Visit North Carolina - October 15, 2025

Your fall-to-holiday event lineup is here

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TRAVEL INSIDER EVENTS • For Real, Visit NC

Fall 2025

RIDE THE SEASON HIGH - Sky lifts at the Raleigh, NC State Fair

Harvest festivals today, holiday lights tomorrow

Cooler temps bring some of NC’s warmest traditions. Ride this wave of featured celebrations that begin with haunted houses and harvest festivals and turn into holiday flotillas and sparkling light shows.

Map out your season(s) now — because it’s all happening, and it’s all happening soon.

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Woolly Worm Festival

Banner Elk • Oct. 18-19

Halloweenfest

Brevard • Oct. 25

Fall After Market Sale at Hickory Furniture Mart

Hickory • Nov. 7-10

WNC Pottery Festival

Sylva • Nov. 8

Dillsboro Lights & Luminaries

Dillsboro • Dec. 5-13

Christmas Parade & Light Up the Night

Brevard • Dec. 6

Granville Haunt Farm

Oxford • Now through Nov. 1

NC State Fair

Raleigh • Oct. 16-26

Halifax County Harvest Days

Halifax • Oct. 18

Yadkin Valley Grape Festival

Yadkinville • Oct. 18

Clayton Harvest Festival

Clayton • Oct. 23-26

Boo and Brew Ghost Tour

Sanford • Oct. 24-31

40th Hart Square Heritage Festival

Vale • Oct. 25

The Polar Express at the NC Transportation Museum

Spencer • Nov. 7 – Dec. 23

Bentonville Battlefield Fall Festival

Four Oaks • Nov. 15

John Lawson Legacy Days

Grifton • Oct. 17-18

Bear Grass Chicken Mull Festival

Williamston • Oct. 25

Onslow Veterans Pow Wow

Jacksonville • Nov. 1-2

Down East Holiday Show

Greenville • Nov. 6-9

Swansboro Christmas Flotilla

Swansboro • Nov. 28

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