Event Calendar

The 11th Annual Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival is a free public festival at Brackenridge Park’s Pecan Grove. The program features monarch tagging, nature activities, educational partners, music, and food, creating a focused day around pollinators and the natural world. RSVP is encouraged but not required, and admission is free. Visitors can explore the festival’s listed activities and connect with participating educational partners during the event. Check the official event page for RSVP details and the latest updates.

The purpose of Child Health Day is to help raise an awareness and a commitment to teaching children and parents the benefits of good health. This event is annually celebrated on the first Monday of October. The day was proclaimed in 1928 by Calvin Coolidge to increase awareness of health issues facing the children in the U.S. including health issues, healthy eating, fitness, child's development, immunizations, preventing injuries, and more.

Pumpkin Palooza is a free fall community event featuring activities, games, live music, and seasonal food. Open to all ages, the event offers an afternoon and evening of seasonal programming at The Rock at La Cantera. General admission is free; Coyote’s Corn Corral is an optional separately ticketed experience. Residents and visitors can plan around the event’s full-day schedule and choose whether to include the optional corral. Visit the official event website for current schedule and admission information.

Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several parts of the Western world, most commonly in Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom and occasionally in parts of Australia and New Zealand.