October 4, 5 & 6, 2024
Apple Festival Weekend Extra Trips: To accommodate vehicle and passenger traffic we will be running the 1/2 hour schedule on Saturday (October 5) from 10am to 5:30pm and Sunday (October 6) from 8:30am to 2pm.
A celebration of the autumn harvest and Bayfield’s agricultural heritage, tour the orchards and wineries, peruse fine arts and crafts while sampling local foods at vendor booths. Live music all weekend in Memorial Park rounds out the offerings.
Special events include the crowning of the Apple Queen, and apple peeling contest and a Saturday fish fry at the historic Bayfield Lakeside Pavilion. The festival culminates with the Grand Parade down historic Rittenhouse Avenue to Lake Superior.
- Over 60 years as one of Wisconsin’s premiere festivals, located on the shores of Lake Superior in Bayfield, Wisconsin, which is honored by the Chicago Tribune as the Best Little Town in the Midwest and Smithsonian Magazine as one of America’s Best Small Towns.
- Touted by USA TODAY as one of the 10 Best Fall Harvest Festivals in the nations and by Wisconsin Trails Magazine as Wisconsin’s Best Festival.
