For 17 years, alongside many dedicated volunteers and supporters, the Lift Bridge Community Association (LBCA) has been proud to team up with the City of Ashtabula to put on the Historic Ashtabula Harbor's annual Wine and Walleye Festival. This year is especially exciting as 2025 marks 100 years of Ashtabula's Bascule Lift Bridge - the only single-leaf bascule bridge left on the Ohio State Highway system. With so much to celebrate, we expect nearly 20,000 people to gather on Bridge Street during this year's 3-day Wine and Walleye Festival!!

We are thrilled to welcome back the show-stopper of the harbor, the Lettie G. Howard, for deck and sailing tours. We'll have a packed schedule of live entertainment, delicious wine tastings, crispy fried walleye, tons of vendors and shopping, cold beer, lighted boat parade, fishing tournament, family friendly activities, the most spectacular fireworks show in Northeast Ohio, and so much more!

Proceeds from this year's weekend of events will go directly back to the area to start a facade project fund for business owners aiming to improve their storefronts.

Schedule of Events:

05:00 am - 02:30 pm: Fishing Tournament
12:00 pm - 09:00 pm: Street Faire
12:00 pm - 09:00 pm: Fop Fish Tent
12:00 pm - 09:00 pm: Wine Tent
12:00 pm - 10:00 pm: Rotary Beer Tent
04:00 pm: Fish Tournament Awards: Public Dock
09:00 pm: Lighted Boat Parade: Bridge
- Fireworks: Immediately Following Boat Parade

Live Music Main Stage:
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Melissa and Mitch
02:30 pm - 4:30 pm: amy Varckette
05:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Maria Petti
07:30 pm - 9:30 pm: Highway 11

Wine Garden
12:00 pm - 2:30 pm: Eric Butler
03:00 pm - 5:30 pm: Paul Pira Acoustic
06:00 pm - 8:30 pm: Two Kings Duo