Grand Rapids Fall Festivals – Fall 2025 MI Events
Grand Rapids Comic Con - Grand Rapids, MI - Nov 15 to Nov 17, 2024
Lowell Harvest Celebration - Lowell, MI - Oct 12 to Oct 12, 2024
Family fun with a 5k run, chili cook off, Autumn marketplace with arts, crafts, and farmers goods. Don’t miss the live entertainment and hoedown.
New Buffalo Harvest & Wine Festival - New Buffalo, MI - Oct 12 to Oct 12, 2024
One day festival with live music, the best wines, craft beers, hayrides, kid’s art, craft vendors, and lots of food choices. In celebration of the harvest in Southwest Michigan, this one day event boasts over 30 of the best wines from several local vineyards along with four craft beers, and hard ciders all under one roof! Come rain or shine, the event is tented so you can come out and stay all day! $5 donation suggested per adult at the gate, kids under 12 are free! Event will feature live music, tastings and wine/beer by the glass available from local wineries and craft breweries, kids activities, horse drawn hay rides driven throughout New Buffalo, craft vendors offering handcrafted goods, food products, and produce for you to purchase throughout the event.
Fennville Goose Festival - Fennville, MI - Oct 10 to Oct 13, 2024
Goose calling contest, 5K run, parade, classic car show, petting zoo, arts and crafts and more.
Scotts Olde Tyme Harvest Festival - Scotts, MI - Oct 5 to Oct 6, 2024
Pumpkins for the kids, hayrides to the pumpkin patch, corn shocks for sale, and even a husker shredder.
Zeeland Pumpkinfest - Zeeland, MI - Oct 3 to Oct 5, 2024
Family fun and fall activities for more than 30 years.
Oktoberfest Grand Rapids - Grand Rapids, MI - Sep 27 to Sep 28, 2024
Formerly Oktoberfest West Michigan, now Oktoberfest GR! The Edelweiss Club hosts this Grand Rapids Oktoberfest featuring Erdinger Beer, German food (and root beer for kids), German Bands and Alphorn players. Saturday children’s activities include a number of different inflatables for them to enjoy. Adult games include two person barrel roll, keg tossing or stein holding. Admission and parking are free.
Fremont Harvest Festival - Fremont, MI - Sep 26 to Sep 28, 2024
Event includes parade, hay art, antique tractor show, beverage tent, unique treasure sale, kid’s activities (Saturday), and more!
New Era Fall Street Festival - New Era, MI - Sep 21 to Sep 21, 2024
Enjoy an arts and crafts fair (including many different booths featuring pumpkins, jewelry, homemade towels, wooden toys, doll clothes, knitring and crochet, etc) plus live entertainment, children’s activities, cornhole tournament, pancake breakfast, antique car and tractor show, food booths and more.
Lakeshore Harvest Ride - South Haven, MI - Sep 14 to Sep 14, 2024
The ride is a fun and picturesque bike tour over rolling countryside near the shore of Lake Michigan. You can visit art studios, wineries, cider mills, family farms, and orchards to take advantage of all that southwest Michigan has to offer. There are four routes for varying abilities of 15 to 62 miles in length, both taking off from Douglas and South Haven, and all net proceeds go to support the construction of an off-road, recreational pathway between South Haven and Saugatuck.
Howard City Harvest Festival - Howard City, MI - Sep 14 to Sep 14, 2024
Arts & crafts, parade, 5K Fun Run/Walk and Queen & Princess Pageant.
ArtPrize - Grand Rapids, MI - Sep 13 to Sep 28, 2024
ArtPrize is a huge art competition with prizes of over $500,000. Open to anyone over 18 working in any medium. A free and open event to the public, with over 200 venues participating, including museums, bars, parks, restaurants, theaters, hotels, vacant storefronts, auto body shops and more!
South Haven Jazz Festival - South Haven, MI - Sep 13 to Sep 14, 2024
Jazz, and good times on and off the Beach! Join in on the fun with a beach drum circle, sunset painting, beach olympics, harbor walk, community mural project, and more! Held in Dyckman Park.
