The historical town of Nappanee hosts one of Indiana’s top fall festivals every September. Nappanee Apple Festival features a 7-foot apple pie, which weighs 600 pounds. Festival guests can try this delicious treat when the festivities kick off on Friday morning. The event attracts about 80,000 attendees.
Nappanee Apple Festival boasts a family-friendly atmosphere, fun activities, games, shopping, aircraft fly-over, carnival rides, and delicious foods. Three stages provide continuous entertainment and a marketplace with over 150 exhibitors, offering a unique shopping experience. Other highlights include the downtown parade, Miss Apple Blossom scholarship pageant, a cornhole tournament, a 5K road run, an apple baking contest, a garden tractor pull, pedal pull contests, and apple peeling & pie-eating contests.
The celebration takes place at various locations in downtown Nappanee. Carnival rides are on S. Main Street, food vendors are located in the Depot Plaza, and exhibitors line North and South Clark Street. The largest apple pie in Indiana is baked at the Don Carlos Bar & Grill Restaurant on West Market Street. In addition to the main pie, attendees can indulge in apple fritters, apple dumplings, apple turnovers, applesauce, apple cider, apple butter as well as lots of freshly picked Indiana apples.
