EVENTS

Harvest Festival
Saturday, September 23, 2023 | Details TBA

Free Family Fun!
Celebrate the turn of seasons with dance, music, storytelling, art-making, pumpkin picking, and harvest-related foods.

This year with COVID not yet behind us, we will still be focusing on safer outdoor activities. Masks and social distancing always strongly encouraged.

  • Apples grown from the Palmer Park Orchard
  • Pumpkin Patch for picking (free pumpkins for the first 300) and decorating
  • Free Donuts & Cider
  • Free Corn on the Cob Roast
  • Hayrides
  • Petting Zoo and Pony rides
  • Games, Arts & Crafts
  • Music with the Acropolis Reed Quintet featuring Marsha Music (link to ensemble: akropolisquintet.org
  • Huron Clinton Metropark Mobile Learning Center will provide hands-on fun with furs, feathers, skulls, skeletons, artifacts where you can also meet and pet snakes and other live animals
  • Author Barbara Allen, a sixth-generation descendent of abolitionist and suffragist Sojourner Truth, will read from her new children’s book, “Remembering Great Grandma”
  • Here's the Scoop Ice Cream Truck
  • and much more to come!
More than a century ago, Senator Thomas Palmer and his wife Lizzie Merrill Palmer would often invite guests to enjoy their Log Cabin Farm, drink freshly pressed apple cider, and enjoy the harvest. Palmer donated the land in the late 1800s to the city of Detroit to serve as a park "for the good of everyone."

In honor of the harvest and in celebration of the Palmer legacy, the park will be filled with autumn festivities and free family fun.  

This will be a fun-filled opportunity for all ages to discover how our food is grown, the lives of wild animals, and nature in the park.

Sponsors: Presented by People for Palmer Park with the support of the City of Detroit Parks & Rec Department and the City of Detroit General Services. ​

The event takes place near the Palmer Park Splash Park and playground, on Merrill Plaisance near Pontchartrain, between McNichols and Seven Mile Roads, west of Woodward Avenue. Parking is available at the Splash Park parking lot.
MORE EVENTS:


LOG CABIN DAY


WINTERFEST


HARVEST FESTIVAL


PALMER PARK ART FAIR