HATCH, N.M. – The Hatch Chile Festival returns on Labor Day weekend, September 4 and 5, 2021 in Hatch, New Mexico. This year’s festival is being organized by the Hatch Valley Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with community members, businesses, and various organizations from the Hatch Valley.
The all-new, in-town festival experience will make it easy to shop the streets of Hatch and satisfy everyone’s chile fix at local shops and restaurants while experiencing the traditional vendors and events that have always made the Hatch Chile Festival known throughout the U.S. and the world.
“We’re excited to be hosting this year’s chile festival in town so that visitors can enjoy the same authentic Hatch Valley Chile experience that we enjoy all year-round,” said Melva Aguirre, owner of the Pepper Pot Restaurant in Hatch.
This year’s festival will include a parade, carnival, and entertainment provided by local businesses along with volleyball, soccer, and softball tournaments.
“Having the entire community come together to put on this year’s festival in a big, new way like this is an important step to getting ready to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Hatch Chile Festival next year on the grand scale it deserves,” said Lisa Neal, President of the Hatch Valley Chamber of Commerce.
The Hatch Chile Festival was founded in the early 1970s to celebrate the annual chile harvest from the Hatch Valley fields. The annual festival promotes world-famous Hatch Chile on Labor Day weekend, attracting over 30,000 visitors from around the U.S. and the world.
Hatch Chile is considered among the highest quality found in the world. Festival goers sample chile and world famous chile recipes.
For updates and additional information as it becomes availing, visit online at: https://hatchchilefestival.org. For more information about vendor opportunities at this year’s Hatch Chile Festival, please contact Lisa Neal at 575-267-5132 or email her at hatchvalleychamber @ gmail
ABOUT THE 2021 HATCH CHILE FESTIVAL
Where:
Are we done with Covid! Yes!!! The Festival is ON!!
Please come and celebrate our Hatch Chile Festival this year in the Village of Hatch, NM. Festivities will be ongoing throughout Saturday and Sunday of Labor Day weekend in Hatch, NM.
Parking:
Parking will be in and around the Hatch High School. There will be signage to direct you there. Please check back here for updates as we have them.
What to Expect:
The Festival will be held in the Village this year. Chile roasting, restaurants, food vendors, entertainment, All doors will be thrown open to welcome you to Hatch, NM - The Chile Capital of the World.
Gypsy
Come out this weekend and check out the Hatch Chile Festival. If you're on I-25,
take Exit 41 and you'll be in the Village of Hatch!!!
Stacey Sherman
Is the hatch chili festival on this year for 2021 September 4 through the fifth wanting to bring the whole family we’re gonna be taking a big old school bus with about 30 people just seeing what’s going on out there and grandma just got out of the hospital so she’s always want to taste and piper doctor so grandpa said we’re gonna try to get her out there on that bus thank you now
Celeste R Zimmerman
Yes, the Hatch Chile Festival is ON!! Hope to see you there!
Raul F Apodaca
Willing to join you.
What are the directions to get there from the I-25 freeway???
Celeste R Zimmerman
Take exit 41 which is Franklin St. Continue into the town. From Las Cruces you might try the Valley Hwy or Hwy 185 and come NW until you hit Hatch. It is a beautiful drive through pecan orchards and chile fields, red bluffs, and the Rio Grande.
Raul F Apodaca
How to get there from the I-25 freeway?
Nathan Pepper
Awesome! Here is the info for the festival: https://ihatchchile.com/blog/hatch-chile-fest-2021-set-to-return/
Celeste R Zimmerman
Or go to our official website hatchchilefestival.org
Magda Drawe
Will be my first time to join in the festivities, though I have bought Hatch chilis for the past 25 years
Celeste R Zimmerman
Hope to see you there! Should be a good time for all!
Joe
What time does it start