Festival Information
Bacon Bits
Come Join Us
Join us to celebrate our 12th year in 2023! Our two-day festival boasts delicious food, live music, family-friendly activities, cooking demos, and every sort of bacon treat you can imagine. The festival is held rain or shine the first full weekend of November.
Located in historic Easton, Pennsylvania, PA Bacon Fest has grown into one of the Mid-Atlantic region’s most popular events. Parade.com named it one of the country’s ‘5 Can’t-Miss Bacon Festivals’ and Fest300.com put it on the list of the top 300 festivals in the world! Voted Best Festival by Lehigh Valley Style’s Best of 2022.
Festival Date:
Nov. 4 & 5, 2023 – Easton, PA
10am – 5pm
#PABaconFest
Numbers to Know:
150+
Food & Drink Vendors
35+
Live Musical Acts
2
Days of All Things Bacon!
Our Purpose
The festival is a fundraiser for the 501(c)3 nonprofit Greater Easton Development Partnership. Visitors are asked to contribute a $5 suggested donation at the entrance gates to benefit the following GEDP programs: Easton Public Market, Easton Farmers’ Market, Easton Main Street Initiative, Easton Garden Works, the Easton Ambassadors, West Ward Community Initiative, Easton Compost Program and more! Funds raised through PA Bacon Fest support free events and programming in Easton throughout the year, including; Easton Out Loud, Live at the Falls concerts and many others.
Our History
PA Bacon Fest grew out of a special event hosted by Easton Farmers’ Market — America’s oldest, continuous open-air market, established in 1752. Food vendors who source locally and incorporate organic, all-natural, artisan and pasture-raised products will be given top vending priority in our farm-to-table area.
Points of Pride
- Featured on Thrillist 2023 Delicious Food Festivals
- Voted Best Festival by Lehigh Valley Style’s Best of 2022
- Featured on USA Today’s 10 Best lists (10Best.com, 2019)
- Earned a spot as one of the ‘5 Can’t-Miss Bacon Festivals’ in the country by Parade.com (2018)
- Won Townie Award for best special event in the state by Pennsylvania Downtown Center (2017)
- Voted Best Culinary Event in Lehigh Valley Style magazine’s Best of the Lehigh Valley contest (2016)
- Named one of the top 300 festivals in the world by Fest300.com (2014)
Our Attractions
Bacon chef battles, culinary demos, pig racing, hog calling competitions, mascot dashes, bacon-eating battles, costume contests, non-stop live music, kids’ events and of course fabulous food. Did we mention bacon?!
Our Audience
This family-friendly event has attracted bacon-loving attendees from beyond the confines of the Lehigh Valley, PA. We’ve had visitors from the tristate area, as far north as New England states, as far south as Florida, and as far west as Oregon.
Rules
- No pets or smoking in tented areas, except at designated locations.
- By attending the festival, you consent to be photographed and for your image to be used in such materials.
- No drones (or unmanned aerial vehicles) on or over the festival or surrounding area. It is illegal to fly UAVs / Drones over crowds of people. For more information click here.