The Maryland Iron Festival

The Maryland Iron Festival Celebrates 250! May 16-17

It’s the 250th birthday of our country and of Catoctin Furnace, home of the Maryland Iron Festival, and they’re pulling out all the stops. Join for a patriotic weekend of family fun, tours of the village, food trucks, live music, a beer and wine garden, a makers’ market, kids’ activities, an antique car show, and the exciting 2,800-degree molten iron pour at 1 pm on Saturday. You can purchase molds to carve in advance and take home your own cast iron tile. For the full schedule and information about parking and shuttle service, go to catoctinfurnace.org/mif/. A celebration like this only happens once every 250 years!