Thursday, June 11, 2026

Annual fall festival returns to Yorktown Market Days

Yorktown Market Days Fall Festival will include hayrides, games, face painting and lots of delicious fall produce. (Courtesy York County)

As the leaves change colors this fall, Yorktown is offering a way to celebrate the harvest season with the annual Fall Festival.

Yorktown Market Days will extend is hours from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday to offer a day full of autumn activities, according to a news release from York County.

The festival will offer a number of activities for children including face painting, hayrides, hay mazes, bobbing for apples, decorating pumpkins and carnival games.

Guests will also be able to shop from 50 different vendors and artists for seasonal items such as pumpkins, mums, kettle corn and caramel apples.

Artists will be selling painted gourds, photos, paintings, jewelry, stained glass, hand-woven baskets, and alpaca products.

There will be two live cooking demonstrations from Water Street Grille at 10:30 a.m. and Larry’s Alehouse & Deli at 12:30 p.m. as well as acoustic guitar performances from Phil Poteat from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Parking is free to guests, including the two-level garage on Water Street.

For information visit Yorktown Market Days online.

Alexa Doiron
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Alexa Doiron is a multimedia reporter for WYDaily. She graduated from Roanoke College and is currently working on a master’s degree in English at Virginia Commonwealth University. Alexa was born and raised in Williamsburg and enjoys writing stories about local flair. She began her career in journalism at the Warhill High School newspaper and, eight years later, still loves it. After working as a news editor in Blacksburg, Va., Alexa missed Williamsburg and decided to come back home. In her free time, she enjoys reading Jane Austen and playing with her puppy, Poe. Alexa can be reached at [email protected].

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