The Parker County Peach Festival surrounds Weatherford's Parker County Courthouse Square starting Saturday, July 9 at 8:00am, til 5:00pm.
Admission is $5, with kids 12 and under getting in for free.
There is free parking from the Ninth Grade Center (1007 S. Main St.) Exit 408, Weatherford College (225 College Park Dr) Exit 409, and the First Monday Grounds (100 Block Santa Fe) Exit 409. Free Shuttle services to the Peach Festival are available from the parking locations. There is free handicap parking and a handicap shuttle from Weatherford Ninth Grade Center.
You can find directions to Weatherford, the Peach Festival and the parking lots, and a map, by going here.
In addition to the more than 200 arts and crafts vendors, the Parker County Peach Festival has many food vendors.
The last time I went to the Parker County Peach Festival the food items that stick in my memory, besides all the various peach products, were menu items like frog leg poboys, shrimp stew, alligator on a stick, roasted coon, monkey rice, bear meat pies, catfish poboys, Tennessee pork sandwich and giant smoked turkey legs.
You will find plenty of Parker County peaches, in many forms, including fresh peaches, plus peaches that have been turned into ice cream, pie, cobbler, juleps, smoothies and other peachy goodies.
I remember escaping the heat for awhile by going into a museum where quilts were on display. The quilts ended up being very interesting.
You will also find several walk-through cooling misters throughout the festival grounds. Walking through a mister is very refreshing. Those are festival goers you see getting misted in the picture.
There are also tented areas you can secure a seat under to listen to music acts. There are several music/performance stages at the Parker County Peach Festival, with entertainment going non-stop all day.
I have greatly enjoyed both times I've gone to the Parker County Peach Festival.
The most recent time I tried to go to the Parker County Peach Festival was on a Sunday. I did not realize, at that point in time, that the Peach Festival was a one day only event. It is such a HUGE event that it did not occur to me that it would not be running all weekend long, starting on Thursday or Friday and running through Sunday.
But, it is Saturday only. And only til 5:00pm. Putting on such a HUGE event seems like an awful lot of effort to have it run for only 9 hours on one day.
So. Who wants to drive me to Weatherford tomorrow for alligator on a stick and a peach julep?
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