The Ohio Hill Country Festival is held the Wednesday through Saturday after Labor Day on the downtown streets to celebrate Wellston's rich Appalachian heritage. We offer a Karaoke Contest, Coal Miner Olympics, a Wednesday Hometown Parade and a Saturday Grand Parade, Baby Contests, Car and Motorcycle Show, Free Entertainment nightly, Rides, Games, Great Food and down home hospitality. Bring your lawn chair, spend the day - or several, and enjoy the old fashioned small town hospitality in historic downtown Wellston, Ohio..Everyone's Hometown since 1873.

Schedule of Events:

10:00am: Car and Motorcycle Show Registration Opens​​
​11:00am: Rides Open Presented by Gem Bottling​
​12:00pm - 2:00pm: Touch a Truck Presented by Wellston Fire Department​
12:00pm: Baby Contestat Holzapfel Family Clinic Stage Presented by McFadden Heating and Cooling
​01:00pm - 2:00pm: Gospel Music at The VFW Post 9092 Stage Presented by Grace Baptist Fellowship Church
12:00pm - 4:00pm: Quilt, Needlework and Craft Showat The Depot Presented by The Happenings Bistro
12:00pm: Car and Motorcycle Show Presented by Black Diamond Masonic Lodge 538 of Wellston
12:00pm - 6:00pm: Art Showat The Depot Presented by Montgomery Trucking
0​​​3:00pm: Queen's Luncheon by Invitation Onlyat St Peter and Paul Perish Hall Presented by RM Williams Funeral Home
03:00pm: Motorcycle and Car Show Awards Presented by Black Diamond Lodge
04:30pm: Visiting Queen Group Photoat Wellston City Hall
04:45pm: Visiting Queen Presentationat The VFW Post 9092 Stage​
05:00pm: Rides Close for 1 Hour Intermission
0​5:00pm - 6:00pm: at Wellston VFW Post 9092 Stage Presented by Jerry's Do It Center
0​​​6:00pm: Rides Re-open Presented by Gem Bottling​
06:30pm: Ohio Hill Country Grand Finale Parade Presented by Peoples Bank and Peoples Insurance
07:30pm: Announcing of Parade Winners, Raffles and Drawingsat The VFW Post 9092 Stage Presented by McWilliams Funeral Home
08:00pm: TBAat The VFW Post 9092 Stage Presented by Wellston American Legion Post 371
10:30pm: Crowing of 2025 Ohio Hill Country Royalty ​at The VFW Post 9092 Stage Presented by R.M. Williams Funeral Services
​​11:00pm: Offical Closing of 2022 Ohio Hill Country Festival