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Ohio Pawpaw Festival
Nelsonville, OH · Quirky
- When
- September 18–20, 2026
- Where
- Snow Fork Event Center, 5685 Happy Hollow Rd · Nelsonville · OH
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Started in 1999 to celebrate North America's largest native edible fruit, the Ohio Pawpaw Festival moves in 2026 to the Snow Fork Event Center in Nelsonville after 25 years at Lake Snowden in Albany. The weekend mixes pawpaw cooking contests and tastings with live music and workshops. It has grown from about 400 attendees in 1999 to roughly 10,000 today.
The history within reach
- Ohio Pawpaw Festivalsame spot
Started in 1999 to celebrate North America's largest native edible fruit, the Ohio Pawpaw Festival moves in 2026 to the Snow Fork Event Center in Nelsonville after 25 years at Lake Snowden in Albany.
Nelsonville's historic Public Square hosts four days of parades, pageants, carnival rides, and nightly entertainment during the Parade of the Hills, a community festival held the third weekend of August since 1950.
Court Street in uptown Athens closes to traffic for a costume block party the Saturday nearest Halloween, a tradition among Ohio University students and residents dating to 1974.
- Hocking Hills19 mi
Blackhand sandstone cut into gorges, recess caves and waterfalls at the edge of the glaciated plain, Old Man's Cave, Ash Cave, Cedar Falls.
An Irish aristocrat built a Palladian mansion on an island in the Ohio and then let Aaron Burr use it to organise whatever it was Burr was organising, an expedition west that the government called treason and a jury declined to convict.