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Clifton Forge Fall Foliage Festival
Clifton Forge, VA · Holiday
- When
- October 16–18, 2026
- Where
- Downtown Clifton Forge · Clifton Forge · VA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
The Clifton Forge Shrine Club's Fall Foliage Festival closes off downtown for a weekend of country ham sandwiches, doughnuts, crafts, and gospel, bluegrass, and country music in the Alleghany Highlands. The Shrine Club has organized it since the 1970s as a fundraiser and community gathering. The 2026 edition follows more than fifty years of continuous coverage in the local Virginian Review.
The history within reach
- Clifton Forge Fall Foliage Festivalsame spot
The Clifton Forge Shrine Club's Fall Foliage Festival closes off downtown for a weekend of country ham sandwiches, doughnuts, crafts, and gospel, bluegrass, and country music in the Alleghany Highlands.
People have been sitting in these hundred-degree springs since before the resort was built around them in 1766, Jefferson among them, taking the water for his rheumatism and complaining about it in writing.
- Natural Bridge20 mi
A limestone arch two hundred and fifteen feet over Cedar Creek that George Washington is said to have surveyed and that Thomas Jefferson simply bought, paying the Crown twenty shillings for it in 1774 and calling it the most sublime of nature's works.
- Katherine Johnson26 mi
Born in a town with no school for Black children past eighth grade, so the family moved 125 miles each year for her to attend one.
Named for the Buena Vista bluegrass band that started it, this three-day festival at Glen Maury Park brings touring bluegrass acts together for camping, jamming and a full slate of stage sets each September.