Greenville, SC Events: Don’t Miss a Thing

Celebrating the harvest in Lincoln County since 1972, this is the largest festival in Lincolnton, drawing roughly 80,000 visitors each October.

It features local apple growers, a farmer’s market, local talent on two stages, and foods including whole apple pies, along with kids’ activities and more.

Free to attend, no pets allowed.

Each Saturday morning from early May through late October, two blocks of downtown Greenville’s Main Street are transformed into the TD Saturday Market, a vibrant open-air marketplace in the heart of the city.

The market features more than 75 vendors offering seasonal produce, prepared foods, and handcrafted goods, creating a lively community gathering space every week.

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Check for cancellations and special events on the TD Saturday Market Instagram

What to Expect

• Fresh, seasonal produce from farms located within 100 miles of Greenville
• Locally produced and prepared food items
• Handmade crafts and artisan goods
• Vendors encouraged to use locally sourced materials for crafts

Experience

The TD Saturday Market draws thousands of visitors each week who come to shop, explore, and connect with local growers, makers, and artisans in a welcoming downtown setting.

Why Visit

It’s a long-standing Greenville tradition that highlights local agriculture, craftsmanship, and community. The market offers a chance to experience the best of the region in one place every Saturday morning.

Celebrate the season at Chattooga Belle Farm’s annual Fall Harvest Festival, set in the stunning mountains of Long Creek. Enjoy local vendors, live music, apple picking, apple cider donuts, and hay rides — a perfect fall outing for the whole family. More details will be announced as the event approaches, so check the link below and confirm details before heading out.

AUGUSTA ROAD

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

8324 Augusta Rd Pelzer, SC

COMMUNITY FALL FESTIVAL AT THE PATCH

Saturday, October 17, starting at 9am

Children’s activities – games, scavenger hunt, photo ops

Pumpkins $1 and up

Vendors – Food, Crafts, Blood Drive, Face Painting, Blowups, and more FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY!

Join Kyndall Stewart with Kaleidoscopic Creative for a a slow-paced morning where participants meet for coffee, take a guided walk through the Preserve, and gather small natural treasures like fallen leaves, acorns, bark, moss, seed pods, and other found objects. At the end of the walk, you’ll settle in together and spend some time sketching your collections.

No experience necessary and all materials will be provided.

This program is best suited for anyone ages 8 and up.

Join us this Fall at our one of a kind Sunflower Adventure Maze in Polk Co, NC. Under an hour from the Greenville area, Fox Mountain Meadows is a private farm and event venue. This Fall there is something special growing in the garden- tens of thousands of varieties of sunflowers in all colors and sizes! Part maze, part riddle, part scavenger hunt we are certain this will be an adventure for all to remember! The maze is open during the week and for those looking for more Fall fun, join us on the weekends for games, vendors, and more. Advance purchase tickets required due to limited capacity for each date and address will be provided to ticketed guests.

Alexander County’s biggest event of the year, drawing an estimated 35,000 visitors and over 400 vendor booths along the streets of downtown Taylorsville.

Expect multiple entertainment stages, a “Kids’ Korner” with rides, petting zoos, carriage rides, and games, plus food vendors serving everything from BBQ and Italian sausage to homemade ice cream and fried apple pies. Contests include apple baking, apple peeling, and kids’ candy apple art. Free to attend.

The 38th annual Apple Harvest Festival turns downtown Waynesville’s Main Street into a premier arts and crafts showcase celebrating apples and the beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains. Named one of the ’10 Best Fall Harvest Festivals in the Nation,’ the free street festival invites families to stroll vendor booths and the shops and restaurants of historic Main Street.
🎟️ Cost: Free.
📍 Location: Downtown Waynesville, Main St, Waynesville, NC 28786
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Fall market with 60+ local artisans, food/beverage vendors, and live music.
🎟️ Cost: Free.
📍 Location: Greer City Park, 301 E Poinsett St, Greer, SC 29651
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🧒 Ages: All ages

We would love for you to join us for the Fall Harvest Festival at Bridgeway Station on Saturday, October 17!

Come enjoy a wonderful day of fall fun while helping us raise much-needed funds for our student-athletes. There will be delicious treats, candle-making, family-friendly activities, and special signature drinks and food items offered by participating shops and restaurants throughout Bridgeway Station.

We can’t wait to celebrate fall with our amazing community!

Bridgeway Station Fall Harvest Festival 2026

Join us Saturday, October 17, from 10 AM–8 PM at Bridgeway Station in Simpsonville for a day of family fun, fall traditions, and community spirit! The rain makeup date is October 18.

A $20 punch card includes the petting zoo, dress a scarecrow, face painting, balloon animals, hay maze, crafts, games, and inflatables. Each activity earns a punch. Punch cards are for one person and are nontransferable and nonrefundable.

Enjoy festival favorites including apple nachos, candied nuts and honey sticks, homemade fudge, cotton candy, Parmesan truffle popcorn, and hot buttered pretzel bites. You can also create your own Milk House candle or pick a bouquet from the flower cart!

🎃 The Golden Pumpkin Hunt begins October 1. Follow the clues, find the hidden pumpkin, and win prizes!

This community event benefits the Woodmont High School Athletic Booster Club. We hope to see you there!

Celebrate the beauty of fall at the charming historic Kilgore-Lewis home and gardens filled with plants, art, local vendors, hands-on workshops, and family-friendly fun.

Stroll through the historic grounds, shop the plant sale, browse garden art, supplies, and unique gifts, and discover something delicious from local food and garden vendors. Choose from engaging garden workshops, then let kids—and the young at heart—get creative with seasonal crafts.

Be sure to explore the historic scarecrow display, a favorite fall tradition that brings the gardens to life.

