{"id":231340,"date":"2025-09-02T15:03:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=231340"},"modified":"2025-09-02T15:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:04:01","slug":"cantons-riverfest-is-back-after-weather-wipeout-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=231340","title":{"rendered":"Canton&#8217;s Riverfest is Back After Weather Wipeout Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After last year&#8217;s weather-forced cancellation left thousands disappointed, Canton&#8217;s massive Riverfest is making its comeback at Etowah River Park this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two-day festival typically draws 25,000 people to shop from 150+ artists, eat from food trucks, and let kids loose on bouncy houses and mini train rides. Every dollar raised goes directly to Cherokee County kids in need through the Service League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-you-need-to-know\">What You Need to Know<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> Saturday, Sept. 27 (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.) and Sunday, Sept. 28 (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> Etowah River Park in Canton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What to expect:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Artists and crafters from across the Southeast<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Local food trucks and festival snacks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kids zone with petting zoo and games<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tailgating area with live football broadcasts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Live entertainment throughout the weekend<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-why-people-keep-coming-back\">Why People Keep Coming Back<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For over 40 years, Riverfest has been the go-to fall weekend in Cherokee County. It&#8217;s basically an outdoor mall meets food festival meets family carnival \u2014 all while supporting local kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=43]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After last year&#8217;s weather-forced cancellation left thousands disappointed, Canton&#8217;s massive Riverfest is making its comeback at Etowah River Park this month. The two-day festival typically draws 25,000 people to shop from 150+ artists, eat from food trucks, and let kids loose on bouncy houses and mini train rides. Every dollar raised goes directly to Cherokee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":231341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3391],"tags":[19087],"class_list":["post-231340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-riverfest","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}