Pleasant Hill Harvest Festival – Visitor & Vendor Info
The inaugural Pleasant Hill Harvest Festival is a new community celebration featuring an artisan marketplace, local businesses and restaurants, live entertainment, beer and wine, seasonal décor, family activities, and agricultural-themed attractions throughout Downtown Pleasant Hill. This guide shares event hours, location, vendor application details, and helpful visitor information.
Updated: 2026
Harvest Festival Details
- Date: Saturday, October 10, 2026
- Festival Hours: 12:00 PM–9:00 PM
- Location: Crescent Drive in Downtown Pleasant Hill, California
- Festival Area: Approximately three blocks from the Peet’s Coffee intersection to the stage beneath the Pleasant Hill Arch
- Host: Pleasant Hill Chamber of Commerce
- Arts & Crafts Coordinator: After the Gold Rush
- Event Type: Artisan marketplace, live music, local restaurants, beer and wine, family activities, seasonal attractions, and community performances
- Vendor Applications: Approximately 35 handmade arts, crafts, and pre-packaged food vendor spaces are planned
✨ What to Expect at the Pleasant Hill Harvest Festival
🎨 The Pleasant Hill Harvest Festival will transform Crescent Drive into a community celebration featuring an artisan marketplace, locally owned restaurants, business booths, sponsors, entertainment, seasonal displays, and family activities. Arts and crafts booths will be integrated throughout the festival alongside participating businesses and community attractions.
🎶 Community performances featuring local educational institutions are planned from 12:00 PM–3:00 PM. From 3:00 PM–9:00 PM, the stage beneath the Pleasant Hill Arch will feature three live bands and entertainment geared toward an adult evening audience.
🍷 Beer and wine booths will be located near the center of the festival, with service planned until 8:30 PM. Participating restaurants may offer special festival menus, grab-and-go food, sidewalk ordering, or individual festival booths.
🎃 Seasonal attractions are expected to include a pumpkin patch and decorating competition, petting zoo, rock-climbing wall, face painting, balloon artists, children’s games, hay bales, cornstalks, pumpkins, and harvest-themed displays. Carnival-style rides are not planned.
🥫 The festival is expected to begin with a procession of young children from local preschools, transitional kindergarten programs, and other early childhood programs. Participants will be encouraged to bring canned or non-perishable food donations benefiting the Pleasant Hill food pantry. Vendors may also make optional food donations.
🌾 The event is being created as a new annual Pleasant Hill tradition centered on community, abundance, gratitude, sharing, local businesses, restaurants, artisans, and the area’s agricultural heritage.
FAQs
- Where is the festival? The event will be held along Crescent Drive in Downtown Pleasant Hill, beginning near the Peet’s Coffee intersection and continuing to the stage beneath the Pleasant Hill Arch.
- What are the festival hours? The festival is scheduled from 12:00 PM–9:00 PM.
- Will there be live music? Yes. Community performances are planned from noon to 3:00 PM, followed by three live bands from 3:00 PM–9:00 PM.
- Will there be children’s activities? Yes. Planned activities include a pumpkin patch, pumpkin decorating competition, petting zoo, rock-climbing wall, face painting, balloon artists, and children’s games.
- Will there be carnival rides? No. Carnival-style rides are not planned.
- Can vendors apply? Yes. Applications are open to artists, craftspeople, and qualifying pre-packaged food vendors who make their own products.
