06/19/2026
In Chattanooga, Tennessee in just a few months the Chattanooga Apple Festival gets underway just as the weather cools off and the fall season starts to take hold of the Volunteer State! Set for October 17th and 18th, 2026 at Camp Jordan in East Ridge, this two-day fall festival brings together everything people love about autumn in Tennessee, from rows of vendors and food trucks to apple treats, family activities, live entertainment, and plenty of seasonal fun.
The festival is an outdoor-only event, so the whole park takes on that crisp fall festival feel as guests wander through craft booths, commercial vendors, and food stops packed with sweet and savory favorites. One of the biggest highlights is the fresh apples from Mercier Orchards, a fourth-generation family-owned and veteran-operated orchard in Blue Ridge, Georgia that began back in 1943 as a roadside stand selling apples. Along with the apples, you can expect caramel apples, candy apples, apple fritters, fried pies, apple c***r donuts, apple cobbler, apple pie, frozen c***r slushies, caramel apple milkshakes, caramel apple nachos, and even apple pie boiled peanuts.
Kids will have plenty to do too, with a petting zoo, pony rides, inflatables, trackless train rides, face painting, and more happening throughout the weekend. Camp Jordan itself sits right off Exit 1 on I-75, making it an easy fall road trip stop for folks coming from Chattanooga, North Georgia, or anywhere across East Tennessee. The festival runs Saturday from 10 AM to 5 PM and Sunday from 10 AM to 4 PM, and both admission and parking are free. Tennessee has plenty of great events coming through spring and summer, but this is one of those fall weekends worth marking on the calendar early!