Hi friends! Hope you all had a great Labor Day weekend. Our Labor Day was not short of enjoyment and fun because for the first time ever, we were able to go and finally witness the North Carolina Apple Festival in Hendersonville, North Carolina – a city that is located 22 miles south of Asheville. It was the 69th year celebration of this annual street festival and there’s nothing more perfect than enjoying it on Labor Day.
The street fair of the Apple Festival runs over the the Labor Day weekend on the main street of Hendersonville, offering arts, crafts, food and free music for everyone to enjoy.
This clock was first installed in 1927 by a company that specifically made clocks for banks. It was recently renovated because its internal workings had died and it’s now up-to-date tech wise.
The county of Henderson in North Carolina, where the city of Hendersonville is located, is an area known for their locally grown apples since the 1700s. North Carolina is the 7th largest apple-producing state in the nation and Henderson County grows 65% of the crop. Just last year we visited one of the apple farms, an eye-opening experience.
The historic Henderson County Courthouse, still standing on its original 1841 site. The bear is one of many lining main street, a yearly event called “Bearfootin'”, used to raise money for local charities.
The different varieties of apple being sold in just one of the many stalls that sell apples. And they didn’t only sell the fruit, there were also fried apple pies, apple cakes, apple cider – including hard cider – and apple slushies.
But it’s not only all about apples at the Apple Festival. I don’t think a festival would be complete without funnel cakes, one of my favorites. đŸ™‚ And of course, we grabbed us some.
They also had rides for kids and the whole family to enjoy.
Just a few of the many participants in the parade which lasted for over an hour.
The festival ended with the King Apple Parade. From law enforcers to veterans to marching bands and these beauties, they made the parade such a beautiful and fun event for one and all to enjoy.
What a wonderful family day it was, and I am so glad we were able to see it.
I absolutely love small town festivals like this. There are tons here in New England and we are looking forward to getting to a few this fall, too!
This looks like such a great fest. I love all things apple and would love to check this out if I were in the area.
That looks like so much fun! There’s nothing better than a festival. The entire town gets in on them!
You’re correct, no festival is complete without a funnel cake! Looks delish and the apple festival looks like so much fun.
My town has an apple fest as well!! It is not as big as yours but just as much fun! I love celebrating all things apple!!
North Caroline looks like a beautiful place to go and of course we love festivals like that one, thanks for sharing! đŸ˜€
North Carolina is definitely a beautiful state. Hope you get to come visit our state someday, Diana. đŸ™‚
I would totally love to go to this! I am jealous! The only thing bad about living is where I do is we don’t get a fall and cool weather to enjoy apples and other fruit!
I just love fall festivals and this one looks and sounds like so much fun. Plus, I love apples! Win-win!
This looks like a fun little festival. It even has a parade! I live in NC so I’ll have to get some Hendersonville apples soon!
I’ve heard that North Carlina is beautiful! This looks like such a fun festival to take the kids to!
Whenever we go to any festival, the thing that we look forward of buying is funnel cake, my kids love those!
That looks like a fun festival. It’s the food that we actually look forward to when we attend events like this. The funnel cake looks yummy!
Looks like a fun local festival. I’ve never had a funnel cake – is that odd?
It’s not at all odd, Emily. I actually haven’t had funnel cake until about a couple of years ago. đŸ˜‰
Looks amazing! I want to try that funnel cake. Wish we have an apple festival in San Diego
There are tons of apple orchards our here too, we make it a point to take the kids to one almost every fall. A roadie to NC isn’t totally out of the question, they are a lot of fun.
I’m from Tn and NC looks a lot like Tn. I’d love to visit and spend some time there looking around in the mountains to see if we’d like to live there.
Never been into any apple festival. Hope I can experience it soon!
Another reason that I love fall, is for all of the fun festivals and food! That funnel cake looks amazing!!!
I love apples. They are so good. I just made an apple pie on monday. It was so good too. Thank you for sharing your fun day.
Wow this looks so exciting! I wish we had festivals like this in our country especially the parade part.
I miss these types of things in the city I was born and raised. Looks like such a good, fun time! I’d love to go!
That funnel cake looks really good. I wish I had known about this when we lived in NC.
oh wow this looks so much fun! i went to a strawberry festival in sc that was to die for!!!
I love Apple everything. I would love to go to an apple festival. I will have to see if we have one close by.
How lovely! I love going to festivals, but I have never been to an apple festival before. That would be so fun and exciting, though!
Seeing this is getting me excited about our local apple festival. We go every year…I LOVE it. HoneyCrisp is my favorite apple.
As someone who grew up in Hendersonville, I loved being able to see stuff about Asheville and the Apple Festival all the way over in my new home in Wales…thanks so much for the update of the festival this year…looking forward to more blog posts about the area!