Raw States
North Wildwood Irish Fall Festival
North Wildwood, NJ · Arts & Culture
- When
- September 25–27, 2026
- Where
- Olde New Jersey Avenue · North Wildwood · NJ
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
The Cape May County Ancient Order of Hibernians turns North Wildwood green each September for the Irish Fall Festival, a three day run of live music, step dancing and a Sunday parade down Surf Avenue. Now in its 34th year, organizers expect more than 100,000 visitors across the weekend, making it one of the largest Irish festivals on the Jersey Shore. Vendor tents along Olde New Jersey Avenue sell Celtic crafts and Irish imports alongside the food and music.
The history within reach
Chubby Checker first did the Twist in public on a stage here in the summer of 1960 and the dance went round the world.
The largest kite festival in North America, held free to spectators on the beach beside the Wildwoods Convention Center every Memorial Day weekend.
A juried fine arts and crafts festival on Stone Harbor's 2nd Avenue, featuring painting, ceramics, woodworking, jewelry, and glasswork from handpicked makers.
- Cape May County 4-H Fair5.6 mi
Cape May County's 4-H program stages a three-day fair each July at its Court House fairgrounds, with youth livestock and craft exhibits, a midway, and free admission.
One of the oldest seaside resorts in the country, burned nearly flat in 1878 and rebuilt all at once in the gingerbread style of that single decade, so it is now the largest collection of Victorian houses in America, a whole town of them, a National Historic Landmark entire.