Apple Festival at Piney Run Park

September 5, 2007 - Come to Piney Run Park's Apple Festival, Saturday, September 29th, from 10am-4pm! Enjoy live traditional music and be amazed at the handy footwork of our cloggers! Bring the entire family along to enjoy wagon rides, face painting, cider pressing, scarecrow making, games, old time cooking, raffles, bake table, live raptor display, pumpkin painting, puppet shows and much more! Find the perfect gift from one of our talented artisans or pick up a mum or a pumpkin to help decorate for the fall season. You can't leave the festival without a belly full of apple dumplings, bratwurst, apple fritters, warm cider and much more. Enjoy a variety of good old-fashioned family fun in autumn's blaze of color. The festival takes place from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m., in a beautiful wooded setting at Piney Run Park in Sykesville, Maryland. Follow Route 26 west from Sykesville and turn left onto White Rock Rd. Then, turn left on Martz Road to the Park entrance. Piney Run Park and Nature Center are facilities of the Carroll County Department of Recreation & Parks.

There is no Festival entrance fee other than the usual Park entrance fee of $5/Carroll County resident vehicle and $8/non-Carroll resident vehicle. Some activities at the festival are free while others require tickets which can be purchased at the event. Food will also require the purchase of tickets at the event. For more information, call 410-795-6043.