The Zellwood Sweetcorn Festival has gone the way of the dodo. However Mount Dora held its inaugural sweet corn festival starting in 2024, featuring Zellwood Sweet Corn.
The Mount Dora Corn Festival happens in Elizabeth Evans Park, 100 North Donnelly Street, Mount Dora Florida. The dates will be sometime in May 2025. Blankets and chairs are encouraged and service dogs are welcome. Children 3 and under are free. The festival books country singers to perform on the outdoor stage.
Festival activities include…
- Admission to BOTH days of the festival
- Corn shucking contest
- Corn on the cob eating contest (All you can eat and hot corn.
- Battle of the businesses corn bread cook-off
- Corn hole
- Signature corn food vendors
- Kids area
- Crowning of the corn King and Queen
- Hay ride
- Petting zoo (Saturday 3-6pm)
- Fireworks (Saturday at 9pm)
- Free shuttle parking (Saturday Only)