There's so many events happening this season, it's hard to choose what things you want to go to.
Sometimes you just want to drink warm apple cider and get your face painted, other times you want to zen out a do yoga all day. Luckily Tucson has a festival for each of those things — plus a lot of other cool events happening we're sure you can take the family or the BFF to.
🍁 For the love of fall🍁
Elvira Fall Fest
Elvira Elementary School Fall Festival
Bring the family for an evening of fall festival fun. There will be games, prizes and food.
Find more information here.
When: Friday, Oct. 20, 4:30-7:30 p.m.
Where: Elvira Elementary School, 250 W. Elvira Road
Cost: Event is free to attend, pay for games and food.
YMCA Trunk or Treat Fall Festival
Trunk-or-Treat Fall Festival at Jacobs City YMCA. 6-8:30 Oct. 20.
A night of safe trick-or-treating with jumping castles, obstacle courses, haunted buses, carnival games and food.
Find information here.
When: Friday, Oct. 20, 6-8:30 p.m.
Where: Jacobs/City YMCA, 1010 W. Lind St.
Cost: Event is free to attend.
Tanque Verde Elementary School Fall Festival
Samantha McKearney fine tunes her drawing at the Tanque Verde Elementary School's second Chalk Art Marathon, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, Tucson, Ariz. Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
This will be a night full of fun, food, friends and festivities! Some of the highlights will be: inflatable hamster balls, jumping castles, slides, cake walk, bingo, a teacher dunk dank, and more. Bring your friends, neighbors and family. All are welcome at this family-friendly event!
Find more information here.
When: Friday, Oct. 20, 6-9 p.m.
Where: Tanque Verde Elementary School, 2600 N. Fennimore Ave.
Cost: Free
TRAK Harvest Festival
Izzie Alikpala works to control Peanut during a riding class at the new home of TRAK, 3250 E. Allen Road.
Therapeutic Ranch for Animals and Kids is hosting a harvest festival with face painting, a costume contest, live music, games, pony rides, a petting zoo, a pumpkin patch and carving and food trucks. And it's only $10 per family.
Find more information here.
When: Saturday, Oct. 21, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: TRAK, 3250 E. Allen Road
Cost: $10 per family
Tucson Village Farm harvest festival
The Tucson Village Farm holds its Fifth Annual Harvest Festival 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday.
The 7th annual harvest festival at Tucson Village Farm has hayrides, a popcorn harvest, live music, kids activities, live animals, food truck and more.
Find more information here.
When: Saturday, Nov. 4, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Tucson Village Farm, 4201 N. Campbell Ave.
Cost: $2 general admission.
🎉 For the love of fun 🎉
Film Fest Tucson
The second annual Film Fest Tucson is set to take place Thursday through Sunday, Oct. 19-22, in downtown Tucson.
The festival will feature 30 films, both narratives and documentaries in short and feature-length format. Most screenings will again take place in the historic 101-year-old Scottish Rite Cathedral.
Find more information and screening times here.
When: Thursday, Oct. 19th to Sunday, Oct. 22
Where: Tucson Scottish Rite Temple, 160 S. Scott Avenue
Cost: Individual screening tickets are $10, get passes for the whole event for $60.
VailFest
Samantha Hickey feeds grain to a pygmy goat at the 4-H petting zoo during the Vail County Fair, now called VailFest.
Formerly the Vail County Fair, VailFest claims to be not just another "ho-hum event." There will be activities for the kids, a large car show, beer tasting, food trucks, music, and vendors.
Find more information here.
When: Saturday, Oct. 21, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: Pima County Fairgrounds, 11300 S. Houghton Road
Cost: Event is free to attend.
Porch Fest
Garden District Porch Fest at Garden District Neighborhood.
The front porches of the Mountain and First Neighborhood will transform into mini stages for live musical performances.
The whole neighborhood will be bopping! There's a kids' puppet show, face painting and balloon animals. Food tucks too!
Find More information here.
When: Saturday, Oct. 21, 3-6 p.m.
