Fort Hunter Day

Fort Hunter Day September 21, 2025 Images of tractor, wood carving, family games, vintage cooking, corn shucking, quilts

Sunday, September 21, 2025
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Fort Hunter Park | 5300 North Front Street | Harrisburg, PA 17111

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Welcome fall with a festival celebrating the old-time ways of life. Join us for the 68th annual Fort Hunter Day!

Visitors will find arts and crafts, children's games and activities, historic demonstrations and exhibits, entertainment, a bake sale, festival food, and more!

Gain knowledge about native foods - pawpaws, persimmons, hickory and shagbark hickory nuts, and sassafras.
Vintage vehicle enthusiasts will love the antique cars and tractors that will be on view. Go inside the Centennial Barn to see the Fort Hunter antique carriage collection not normally on public view.

Get a peek inside historic Heckton Church and enjoy entertainment throughout the day.

Throughout the day enjoy musical entertainment on the Corncrib Stage in partnership with the
Susquehanna Folk Music Society.

Highlights:

Arts and Crafts Show
Nutmeg the Dairy Cow and Goat Milking
Antique Tractors, Vintage Cars, Antique Fire Engines
Children’s Hands-on Activities
Heckton Church Concerts
Walking Tours
Hayrides
Children’s Crafts, Games, and Play Area
Archaeology Excavation Interpretation
Quilt Exhibit: African-American Quilters Gathering of Harrisburg
Soft Pretzel Purveyors
Food Trucks
Mansion Tours
Craft Demonstrations - native foods demonstration, broom making, apple butter making, spinning, quilting, candle making, woodworking, beekeeping, open-hearth cooking, hair jewelry, chair caning