The Hamilton County Parks & Recreation Dept. will transform the typically tranquil Potter’s Bridge Park, 19401 N Allisonville Rd., Noblesville, into a lively festival from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 5.
Guests of the Potter’s Bridge Fall Festival can listen to live music, visit the arts and crafts booths, take their little ones to the kids area and enjoy the natural scenery of Noblesville’s most scenic park on the White River Greenway Trail. Oct. 5 marks the 14th year of the free annual festival.
“It all takes place in the park setting. Local residents know it is a very peaceful and scenic park and the addition of the historic covered bridge is special,” said Resource Development Specialist Don Nicholls of the HCPR Dept. “It attracts a lot of people. Vendors want to setup on the covered bridge.”
Nicholls said the festival will include more than 70 vendors with a wide variety of products, entertainment and food.
“We’re on pace to surpass all years in terms of vender participation,” he said, adding vendors range from chiropractic offices to custom jewelry made out of flatware to furniture. “It’s types of items or merchandise not found in traditional stores. It’s handcrafted with a lot of pride and care.”
In addition to vendors, the festival will include a kids’ zone with a bounce house and good sized playground. Entertainment will be provided by the Poison River Boys, a bluegrass band that performed at last year’s event.
“We had so many compliments about them that we invited them back,” Nicholls said.
A 10 x 10-foot booth space is $30 and Nicholls said the low price provides in-home businesses or entrepreneurial individuals an opportunity to showcase their goods.
“This is the least expensive way to sell arts and crafts for that kind of traffic and exposure,” said Nicholls. “The great variety adds to the popularity.”
Nicholls said vendor applications are still being accepted and will go through the screening process. To learn more or to register, call 770-4400.
