The Biggest Festival of the Year!
Dahlonega's own Gold Rush Days
is the largest arts & crafts festival in the North Georgia Mountains with over 300 arts & crafts booths,
traditional mountain festivities such as hog calling, liar’s contest, crosscut sawing, clogging,
buck dancing, and bluegrass music. On the Historic Town Square, October 15th & 16th.
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To The West...
Ellijay, Georgia celebrates the almighty apple every year with
The Georgia Apple Festival which
remembers how apple crops saved the area after the cotton bust of the 1920's. Food, arts and crafts
and of course every apple product known to man will be there! Oct. 8th & 9th, 15th & 16th.
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... To The East...
Perhaps the biggest party in Northeast Georgia will be going on all month just east of
us as Helen, Georgia celebrates Oktoberfest.
Helen was fashioned after Munich, Germany as an Alpine village and goes all out for this festival. If you like beer,
bratwurst and oompah music, this is the party for you!
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... and up North
Blairsville celebrates a North Georgia staple every year with the
Sorghum Festival. Sorghum was one of the first
crops to be produced in the North Georgia Mountains and is still used today in porridge, unleavened bread, cookies, cakes, couscous,
and (ahem) malted beverages. Held on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th weekends of October events include a parade, music, arts and crafts, contests, dancing and
more!
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Fall Fun for the Family!
It's this time of year when our friends at Burt's Farm open for fall fun! Choose your own pumpkin among the
thousands of differing shapes and sizes at Burt's famous pumpkin patch! Take an old fashioned hay ride
along a winding scenic trail. Plus, Indian corn, cornstalks and hay bales are also in never ending supply at the farm.
Great fun for the whole family!
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Area Attractions & Happenings
Click on the
links
for more information on
the following
North Georgia Attractions & Happenings.
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| Sept. 30 - Oct. 10: "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at the Holly Theater - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of sibling rivalry, set on a Mississippi plantation as a Southern family gather for the 65th birthday of Big Daddy, its ailing patriarch. |
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October 1:
Mountain Music & Medicine Show at the Buisson Arts Center - The Mountain Music & Medicine Show retakes the
Dahlonega Stage! Music, storytellin' and laughter will be ringing again as this popular variety show comes back to
Dahlonega. A very popular event so make ticket reservations now!
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| October 1: Hemlockfest 2005 - A benefit to save the hemlock tree.
The Eastern and the Carolina hemlocks are dying. Please help use save them by coming and listening to some great musicians and enjoying good food, SweetWater beer and Three Sisters wine. 15 and under free. Visit our website for further information. |
| October 1 - 2: Indian Summer Festival in Suches - On the grounds of Woody Gap School ~ Georgia's Smallest Public School GA Hwy. 60, between Dahlonega and Blue Ridge ~ Activities and family entertainment Saturday & Sunday 9 to 5 ~ Run Above the Clouds, 9 am Saturday, 10K run, 1 mile walk. Rod Run Car Show sponsored by the Suches Fire Department. Free Parking - Admission $3.00 (Under 6 FREE) 706-747-2401 |
| October 7: 'Dahlonega Haunts' Book Release Party - The book release party for Georgia Author of the Year, Amy Blackmarr's long-awaited 'Dahlonega Haunts'. 'Dahlonega Haunts' is a book of absolutely fascinating personal accounts concerning Dahlonega's more... Ghostly Citizens. Don't miss this one! |
October 7:
Music in the Park -
The Music in the Park series showcases the diversity of local musicians on the first Friday of each month at 7 p.m.
Bring a picnic supper to Hancock Park and spend some time with your family and friends. This free series is
an excellent way to wind down from the week!
Featured this month: Tucker Station
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| October 15 - 16: Gold Rush Days Festival - The largest arts & crafts festival in the NE Georgia mountains with over 300 arts & crafts booths; includes traditional mountain festivities such as hog calling, liar’s contest, crosscut sawing, clogging, buck dancing, and bluegrass music. Historic Town Square. |
| October 29 - 30: HalloWINE Celebration at Three Sisters Vineyards - It is Halloween in Georgia Wine Country...or as we like to call it "HalloWINE!" Come to Three Sisters Winery for some spooky fun during our "HalloWINE Weekend!" We'll have scary ghosts and hoot-nanny music. Complimentary tastes of our wines-especially our "Blood Mountain Red." Be sure to bring the kids for some Trick or Treat fun...ooooooh scary! |
