Fall West Virginia Festivals

Summersville Lake Lighthouse Festival and Car Show - Mt Nebo, WV - Aug 3, 2024
Artisans and crafters from across the state will be showing off their skills, and there will be live Appalachian music, great food, entertainment, raffles, and a Classic Car Show. The Humane Society and local Animal Shelter will have kittens and puppies available for adoption, and there will be archery games and lighthouse tours available as well, as well as a number of activities for children like face painting and balloon animals. So much more fun can be had, so head on over!

Jackson’s Mill Jubilee - Weston, WV - Aug 30 to Sep 1, 2024
A celebration of Appalachian heritage, bluegrass music, Native American dancing, arts and crafts, and more.

West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival - Clarksburg, WV - Aug 30 to Sep 1, 2024
More than 100,000 attend this cultural heritage event featuring delectable food, music, live entertainment, contests, and exhibits. The downtown streets of Clarksburg will be packed.

Jane Lew Firemen’s Arts & Crafts Festival - Jane Lew, WV - Aug 30 to Sep 1, 2024
Over 200 contempororary and heritage crafters using a variety of media, as well as food vendors

Festival of the Rivers - Hinton, WV - Aug 31, 2024
It will be a full day of live music, local artists, vendors, food and fun! The Campbell-Flannagan-Murrell House Museum on Summers Street has organized the Festival of the Rivers since 2004.

Culturefest - Pipestem, WV - Sep 5 to Sep 8, 2024
An annual event held at the Appalachian South Folklore Center in Pipestem. It features world music, dance, art, workshops, kids’ village, camping, parade and more.

WV Black Heritage Festival - Clarksburg, WV - Sep 6 to Sep 8, 2024
A celebration of Black heritage that takes place annually during the remembrance of the Emancipation Proclamation. Great food, games, entertainment and cultural events are available at Jackson Square in Downtown Clarksburg all weekend. Since 1990.

Nicholas County Potato Festival - Summersville, WV - Sep 6 to Sep 7, 2024
Annual event honoring the potato with music, food, games and fun. Since 1969.

Happy Retreat Craft Beer and Music Festival - Charles Town, WV - Sep 7, 2024
The annual Happy Retreat Craft Beer and Music Festival is held on the historic grounds of Happy Retreat, former home of Charles Town founder Charles Washington, brother of George Washington, and designated as a National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The event will feature music all day from touring bands as well as samples from multiple brewers of the best craft beer available in the State of West Virginia,

Arts & Crafts Mound Festival - South Charleston, WV - Sep 7, 2024
Browse and buy arts and crafts from local talents.

Craigsville Fall Festival - Craigsville, WV - Sep 10 to Sep 15, 2024
Pet pageant, 50/50, 5k, cornhole tournament, art show, decorated storefronts, and more.

Parkersburg Paddlefest - Parkersburg, WV - Sep 13 to Sep 14, 2024
Parkersburg Paddlefest is a fun-filled three-day festival dedicated to people-powered watercraft. Kayaks, Canoes, and Stand-up Paddleboards are welcome to come and participate in this unique event. Point Park, at the confluence of the Ohio and Little Kanawha Rivers, is the setting for the first two day’s activities, including the main day, Saturday. The weekend concludes with a lake excursion on Sunday at North Bend State Park Lake. Coincides with the Downtown Throwdown, a craft and BBQ event.

Greek Festival - Huntington, WV - Sep 13 to Sep 14, 2024
Enjoy a taste of Greece in Huntington with St. George Greek Orthodox Church, plus music and dancing.

Treasure Mountain Festival - Franklin, WV - Sep 19 to Sep 22, 2024
A variety of activities await you at this year’s Treasure Mountain Festival, including antique cars & trucks, apple butter & cider making, arts & crafts, beard & mustache contest, the Boggs House Museum, children’s games, a book sale and flea market, parade, historical exhibits and costumes, music, pageants, storytelling, food, and more! It’s fun for the whole family, so come on over to downtown Franklin for fun for the whole family!

Clay County Golden Delicious Festival - Clay, WV - Sep 19 to Sep 22, 2024
Celebrate with the apple that is the state fruit of West Virginia. Enjoy Golden Delicious apples, a 5k, skillet flinging competition and other competitions, fireworks, live music, children’s activities and more. Since 1973.

Grape Stomp Wine and Music Festival - Summersville, WV - Sep 20 to Sep 21, 2024
Two days of wine and bourbon tastings, food and craft vendors, grape stomping, grape eating contests, Happy Little Photo bus, covered wagon rides, dancing, live music and more.

Harvest Moon Arts and Crafts Festival - Parkersburg, WV - Sep 21 to Sep 22, 2024
Celebrating 50+ years of live music, artists, demonstrations, exhibits, live entertainment, food, crafts, apple butter and kids inflatable. Held at City Park.