Holland Haven Marathon - Holland, MI - Sep 8 to Sep 8, 2024
The Holland Haven Marathon is a unique event which traverses the shores of Lake Michigan. Runners will experience the beautiful lake shore as they travel from Grand Haven to Holland. There is also a 8k and half marathon race. The full marathon starts at Rosy Mound Elementary School in Grand Haven. The half marathon starts at Camp Geneva in Holland. The 8K starts at Crossfit Soaring Ledge in Holland. All three events end at Crossfit Soaring Ledge, with an after party featuring free beer, free climbing for the whole family, free food, live music, vendors, an awards ceremony, photo booth, and private showers/changing rooms.
Apple & BBQ Cook-Off Festival - Hart, MI - Sep 6 to Sep 7, 2024
BBQ cook-off, apple pie contest, 5K fun run, craft show, classic auto & truck show, dune buggy show, kid’s activities, live entertainment & food (cash only for food and beverage sales).
Paw Paw Wine and Harvest Festival - Paw Paw, MI - Sep 6 to Sep 8, 2024
Wine tours, wine tasting, 4 stages of musical entertainment, grape stomp, carnival rides, car show, sports activities, arts & crafts show and more.
Labor Day Community Bridge Walk - Grand Haven, MI - Sep 2 to Sep 2, 2024
Join the community on a walk over the 3rd Street Bridge, down 3rd Street and Jackson Ave to the Chinook Pier
Newaygo Logging Festival - Newaygo, MI - Aug 31 to Sep 1, 2024
Celebrate the mining past of Newaygo County and all its history, charm, spirit, culture, and traditions – features arts & crafts, food vendors, famers’ market, activities for the kids, sidewalk sales, lumberjack competitions and more!
Burning Foot Beer Festival - Muskegon, MI - Aug 24 to Aug 24, 2024
Burning Foot Beer Festival is a celebration of beer, beach, art and music. The festival will be held along Lake Michigan’s beautiful lakeshore in Muskegon, MI, offering the perfect way to end the summer. Beach camping and barefoot entry make it unique, the Brewers’ Ring makes it extraordinary. 70+ breweries, art, 2 stages of live music, food and more!
Sparta Celtic Festival - Sparta, MI - Aug 9 to Aug 10, 2024
The Sparta Celtic Festival is a FREE, FAMILY FRIENDLY event focused on the expression of Celtic heritage. Located in Roger’s Park in Sparta Michigan, the festival offers music, food, and merchants with a Celtic focus, featuring three stages filled with music and dancing. Highland Games, historical encampments, Scottish clans and more.
Indian Fall Festival - Comstock Park, MI - Oct 8 to Oct 8, 2022
Virtual for 2021.An evening filled with cultural dances and music
St Joe Zombie Pub Crawl - St Joseph, MI - Sep 10 to Sep 10, 2022
A thirsty horde of zombies will crawl the streets of downtown St Joseph in support of local theatre. All proceeds raised will go directly to The GhostLight Theatre, a new performance venue in the Benton Harbor Arts District. Please come dressed in your best (worst) zombie make-up and costume — prizes will be awarded for the most afflicted zombie, the best group theme, the scariest, the silliest, etc. Visit 5 pubs in 3 hours to find drink specials and snacks.
Grand Haven Salmon Festival - Grand Haven, MI - Sep 18 to Sep 18, 2021
Postponed. Normally: Enjoy the fishing contest, 5k/10k run, salmon cook-off, kid zone, art fair, live music, and foods from great local restaurants.
Grand Rapids Donut Fest - Grand Rapids, MI - Oct 5 to Oct 5, 2019
Don’t miss Grand Rapids’ sweetest fest at B.O.B.’s Brewing. Samples donuts, enjoy beer, coffee and more with a fun-filled tasty event! Help to name Grand Rapids’ Favorite Donut too.