Harvest Festival

Celebrate Fall!
Date: October 1, 2022
Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm
Event Description: Mark your calendar for this popular annual event! The Harvest Festival offers an opportunity to stroll down Clear Lake’s vibrant Main Avenue while enjoying wine samplings, shopping, a huge outdoor farmers market, vendors, homemade salsa contest, grape stomp competition, food trucks, live music and more! Begin the day with the Champagne 5K fun run/walk. Souvenir Bags go on sale July 1st.
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, champagne glass, and complimentary champagne at the turnaround and finish line. Click here to register!
Event Schedule
9AM – Champagne 5K | 8AM Packet Pick-up Lakeview Room
9AM-4PM – Outdoor Vendor Market & Farmers Market | Main Ave
10AM-4PM – Hayrack Rides | S. Shore Dr. & Main Ave
11AM-2PM – Salsa Contest | Sponsored by Randy’s Neighborhood Market – In front of Unique Boutique
11AM – Noon – Check In/Registration
12:15PM – 1:45PM – Public Tasting
2PM – Winners Announced
Noon-4PM – Wine & Beer Sampling | Main Ave
2-3PM – Grape Stomp Competition | Next to Wilcox Furniture
Music Schedule (2021)
Zion Dock
10:30AM-1PM Last Minute Combo
1:30-4PM Nova Jazz
4th & Main Stage
12-4PM Sideshow Bob
Outside The Basic Birder
12-2PM Tom & Betty
2-4PM Bruce Day Rocks
Sign Up Here for 2021 Pole Decorating Contest
Pre-Register for 2021 Salsa Contest



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