2023 OktoberFest

WHEN: Sunday, Oct. 1, 10am-4pm
WHERE: Champaign County Historical Society Museum (809 E. Lawn Ave. Urbana, Ohio)
Admission is $3.00 per person, cash only at the gates.

Celebrating our 51st Year, the Oktoberfest promises a day of fun for the entire family! The museum will be open to explore and the grounds will be full of crafters and artists selling hand thrown pottery, candles, wreaths, holiday décor, pumpkins, woodcrafts, handcrafted soaps made with natural and organic oils, handmade quilts, jewelry and lots more! There will be children’s activities and decorated pumpkins to buy!

Returning is Schmidt’s Restaurant from German Village, Columbus. They will offer Bahama Mammas, knockwurst, German bologna, German potato salad, kraut, sweet red cabbage, pork or chicken brats and their famous jumbo cream puffs! If you have not had one, you do not know what you are missing! Heavenly!

CLICK HERE to view Schmidt's site, menu and PREORDER FOOD for pick-up at OktoberFest.

Returning, also, is Poppy’s Smokehouse Food Truck with their barbeque ribs and pulled pork and pulled chicken. Layla’s Sweet Treats will once again offer premium hand-dipped ice cream in cups, waffle cones, milkshakes and sundaes!! 
They will also offer pizza this year!
    
Carter’s Chimney Cakes were a big hit last year and we are excited they will be returning.  A chimney cake is a traditional Hungarian dessert or Eastern European street food. It is simply a sweet dough wrapped around a spit cooked over a rotisserie grill, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. Delicious toppings are then added such as Oreos, cinnamon sugar, coconut and sprinkles. When stood up straight, the hot steam comes out from the top of the cake looking like a chimney. They can be made traditional cake style or as a cone filled with goodness. This is a traditional Oktoberfest food and one we are excited to offer our guests! They sold out last year – get there early!
   
We welcome New Orleans Bourbon Chicken, the Spotted Cow Coffee Truck, Cate’s Steakhouse, and Orale Tacos y Mas.  They will provide lots of food choices  - something for everyone!
   
A local favorite, Farmer’s Daughter will be offering their homemade specials and various vendors will be offering cookies, French macarons, breads, kettle corn, rope candy, brownies and other delights!
  
No Oktoberfest is complete without beer – and we will have a beer trailer offering a variety of your favorites!
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Delicious food, live entertainment, and an admission price of only $3.00 – what could be better? Mark your calendar and don’t miss this day of fun for the whole family!

Oktoberfest is the largest fundraiser for the Historical Society and the proceeds fund over half of each year's operating budget.

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2023 OktoberFest Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Lantz Sales
Orbis Corporation
VFW

Silver Sponsors

Drs. Bauer & Beck, DDS
The Medicine Shoppe
W Productions

Bronze Sponsors

Cafe Paradiso
Champaign County Visitor Bureau
Civista Bank
CT COMM
Dick Virts
Erin Patton Insurance
The Berry Patch - Klinger Farms
Tim Cassady
Urbana/Darby Dental Smiles
Vince and Sandy Gonzalez