2025
2nd Yukon Gold Potato Festival located in downtown Elizabeth City!
May 09 - 11, 2025

Friday - 5 pm to 11 pm  •  Saturday - 10 am to 11 pm  •  Sunday 10 am to 6 pm


Bring the whole family and make a weekend of it!

Come and Stay All THREE DAYS!


Join us for the YG Potato Festival Opening Ceremony on Friday evening at 5:30 pm in Mariners' Wharf Park.
The Beer & Wine Garden will be open from 5 pm - 11 pm. (Bring ID).
Take a spin on a ride in the Midway, do a little shopping with our vendors, grab something great to eat, and enjoy live music on the main stage at the 2025 Yukon Gold Potato Festival!

Return on Saturday and Sunday to enjoy the Street Fair lining our downtown streets, the National Potato Peeling Contest, Free French Fries (while they last), Auto and Motorcycle Show, 5K Run/1M Walk, and
many other events. Don't leave too early or you might miss the USCG Search and Rescue
demonstration over the Pasquotank River Sunday afternoon!

*event times subject to change*

For the safety of your pet NO ANIMALS are allowed within the festival area, with the exception of service animals as identified by the ADA.

NO DRONES allowed over Festival area. 

The Yukon Gold Potato Festival is a fun-filled, family festival that celebrates one of the largest crops, the Potato.
The festival is FREE to the public of all ages.


Enjoy a midway with spudtacular rides and games, a street fair with a variety of vendors and delicious food, live music on the main stage, potato-oriented activities, a farm and tractor show, a cornhole tournament, an auto and bike show, free french fries, and bushels of FUN for the whole family!

Are you a volunteer? Participant? Company representative?Leave an application form, our managers will contact you!

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