Four Flag Apple Festival kicks off today

NILES, Mich. -- The 52nd annual Four Flag Festival kicks off today and for the next four days they are bringing carnival fun and all things apple for the community to enjoy.

Every guest will receive one free apple upon entry and at this year’s festival they will have a variety of fair rides, games, entertainment and nightly attractions to enjoy.

The festival will bring the city of Four Flags together from Sept. 26 through Sept. 29 at 1740 Lake St. Niles, MI 49120.

The attendees aren’t the only ones excited for this year’s festival Four Flags apple festival staff, Jenna Vander Velden tells us what’s new at the festival this year.

“We're so excited today to get started, one of the new exciting things we have this year is the apple tent. It used to be a tent now it's a building and you can get all your apple goodies in there like apple pie, apple doughnuts, apple festival and all kind of good things.” said Velden.

Be sure to stop by the apple building to preview the “Biggest Apple Contest” where local orchards will enter and compete for the $100 grand prize.

For festival attendees to enjoy the fair rides the wristbands will be $30 dollars and to park in the festival parking lot they will be taking $5 donations that they will invest into next year’s festival.

If you want to learn about the upcoming events, they have planned this weekend you can visit their website.