Where: Mountain and First Neighborhood
Cost: Event is free to attend
Marana Cotton Festival
Play in a big cloud of cotton, participate in rodeo activities, go on carnival rides, hang with goats in a petting zoo and eat a bunch of chili — it's all at the Marana Cotton Festival, an event created to celebrate the agriculture and history of Marana.
Find more information here.
When: Saturday, Oct. 21, from 4-9 p.m.
Where: Marana Heritage River Park, 12375 N. Heritage Park
Cost: Event is free to attend.
Gnome Fest
The owners of Metro Gnome Music hope to break a world record for having the most people dressed like garden gnomes.
If you ever dreamed of breaking the Guinness World Record for "the largest gathering of people dressed as garden gnomes", now is your time.
Get out your beards and boots, your skirts and suspenders and head over to Gnome Fest at Maracana Indoor Sports Arena.
The music festival hosted by Metro Gnome Music promises live bands, vendors and a food truck. It's free to get in, but the music shop is asking that everyone bring canned food to donate to the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona.
Find more information here.
If you go
When: Sunday, Oct. 22, 3:30 p.m.
Where: Maracana Indoor Sports Arena, 555 E. 18th Street
Cost: Event is free to attended, participants are asked to bring in a canned food donation.
Tucson Yoga Festival 2017
Enjoy a day of free yoga classes at Reid Park — featuring local instructors from yoga studios in town including Yoga Oasis, Tucson Yoga, Grounded Wellness, SUMITS Yoga Tucson, OM Yoga and Luna Yoga.
Bring your own mat and some food to snack on in between classes.
There's also an open jam afterparty at the end of the day.
Find more information here.
When: Saturday, Oct. 28, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Where: Reid Park, 900 S. Randolph Way
Cost: Event is free to attend but you must sign a wavier to participate. Find it here.
Gelato Festival Tucson 2017
Local gelato makers and pastry chefs are competing to see who has the best gelato in town. Taste all the competing flavors and vote on your favorite.
There will also be fun activities for all ages.
Find more information here.
When: Friday, Nov. 3 at 2 p.m. to Sunday, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m.
Where: La Encantada, 2905 E. Skyline Drive
Cost: General admission starts $25.50, find more ticket information and packages here.
Tucson Celtic Festival
While entertainment such as the Tucson & District Pipe Band is popular and visible at Tucson’s annual Celtic festival, there’s a lot for volunteers to do behind the scenes.
Experience the traditions of Celtic culture including music food, arts and performances at this year's Tucson Celtic Festival.
Find more information here.
When: Saturday, Nov. 4, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 5, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Rillito Raceway Park, 4502 N. First Avenue
Cost: Prices vary on day, find ticket information here.
🎃 For the love of pumpkins 🎃
Marana Pumpkin Patch & Farm Festival
Levie McGill hauls a behemoth pumpkin his daughter selected at the 7th Annual Marana Pumpkin Patch and Farm Festival at Post Farms, 14901 N. Wentz Road, on Oct. 7, 2017.
Find the perfect pumpkin and then go do a bunch of other fun fall activities at the Marana Pumpkin Patch & Farm Festival.
Admission into the festival gives you access into their corn mazes, Straw Mountain, petting zoo, jumping pillows, kids' play area and a wagon ride to the pumpkin patch.
Find more information here.
Get a list of other pumpkin patches around Tucson here.
When: Open Monday-Thursday, 3-7 p.m.; Friday-Sunday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Ends Sunday, Oct. 29.
Where: Marana Pumpkin Patch Festival, 14901 N. Wentz Road, Marana
Cost: $10.50 per person, plus tax, Monday-Thursday admission; $12.50 per person, plus tax, Friday-Sunday admission. Kids 32-inches-and-under get in free.
Buckelew Farm's Pumpkin Festival & Corn Maze
Hop on a tractor-drawn wagon ride and travel to Buckelew Farm's Pumpkin Festival.
Admission includes access to the pumpkin fields, three all-ages corn mazes, games and more.
Find more information about the pumpkin festival here.
When: Open every weekend in October from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ends Sunday, Oct. 29.
Where: Buckelew Farm, 17000 W. Ajo Highway
Cost: $12 general admission, $10 senior discount, $6 for children under 12 during Kids Weekend from Oct. 7-8.
