Casa Blanca Sweets joins Festival in the Park lineup at the large center fountain

Casa Blanca Sweets will be stationed at the large center fountain when Festival in the Park opens at Charlotte's Freedom Park, according to the festival's official concessionaire listings.

The vendor is one of a range of food and beverage concessionaires spread across multiple areas of the park, according to festivalinthepark.org.

The three-day festival is one of Charlotte's longest-running community events, held at Freedom Park every fall since 1964. It combines visual artists, live music across multiple stages, family programming, and food vendors.

The food lineup's geographic spread across the park reflects a deliberate design choice the festival adopted after its COVID-era return. When the event came back after a 2020 cancellation — only the second time in its history it had been called off — organizers cut the vendor count roughly in half specifically to open up wider pathways and reduce crowding.

What that has allowed us to do is create a larger path for folks to get around Freedom Park and alleviate some of the bottlenecks that people typically experience in the park.— Mark Boone, president of the festival's board of directors

Prices at each concessionaire station are posted on-site and subject to change, according to the festival website.

Why it matters — Knowing which vendors are where — and that food spots are intentionally spread across the park — helps festivalgoers plan their visit across the three-day event.

Reported by festivalinthepark.org, wfae.org, wsoctv.com