2025 Pawpaw Festival in Powhatan State Park
Sat, Sep 20
|Powhatan State Park
Third annual festival in central Virginia
Time & Location
Sep 20, 2025, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Powhatan State Park, 4616 Powhatan State Park Rd, Powhatan, VA 23139, USA
About the event
Central Virginia’s 3rd Annual Pawpaw Festival - the region’s most exciting new event. The festival will showcase local vendors offering delicious food, refreshing brews, unique crafts and adorable critters. Attendees can enjoy acoustic music performances, ranger-led programs and animal encounters throughout the day. Special event parking and admission will be $20 per vehicle, while annual pass holders will only need to pay $10 per vehicle.
You may be wondering, what is a pawpaw? This tropical-tasting fruit has a custardy texture and is the largest native fruit in our nation. In Virginia, pawpaw trees thrive in the forested bottomlands and floodplains of the Piedmont region, which is why they're found at Powhatan State Park. Many species of wildlife enjoy pawpaw fruits, which were a staple in the diets of woolly mammoths and giant sloths. Humans also love pawpaws - indigenous peoples have cultivated them, and they were popular among colonists.
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