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    Warwick Applefest

    2.8 (16 reviews)

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    Jason P.

    I'll give the experience an overall 2.5 rounded up to 3. I have been to a few of the orchards in and around the Warwick area and was searching for a new orchard to go apple picking at on the morning of October 1st. I was surprised to find out about Applefest. I saw that this was the 29th year and that it attracts 30,000?! visitors per year. That alone seemed like bad news since the Applefest is only one day!!, not a week, or a weekend, but one day!! Now Warwick isn't the biggest of town, so.....Im thinking 30,000 people visiting Warwick over the course of 9 or so hours would be a mad house....and I was kinda right. We figured since many people would rush and get there early in the morning and early afternoon, we would leave NYC around 1:30 PM to get up there for about 3 PM. At that time with only 2 hours of the festival remaining, the crowds should thin out. Our plan kinda worked. We got up the area but there was a sign prior to getting on 17W that the road was gridlocked and advised us to take 17 instead, which we did. Taking 17 kinda took us up and around making the trip longer. Thinking back now, I would think that sign was from earlier in the day and that 17W wasn't as bad at that time. Anyway, once you get to the area, you have to decide on a few parking locations. You can get there super early and snag the available street parking spaces before the roads close. If you are there when the sun rises to get these spots you will have to park in the the lots and take shuttle buses. There are 2 schools in the area where you park in their lots and a school bus shuttles you back and forth to the fest. The fee for parking is either $5 or $10, depending on which lot you choose, but given that we arrived at the lot at around 3:10PM, they said that they weren't collecting and fees as it was late in the day. SCORE. The school buses (Cheese buses) ran frequently as we had just missed one and didn't wait longer than 5 minute for another to arrive. The buses run until 6 PM which was good since the Applefest goes to 5 PM. The drivers, both going and coming were nice and I didn't realize until I was getting off and didn't have time to fish in my pockets but there was a TIP box there. Be mindful of the buses that you are taking as they have different drop off and pick up spots; Green, Red and Yellow routes. By the way, the parking lot to the Applefest was about 1.5 miles away, so its walkable. Some people were doing just that. Once we arrived we noticed that despite it being 3:20ish, the place was packed. As many other reviewers have said, this is more of a giant street fair and had little to do with apples. There are lots of food and merchant vendors just as you would find in any street fair. There were some companies as well trying to get you to sign up and giving away free balloons etc. Lots of port a potties. Once you reach the park, there is a small carnival area with a few kiddie rides. The rides are ticket based and you will have buy tickets in the front. The park itself had live music playing and had a standard children's playground which was nice. By the time 4 PM rolled around, the place had emptied out a bit. I kept wondering what the place would be like a few hours earlier. Overall it was interesting as most street fairs are. But the insane amount of crowds make it hard to enjoy. If you go, early on or very late are your best bets. I would imagine showing up between 10 AM and 2 PM would be madness.

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    Best festival of the year! People are crazy for not liking this, great food and vendors. Nice to enjoy the outdoors before winter comes too.

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