Harvest Festival

Celebrate Fall in Downtown Clear Lake

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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!

Be a Harvest Festival Supporter and Get the Full Harvest Festival Experience!

Get the full Harvest Festival experience by preordering an Experience Bag or upgrading to VIP. New this year, bag holders can play BINGO at The Reserve 173° Bar & Grill from 10AM–noon, with fun prizes and drink specials.
Harvest Festival Experience Bags include your wine glass, supporter pass, tote bag charm, sunglasses, and gourmet popcorn from Lillie Mae Chocolates, and coupon book!

Upgrade to VIP and enjoy exclusive access to the Clear Lake Yacht Club with extra wine tastings, hors d’oeuvres, private restrooms, charging station, a Paint & Sip with the Clear Lake Arts Center, and a private fall fashion showcase, plus an upgraded Experience Bag with wine glass, VIP pass, Clear Lake canvas tote bag, dual zippered pouch lanyard, sunglasses, gourmet popcorn from Lillie Mae Chocolates, and coupon book.

Quick Links:

Purchase your Experience Bag While Supplies Last
Sign up for the Champagne 5K Run, Walk, Wag
Vendor Application
Pole Decorating Contest Registration Form
Sign up for the Grape Stomp
Enter the Salsa Contest

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 hosted 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

Music Schedule

4th Street & Main Avenue Main Stage

1-4 p.m. The Bear Creek Band

Clear Lake Arts Center

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

Enjoy music at these other locations:

Lady of the Lake: 1 p.m. MaClane Powell, Jarno Solo, Beau Bonner with Colby Dickies, and Caleb Hall
TAP’d: 11 a.m. Live DJ, 3 p.m. Knewsince, and 9 p.m. Bruce Day
Lake View Pub: 7-10 p.m. Sweet Rain

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). Register today.

Volunteer: Want to Help out? Sign up to volunteer!

Vendors: Apply here!

Tasting Locations & Tasting Menus

Tasting Map

3 Drunk Brothers – Outside of Laird Law Firm
Ardon Creek Vineyard and Winery – Outside of Gyro Place
Brickyard Wines – Outside Larson’s Mercantile
Lucky Wife Wine Slushies – Corner of S. Shore Drive & Main Ave.
Madison County Winery – Seawall
Mahaska Bottling – Near the Chamber Office
Paha Cider – Outside of Unique Boutique
Soldier Creek Winery – Outside of Clear Lake Bank & Trust
Sweet Honeymoon Winery – Outside of Lake Effect
Thunder Creek Winery – Near TAP’d
Winneshiek Wildberry Winery – Near Lake View Pub
Eagles Landing Winery – Outside of Moonstone Boutique