Whether you’re a dedicated gardener, looking for inspiration, searching for one-of-a-kind finds, or simply looking for a fun fall outing with family and friends, there’s something to enjoy.

Come for the gardens. Stay for the food, shopping, creativity, and unmistakable feeling of fall.

Featuring: Plant Sale • Food & Garden Vendors • Garden Art & Supplies • Garden Workshops • Crafts for Kids & the Young at Heart • Historic Scarecrow Display

Join us for a fun-filled, educational day at Lake Robinson while learning where Greer’s drinking water begins. The event on Saturday, October 17, 2026 from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm is free for all ages and will feature educational exhibits, lunch, kayaking, inflatables, outdoor yoga, and much more. There will be more than 25 exhibitors, tree giveaways, rain barrel workshop, and blood drive.  The rain barrel workshop is the only cost associated with the event and will be run through the Watershed Ecology Center.

Soar into hero mode with the Firefighting Plane workshop, sponsored by First Alert! Kids will build and decorate a rescue plane. Workshops are hosted by Lowe’s Red Vests, in-store only.

🎟️ Cost: Free.
📍 Location: Lowe’s Home Improvement Stores
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🧒 Ages: Recommended ages 4-11; parents build alongside kids

SCCT story times are a chance for young children to engage in a high-energy and child-friendly interpretation of their favorite children’s stories.

BOOK SWAP- Bring a new or gently used book to donate and leave with a new *to you* story to take home! The theme for this book swap is Spooky Season!
*Additional books generously donated by Greenville First Steps.

TMAS is performed by an SCCT Teaching Artist in SCCT’s Prisma Health Lobby, the material often includes audience participation or simple interaction and will last no longer than 30 minutes – perfect for young, wiggly patrons.

Little ones can enjoy a high-energy, kid-friendly storytime at SC Children’s Theatre! A Teaching Artist brings a story by Aaron Reynolds to life in the Prisma Health Lobby with audience participation and simple interaction. Performances last no longer than 30 minutes, so they’re perfect for wiggly young patrons. Shows at 10am and 11am. Reservations aren’t required, and the parking lot fee is waived for story time patrons.

Come relax, create, and enjoy a family-friendly beading workshop for kids! All ages welcome! Parents also welcome to join.

We provide you with beautiful quality materials, tools, and guidance to make your own bracelets, necklaces, or anklets. Our goal is to uplift creativity, self-expression, and connections. You can make and take home as many pieces as you want in this 1-hour workshop. Parents must remain on site and can either be in the workshop space or shop in Westside Market.

$30 per person. Please register and buy tickets.

See you there!

Bring your littles to the front steps of M. Judson for our twice-weekly story time! Enjoy some wonderful picture books read aloud to the crowd by our very own booksellers, and children will even get a sweet treat to go. If you catch them on a rainy day or cold day, storytime is held inside in the children’s section toward the back of the store.  Keep up with changes to the schedule here> Book Store & Coffee Shop in Downtown Greenville Check out our Review of Storytime on the Steps at M. Judson Booksellers!

 

FALL-ELUJAH it’s back for the SIXTH year in a row— the Annual Fall Festival! It’s the perfect setting around Greenville to celebrate everyone’s favorite time of year with food, wine, shopping, and more!

FREE admission & parking
Live music all weekend long
Food & dessert vendors
30+ local vendors each day
Wine by the glass, bottle, and flight available + wine specials
Family & pup friendly

Get ready for a spooktacular morning of Halloween fun! Enjoy a mall-wide trick-or-treat trail, a costume catwalk, Halloween crafts, face painting, and roaming spooky characters.

FREE TO THE PUBLIC!

Join us for our October Trailblazer Vendor Market!

You’ll find the perfect hand crafted products, decor, art, farm goods, sourdough, sweets, salsa and SO MUCH MORE! We proudly present a wide variety of vendors! There will be OVER 65 small businesses in attendance for you to shop from, delicious food trucks to grab lunch, face painting, a trick or treat trail from the vendor booths and more!

DATE: 🗓️ Saturday, October 17th 2026

TIME: ⏰ 11:00 AM until 3:00 PM

LOCATION:📍Trailblazer Park located at 235 Trailblazer Drive Travelers Rest, SC

This is an all OUTSIDE event! It is rain or shine!

Family Day! Friendly Jack-O-Lantern! Painting Party.

Head up to Paris Mountain State Park for a laid-back Saturday afternoon of live music at the newly rebuilt, solar-powered amphitheater! “Music in the Woods” is hosted by the Friends of Paris Mountain and offers free live music (after regular park admission) in a beautiful outdoor setting — a great way for the whole family to spend a fall afternoon outdoors. Wilder Things Then Us will be performing

Hands-on Cheese Making 101 class on the farm at Whispering Pines Farm (also known as Whispering Pines Dairy), 681 Campbell Bridge Road, Seneca, SC 29678. Family and adults welcome. Tickets on Eventbrite.

Come spend the evening with us at Faith Baptist Church for a night of faith, family, community & fall fun!

Chili Cook-Off
Pumpkin Patch & Pumpkin Painting
Face Painting
Potato Sack Race

Cornhole
Bounce House
Trunk or Treat
Hot Dogs
Hot Chocolate & Apple Cider
Games & more!

Fall Festival & Trunk or Treat
Join us at Friendship Baptist Church for an evening of fall fun for the whole family!
Trunk or Treat
Plenty of candy
Hot dogs
Costumes welcome!
Fun & fellowship for the whole family
Saturday, October 17
5:00–7:00 PM
Friendship Baptist Church, 830 Friendship Church Road, Pauline, SC

Bring the family, invite some friends, and come spend the evening with us. We’d love to see you there!