The annual Chiefland Watermelon Festival is held in downtown Chiefland. The festival is the biggest event of the year in Chiefland. Come out and enjoy delicious watermelon as well as fun filled events including: a parade, auction, seed spitting contest and the annual Watermelon Queen contest.
Started over 62 years ago to recognize the watermelon growers of the county, the festival includes beauty pageants, dinners, street dance, arts and crafts, melon run, sports events, and parade.
The 59th Florida Folk Festival is a three day celebration of the music, dance, stories, crafts and food that make Florida unique. The Florida Folk Festival is one of America's oldest and Largest Folk Festivals and is held annually along the banks of the historic Suwannee River in White Springs.
Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge invites you to an openhouse on Seahorse Key Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Seahorse Key is usually closed to the public so don't miss this special annual event.
Join the Florida Trail Association and the Alachua Conservation Trust during MLK weekend to celebrate the wintering Sandhill Cranes, endangered Whooping Cranes, wild horses, bison and more than 270 species of birds in Alachua County.
Activities include: Discovering more than 150 wintering birds, including the American Bald Eagle Biking the Gainesville-Hawthorne Trail Saturday night dinner with a keynote speaker Silent Auction Wildlife and Birding Presentations
There is a fee for registration that covers breakfast, lunch, dinner and shuttle service to bird-watching locations.
The 5th Annual Southern Music Rising Festival will take place in downtown Monticello starting April 20th. Stroll through charming, historic Monticello stopping in differnt venues to enjoy some of America's finest blue grass muscians. Friday night's kick off concert features The Cobb Brothers
Make a date with Cedar Key and enjoy sauntering down Historic 2nd Street while enjoying fine art from a very select group of incredibly talented artists. Featuring award-winning fine art, paintings, sculptures, jewelry, crafts, ceramics, textiles, photography, and more. All this while taking in tasty fresh local seafood from our casual and fine dining seaside restaurants, and beautiful coastal scenery in this unforgettable Old Florida setting.
The annual Chiefland Watermelon Festival is held in downtown Chiefland. The festival is the biggest event of the year in Chiefland. Come out and enjoy delicious watermelon as well as fun filled events including: a parade, auction, seed spitting contest and the annual Watermelon Queen contest.
Eerie Acres Haunted Attraction offers affordable Halloween fun and fright for all ages. Climb aboard our Hayride to view a variety of Halloween themed decorations, get lost in our Maze, face your fears in our Haunted Woods or bring the little ones for fun in our Kid Zone.
Friday and Saturday Nights in October, 7-11 pm. Call for pricing.
The Central Florida Peanut Festival takes place the first Saturday of October each year in Williston's Linear Park. Organizers say this Williston tradition celebrates all things nutty. Rides, crafts, music, information booths and the Little Peanut royal family. Make no mistake there are always LOTS of peanuts. The festival is truly everything peanuts - from crafts oriented to the nut to countless bags of the area's prized crop to feast on to the crowning of Little Peanut King and Queen and Baby Peanut
Gainesville will transform into a masterful blend of art, music and entertainment during the 31st Annual Downtown Festival & Art Show, one of the nation’s premier outdoor fine arts festivals. Presented by the City of Gainesville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs, the festival draws a crowd of more than 100,000 each year. On Saturday, Oct 13, and Sunday, Oct. 14, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., visitors can marvel at artistic displays from more than 250 of the nation’s most talented artists, enjoy entertainment on three stages and sample international cuisine. The Festival features a free hands-on art activity for the children and a free Blues Concert on Saturday evening. Since 1996, the Downtown Festival & Art Show has ranked among the top festivals in the nation. Sunshine Artist magazine ranked the Festival no. 16 among the best fine art shows in the country and Greg Lawler’s Art Fair SourceBook ranked the show no. 27. For more information, visit www.gvlculturalaffairs.org or call 352-334-ARTS.
9:00 AM until 5:00 PM each day. This major event features well over 200 arts and crafts exhibits, and great local seafood food in City Park. There will be live musical entertainment at several places around town during the days and nights, and a parade on Saturday morning.
In addition on this weekend, there is an open house at the lighthouse on Seahorse Key, the big island 3 miles to the west of Cedar Key. Explore the lighthouse, look at the exhibits and wander this beautiful island. Shuttle boats are available at City Marina. Be sure to remember your camera and binoculars!
The Inglis-Yankeetown Lions Club presents its annual Seafood Festival and Arts and Crafts show. For info call 352-505-7936 or email: yankeetownseafoodfestival@gmail.com.
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Clay Landing Days will feature rides through the north trail system where visitors will experience the lifestyle of early settlers and Seminole Indians. One of the rides is accessible to persons with disabilities with little or no assistance, including wheelchairs. This fun ride and journey into the past will bear witness to survival skills used by Native Americans and pioneers alike to learn how they lived, what clothing they wore and how food was prepared over campfires. If you master communication with them, you may even get to sample tasty morsels.
Clay Landing Days activities are free with a paid park admission of $6.00 per carload of up to eight people. For more information please call the park at 352-493-6072.
