Featured Events - It’s Time for Apples

Sept. 10-11

Apple Fest

Great Lakes Farms Kick off the apple season with lots of apple treats, farm fun and apple picking. Take a tractor ride around the orchard, buy a famous mile-high apple pie or climb the mountain of straw. Elgin, Ontario; greatlakesfarms.ca

Sept. 10-11

31st-Annual Erie Orchard Apple Festival

Erie Orchard & Cider Mill Enjoy the freshest apples and cider along with other delicious food, hayrides, a petting zoo and crafts. Watch fresh cider being made at the cider mill. Erie, Mich.; 734-848-4518, erieorchards.com

Sept. 16-18

Elyria Apple Festival

Ely Square More than 100,000 people come out each year for the Princess Pageant, 5K run, music, food and balloon drop. Kids can bob for apples and, if they’re still hungry, enter the pie-eating contest. Elyria, Ohio; elyriaapplefestival.com

Sept. 21-24

35th-Annual Apple Butter Making

Sauder Village Watch as apple butter is made in a copper kettle over an open fire. There will also be cider pressing and other apple-themed activities, as well as homemade apple dumplings, pies and other treats to enjoy. Proud of your own pie? Enter it in the pie-baking contest on Sunday. Archbold, Ohio; 800-590-9755, saudervillage.org

Oct. 8-9

Oak Harbor Apple Festival

Downtown Indulge in apple fritters, dumplings, cookies and pies, then burn it all off in the 5K Apple Run. There’s also a kiddie tractor pull, cutest baby and toddler contest, parade and talent show (a baton twirler dazzled the crowd last year). Don’t leave without a jar of homemade apple butter made by local Boy Scouts. Oak Harbor, Ohio; 419-898-0479, oakharborohio.net