Beaver Oktoberfest - Beaver, Ohio

The Beaver Oktoberfest is a town festival that offers rides, games, all sorts of entertainment, a nice selection of food and a variety of vendors.

2024 DATE: TBD
Location: Downtown Beaver
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This post documents my experience on October 6, 2023.

Festival Introduction

A year or two before I started really going to festivals (maybe 2008?), I came across the Beaver Oktoberfest by chance. I was exploring various communities in Southern Ohio when I came through Beaver and was detoured around the festival.

At the time, I wasn’t sure what the festival was but, through my festival research and travels, learned that it was the Oktoberfest and vowed to return one day.

Many years later, this was that day…or night.

The sun set shortly before I arrived.

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Festival Structure

The Beaver Oktoberfest is a community festival that takes place downtown.

While the name suggests that it is Germanic in nature, I didn’t notice anything German about it. No German music, food, decor or lederhosen.

Instead, it’s a solid fall festival that runs along Main Street with kids rides and games on one end of the festival and a large music stage on the other. There’s a nicely sized craft tent, more vendors spread along the Main Street and a ton of food vendors.

Let’s talk about each of those things below.

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