Pennsylvania's 2026 event data tags ten fairs and festivals as craft or artisan events, running from the last week of February through mid-October. The list spans a flower show, a maple sugar festival, a university open house, several arts festivals, a Renaissance faire, and two food festivals that also carry a craft or artisan tag. No town in the data hosts more than one of these ten, so building a full-season itinerary means covering a wide stretch of the state.
This guide uses the same event data published behind the listings on this site: exact dates, counties, and whatever admission information each entry carries. Nine of the ten events do not publish a price at all. Four pairs share at least one date with another event on this list, which matters if you are trying to catch more than one. Below is the season broken down by month, the multi-weekend events worth planning around, the pricing picture, and the specific date overlaps.
How the 2026 season breaks down by month
The craft and artisan season opens with the PHS Philadelphia Flower Show, which runs February 28 through March 8, 2026, in Philadelphia. There is a long gap before the next event: the Pennsylvania Maple Festival in Meyersdale, Somerset County, which runs April 18 through 26. The same week, Delaware Valley University A-Day runs April 24 through 26 in Doylestown, Bucks County.
June holds one event, June Fete Fair in Huntingdon Valley, Montgomery County, June 5 through 7. July is the busiest single month for craft and artisan events, with three running: Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival in Latrobe, July 2 through 5, Bark Peelers' Festival in Ulysses, Potter County, July 4 through 5, and Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts in State College, July 8 through 12.
August through October belongs to two long-running events. The Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire in Manheim, Lancaster County, opens August 15 and runs Saturdays and Sundays through October 25, with gates listed from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Inside that window, The Mushroom Festival runs a single weekend in Kennett Square, Chester County, September 12 through 13, and the National Apple Harvest Festival in Arendtsville, Adams County, runs two separate weekends: October 3 through 4 and October 10 through 11.
Multi-weekend events to plan around
Three events on this list do not run as one continuous stretch. The Pennsylvania Maple Festival runs in two blocks, April 18 through 19 and then April 22 through 26, with a gap between them. The Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire runs every Saturday and Sunday from August 15 through October 25, eleven weekends in a row, rather than as one continuous run. The National Apple Harvest Festival runs two separate weekends, October 3 through 4 and October 10 through 11, with the week between them off.
That structure changes how you plan. Because the Renaissance Faire repeats for eleven straight weekends, it is not a one-shot date the way the other nine events are. You can choose which of its weekends to attend, including working around one of the overlaps below.
Which events publish a price and which do not
Of the ten craft and artisan events, none are confirmed free to enter, and only one publishes an admission price in the data: Bark Peelers' Festival in Ulysses lists $12 for adult admission. The other nine, from the Flower Show in February to the Apple Harvest Festival in October, show no admission price in the data behind this page. That does not mean free, it means unpublished. Confirm the actual cost directly with each event before you plan around it.
Same-weekend overlaps to plan around
Four pairs of craft and artisan events share at least one date in 2026. The Pennsylvania Maple Festival in Meyersdale, Somerset County, overlaps Delaware Valley University A-Day in Doylestown, Bucks County, April 24 through 26. Those two towns sit at opposite ends of the state: Somerset County is in the far southwest, near the Maryland line, and Bucks County is in the far southeast, near Philadelphia. This is not a same-day, two-event trip.
Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival in Latrobe overlaps Bark Peelers' Festival in Ulysses, July 4 through 5. Latrobe sits in the southwestern corner near Pittsburgh, Ulysses is up in Potter County near the New York border, a different direction and distance than the Maple Festival and A-Day clash above.
The other two overlaps both involve the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire, because it runs every weekend from mid-August to late October. Its Manheim, Lancaster County dates line up with the Mushroom Festival weekend in Kennett Square, Chester County, September 12 through 13, and with both weekends of the National Apple Harvest Festival in Arendtsville, Adams County, October 3 through 4 and October 10 through 11. Manheim and Kennett Square are both in southeastern Pennsylvania, and because the Renaissance Faire repeats for eleven weekends, it does not force the same either-or choice as the two clashes above. You can pick a different Renaissance Faire weekend and still catch the other event.
Where the season is concentrated by region
No town in the data hosts more than one craft or artisan event, and the ten events land in ten different counties: Philadelphia, Somerset, Bucks, Montgomery, Westmoreland, Potter, Centre, Lancaster, Chester, and Adams. Four of those, Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery, and Chester, sit in the southeastern corner of the state. The rest run from the Laurel Highlands, Westmoreland and Somerset, up to the New York border in Potter County, and across central Pennsylvania in Centre, Lancaster, and Adams counties. Covering the full list means covering most of the state, not one region.
Treat this list as a planning reference, not a guarantee. Confirm hours, ticket prices, and any last-minute date changes directly with each event before you travel. The admission information above reflects what is published in the underlying event data, not a promise that entry is free where no price is listed.
