Fort Riley Fall Apple Day Festival

11/14/2025

For the purposes of efficiency and continuity, this page will be archived at the end of November. For information on upcoming annual Fall Apple Day Festivals or other Fort Riley events, please follow Fort Riley and Fort Riley MWR or download the 'My Army Post App' from your mobile app store, and select Fort Riley as your location.

10/14/2025

🍎2025 Fall Apple Day Update 🍎

The 2025 Fall Apple Day Festival, originally scheduled for Saturday, October 18, has been cancelled.

🚨 However, the Apple Dash is still ON and now completely FREE to enter. Prizes will be awarded to the top 3 male and female finishers in the 5-mile route.

‼️This page will be DEACTIVATED at the end of Oct 2025. Be sure to follow Fort Riley and Fort Riley MWR for information about future Fall Apple Day Festivals.

10/01/2025

Due to a lapse in federal funding, employees are on furlough. Thus, we are unable to monitor or respond to comments or messages until the furlough has ended. If you have questions regarding the 2025 Fort Riley Fall Apple Day Festival, please contact the Fort Riley MWR page.

09/23/2025

What are you most excited to see or do at Fort Riley's Fall Apple Day Festival 2025?

09/22/2025

Please be aware of scammmers claiming there are vendor spots available for the Fort Riley Fall Apple Day Festival. Unless it is Fort Riley, Fort Riley MWR or the Fort Riley Fall Apple Day Festival page, it is a scam. A personal profile will NEVER be used to post in the comments or contact you directly regarding anything related to vendors. If you have questions, please message this page or one of the others listed.

04/15/2025

The previously announced date of September 20, has been changed. Fall Apple Day 2025 will be on Saturday, October 18.

10/03/2024

AJ Shaw from Manhattan Broadcasting’s 1350 KMAN got in on the apple pie making tradition today with the Fort Riley Garrison command team and Apple Pie Queens. He even autographed his neatly wrapped pie before putting it in the freezer where it will be baked, sliced and sold this Saturday.

10/02/2024

The Fort Riley Garrison Command team joined volunteers with Friends of the Fort Riley Museums and the Apple Pie Queens for a Fort Riley tradition: making apple pies! If you want to see these two participate in another tradition, join us Saturday at 1pm on Artillery Parade Field where they will go head to head in an apple pie eating contest. Who will win? We can’t wait to see!

10/01/2024

Who is ready for some Fort Riley Fall Apple Day history?

the very first Fall Apple Day was called Apple Days? The event was established as an open house for the Custer House to ‘give people an idea of what it was like to have lived in the frontier Army days’. It was held on Sunday, October 19, 1986 and included tours of the Custer House with live demonstrations of quilt sewing, gardening, wood chopping, bread making, wheat weaving and apple crushing. 19 volunteers started it all.

*Fort Riley Post, October 24, 1986 issue

09/30/2024

Fort Riley Fall Apple Day Festival 2024 is THIS SATURDAY!! Check out the timeline for events and demonstrations. What are you looking forward to seeing most?

09/24/2024

Want to be a part of Fall Apple Day Festival history? Sign up to help make the famous apple pie using Libbie Custer's secret recipe.

Volunteers Needed!! Come on by and help us create the famous Libby Custer Pie that will be served and sold on Apple Day October 5th! Whether you sign up by yourself, bring some friends, or as a unit, it will surely be a great and memorable time. Sign up shifts are as little as 2 hours! Sign up for one or multiple!!! Every shift counts towards the total goal of making 300 pies.

Sign up genius includes Apple Pie creation Sept 30th through October 4th and Apple Pie serving on October 5th. All volunteers must complete the food handlers course listed in the sign up instructions.

On behalf of your Pie Queens, we thank you for your support!

Attached is the sign up genius:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A4CABAB2DA0FDC43-51072761-libby #/

Thank you,
Jasminn Harcus and Cheryl Sims
2024 Apple Day Pie Queens