Voted the Best Local Annual Event in Hartford Magazine's Best of Hartford... 2 years in a row! Don't miss this year's 35th Anniversary!

Date & Time: October 17 & 18, 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Location: Welles Street Riverfront Park, Glastonbury, CT (on the lawn behind the community center) Click here for directions to the festival
Free parking and shuttle buses to the Apple Harvest Festival is available at 180 & 200 Glastonbury Boulevard (adjacent to Somerset Square). Shuttle buses will transport people to and from the festival grounds approximately every 10 minutes. Click here for directions to the festival

Expected Attendance: 25,000 - 30,000 people.

Tickets for Admission & Amusement Rides Admission is $3 per person. Children under three feet tall will be admitted for free. Amusement ride tickets are $2.50 per ride. Discounted Apple Harvest Festival Family Packs, amusement ride and admission tickets will be available. Check back soon!

Special Festival Features: It's noted as the best and last of Connecticut's festival season, the Glastonbury Chamber of Commerce's 35th Annual Apple Harvest Festival will feature live music, a craft fair, fabulous food, a pie eating contest, a pie bake-off, amusement rides, games, and family entertainment. Attending this family-oriented event has become a tradition for adults, seniors, teenagers, college students and parents with young children living in Glastonbury and surrounding towns in Greater Hartford.

A highlight of the festival is the Craft Fair, which features more than 130 talented artists, jewelers and craftsmen. Merchandise includes handcrafted jewelry, children's toys, quilts, stained glass, candles and soaps, wreaths, sweaters, glassware, original art work and much more. A wide array of artisans are chosen to offer festival-goers the broadest selection possible. 25+ food vendors will be on site to satisfy cravings for fun festival foods such as kettle corn, fried dough, hamburgers and hot dogs, pizza, gyros, calzones, grinders, soup, steak sandwiches, smoothies, and more. The festival will feature live entertainment from the Main Stage as well as interactive activities in the Family Entertainment Area for the younger festival goers and their families. Check back shortly for a full schedule of events!

The Pie Eating Contest is held on Saturday and the Apple Pie Baking Contest will be held on Sunday.

The Apple Harvest Festival 5K Run/Walk Road Race and Kid's Fun Run will be held on Sunday, October 18 and will begin at the Hubbard Green in Glastonbury. The Family Bike Parade for those wishing to ride to the Festival on their bike will take place on Sunday as well and will leave from Town Hall on Main Street at 10:45am.

Merchandise commemorating the 35th Annual Apple Harvest Festival is available for sale at apple pie booth at the Festival. T-shirts, aprons, tote bags and prints of the commemorative poster.