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.

Quick Links:

Champagne 5K Fun Run, Walk, Wag

Vendor Market

Volunteer Opportunities coming soon!

Tasting passes go on sale August 1st!

2025 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 South Shore Drive & Main Avenue
Salsa Contest 11am-2pm | Outside Unique Boutique sponsored by Randy’s Neighborhood Market
11am-12pm Check In and Registration
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

Music Schedule
2025 Music sponsorships are available, contact Trish.

4th Street & Main Avenue Main Stage

• 12-4 p.m. TBA

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). 5K Sponsorships are available, contact Libbey.
Click here to register!

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

Tasting Menus and Locations
2025 Locations and menus will be posted in September