Mothman Festival - Point Pleasant, WV - Sep 21 to Sep 22, 2024
Mothman Festival is an annual event held every third weekend in September that commemorates the 1966 Point Pleasant, West Virginia Mothman sighting, which gave birth to the infamous red-eyed winged legend. People from all over the world gather around charming Main Street to celebrate their favorite cryptid during this one of a kind event. Check out live music, snap a selfie with the Mothman Statue, take a private bus tour through the TNT area where the Mothman was spotted, and let the kiddos have some fun too, with face painting, an obstacle course, zip line, and more!

Buckwheat Festival - Kingwood, WV - Sep 26 to Sep 29, 2024
Annual festival features food, carnival, bingo, contests, arts & crafts, live music, and more.

Leaf Peepers Festival - Davis, WV - Sep 27 to Sep 29, 2024
Enjoy the beautiful colors of fall in the high mountains of Tucker County. Always the last full weekend of September.

Mountain Heritage Arts & Crafts Festival - Kearneysville, WV - Sep 27 to Sep 29, 2024
Fine arts, crafts, bluegrass music, wine and more fun with 200 artisans.

Fall Festival at Grand Vue Park - Moundsville, WV - Sep 28, 2024
Come on down to Grand Vue Park for a festival for the whole family! Live entertainment, great food, handmade crafts, and more!

Autumnfest Parade - Princeton, WV - Sep 28, 2024
The parade will begin at the Capitol grounds and continue south down Sixth Street. At East Avenue A, the parade turns right, traveling west for two blocks to Fourth Street. The parade will then proceed north on Fourth Street, finishing their march at the west Capitol parking lot.

Autumnfest - Princeton, WV - Sep 28, 2024
Celebrate with thousands in downtown Princeton. Great music, crafts, art, kids activities, hundreds of booths, food, a car show, pumpkin painting, pie contests, and more. To make sure you don’t leave empty handed, various groups will make homemade apple butter on the street.

Mountain State Forest Festival - Elkins, WV - Sep 28 to Oct 6, 2024
Celebrate over 80 years of festival fun in WV with over 75,000 visitors each year. It features headline live music concerts, lumberjack competitions, wood exhibits, arts and crafts, carnival rides, and great food choices.

Roadkill Cookoff & Autumn Harvest Festival - Marlington, WV - Sep 28, 2024
The Roadkill Cookoff is frequently covered by the Food Network, Travel Channel and others. Offers exotic dishes like squirrel gravy over biscuits or teriyaki-marinated bear. The Harvest Festival, held the same weekend, includes live entertainment, pageant, bake-off, and many amazing vendors.

West Virginia Wine and Jazz Festival - Morgantown, WV - Sep 28 to Sep 29, 2024
Wine tasting and live music for admission of $25 per person per day (includes wine glass and tasting), held at Camp Muffly.

Salem Apple Butter Festival - Salem, WV - Oct 3 to Oct 5, 2024
Annual event for 30+ years with old fashioned apple butter and family oriented activities.

West Virginia Pumpkin Festival - Milton, WV - Oct 3 to Oct 6, 2024
Celebrating autumn and the harvest since 1986. More than 50,000 people attend annually. Parade, 5K run, crafts, craftsmen demonstrations and live music. Held at the WV Pumpkin Park in Milton.

Oglebayfest - Wheeling, WV - Oct 4 to Oct 6, 2024
Parade, artists and gourmet market, fireworks over Schenk Lake, Ohio County Country Fair and West Virginia Pony Pull Championship, 5k and more. An annual event at the Oglebay Resort & Conference Center. Since 1978.

Hops on the Mon - Morgantown, WV - Oct 5, 2024
The organizers are taking High Street in the heart of historic downtown Morgantown and turning it into a mecca of beer greatness where you can savor the highest quality and most distinctive local, American, and European craft beer.There’s food, music and more. Have a bite and cast your vote for the winner of the ‘Perfect Pierogi & Dumpling Showdown’ featuring Morgantown’s best restaurants. Listen to some cool tunes or try your luck at the festival arcade

Burlington Apple Harvest Festival - Burlington, WV - Oct 5 to Oct 6, 2024
Features include live music and entertainment, apple butter making, flea market, arts and crafts show, artisan village, and food court.

National Trail Fest - Gilbert, WV - Oct 10 to Oct 13, 2024
One of the premier UTV, ATV and Dirtbike riding events in the country. Past fun has included a poker run, mud pit mud run, costume parade, stunt show, scavenger hunt, live music, fireworks and more. Formerly called the Hatfield & McCoy Trail Fest as it takes place on the Hatfield & McCoy trails

West Virginia Black Walnut Festival - Spencer, WV - Oct 10 to Oct 13, 2024
Activities include a flea market, flower show, food court, car show, band competition, grand parade, live music, and livestock show. Held throughout downtown Spencer.

Apple Butter Festival - Berkeley Springs, WV - Oct 11 to Oct 13, 2024
Saturday morning parade kicks off a weekend of country food, arts & crafts, games and contests. Spicy apple butter is stirred in giant copper kettles in the square. Since 1974.

Taste of our Towns Festival - Lewisburg, WV - Oct 12, 2024
One of Carnegie Hall’s largest fundraisers, takes place on the second Saturday in October for the past 35+ years. Each year, TOOT features food tastings from a wide array of restaurants and nonprofit organizations, entertainment in three locations downtown, cultural exhibits, and more.

