Cedarburg Strawberry Festival

Fun times were had at this year's Strawberry Fest! We try our best to come each summer, and having missed it last year, we were excited to return. Make no mistake, this place is PACKED. Like jam packed. With tons of people yes, but also so many wonderful vendors, small businesses, pockets of live music, and more. The main strip has to span a mile long and there is plenty to enjoy along the way. We generally don't even try to park close, and instead a neighborhood or two away. There are paved sidewalks winding through so it's a nice walk.This year, there was a new addition to the fest that we were immensely appreciative of. The park adjacent the strip (aka all the main action) offered a full set up, that catered mostly to families and kids. Incredible and much needed! We came to the festival with a few other families, and while we would have loved to spend time shopping all the vendors like we used to, it's so tough to do that crowd with strollers and small humans would want to run around. So consider this a THANK YOU! The new park add-on was such a blast. They had a wonderful band playing on stage in the pavilion, plenty of food and drink trucks, face painting, a little train tractor kids can ride on, a bouncey house, a playground, so much grass space to run/picnic/park your strollers, and more! It was great to still feel part of the festival here. All of us - especially the kiddos - really enjoyed the day! Can't wait to return next year and support all of the great small businesses that make this festival happen.

Our second year back & we had even more fun than last year! We tried SO much this year since I brought a group of friends. We got strawberry cream cheese wontons, strawberry milk tea with strawberry heart jellies & strawberry popping boba, strawberry lemonade sangria, strawberry mule, chocolate covered strawberry, strawberry tropical lemonade, strawberry n cream popsicle, the strawberry shortcake, & strawberry affogato. That's just the strawberry stuff! We also tried the chicken egg rolls & smoked bacon fried rice from New Fortune Asian Cuisine. The fried rice was SUPER good!! We had a lot of fun checking everything out & getting our steps in while indulging in strawberry treats. It was a really hot day but the wind was blowing & clouds were out which helped a lot. We'll be back again next year!

We went to the strawberry festival right away when they opened on Saturday, it started off raining pretty bad but that didn't stop everyone from coming out and having a good time. This is a HUGE festival, you could easily spend a few hours walking around here. There are so many adorable vendors and lots of fun delicious strawberry flavored food. Along with all of that there is live music, Ukrainian dance lessons, face painting and soo much more to do and see. This was my first time ever coming to this festival and definitely won't be my last. We had a great time!!!! Such a fun summertime activity!

This is my all time favorite festival. We've been at least 4 years now and every time it's just as great. My absolute favorite is scratch kitchen's almond tea and strawberry salsa with cinnamon chips. And I always get some combination of strawberries and chocolate from Amy's candy kitchen. We spend the rest of the time looking at all the awesome artists and vendors. They have grown the park area outside the fest in recent years too where we've sat and enjoyed live music. I literally can't think of a single thing to improve.

I enjoy attending the strawberry fest! This year we opted to pay for parking in a lot which made it more smooth getting in and getting out. We arrived maybe 20 minutes after it opened on Saturday and it was already super crowded. For a long while it felt like all the strawberry stuff there was to offer was alcoholic drinks. There are always a lot of vendors selling things but 9 times out of 10 I'm at a festival looking for food- so it would've been nice if they had some food vendors closer to the front. Even so, always a nice time to get out and be in the sun. I like getting strawberry cake, Carmel apples from Amy's and flavored licorice from the licorice guy.

We've always wanted to go but made it a point to today. It's spread out over several streets Intersecting Washington Ave. Parking was pretty hard to come by even though we were there shortly after 10. We broke down and paid $10 for parking. It was more of an arts and craft event with a few clothing vendors and jewelry. There really wasn't a whole lot strawberry considering this is what the fest is about. We had the strawberry brat and corn dog. The brat was good but the corn dog greasy. We had to have corn and strawberry lemonade. My daughter bought strawberry wine, beer, and jelly. My regret is we didn't get the crawfish boil. It looked awesome! It was a nice event but I don't know if we'd take off work again to go.

It would be great if the event spanned two weekends, similar to Summerfest. Currently, with only two days, it leads to overcrowding on either Saturday or Sunday, making it difficult to move around. We literally couldn't walk anywhere without being squeezed into crowds of people. Many vendors run out of food quickly, and some stands selling strawberry lemonade use store-bought jugs, which are visible behind them. You would expect fresh, hand-squeezed lemonade at a Strawberry Fest.

Over priced, crowded miserable place. Not what this was years ago, just like Summerfield, over price, not fun, never go near it anymore, it's not for locals anymore. Gotta love the dogs and massive kid wagons and strollers, no thanks

Way too crowded. Many, many very obese people, big wagons with miserable, hot kids in them, strollers..... If you want to walk around, you'll be like a cow in a herd ... shuffling along. I wonder how much money Cedarburg actually makes from this mess. A lot of mediocre food, way overpriced for the Fest and low level crafts. Over the years, I've seen the quality vendors stop coming. This crowd is not their demographic. A lot of overpriced, supposedly, but hardly, alcoholic beverages; better to stick with beer. Used to be fun, but now it's just gross. Sad, because there is some great entertainment. You're much better off visiting Cedarburg on a non-festival day.

We could not find a convenient place to park and had to skip the great band presentation and unique food.