Park City Wine Festival

Picture this: the aspens along the Wasatch Back are just starting to turn gold, the summer crowds have thinned, and Canyons Village smells like woodsmoke and something even better, an open bottle. That’s the Park City Wine Festival in a single breath, and it’s one of our favorite weekends of the year to be a local.

The Park City Wine Festival: Fall Edition returns October 1–3, 2026, bringing over 80 wineries, paired dinners at some of Park City’s best restaurants, and a whole weekend built around bold views and fine wines. We’ve been managing vacation rentals here since 1999, so we’ve watched this festival grow into one of the signature food and wine events in the Mountain West. Here’s everything you need to know, plus the one detail the official festival site can’t help you with: exactly where to stay so you’re never far from the pour.

Park City Wine Festival Tasting at Canyons Village, Park City, Utah.

🍷 What Is the Park City Wine Festival?

The Park City Wine Festival is a multi-day celebration of wine, food, and mountain scenery, built around a central Grand Tasting and a lineup of à la carte experiences held throughout Park City. Master winemakers and wine enthusiasts travel in from across the West Coast, France, and beyond to pour for guests against a backdrop of Wasatch Back peaks, and the festival has become one of the region’s most anticipated culinary events.

Here’s something worth knowing before you plan your trip: the Park City Wine Festival actually runs twice a year, a Spring Edition in April and a Fall Edition in October. The Spring 2026 event already wrapped up in April, so the Fall Edition, October 1–3, 2026, is the one on the calendar now. Both editions share the same bold-views-and-fine-wines spirit, but the Fall gathering is the larger of the two, timed perfectly with peak leaf-changing season in the mountains.

We tell our guests the same thing every October: come for the wine, stay for the fact that you can’t get views like this anywhere else during a tasting. There’s something about sipping a bold red with the canyon turning gold behind you that just doesn’t translate to a photo.

— All Seasons Resort Lodging, Local Team

🍉 A Weekend Built Around More Than the Pour

While the Grand Tasting is the headline event, the festival weekend is really a collection of smaller, curated experiences spread across Park City restaurants and venues. Recent Fall Edition programming has included:

📅 Fall Edition 2026: The Weekend at a Glance

Here’s how a typical Park City Wine Festival: Fall Edition weekend comes together. Exact events and venues shift slightly year to year, so treat this as a guide to the rhythm of the weekend rather than a locked schedule.

Because most events are ticketed individually and popular dinners sell out early, it’s worth building your weekend itinerary, and booking your lodging, well before the first weekend of October.

Canyons Village during the Park City Wine Festival Fall Edition.

🍷 The Grand Tasting & Signature Experiences

The Grand Tasting is where most guests spend their festival weekend, a walkaround tasting featuring dozens of wineries alongside craft beer, spirits, and bites from local purveyors. It’s the kind of event where you can start the afternoon with a crisp white and end it comparing notes on a bold cabernet with someone who just became your new favorite stranger.

Beyond the Grand Tasting, the festival’s paired dinners are where things get personal. Recent Fall Edition lineups have included a Boutique Producer Wine Dinner featuring a five-course menu paired with a small-production winery’s portfolio, and a volcanic-soil wine pairing dinner built around a French-inspired tasting menu. For something more active, look for a guided hike paired with a rosé lunch, a nice way to earn your evening pour.

🌽 Why October Wine Tastes Different Here

One thing our team always mentions to first-time festival guests: Park City sits at roughly 6,800 feet, and the Grand Tasting’s satellite events climb even higher. Altitude affects how alcohol hits you, often faster and harder than it would at sea level. Pace yourself, drink water between pours, and eat throughout the day rather than saving your appetite for one big meal. It’s a small adjustment that makes a big difference in how you feel the next morning.

🌌 Why Early October Is a Perfect Time to Visit Park City

The Fall Edition’s timing isn’t an accident. Early October lines up with peak leaf-changing season in the Wasatch Mountains, when the aspens along the canyon roads turn a brilliant gold and the crowds have thinned considerably from summer’s high season. Days are still comfortably mild, typically in the low 60s, while evenings dip into the high 30s, perfect sweater weather for an evening tasting.

It’s also a quieter shoulder season for Park City overall, which means easier restaurant reservations, more relaxed trails, and a noticeably different pace than either summer festival season or the ski rush that follows in November. If you’ve only visited Park City in winter, an autumn wine festival weekend is a genuinely different side of the mountain town.

🏠 Where to Stay for the Park City Wine Festival

Here’s something you won’t find on the official festival site: real guidance on where to stay. Since the Grand Tasting and most Fall Edition events are centered at Canyons Village, your lodging choice can be the difference between a five-minute stroll to the tasting tent and a long night of shuttles and rideshares after a full day of pours.

Best Home Base: Canyons Village

Staying in Canyons Village puts you within walking distance of the Grand Tasting grounds and many of the festival’s satellite venues. It’s also directly served by the free Canyons Village Transit Hub, so even if your paired dinner is across town on Main Street, getting home afterward doesn’t require getting behind the wheel.

⭐ Canyon Haus and Sundial Lodge are two of our most popular picks for festival weekend, both close enough to walk to the Grand Tasting grounds, with private hot tubs waiting for you when the pours are done for the day.

Want to Split Your Time Between the Festival and Main Street?

If you’d like easy access to both the Grand Tasting and the paired dinners happening at Main Street restaurants, a Downtown Main Street rental puts you a short bus ride from Canyons Village while keeping you steps from historic Main Street’s restaurant row. Planning a bigger group for the weekend? Our group lodging team can help coordinate multiple units or larger homes.

🚌 Getting Around Festival Weekend

With events spread across Canyons Village and Park City restaurants, and a weekend built around wine, we always recommend leaving the car at home. Fortunately, Park City makes that easy.

❄️ Planning Ahead? There’s a Spring Edition, Too

If you’re reading this outside of festival season, keep in mind the Park City Wine Festival also holds a Spring Edition each April, typically a smaller, more intimate gathering compared to the larger Fall weekend. Both editions share the same Grand Tasting format and paired dinner lineup, just with a different mountain backdrop, wildflowers and late-season snow in spring versus golden aspens in fall. Whichever season you plan around, the same lodging and logistics guidance in this article applies.

🍸 Make It a Full Park City Weekend

Even with a full lineup of tastings and paired dinners, you’ll have gaps to fill between events. Park City’s dining and activity scene is worth exploring in between pours:

• 🍽 Must-Eat Canyons Village Restaurants — For a meal between tasting sessions
• ☕ Best Coffee Shops — Fuel up before a full day at the Grand Tasting
• 🏋 7 Best Hikes in Park City — Work up an appetite before the Rosé & Ridge-style pairings
• 🍸 Best Après & Happy Hour Spots — For an easy wind-down after the Grand Tasting
• 🍽 Best Main Street Restaurants — If your paired dinner takes you downtown

The Park City Wine Festival is one of several great reasons to visit in the shoulder seasons, alongside events like Concert on the Slopes. It’s proof that Park City’s calendar is packed with reasons to visit well beyond ski season.

❓ Park City Wine Festival: Frequently Asked Questions