Harvest Festival
Celebrate Fall Downtown Clear Lake
Date: October 3, 2026
Time: 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Event Description: Mark your calendar for Clear Lake’s popular fall event, Harvest Festival! Stroll down Main Avenue and enjoy wine and beer samples, shopping, vendors and a huge outdoor farmers market at Harvest Festival. Kick off the morning with the Champagne 5K fun run/walk. Don’t forget about the homemade salsa contest, grape stomp competition, food trucks, live music, hay rides and more!
Quick Links:
Sign up for the Champagne 5K Run, Walk, Wag
Vendor Application
Pole Decorating Contest Registration Form
More links coming summer 2026!
2026 Event Schedule:
Champagne 5K (8 a.m. packet pickup, 9am race start) | Lakeview Room
Outdoor Vendor Market & Farmers Market 9am-4pm | Main Avenue
Hayrides 10am-4pm | Board at Farmers State Bank, 1st Ave. N & N 3rd St.
Salsa Contest & Public Tasting 12:15pm-1:45pm | Outside Unique Boutique sponsored by Farmers State Bank (Registration 11am-12pm)
Public Tasting 12:15-1:45pm
Wine, Beer & Spirits Sampling 12-4pm | Main Avenue, see locations below.
Grape Stomp Competition 2-3pm | Outside Chamber Office Sponsored by TBA
Music Schedule
Music Sponsored by: TBA
4th Street & Main Avenue Main Stage
- 1-4 p.m. The Bear Creek Band
5th Street & Main Avenue Stage (The Dock)
- 10:30-1 p.m. Nova Jazz
- 1:30-4 p.m. Last Minute Combo
Find more great live music locations on our Calendar of Events.
Champagne 5K:
Raise your pinky, it’s time to raise a toast to with a Champagne 5K run/walk! Kick off your Harvest Festival day with this fun morning run along South Shore, cross a finish line of tiny bubbles and sip on some bubbly. Registration includes a Champagne 5K t-shirt and complimentary champagne at the turnaround and finish line (if you’re 21, of course). Sponsored by: TBA Register today.
Volunteer: Want to Help out? Sign up to volunteer!
Vendors: Apply here!
Tasting Menus and Locations will be announced closer to the event date.
Cornerstone Sponsors: TBA

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