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Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival
Winchester, VA · Festival
- When
- April 23 – May 1, 2027
- Where
- Loudoun Street Pedestrian Mall, Old Town Winchester · Winchester · VA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
One of the oldest festivals in the country, this ten day celebration fills downtown Winchester each spring with parades, a carnival, and coronation events tied to the region's apple orchards. It has run since 1924 and regularly draws hundreds of thousands of visitors.
The history within reach
- Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festivalsame spot
One of the oldest festivals in the country, this ten day celebration fills downtown Winchester each spring with parades, a carnival, and coronation events tied to the region's apple orchards.
- Patsy Cline0.1 mi
Born Virginia Hensley in Winchester, where she sang on the radio as a teenager and was snubbed by the town's better families.
- Festival of Leaves18 mi
Front Royal closes Main and Chester Streets each October for the Festival of Leaves, a downtown celebration of the fall color on the surrounding Blue Ridge and Shenandoah mountains.
Stonewall Jackson put guns on the heights above the town and forced the surrender of more than twelve thousand Union soldiers in September 1862, the largest capitulation of United States troops until Bataan.
Washington sited a national armoury where the Shenandoah meets the Potomac, and it became one of the two places the country made its own guns.