08/08/2026
🍎 BIG NEWS: APPLE BUTTER IS OFFICIALLY OFF AND RUNNING!
We’ve been keeping something under our hats (running shoes?) for a little while now, and we are SO excited to finally tell you about a brand-new addition to Apple Butter weekend. On Sunday, October 11, we’re kicking off the final day of the 51st Annual Apple Butter Festival with our FIRST EVER Apple Butter Festival Trail 5K at beautiful Cacapon Resort State Park!
The course will take runners through Cacapon’s gorgeous wooded trails, with rolling terrain, gentle hills, mountain scenery and, if Mother Nature cooperates, some pretty spectacular fall color. And yes, it’s a real race! We’re partnering with New River Timing Co. for professional timing, every finisher will receive a medal, and registration is $35 per runner. Race-day check-in begins at 7:00 AM, with runners hitting the trail at 8:00 AM.
That gives everyone plenty of time to finish the race and head downtown before the Apple Butter Festival opens at 10:00 AM. And after running 3.1 miles through the woods, you’ve absolutely earned whatever you decide to eat when you get there. Of course, we also believe you’ve earned it if you came out to cheer for the runners. Or watched them from a comfortable distance. Or thought briefly about running and then decided against it. Really, we’re not here to police your Apple Butter Festival food choices. 😉
Registration is OPEN NOW! Head over to our Apple Butter Festival Trail 5K Facebook Event for all the details and the link to sign up. We are ridiculously excited to add something completely new to Apple Butter weekend, and we cannot wait to see that very first runners take off from the starting line!
And before anyone asks about our suspiciously athletic new spokesapples...
No, we cannot confirm or deny that they’re juicing. 🍎😂
(Nope. Not even a little bit sorry for that one.)
Start Sunday on the trail. Finish it at Apple Butter.