Applefest weekend, five minutes from the orchard
Applefest is downtown Weston’s harvest festival, put on by the Weston Chamber of Commerce on the first weekend of October. Historic Weston Orchard is five minutes down the road. Do the festival in the morning and pick apples in the afternoon, or the other way around.
Five minutes from Main Street · Free parking · 18545 County Road H · Orchard open daily 9am to 5pm
Dates and hours
Applefest runs the first weekend of October, Saturday and Sunday, in downtown Weston. Admission to the festival is free. A farm ticket is the only thing on this page that costs anything, and it is optional.
Applefest lands on the first weekend of October: Saturday, October 3 and Sunday, October 4, 2026. The Weston Chamber of Commerce has the final word on festival times, so check with them before you head out, or call us at (816) 640-4013.
18545 County Road H, Weston, MO 64098
Five minutes down the road
Applefest brings roughly 30,000 people into a town of about 1,600, so downtown parking fills early. The orchard is five minutes down County Road H with a free lot that doesn’t. Plenty of families do the parade at 10, lunch on Main Street, then drive out here for the afternoon when the crowd downtown is thickest.
We are at 18545 County Road H, Weston, MO 64098. Look for the red and white Historic Weston Orchard & Vineyard sign at the entrance. Parking is free with a farm ticket.
Head out of downtown on County Road H and you are here in five minutes. There is no shuttle between the festival and the farm, so plan on driving. If Main Street is at full tilt, this is the quiet end of the afternoon.
It is the Chamber’s festival, and it is worth your Saturday
Applefest belongs to downtown Weston and the Weston Chamber of Commerce runs it. We are five minutes away, not the host. Here is the shape of the weekend so you can plan around it.
It comes down Main Street at 10am on Saturday. Saturday is the bigger of the two days, so if the parade is the reason you are coming, get downtown early.
One of the named fixtures on the Chamber’s Applefest lineup.
Apple butter is made and demonstrated over the festival weekend.
The Christian Church on Washington Street serves apple dumplings during Applefest.
Craft vendors and live music are part of the Applefest lineup across the weekend.
The Chamber programs kids’ activities downtown. If they still have anything left in the tank afterwards, we have sixteen more waiting at the farm.
The Weston Chamber of Commerce publishes the official Applefest schedule, the vendor map and the parade lineup at the Weston Chamber of Commerce website. Treat them as the last word on times and street closures.
Five minutes from Main Street
Five minutes from downtown is a fifty acre farm with roughly 17,000 apple trees on it. We are open that weekend, normal hours. A farm ticket is separate from Applefest, and it opens the whole place.
Apples run mid-August through October 31 across the rows. The pumpkin patch is open in the fall, and you pick from the vine, not from a pile. Fruit is priced by weight after you pick it, so the ticket is the ticket and the fruit is the fruit.
We press our own cider and the donuts are made from it, fried through the day rather than trucked in. The bakery also runs cider slushies, hot spiced cider, caramel apples and kettle corn.
One ticket covers all sixteen, plus the hayrack ride, parking and a picking bag. In fall that means the two-acre corn maze, hay mountain, the apple cannons and the Apple Express running alongside the jumping pillow, the ziplines, the treehouse village, the petting zoo and the giant slide. No tokens, no wristbands, no upsell at every corner.
Pick your own apples
Pumpkins in the patch
Cider donuts all day
Applefest is free. The farm is not.
Applefest costs nothing to attend. A farm ticket is a separate purchase, and it is what gets you into the orchard, the patch and all sixteen activities.
All 16 activities, the hayrack ride, parking and a picking bag. Fruit is priced by weight after you pick it.
Tickets, parking, getting here
No. It is downtown Weston’s festival, run by the Weston Chamber of Commerce since 1990, on Main Street. We are five minutes away and open normal hours that weekend.
Yes, with a farm ticket. The lot is for orchard visitors.
Easily. They are five minutes apart. Most people do the parade in the morning and come out here for the afternoon.
Yes. Apples run through October 31 and Applefest lands right in the middle of it. Fruit is priced by weight after you pick. Farm tickets are here.
No. Applefest is free to attend. A farm ticket is separate, and only needed to come into the orchard.
Head out of downtown on County Road H, five minutes. There is no shuttle between the two.
Normal, 9am to 5pm both days.
Getting here
Thirty five minutes north of Kansas City, fifteen minutes from Leavenworth across the Centennial Bridge. Free to park, all year, Applefest weekend included.
Address18545 County Road H, Weston, MO 64098Phone(816) 640-4013Emailhistoricwestonorchard@gmail.comSeason hoursDaily 9am to 5pm, May through November
Turn in at this sign
See you in the lot
We are the winery with 17,000 apple trees out the back door, thirty five minutes north of Kansas City. Voted one of the top 10 orchards in America by USA Today, and 4.6 stars across 450 Google reviews. Do Applefest downtown, then come out here for the afternoon.
