and beer
tasting, and a silent auction. All proceeds will support the Avila Beach Community Center.
BOWMAN:
Machado Orchards Apple Festival sold in 2023 and is now The Orchard at
Apple Lane - no festival at this time
100 Apple Lane
Bowman, near
Auburn, CA 95603
theorchardatapplelane.com
Events are not guaranteed. It is your responsibility to confirm before going.