Harvest Festival

Celebrate Fall Downtown Clear Lake

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Date: October 7, 2023
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, Summit Carbon Solutions, Larson’s Mercantile and First Gabrielson Agency

Event Schedule:

9 a.m. Champagne 5K (8 a.m. packet pickup) | Lakeview Room Register here!
9 a.m.-4 p.m. Outdoor Vendor Market & Farmers Market | Main Avenue
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Hayrides | South Shore Drive & Main Avenue
11 a.m.-2 p.m. Salsa Contest (sponsored by Randy’s Neighborhood Market) | Outside Unique Boutique
11 a.m.-12 p.m. Salsa Contest Check In and Registration
12:15-1:45 p.m. Public Tasting
2 p.m. Winners Announced
12-4 p.m. Wine, Beer & Spirits Sampling | Main Avenue
2-3 p.m. Grape Stomp Competition (sponsored by Woodford Lumber) | Outside Chamber Office

Music Schedule
Music sponsored by: Hogan-Hansen, NTI, LTD., Rookies, Seven’s, Tap’d, Apex Clean Energy/Indigo Wind, Farmers State Bank, Clear Lake Storage Depot, Dean Snyder Construction, Country Meadow Place, 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.
Elly’s: The Sweet Nuthin’s (2-6pm) & Papa J (7-10pm)
Lady of the Lake: The Mockingbirds (1-4pm)

Champagne 5K:
Sponsored by Nash + Ivy, Glow on the Go, Bergland + Cram, Rookies, Sevens, & Tap’d,
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).
Click here to register!

Businesses & Organizations: Sign Up Here for the 2023 Pole Decorating Contest

Pre-Register for the 2023 Salsa Contest

Pre-Register for the 2023 Grape Stomp Competition

Vendor Applications are CLOSED – we are sold out!

Wineries/Tasting Locations

Brickyard Wines
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3 Drunk Brothers
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Lucky Wife Wine Slushies
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Avion Azul
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Lake Time Brewery
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Thunder Creek Winery
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Stone Cliff Winery
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