Crafts, Music, Food, Petting Zoo, Pony Rides and Personal Trains?
The Sugar Loaf Spring Festival

Crafts, Music, Food, Petting Zoo, Pony Rides and Personal Trains? Where else but Sugar Loaf will you get such an eclectic mix of family activities? This year the Sugar Loaf Chamber of Commerce is returning to its roots and has re-established the historic hamlet’s Spring Festival. May 21st and 22nd will have the main street (Kings Highway) closed to thru traffic as over 60 food and craft vendors, resident artisans and musicians welcome the warmer weather.

The Sugar Loaf Spring Festival is a Free event and a wonderful day trip for the entire family. Kings Highway will be closed to thru traffic 7am to 7pm from Pine Hill Road to the Lycian Theater.



Date: May 21st -22nd 2011 (Rain or Shine)
Time: 10:00am – 6:00pm
Place: Sugar Loaf, NYGPS
Address: 1371 Kings Highway
Chester, New York 10918
Trains: Arrive Noon on May 21st and will stay through 2pm
Info: sugarloafnewyork@gmail.com or call 845-469-9181
Sponsor: Sugar Loaf Chamber of Commerce
Parking: Designated Free and Donation Area Parking, Handicap Parking Available

Bertoni’s Sculpture Garden Music Concert
2011 1st Annual Spring Fest Line Up
Saturday May 21, 2011
12-1:40pm: Evan Teatum and Lesley (Acoustic Rock)
2-3:40pm: Cynthia Summers (Folk Rock Contemporary)
4-6pm: Little Sparrow (Bluegrass, Roots, Rock)

Sunday May 22, 2011
12-1:40pm: Small Town Shieks (Acoustic Roots/Blues)
2-3:40pm: Michael Purcell Band (Jazz Fusion)
4-6pm: Mighty Girl (Rock)


Vendors: Chainsaw Carving, Eclectic Clothing, Oil Painting, Jewelry, Watercolor, Native American Indian Art, Woodcarvers, Candles, Soap Makers, Leather, Quilts, Furniture, Photography, Pottery, Flowers and Food.

Vendor Applications:

food vendor application
non-food vendor application
Please send all festival related email inquiries to info@mdancer.com


As an added feature this year’s festival will have as many as 30 personal trains arriving on the East Penn Railroad tracks on May 21st at 12PM and staying in Sugar Loaf through 2:00PM. These personal train enthusiasts known as rail speeders refurbish track inspector cars (speeders) and travel the rails to events exhibiting their hobby. The rail cars will be in town for about two hours enjoying the festivities and permitting interested festival goers to view their cars.
Once track inspector rail cars, speeders would go out with a crew to maintain the tracks. The cars were built to carry from two to as much as a dozen people. Enthusiasts restored and rebuilt these to use on the rails today, as festival goers will see on May 21st.
Speeders groups are able to use railroad tracks through arrangements with the track owner. The time on the tracks is leased by the club. The route to Sugar Loaf for the festival will begin in Sparta, NJ on the NYSW (New York Susquehanna and Western), through Pelton where it joins with what is now the East Penn Railroad, and on to Sugarloaf and beyond.



For additional rail speeders media interviews and information call Craig Hartman at 973-838-3628 or email at hartindinc@aol.com
Additional websites www.railspeeders.com or www.narcoa.org
Rail speeder video