Georgia Apple Festival
Now in its 55th year, this two-weekend harvest festival in Georgia's apple country draws hundreds of juried craft vendors and local orchards to the Ellijay Lions Club Fairgrounds every October.
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"Held on the shores of Lake Chatuge every August, this long-running Appalachian fair celebrates the mountain heritage of Towns County with craft demonstrations, old-time music, and a recreated pioneer village."
Georgia Mountain Fair
"North Georgia's tiny Alpine village of Helen hosts one of the longest-running Oktoberfest celebrations in the American South, with authentic German beer, traditional food, and folk dancing in the mountain Festhalle."
Helen Oktoberfest
"This small-town Bulloch County tradition celebrates the peanut harvest with a street festival, parade, live music, and food vendors in the agricultural village of Brooklet."
Brooklet Peanut Festival
"Buchanan's joyful one-dish festival celebrates the old Southern fried pie tradition with baking competitions, vendors, and live entertainment in a small Haralson County county seat."
Haralson County Fried Pie Festival
"This homegrown, handmade-only arts and crafts festival in downtown Douglas celebrates the Coffee County landscape and its resident gopher tortoises with local music, food, and family activities."
Gopher Tortoise Festival
"Blairsville's beloved autumn gathering celebrates the traditional craft of sorghum syrup-making with live milling demonstrations, mountain food, music, and artisan vendors across two October weekends."
Sorghum in the Mountains Festival
"A full week of traditional county fair life in Coldwater -- livestock judging, 4-H competitions, carnival rides, and grandstand events -- anchoring the agricultural calendar of the small-farm communities of Branch County in southern Michigan."
Branch County Fair
"A beloved three-day community fair in its 49th year, held in the Adirondack foothills hamlet of Mayfield, serving as a true local gathering for Fulton County's rural communities."
Mayfield Bannertown Fair
"The westernmost UP county fair serves the iron-mining and logging heritage communities of Gogebic County and the Wisconsin border, gathering agricultural exhibits, livestock, and local traditions in Ironwood each August."
Gogebic County Fair
"The Alpena County Fair on Thunder Bay serves the agricultural and fishing communities of the northeast Lower Peninsula with a traditional week of livestock, 4-H exhibits, and fairground entertainment in a county known for its pristine Great Lakes waters."
Alpena County Fair
"The great rural gathering of the Upper Peninsula, held annually in Escanaba since the early 20th century, brings together agricultural exhibits, grandstand entertainment, carnival rides, and fair foods to serve the farming and forestry communities spread across Michigan's vast northern wilderness."
Upper Peninsula State Fair
"A classic upstate New York olde home days tradition in the small Tompkins County village of Groton, reviving community pride across three days with parades, local vendors, and family entertainment."
Groton Olde Home Days