Saturday, October 4

4th Annual Charlotte Joy Touch-A-Truck Festival 2025

ALL AGES

Welcome back once again to the largest Touch-A-Truck on the East Coast- all proceeds benefit children battling cancer in New Jersey!

By The Ashley Lauren Foundation

Date and time

Saturday, October 4 · 10am - 3pm EDT. Doors at 9:50am

Location

East Freehold Showgrounds, Kozloski Road, Freehold, NJ, USA

1500 Kozloski Road Freehold, NJ 07728 United States

Refund Policy

No Refunds

Agenda

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Thunder 106 Country Radio Station

Thunder 106- Jersey's Best Country Station

Help us welcome a live broadcast of the Jersey Shore's Best Radio station, Thunder 106! Be sure to check back to see if we do a ticket blitz!

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

NJ Bubble Parties Performance

NJ Bubble Parties

NJ Bubble Parties plays age appropriate music and will then do big bubbles, make bubble snow, bubble foam, smoke bubbles and put the kid(s) in a bubble (we’ll even put any adults inside of a bubble i...

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

NJ Bubble Parties Performance

NJ Bubble Parties

NJ Bubble Parties plays age appropriate music and will then do big bubbles, make bubble snow, bubble foam, smoke bubbles and put the kid(s) in a bubble (we’ll even put any adults inside of a bubble i...

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Crunchy the T-Rex Visits

Crunchy the T-Rex

We are so pleased to introduce you to this 13' long, 7' tall animatronic walking dinosaur entertainer!!

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Crunchy the T-Rex Visits

Crunchy the T-Rex

We are so pleased to introduce you to this 13' long, 7' tall animatronic walking dinosaur entertainer!!

About this event

Event lasts 5 hours
ALL AGES
Free venue parking

Welcome back once again to the largest Touch-A-Truck on the East Coast! 100% of the proceeds raised from this fundraiser go directly to The Ashley Lauren Foundation, a 501c3 that assists children and families in NJ as they navigate childhood cancer.

4th Annual Charlotte Joy Touch-A-Truck Festival 2025

🗓️Saturday, October 4, 2025 (raindate October 5,2025)

📍East Freehold Showgrounds

⏰10AM-3PM

🚑First responders vehicles,🚒 fire trucks, 🚙classic cars, 🚌vintage busses, the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile,🚁 a helicopter landing, 🚛big rigs, tri-axle dump trucks, 🚜excavators, roll-offs, 🚌 school busses, exotics, and more.

We will have a dozen food trucks, rides, entertainment, music, facepainting, bubble show by NJ Bubble Parties, mobile gaming arcade by Autocades, pony rides, mechanical rides by Amazing Amusements, child-friendly vendors, and more.

This event was named in memory of one of our Foundation children, Charlotte Joy Scalese, a 6 year old girl who died after a valiant fight with Stage 4 neuroblastoma In 2023.

Please be sure to email Laura Scalese, Resource Director, lscalese@ashleylaurenfoundation.org for participation of your company vehicle, inquiry on being a vendor or sponsor, or any other general questions.

There will be NO REFUNDS offered this year for pre-purchased tickets.

Frequently asked questions

Are there bathrooms on site?

Yes! We will have portable bathrooms located throughout the grounds, including handicap accessible bathrooms.

Is there handicap parking?

Yes, please let the parking attendants know you have a handicap placard, and they will place you in the designated handicap spots parked in front of the entrance gates.

What is included in general admission?

Access to all Touch-A-Truck fields, all free giveaways by respective companies, NJ Bubble Parties, pictures with any walk around character (including Bumblebee Transformer, Princesses, Crunchy the Dinosaur, ChikFila Cow, and Lakewood Blue Claws Buster), and any live stage entertainment performances.

I already purchased tickets and just found out I cannot attend. Can I get a refund?

Unfortunately, no. We had difficulties last year with this policy, so if you choose to pre-purchase tickets using Eventbrite, you will have to give them to someone else and they will use your name when checking in.

Organized by

The Ashley Lauren Foundation