Celebrate the Best of Sterling
Join us October 7, 2023 • 11am-5pm
SterlingFest is held at the Sterling Community Center,
located at 120 Enterprise St.
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Come enjoy tons of exciting vendor booths, a wide variety of family activities, check out our Beer Garden featuring craft beers from local breweries, and Crafter’s Alley, home to a host of local crafters and artisans selling their unique creations.
Every October, The Sterling Foundation throws a massive block party, celebrating the best of our hometown! Bring the whole family, explore booths offering the best of local businesses and artisans. Sample fine food from a wide variety of local restaurants. While the kids enjoy games, obstacle courses, and crafts, parents can sit down in the Beer Garden for a pint of locally brewed beer or a lovely glass of Virginia’s finest wine.
SterlingFest takes over multiple streets surrounding the Sterling Community Center at 120 Enterprise Street, turning it into one giant party celebrating the best that Sterling has to offer. Get to know your neighbors, learn about local businesses, buy unique gifts from local artists, and have a great time! Best of all, the entire event helps raise funds to benefit The Sterling Foundation, ensuring we can continue our work to strengthen and beautify our hometown.
Enjoy the best of Sterling at SterlingFest!
Every October, The Sterling Foundation throws a massive block party, celebrating the best of our hometown! Bring the whole family, explore booths offering the best of local businesses and artisans. Sample fine food from a wide variety of local restaurants. While the kids enjoy games, obstacle courses, and crafts, parents can sit down in the Beer Garden for a pint of locally brewed beer or a lovely glass of Virginia’s finest wine.
SterlingFest takes over multiple streets surrounding the Sterling Community Center at 120 Enterprise Street, turning it into one giant party celebrating the best that Sterling has to offer. Get to know your neighbors, learn about local businesses, buy unique gifts from local artists, and have a great time! Best of all, the entire event helps raise funds to benefit The Sterling Foundation, ensuring we can continue our work to strengthen and beautify our hometown.
Get Involved in SterlingFest
Be a Sponsor
Our 100% tax-deductible Sponsorship Packages provide you & your business with an excellent platform to increase your brand awareness, create positive lasting impressions with your community, and make a big difference in Sterling. It’s a win-win-win!
Be a Vendor
Be the star of SterlingFest! Our festival celebrates the best of Sterling, which means we can’t celebrate without YOU. Take charge of this unique opportunity to introduce your business, organization, or artistic creations directly to local clientele.
Be a Volunteer
SterlingFest is planned, prepared, and hosted by an entirely volunteer staff. There are volunteer opportunities to suit every individual’s unique interests, skills, and abilities. We hope you’ll contribute your talents to ensure this year’s SterlingFest is the best one yet!
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Important Info
Directions
IF YOU ARRIVE IN THE MORNING:
From Rt 28: Take Rt 28 North past Dulles Airport to the Sterling Blvd/VA-846 East exit. Continue on Sterling Blvd for 1.2miles, then turn right onto E Maple Ave, and left onto Enterprise St. Please park in one of the nearby shopping center parking areas.
From Herndon Parkway From Herndon Parkway, turn North onto Crestview Drive. Crestview Drive shortly becomes Lincoln Ave. Turn Left onto E Maple Ave. When that road ends, turn Left. Shortly, after passing Food Lion, turn Right onto Enterprise St. Please park in one of the nearby shopping center parking areas.
From Rt 7: Take Route 7/Leesburg Pike to Dranesville Rd. Turn onto Dranesville, then turn right onto Sugarland Rd. Take a left onto Church Rd, follow it around the curves, then turn left onto Lincoln Rd, into the neighborhood. Take the 2nd right onto N Fillmore Ave. It will end at E Holly, then turn left. Turn right onto Enterprise St. Please park in one of the nearby shopping center parking areas.
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Food & Drink
SterlingFest Goal
- The Annual Sterling Park Columbus Day Parade, hosted by the Knights of Columbus and Loudoun Elk Lodge 2406, will head down Sterling Boulevard at 10:00 AM.
- The Sterling Volunteer Fire Company Department will host their annual open house at the station next door to SterlingFest.
- The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office will hold their open house on Commerce St.
Eat, Drink & Be Merry
SterlingFest offers the best of local cuisine, craft beers, fine Virginia wines, and great local entertainment. In 2022, festival goers enjoyed craft beers from Rocket Frog and Crooked Run Brewery, while the main entertainment stage provided a variety of performers featuring folk, rock and Latin dance music..
Come have some fun at SterlingFest!
Family Fun!
Enjoy all sorts of fun family activities at SterlingFest!
Car Show
Come out to 2023 Car Show
We’ll be hosting it for the third consecutive year from 11am – 2pm and we’ll have trophies and prizes for every category of vehicle. Classics, tuners, sports cars, trucks, if you have a car that you want to enter into the show or just want to come and spectate then don’t hesitate to register!
We’ll have classes for the following trophies
- Best Import
- 2nd place
- 3rd place
- Best Classic
- Best Domestic
- 2nd place
- 3rd place
- Best Exterior
- Best Interior
- Best Custom
- Best Exotic
- Best pre-2000’s
- 2nd place
- 3rd place
Meet Sterling’s Heroes
Get to know the men, women – and even animals! – who help to keep all of us in Sterling safe. The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office introduced us to Heritage, a friendly K9 Officer who’s the very definition of a Good Girl. Meanwhile, next door to SterlingFest, the Sterling Fire Department hosted their annual open house with activities for the whole family.
Thank you to all of our Sterling first responders!
We hope to see you at SterlingFest!
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us via email at [email protected]. Want to get involved? Click one of the buttons below to explore how you can be part of SterlingFest 2023.