DEXTER, MI — Dexter’s Apple Daze festival offers a host of fall family fun in downtown Dexter.
The annual, one-day event, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1 in Monument Park, will be filled with bounce houses, kid games, live music, pinewood derby racing, a classic car show, hay rides to the Dexter Cider Mill and pumpkin bowling, where people use a pumpkin instead of a bowling ball to knock down pins.
There will also be a handful of food vendors offering pizza, hot dogs, burgers, kettle corn and more.
Various prizes also are being given out for different games throughout the festival and “the heart of the activities” will take place in the early afternoon, Abby Briggs, Dexter’s Apple Daze chairperson, said.
Along with the festivities, there is an apple pie eating contest at 2 p.m. where contestants have to race against the clock to finish their pie first without using their hands. Anyone interested in being a part of this competition can sign up for it on the day of the festival.
The contest is divided into three age groups — ages 8 and younger, ages 9 to 12 and ages 13 and older. Prizes include gift certificates to Dexter businesses.
This year, instead of its typical scarecrow contest, Apple Daze will have a painted pumpkin contest. Anyone interested in entering their own pumpkin must pay a $25 entry fee and sign up here.
To keep up to date with Dexter Apple Daze, visit the Dexter Lions Club’s Facebook page.
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