October 2026 music festivals

Browse October 2026 music festivals with dates, locations, camping, transportation, and practical planning details for fall festival season.

October 2026 is one of the densest stretches of festival season

Rock weekends, roots campouts, city festivals and Halloween electronic events overlap throughout October. This calendar helps compare dates, geography and format before trying to chain multiple stops together.

October 2026 music festival calendar

  • Aftershock Festival 2026 — 2026-10-01 · Discovery Park · Sacramento, CA · camping · planning guide

    Four-day rock and metal festival at Discovery Park with a new 2026 offsite camping program at Cal Expo.

  • Wakaan Music Festival 2026 — 2026-10-01 · Mulberry Mountain · Ozark, AR · camping · planning guide

    Three-day 18+ bass music camping festival on Mulberry Mountain with an optional Wednesday pre-party.

  • Submersion Festival 2026 — 2026-10-01 · Paradise Lakes Campground · Hammonton, NJ · camping · planning guide

    Boutique underground electronic music and arts camping festival at Paradise Lakes Campground in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens.

  • Fête du Void 2026 — 2026-10-01 · The Music Park at the Hardwood Mill · Oakdale, LA · camping · planning guide

    A Louisiana woods camping festival built around music, art, immersive installations, community, and a stated mental-health and wellness mission.

  • Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival — Fall 2026 — 2026-10-01 · Shakori Hills Community Arts Center · Pittsboro, NC · camping · planning guide

    A family-friendly, nonprofit camping world-music festival in Pittsboro, North Carolina with music, dance, art, education, workshops, kids and teen programmin…

  • Austin City Limits Music Festival 2026 — 2026-10-02 · Zilker Park · Austin, TX · planning guide

    ACL's two-weekend, 100+ performance music festival across nine stages in Austin's Zilker Park.

  • Everywhen: Creatures Come Out at Night 2026 — 2026-10-02 · Camp Loma · Santa Cruz Mountains, CA · camping · planning guide

    An intimate three-day, two-night Santa Cruz Mountains camping gathering where a redwood forest becomes an immersive autumn world of art, music, workshops, st…

  • Hillberry Music Festival 2026 — 2026-10-07 · The Farm Campground & Events · Eureka Springs, AR · camping · planning guide

    Five nights of bluegrass, funk, camping, workshops, kids activities, art installations, and food/craft vendors at The Farm Campground & Events near Eureka Sp…

  • Suwannee Roots Revival 2026 — 2026-10-08 · Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park · Live Oak, FL · camping · planning guide

    Four-day roots, bluegrass, folk and Americana campout at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park with primitive camping, family programming and a strong volunteer/…

  • Joshua Tree Music Festival — Fall 2026 — 2026-10-08 · Joshua Tree Lake Campground · Joshua Tree, CA · camping · planning guide

    A four-night, three-day family-friendly desert campout combining live music with movement, mindfulness, playshops, Kidsville, and a deliberately intimate com…

  • Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival 2026 — 2026-10-09 · Lafayette Square Park · New Orleans, LA · planning guide

    Free three-day blues, R&B, barbecue and visual-arts festival in Lafayette Square.

  • Stars of Texas Music Festival 2026 — 2026-10-09 · Texas Motorplex · Ennis, TX · camping · planning guide

    Three-night Texas festival combining country music, lantern releases, racing, bull riding, food and on-site camping.

  • Seven Stars 2026 — 2026-10-09 · LOCKN' and Oak Ridge Farm · Arrington, VA · camping · planning guide

    A three-day music and camping festival at LOCKN' and Oak Ridge Farm in Arrington, Virginia, with daytime activities and late-night sets.

  • Head Trip 2026 — 2026-10-10 · Empire Polo Club · Indio, CA · camping · planning guide

    Goldenvoice’s one-time-only two-day electronic music festival at Empire Polo Club in Indio, with a single-stage-focused lineup, onsite car camping, shuttles…

  • CaveFest 2026 — 2026-10-10 · The Caverns · Pelham, TN · camping · planning guide

    The Caverns' fifth annual two-day festival in Pelham, Tennessee, combining above-ground and underground music, camping, glamping, cave tours, workshops, food…

  • Lake Eden Reunion 2026 — 2026-10-16 · Lake Eden · Black Mountain, NC · camping · planning guide

    Family-friendly music, art and community reunion at Lake Eden in Black Mountain with weekend camping, cabins, workshops and broad creative participation.

  • III Points 2026 — 2026-10-16 · Mana Wynwood, Miami, FL · planning guide

    Two-night Miami music and arts festival at Mana Wynwood, centered on electronic and experimental music with a strong visual-art and nightlife component.

  • Woolly Worm Festival 2026 — 2026-10-17 · Historic Banner Elk Elementary School · Banner Elk, NC · planning guide

    Nearly 50-year-old Appalachian fall festival built around woolly worm races, folk weather prediction, craft and food vendors, entertainment and family activi…

  • Amsterdam Dance Event 2026 — 2026-10-21 · Amsterdam, Netherlands · planning guide

    Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) returns October 21–25, 2026 for its 30th anniversary, bringing 1,200+ electronic-music events to 300+ venues across Amsterdam alo…

  • Suwannee Hulaween 2026 — 2026-10-22 · Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park · Live Oak, FL · camping · planning guide

    Four days of music, camping, art, installations, performance, and community at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida.

  • Escape Halloween 2026 — 2026-10-30 · NOS Events Center · San Bernardino, CA · planning guide

    Two-night Halloween electronic music festival at NOS Events Center with late-night afterparties.

  • Freaky Deaky 2026 — 2026-10-30 · Travis County Exposition Center · Austin, TX · planning guide

    Two-night 18+ Halloween electronic music festival at Travis County Exposition Center in Austin.

Planning intelligence for this festival collection

15 events currently list camping; 7 explicitly list no onsite camping. 12 publish train, bus, ferry, transit, or shuttle language in current transport notes. 16 track at least one participation path such as vendor, volunteer, staff, media, artist, or sponsor.

Transit and shuttle signals

  • Aftershock Festival 2026 — Discovery Park has no general on-site parking. Guests use paid off-site parking, Park & Ride, SacRT transit, rideshare or walking routes; accessible parking…
  • Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival — Fall 2026 — Vehicle campers who need to leave are asked to do so between 8 AM and noon. Golf-cart shuttles operate in daylight between front parking and tent-camping are…
  • Austin City Limits Music Festival 2026 — There is no parking at Zilker Park or in the surrounding neighborhoods for ACL. Official options include CapMetro, festival shuttles, rideshare/drop-off, wal…
  • Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival 2026 — Lafayette Square is served by the St. Charles Avenue streetcar and Magazine Street bus. Paid garage/street parking is available nearby, subject to city parki…
  • Seven Stars 2026 — The organizer publishes hotel shuttle stops and a festival shuttle drop-off near Gate 2.
  • Head Trip 2026 — Day parking is free. Preferred parking, Any Time/Any Line shuttles and scheduled shuttles are also sold. Hotel packages bundle lodging with festival and shut…

Participation paths tracked

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Back-to-back same-state possibilities

These are calendar pairings, not travel-time recommendations.