Fall Festivities & Halloween Happenings

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Fall Festivities & Halloween Happenings

Whether you’re looking for a hayride, a haunted house, or a tricked-out bar, Nashville ready to welcome (and possibly scare) you.

Fall Festivals
Family-Friendly Events
Spooky Fun
Tricked-Out Bars
The Addams Family

October 8-25  Studio Tenn presents this delightfully quirky musical.

Dia de los Muertos

October 28-November 1. Vivid choreography, soul-stirring music, and vibrant Mexican tradition combine in this encore ballet presented by the Nashville Ballet.

Fall Festivals

Cheekwood

September 19-November 1  Stroll the grounds adorned with 100,000 pumpkins, take in the new Marigold River, trek the mildly spooky Scarecrow Trail, and delight in one of their many special music events.

Nashville Fall Festival

September 18-November 1   Head west to Bellevue for this family-friendly event featuring a massive corn maze, 7-acre sunflower field, pumpkin patch, petting zoo, hayrides, and live music along the Harpeth River.

Oktoberfest

October 1-4    The Germantown neighborhood street will be filled with live music, merchants, and beer stands.

Celebrate Nashville Festival

October 3  Come hungry because there’s a world of food options in this celebration of the various cultures who make up Nashville. Music, dance, crafts, kids’ activities, and much more. One of my favorite free events.

Knoblinfest

October 3.  The Donelson community promises live music, art, a marketplace, and events like costume contests, Knoblin calling contests, and more!

Tennessee Craft Fair

October 9-11 Artisans from as far away as Minnesota make the trek to Nashville for this annual fall showcase. In addition to their tents, there are multiple food trucks, a hands-on art area for kids, and live music. FREE.

Southern Festival of Books

October 17-18  Explore the literary side of Nashville with vendors galore, book signings, and author forums. Happens at Bicentennial Mall State Park. FREE.

All Hallows East

October 31  Billed as Nashville’s Biggest Halloween Block Party, count on the folks in East Nashville go all out with festivities including costume contests, wicked good food, and live music.

Celebrate Nashville Festival

Family-Friendly Events

Everything listed above is family-friendly but these may be especially engaging for kids.

Lucky Ladd Farm

Sept. 16-October 31 Love that they describe their Eagleville operation as an ag-venture park. Activities change with the seasons including tulip- and strawberry-picking. Of course there’s a petting zoo but they’re also home to some exotic species. Plenty of ways to wear out your active kids including climbing walls, a playground, and tire swings. And where else are you going to milk a cow?

Honeysuckle Farm

Sept. 26-November 1 If you have a car, consider a trek north to this kid-centric farm in Springfield. They’re big into fall festival activities including hayrides, a pumpkin patch, and a giant corn maze portraying a country star.  Other attractions include pig races, zipline, playground, tire mountain, carousel, bungee jumping. tree house, duck pond, and a challenge course. HF isn’t great about keeping their website current so call before you go.

Gentry Farm

September 26-November 2  You wouldn’t think admission to a Franklin farm as being a hot ticket–but this one is. They often sell-out their seasonal activities. Your kids might enjoy exploring the petting zoo, the corn-filled alternative to a ball pit, craft activities, mini-farm putt putt, the maze, and hayrides. Fall is their biggest season with pumpkins galore. Adults might enjoy the historical aspect of this 150-year-old homestead.

Shuck’s Corn Maze

September 26-October 31    Come to Greenbrier for fall family fun. Fiddle Dee Farms offers an 8-acre maze, pumpkin decorating, hayride, and much more.

Boo at the Zoo

October 16-November 1  One of the biggest annual events at the Nashville Zoo. Activities include trick-or-treat stations, special animal shows, and spook-tacular scenes. Don your costume and enjoy.

Spooky Fun

Spine-tingling ghost stories to full-on gross-outs, Nashville is delighted to give you the creeps.  😉

THE TOURS

Nashville Ghost Tours

They put the booze in boos with their bar-hopping tales of mayhem. You can also opt for a private tour.

Ghosts of Nashville

With an emphasis on local history, these folks will tell you s”the haunted history of Music City”–tales that the tourism department doesn’t promote.

Nashville Ghosts

It claims to be Nashville’s most haunted ghost tour but who votes? Ghosts? Visitors?

Nashville’s Ghost Bus

It sounds like something out of “Scooby-Doo” but they claim to be the only bus spiriting people around the town. They emphasize true crime stories.

Ghost Tours at The Hermitage

There’s plenty of unsettling folklore surrounding the former home of Andrew Jackson.

THE HAUNTED HOUSES

They seem to get gorier and more macabre every year. I’m gonna sit this one out.

Slaughterhouse

September 20-November 1  Since 1986, they’ve been freaking people out with their over-the-top attractions. This operation is run by the suspense-centric Blue Moon Cineplex so you can opt to see their cool movie memorabilia, watch a classic (and sometimes schlocky) flick, and do the haunted house. Some nights they even offer dinner. Located in Hermitage.

Devil’s Dungeon

September 26-November 1  Located in East Nashville (and the closest haunted house to downtown), these mutants have been inducing screams for more than 25 years.

Beast House

September 19-November 13  Schedule varies but it’s mostly a weekend thing. Multiple attractions and, in a novel twist, it offers a money-back guarantee. North side of Nashville on Dickerson Pike.

Nashville Nightmare

September 12-November 13.  Attractions include Fairytale Hell, Mr. Sweet’s House of Horrors, Creature Feature, the sci-fi epic Vector Research: Code VIII, and mini Escape Rooms. Located north of Nashville in Madison.

Halloween Tribute Concert: Panic at the Disco

Also features music by My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy @Eastside Bowl.

Nashville Nightmare

Tricked-Out Bars

Typically themes aren’t announced until late September so stay tuned.

Hidden Bar

Awaiting annoucements