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Cape Coral Oktoberfest
Cape Coral, FL · Food & Drink
- When
- October 17–26, 2026
- Where
- German American Social Club, 2101 SW Pine Island Rd · Cape Coral · FL
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
The German American Social Club runs this Bavarian-style festival across two consecutive weekends, with steins, brats and oompah bands drawing crowds from across Lee County. Now in its 41st year, it has grown from a club fundraiser into one of the larger recurring cultural events in Cape Coral.
The history within reach
- Cape Coral Oktoberfestsame spot
The German American Social Club runs this Bavarian-style festival across two consecutive weekends, with steins, brats and oompah bands drawing crowds from across Lee County.
Two Baltimore brothers bought a hundred square miles of scrub in 1957 and sold it by mail and dinner-party pitch, lot by installment lot, flying prospects over the dredges for free.
A mullet-fishing village on a causeway island whose economy was outlawed overnight by the 1995 statewide net ban.
Edison bought land here at thirty-eight and came down for nearly fifty winters, with Ford buying the house next door in 1916.
Sanibel Island's shell show has run since the late 1930s, judging shell art and rare specimens alongside live mollusk exhibits from the island's Shell Museum.