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🍁 Fall Events and Festivals πŸ‚

Your Guide to All the Events Happening Near Takoma Park and Silver Spring This Fall

By Leah Spencer September 7, 2023

🍁 Here is your ultimate guide to special events and festivals happening in and near Takoma Park and Silver Spring this fall. We will continue to update and add to this list as more events are found. 🍁 


Be sure to check our Event Calendar for even more activities happening in the Takoma Park and Silver Spring area. 

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Festivals and Events in September

🍁  Maryland Renaissance Festival | Weekends in September in Crownsville

🍁  Summerfest | September 3 in Olney

🍁   Kensington Labor Day Parade and Festival | September 4 in Kensington

🍁 Greek Festival | September 8, 9 & 10 in Silver Spring

🍁  Discover Long Branch Festival | September 8 & September 9 in Long Branch

🍁 Silver Spring Jazz Festival | September 9 in Silver Spring

🍁 Locally Crafted Maker's Market | September 10 in Gaithersburg

🍁  Takoma Park Folk Festival | September 10 at Takoma Park Middle School

🍁  Silver Spring Arts & Crafts End of Summer Celebration | September 10 in DTSS

🍁  Children's Day | September 17 at Brookside Gardens

🍁  Jamaica Fest | September 17 in DTSS

🍁  Let's Play America 15th Annual Play Day | September 23 at Takoma Park Middle School

🍁  Burtonsville Day Festival | September 23 in Burtonsville

🍁  Panafest | September 23 in DTSS

🍁 Friendship Picnic | September 24 at Wheaton Regional Park

🍁  Montgomery Parks Ale Trail | September 24 in Rock Creek

🍁 Mid-Autumn Harvest/Mooncake Festival | September 24 in Silver Spring

🍁 Rocktobierfest | September 30 in Rockville

🍁 Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration | September 30 in Wheaton


Festivals and Events in October

🍁 Maryland Renaissance Festival | Weekends in October (until October 22) in Crownsville

🍁  Sunday Serenades | Sundays in October at Cabin John Regional Park

🍁  Takoma Park Street Festival | October 1 in Takoma Park

🍁  PIKEtober Fest | October 1 at Pike & Rose

🍁  Cabin John Village Block Party | October 1 at Cabin John Village

🍁 Echo Arts Festival/Latino Heritage Festival at Glen Echo | October 1 at Glen Echo

🍁  Agricultural History Farm Park Harvest Festival | October 7 & 8 in Derwood

🍁  Taste of Bethesda | October 7 in Bethesda

🍁  Cider Days | October 7 & 8 at Locust Grove Nature Center

🍁 Cabin John Harvest Festival | October 8 at Cabin John Village

🍁 Oktoberfest in Gaithersburg | October 8 in Kentlands

🍁 Bethesda Row Fine Arts Festival | October 14 and 15 in Bethesda

🍁  Wheaton Arts Parade and Festival | October 15 in Wheaton

🍁 Chevy Chase Fall Festival at the Jane E Lawton Rec Center | October 15 in Chevy Chase

🍁 Taste of Rio | October 15 in Gaithersburg

🍁 Potomac Day | October 21 in Potomac

🍁 Fall Festival at Good Hope Neighborhood Rec Center | October 21 in Silver Spring

🍁 Fall Festival at Potomac Community Recreation Center | October 28 in Potomac


Festivals and Events in November

🍁  Maryland Emancipation Day Activities | November 4 & 5 in various locations 

🍁 Maydale Nature Classroom Community Day | November 4 in Colesville

🍁 Fall Scavenger Hunt at Maydale Nature Center | November 18 in Colesville

🍁 Turkey Days | Nobvember 24, 25 & 26 at Locust Grove


Something missing?  Email mackidsilverspring@macaronikid.com to have it added to our calendar!

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