Mountain State Apple Harvest Festival - Martinsburg, WV - Oct 17 to Oct 20, 2024
Features pie baking contest, grand parade on Saturday, apple displays, art vendors, and more. Good times to be had by all. Revived in 1979.

Buffalo Oktoberfest - Buffalo, WV - Oct 19, 2024
Enjoy great food, music, crafts, apple butter, antiques, flea market, and more!

Bridge Day Festival - Lansing, WV - Oct 19, 2024
Rappelling, skydiving and more into the New River Gorge. More than 80,000 come to watch the BASE jumpers and other events. The bridge sits 800 feet above the gorge below.

C-K AutumnFest - Ceredo, WV - Oct 19 to Oct 27, 2024
Scavenger hunt, pumpkin carving contest, bake-off, food, teen and Teen Queen Pageant, plus enjoy how a house with over 3,000 hand carved pumpkins displayed – join some 30,000 visitors to the Pumpkin House, a West Virginia favorite. Since 1978.

OktoberWest Charleston - Charleston, WV - Sep 30, 2023
West Virginia’s largest traditional German Octoberfest and among the largest craft beer festivals in the state. Sample over 100 craft brews, and several limited Octoberfest and German varieties, and listen to three incredible bands at this year’s festival. Stein holding, keg rolling, and best traditional dress contests will return! It’s all about the craft brews, local foods, and live music!

Bluefield Oktoberfest in the Park - Bluefield, WV - Sep 30, 2023
Unlimited samples of craft beer and cider, food trucks, live music from Space Monkey and The Sauerkraut Band.

Hancock County Old Time Fair - New Manchester, WV - Sep 17, 2023
2023 – Downsized to just the popular car show

Camp Creek State Park and Forest Fall Festival and Lumberjack Competition - Camp Creek, WV - Sep 16, 2023
Enjoy the fall colors of Camp Creek State Park while taking in live music, pig roast, apple butter, corn meal making, Appalachian crafts and displays, and more!

Harvest Day - Cass, WV - Sep 16, 2023
Celebrate all things Appalachia at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park with local artists, blacksmiths, apple cider and apple butter making, live bluegrass and dulcimer music, book signings, children’s crafts and games, and more.

Festival of Colors - Moundsville, WV - Sep 16, 2023
Food, music, yoga, throw color and dance! Truly a cultural experience for the whole family

Freshwater Folk Festival - White Sulphur Springs, WV - Sep 9, 2023
The Freshwater Folk Festival is a full day of splendid music, tasty food, local crafts and fun hands-on educational activities built around the Festival mission which — to promote understanding, appreciation and conservation of freshwater resources and to celebrate the local natural history and culture of White Sulphur Springs and Greenbrier County.

Watoga Art in the Park - Marlinton, WV - Sep 2 to Sep 3, 2023
Watoga State Park plays host to art, music, food, hikes, yoga, and more!

Oak Leaf Festival - Oak Hill, WV - Aug 31 to Sep 3, 2023
A celebration of fall with vendors, crafts, live entertainment, kids activities and more

Morgantown Brewing Oktoberfest - Morgantown, WV - Oct 1, 2022
Dust off your lederhosen and press your dirndls! Oktoberfest half liter boots for sale, plus a special German menu, games and prizes for all ages, live music and more! Happening rain or shine!

Terra Cafe Oktoberfest - Morgantown, WV - Oct 1, 2022
Featuring cuisine by Sargasso’s own Austrian Chef Thomas Metzler, live music performance, entertainment and all the beer in boots you can handle. Ticket includes admission to event, unlimited access to food buffet, and entertainment. Seating is first come, first served. Reserved seating can be secured by purchasing a VIP ticket

King Coal Festival - Williamson, WV - Sep 17, 2022
Mingo County’s oldest and longest running festival has craft and food vendors, music, community block party, parade, and one coal miner is crowned “Mr. King Coal.”

Hops & Heat - Charleston, WV - Oct 10, 2020
Hops & Heat, an Appalachian craft beer and chili cookoff event celebrating the close to the Open-Air Bazaar season, will encompass over 80 craft beers from more than 20 Appalachian breweries and crown the BazaarÂ’s best chili in a chili cookoff competition between 10+ Bazaar cooks. The Hops & Heat Chili Cookoff (details below) winner will receive an award created by an East End Bazaar artisan.

Elizabethtown Festival - Moundsville, WV - Dec 6 to Dec 7, 2019
The Moundsville Center plays host to the Elizabethtown Festival to celebrate the traditions and customs of the past with bread-making, quilt displays, weaving, and many craft items. There will be demonstrations of historic trades, food and musical entertainment, cooking and baking contests, and more to provide fun for the whole family, with free admission!

Oktoberfest Pipestem - Pipestem, WV - Oct 5 to Oct 6, 2019
This is their 4th Oktoberfest and every year it gets bigger and bigger. With local craft beer and a little addition this year – a Bourbon tasting for those with a different taste palate, and a full bar if bourbon or beer aren’t your favorites.