Fall Festival Round-Up

Josh SchukmanSeptember 5, 2024

Fall Festival Round-Up

Fall is a great season for festivals. From food fests to music fests to craft fests to other quirky fests, our nation celebrates fall with a bang. 

This is your ultimate guide to everything we’ve ever written on this site about fall gatherings that warm the soul. In typical Outdoorsy fashion, these resources will also get you the deets on when to camp, where to camp, and how to get an RV there. 

So let’s dig into this round-up of all things fall-festivating:


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RV-Friendly Music Festivals

There are so many RV-friendly music festivals out there that we write up individual posts to list them all out month-by-month. 

Here’s everything hitting this fall:

September Music That Plays Nice With RVs — Blues and Brews Fest in Telluride and Bourbon and Beyond in Kentucky are just a few fun stops on this list. 

October Music Festivals That Are RV Friendly — Joshua Tree Music Festival, Country Thunder, and Suwanee Hulaween are just a few hallmarks. 

RV Friendly Tunes in November — Electric Daisy Carnival and Tucson’s Dusk Festival are some well-known examples that help stack out this musical month. 

And when it comes to renting festival-friendly rigs, we have you covered there too. This landing page shows all the RVs for rent near you that fit the bill. You can also use that page to find campers for rent near any fest you want to go to. 

Other Musicfest Bits

Outside our monthly guides, we put together these additional resources for good vibrations: 

Tips for Attending Music Festivals in an RV

Best RV-Friendly Music Festivals

7 Reasons to Take an RV to Your Next Music Festival

Balloon Festivals

You read that right — festivals happen all over the country devoted to hot air ballooning. One of the most famous being the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.

Baloon festival

We put together pages for some of the biggest balloon fests featuring nearby RVs for rent:

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta

Havasu Balloon Festival (January)

Plano Balloon Festival

Great Reno Balloon Race

Unheard of Festivals in the U.S.

Just because they’re ‘unheard of’ doesn’t mean they aren’t ridiculously cool. We’re talking a festival for duct tape, an underwater music festival, lumberjack fests, UFO fests, days with a frozen dead guy, and oh so much more. 

Read all about these 22 unheard-of festivals.

Fall Festival

Festivals Worth A Road Trip

Some celebrations are so cool that they become destinations. From Garlic festivals to Viking festivals to BBQ fests and more, here are five gatherings that attract people from far and wide.

Bonus: Discover our event guides for food-fests happening nationwide.  

Cultural Festivals

These are shindigs like the Renaissance festivals, Pumpkin festivals, cider festivals, and much more that celebrate different fall things that people love. 

Check out our full guide to cultural festivals around the U.S.

Motorsports

While a NASCAR race isn’t technically billed as a festival, it may as well be. Seas of fans arrive early, stay late, and camp out in RV cities celebrating cars and camping.

We put together these guides to all the race-fests we could find in the U.S. Look to the Southeastern and Southwestern states for fall races.

Rodeos

Major rodeos span many days and celebrate all things Ag. Several of them happen in the fall and feature fun festivating.  

Check out the biggest rodeos here 

Closing Thoughts: More Fall and Winter Festivals

Here are more of our fall favorite festivals. And here are festivals to shake away the winter blues. The fun thing about fall is that it’s a time filled with lots of activities, and you can also plan for winter fests coming up around the holidays.


Festivals create a special buzz that can’t be beaten. RVing to festivals adds another dimension to the experience because you can keep the party going after official events have wrapped.  Find a festival-friendly RV near you and roll out on epic adventures. 


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Josh and his wife traveled around the country in an '88 Airstream for 4+ years of full-time RVing. They made an unexpected pitstop in Montana in 2020 and haven't left since. That's because they got hooked on the glamping resort they run by Glacier National Park. Fittingly, they keep up their RVing love by renting out vintage Airstreams and other retro RVs to travelers hitting Montana.


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