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West Cape May Lima Bean Festival
West Cape May, NJ · Food & Drink
- When
- October 10, 2026
- Where
- Wilbraham Park · West Cape May · NJ
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
West Cape May throws its Lima Bean Festival every October in Wilbraham Park, with craft vendors, food stalls, and dishes built around the borough's namesake bean. The festival has run since the late 1980s as a nod to the lima bean fields that once covered this stretch of Cape May County. It draws several thousand visitors to a town of under a thousand residents for one Saturday each fall.
The history within reach
- Cape May Light1.0 mi
The light at the very bottom of New Jersey, where the Delaware Bay meets the ocean and the whole eastern flyway of migrating birds funnels down to the point to cross.
The 1965 Newport Folk Festival, the one where Dylan went electric and the crowd's reaction became sixty years of argument, was rebuilt on the New Jersey shore, with the songs performed live on set rather than mimed..
When steel ran short in the First World War the government tried building ships out of concrete, which floated but were too heavy to be any use.
Cape May's historic preservation group opens the town's Victorian mansions for candlelight tours, a crafts show, and walking tours of the country's largest collection of Victorian architecture.
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.