Brushy Mountain Apple Festival
Sat, Oct 04
|Downtown North Wilkesboro, NC
The Main Street of Elkin will be filled with live music, and vendors of every description featuring everything from antiques, jump houses, and funnel cakes to functional pottery, pumpkin painting, wood furnishings, wine racks, BBQ, baked goods, sand art, pumpkin butter, polish sausages, handcraft
Time & Location
Oct 04, 2025, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Downtown North Wilkesboro, NC, Downtown North Wilkesboro, NC
About the event
The Annual Brushy Mountain Apple Festival is one of the largest one-day arts and crafts festivals in the Southeast. The Brushy Mountain Ruritan Club owns, operates, and organizes the event each year. The Brushy Mountain Apple Festival is not just this club's largest fundraiser, but has become one of Wilkes County's biggest fundraisers. Over 100 civic, church and other non-profit organizations participate in the festival. For many of them, the festival has become the biggest fundraiser of the year. Over 100,000 people visit this festival during the day and it's FREE.
The streets of downtown North Wilkesboro, NC are filled with over 300 arts and crafts, 50 food concessions, 3 different music stages consisting of Blue Grass, Country, Folk, Gospel, and Appalachian Heritage. Cloggers, folk dancers, rope skippers, and square dancers provide additional entertainment venues for festival goers. Appalachian Heritage crafts are highlighted such as woodcarving, chair making, soap making,…