2008 Apple Festival at Graves Mountain Lodge this weekend

It's apple season in the mountains of Virginia and nowhere is that celebrated more than at the Graves Mountain Apple Harvest Festival. For the 39th year, this popular October event will offer apples, music, food, and the stunning colors of fall leaves.

This year's festival will run October 11-12, 2008, and October 18-19, 2008, rain or shine.

Entertainment will feature bluegrass music, cloggers, arts and crafts, hayrides, and horseback rides.

Pick your own Red and Golden Delicious, Stayman, York, Winesap, Mutsu Fuji, Granny Smith and Empire apples in the Graves family's orchards, or buy them bagged and ready to go. The old way of making apple butter can be experienced with kettles over an open fire.

Lunch is served in the festival area and reservations are not required. Home cooked meals will be served in the covered picnic pavilion each Saturday and Sunday from 11:30 am- 4:30 pm or as long as the food stores hold out! The menu is Brunswick Stew, Cornbread, Applebutter, Applesauce and Apple cider. Hamburgers, hotdogs and fries are also available

Meals at the lodge:
At the main lodge lunch is served from 12:00 pm- 1:30 pm, dinner from 6:00 pm-7:30 pm. Reservations are required and seating is limited. Please call 540-923-4231 for reservations.

Gift Shop located in at the main lodge offers clothing, gift items, preserves, toys, jewelry, and country gifts.

Free Admission/Free Parking

Graves’ Mountain Lodge Inc.
205 Graves' Mountain Lane
Route 670Syria, Virginia 22743
540-923-4231/ Fax 540-923-4312

Apple Festival at Graves Mountain Lodge

It's apple season in the mountains of Virginia and nowhere is that celebrated more than at the Graves Mountain Apple Harvest Festival. For the 39th year, this popular October event will offer apples, music, food, and the stunning colors of fall leaves.

This year's festival will run October 11-12, 2008, and October 18-19, 2008, rain or shine. Entertainment will feature bluegrass music, cloggers, arts and crafts, hayrides, and horseback rides.

Pick your own Red and Golden Delicious, Stayman, York, Winesap, Mutsu Fuji, Granny Smith and Empire apples in the Graves family's orchards, or buy them bagged and ready to go. The old way of making apple butter can be experienced with kettles over an open fire.

Lunch is served in the festival area and reservations are not required. Home cooked meals will be served in the covered picnic pavilion each Saturday and Sunday from 11:30 am- 4:30 pm or as long as the food stores hold out! The menu is Brunswick Stew, Cornbread, Applebutter, Applesauce and Apple cider. Hamburgers, hotdogs and fries are also available

Meals at the lodge:
At the main lodge lunch is served from 12:00 pm- 1:30 pm, dinner from 6:00 pm-7:30 pm. Reservations are required and seating is limited. Please call 540-923-4231 for reservations.

Gift Shop located in at the main lodge offers clothing, gift items, preserves, toys, jewelry, and country gifts.

Free Admission/Free Parking

Graves’ Mountain Lodge Inc.
205 Graves' Mountain Lane
Route 670
Syria, Virginia 22743
540-923-4231/ Fax 540-923-4312

Graves' Mountain "Apple Harvest Festival" in the Blue Ridge

A 38-year tradition, Graves Mountain Lodge in Syria (north of Charlottesville) celebrates autumn with their annual "Apple Harvest Festival" held this weekend Oct. 13-14 and next weekend, Oct. 20-21. Nestled at the eastern base of the Blue Ridge Mountains, it offers a wonderful taste of fall in a festive atmosphere.

Watch apple butter and Brunswick stew as it is cooked in kettles over an open fire. Food, entertainment, cloggers, arts and crafts, hay maze, hay mountain, hayrides, horseback rides, pick your own apples, apple products, and an educational farm are all part of the fun that is Graves Mountain Lodge.

I was introduced to Graves Mountain years ago by a friend from Richmond whose family had spent every summer vacationing at the lodge, horseback riding, eating the scruptious country cooking ... and she relayed many happy childhood memories of that special place. It was run by the Graves family and was a small operation in those days but has since grown to a much larger business reflecting the popularity they have enjoyed over the years.

Apple Harvest at Graves' Mountain Lodge ... you will come away amazed.

Graves Mountain Lodge
Rt. 670
Syria, VA 22743
Festival runs 10 am-4:30 pm