Harvest Festival

Celebrate Fall Downtown Clear Lake

Date: October 4, 2025
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. Don’t forget about the homemade salsa contest, grape stomp competition, food trucks, live music, hay rides and more! Don’t forget to begin the day with the Champagne 5K fun run/walk.
Cornerstone Sponsors: Clear Lake Bank & Trust, CL Tel, MBT, Larson’s Mercantile, First Gabrielson Agency, Rookies, Sevens, and TAP’d.

Event Schedule:

Champagne 5K (8 a.m. packet pickup, 9am race start) | Lakeview Room Register here

Outdoor Vendor Market & Farmers Market 9am-4pm | Main Avenue

Hayrides 10am-4pm | Board at South Shore Drive & Main Avenue

Salsa Contest 11am-2pm | Outside Unique Boutique sponsored by Randy’s Neighborhood Market
11am-12pm Check In and Registration Pre-register here.
12:15-1:45pm Public Tasting
2 p.m. Winners Announced

Wine, Beer & Spirits Sampling 12-4pm | Main Avenue, see locations below.

Grape Stomp Competition 2-3pm | Outside Chamber Office sponsored by Woodford Lumber Pre-register here, (tasting pass required to participate)

Music Schedule
Music sponsored by: Hogan-Hansen, NTI, LTD., Rookies, Seven’s, Tap’d, Bergland + Cram, Gyro Place, Farmers State Bank, Clear Lake Storage Depot, Dean Snyder Construction, and First Citizens Bank.

4th Street & Main Avenue Main Stage

• 12-4 p.m. Gen X Jukebox

5th Street & Main Avenue Stage (The Dock)

• 10:30-1 p.m. Last Minute Combo
• 1:30-4 p.m. Nova Jazz

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 Nash & Ivy, Mort’s Water Company, Bergland + Cram, Cleaning Solutions and Bare Sugar Spa.
Click here to register!

Pole Decorating Contest: Businesses & organizations, show off your creativity! Sign up here.

Pre-Register for the 2024 Salsa Contest

Pre-Register for the 2024 Grape Stomp Competition (you must have a Harvest Festival supporter pass to participate)

Vendor spaces are full – if you’d like to be placed on a waiting list, email jennifer@clearlakeiowa.com.

Volunteer: Want to Help out? Click here to volunteer at Harvest Festival

Tasting Menus and Locations

173° Craft Distillery – 306 1st Ave N

3 Drunk Brothers- Nash & Ivy | 14 N. 8th St.
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Ardon Creek Winery – Wilcox Furniture | 418 Main Ave.
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Avion Azul – Main Ave. at City Park
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Brickyard Wines – Larson’s Mercantile | 323 Main Ave.
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Fireside Winery – Outside Elly’s Lounge | 12 N. Shore Dr.
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Jennings Winery – Outside Gyro Place | 300 Main Ave.
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Lake Time Brewery – 801 Main Ave.
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Lucky Wife Wine Slushies – NE Corner of City Park
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Madison County Winery – Unique Boutique | 415 Main Ave.
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Mahaska Bottling – Clear Lake Chamber | 205 Main Ave.
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Soldier Creek Winery – Clear Lake Bank & Trust | 322 Main Ave.
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Stone Cliff Winery – Near Charlie’s Soda Fountain | 408 Main Ave.
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United Beverage – Lady of the Lake | 101 N. Lakeview Dr.
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Thunder Creek Winery – Next to TAP’d | 311 Main Ave
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Winneshiek Wildberry Winery – Outside Pretzelmaker (coming soon!) | 18 N. 3rd St.
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