Cider Days

Celebrating Lakewood’s agricultural heritage with an entertaining mix of live performances, activities and tasty harvest treats, the annual Cider Days festival offers fun and excitement for the entire family!

This event includes tractor pulls and vintage power displays, children's activities, historic demonstrations and a unique variety of exhibitors and vendors. The Cider Days festival wouldn’t be complete without everything apple, including apple pressing, cider and a variety of apple goodies.

Activities

All Things Apple

Event Attractions:
- Hot and cold organic cider
- Hard cider by Colorado Cider Company and Locust Cider in - The Beer Garden
- Cider pressing - BYO apples and jugs (free!)
- Free apple designs at all face painting booths
- Freshly baked apple crisp samples in our 1930s house
- Apple pie eating competition each day at 3 p.m.

- Kids Amusements
- Historical Demonstrations
Enjoy unique and timeless historical demonstrations including (but not limited to):
- Colorado's Largest Tractor Pull
- Hard Cider and the Beer Garden

- Live Entertainment

October 5, 2024

Gala Gazebo
11 a.m. - Storytime with Belmar Library
Noon - Magic Show
1 p.m. - Square Dancing with Rollin' Wheels Square Dance Club
2 p.m. (Sat) - Intergenerational Dance Performance by Lakewood Cultural Center Students
2 p.m. (Sun) - Lakewood Police K9 Demonstration
3 p.m. - Apple Pie Eating Competition
4 p.m. - Best Dressed Dog Contest - All furry friends are welcome to compete!

Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Amphitheater
11 a.m. - Top Hogs (trick pigs)
Noon. - Line Dancing with Two Left Boots
1 p.m. - Top Hogs
2 p.m. - Line Dancing with Two Left Boots
3 p.m. - Top Hogs
4 p.m. (Sun) - The Original Cow Boy Band musical performance

ACBID Music Stage
10-10:40 a.m. - Dennis Valasquez, Native American Flutist
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. - Las Dahlias Mariachi Band
1-2:30 p.m. - Orchard Creek (Bluegrass)
3-4:30 p.m. - Meghan Clarisse and Her Cavemen (Country/Americana)