Porter Peach Festival Offers Fun For The Whole Family

The Porter Peach Festival gets underway Thursday and offers fun for the entire family.

Families can purchase or pick peaches at nearby orchards, or head to Porter's downtown Main Street for arts and crafts, games, live music and a wide variety of fair food.

The old-fashioned festival has carnival rides, the Peach Classic 5K Run, an antique tractor pull, a car, truck and motorcycle show, as well as live entertainment.

Kids can enjoy the annual pet show, featuring categories such as ugliest dog, best trick, best costume, fattest cat and most unusual pet.

The annual Peach Parade is held early Saturday afternoon then free peaches and ice cream will be available as long as supplies last.

The festival runs July 17th through the 19th and you can learn more and find a full events schedule ?online?.