Our festival includes: parades; food; flea-market; contests; family entertainment; silent auctions; a carnival. See our Web site for details and schedules.

This is a Mexican holiday celebrating the lives of those who have passed on. Ofrendas (altars) are made for loved ones by community members and artists. Artwork inspired by the holiday is displayed in an exhibit opening the first Friday in October and lasting six weeks. A street festival is held Saturday, with attractions for children and adults: food; drinks; games; crafts; dancing; music.

Missouri Town 1855 comes alive with fall excitement. Your family will be treated to period appropriate music, food, games and crafts. The mid 19th century country fair will showcase juried pies and jellies. A special children's game area will provide 19th century fun for the kids.

Pony Express Pumpkinfest is a free family arts festival celbrating the magic of the fall harvest. It is an outdoor festival, focusing on children. It attracts more than 20,000 people. Held at the Pony Express National Museum.

The 61st annual Dogwood Festival is fun for the entire family: parade; craft shows; art show; carnival; food vendors; dog contest; pageants; golf tournament; 5K run/walk; fish fry; young eagle flights; garage sales; and free entertainment.

Celebrate the internationally known pies of Collins. A great day for the family: pie judging; pie auction; pie eating contest; live music; children’s games and rides; a kid’s tractor pull; a car show; local craftsman; food vendors; and a fireworks show.

New Madrid is proud to be one of the qualifying tournaments on the Cabela's King Kat Tournament Trail. There are many family friendly activities during the day, including an arts and crafts fair, games for the kids, a Little Miss King Kat Contest, waterfowl and fishing booths. The tournament weigh-in takes place on Main Street around 4 p.m.

Weston's shopping district was designated as a historic site in 1972. Enjoy that old town charm with diverse and unique shops, many of which are located in buildings built prior to the Civil War. We have a variety of apple products; pumpkins; gourds; bittersweet; vegetables; festival food; artisans selling and demonstrating their crafts; children’s activities; games; crafts; pony rides; and live music. Parking available off of Route 45 where signs are posted. Do not enter Route JJ for parking. Shuttle buses run on a regular schedule from the parking areas to the festival. Buses will not run from 9 a.m.-11 a.m. Saturday, during the parade.

Wander back in time at Alley Spring's annual festival of storytelling, music and traditional crafts. Storytellers weave their spells around you in the darkness of a fall evening. During the day, enjoy demonstrations of traditional Ozark crafts and lifestyles from the 1800s. There is live music, food and lots to see and do. Bring a blanket or chair to sit on.

The Haunting is the same weekend as the big Craft Show in Eminence, so be sure to catch both and make a full weekend of it. Alley Spring is located six miles west of Eminence, on Route 106.

The festival presents outstanding arts, crafts, musical entertainment, decorations for every holiday, and tens of thousands of pumpkins. The festival features family activities, pumpkin carving, pumpkin painting, apple butter making, music, games, a straw maze, and a corn maze.

Celebrate the craftsmanship of the Midwest and the heritage of Branson. This is a juried art and craft show, featuring a wide spectrum of crafts from nearly 200 vendors. We have food vendors, seminars, demonstrations, a children’s area, and entertainment. Come to the street dance on Saturday evening. The event takes place in the downtown area.

The Festival begins Thursday night with a theatrical play. Festivities continue on Friday evening with an Apple Festival King and Queen crowning; apple pie baking contest; car cruise; baby dumpling contest; apple dumpling and darling contest; burnout contest; and a sock hop. Saturday continues with a pancake breakfast; parade; 5K run; two-mile walk; half-mile kids fun run; car show; tractor and engine display; German dinner; pie baking contest and auction; museum tours; quilt show; and compact figure eight race.

This festival raises awareness of social justice issues, using a variety of artistic media. Feature, documentary, and short films are solicited from around the world; only the best will be shown at the festival. The festival includes opportunities to sample a variety of local cuisine and wine. The Artisans Showcase features artists from around the state who use a variety of media to create their unique works of art.

Arts and crafts festival with music, food and children's events.

The Clark Co. Mule Festival is a three day mule show. It includes crafts; a flea market; trail rides; and souvenirs. Enjoy Mule Polo and Team penning friday, 6 p.m.; shows at Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.; and a Mule Rodeo Saturday, 7 p.m. Food, drink, and camping available on the grounds. Held at the Clark County Fairgrounds.

Enjoy a fun-filled day of food, crafts, entertainment, kid's activities, carnival, inflatables, a petting zoo, as well as educational opportunities. The festival includes the Lake's Got Talent Contest and the Bow Wow Contest. Stop by the Osage Beach City Park to enjoy this family fun event.

Heartwarming celebration of family and down home fun, with a prade, free concert, games for the kids and various booths.

At the Hartville Fall Festival and the "Got Milk? Fall Nationals" sprint kart races start on the town square, with live music and entertainment, great food, and craft vendors. We will have vendors selling T-Shirts, woodworks, handmade jewelry, flowers, pottery, handmade home decor, candles are a few of the items available. There is plenty of fun action for the kiddies: homemade toys, carnival games, a petting zoo, and pony rides are sure to keep them busy. A downtown parade begins at 3:30 p.m., followed by the Outlaw Sprint Kart races, at the horseshow arena.

On Friday, board the Pumpkin Wagon and take a trip down a country lane along the bluffs of the Missouri River Valley; sample some of the finest Port in the area in a 130 year old vaulted wine cellar, built into the hillsides of Augusta; head to the barn and choose your Harvest Basket filled with a variety of goodies, accoutrements and wine; and enjoy a concert in the vineyards. On Saturday, most businesses (shops, wineries, brewery, restaurants, Bed/Breakfasts) will be open with special Harvest Celebration activities.

Enjoy a glimpse of late 18th century American culture at Fort Osage National Historic Landmark. Volunteers demonstrate the lifestyles of our colonial ancestors. From period appropriate clothing to arts and crafts, you will share this rich segment of our heritage. Special displays of everyday objects appropriate to Colonial America will help you better understand life of the period.

A Labor Day weekend festival. Enjoy the carnival, vendors, food, bingo, music, kids tractor pulls, cloggers, old-time fiddlers contest, arm wrestling, and tractor and truck pulls.

Come out for a weekend of traditional Irish music, food, entertainment, and activities. Featuring the Celtic rock band Barleyjuice and traditional group Bua. This festival is held in September as a sort of half way to St. Patrick’s Day celebration.

A week-long celebration for the opening of the Springfield-Greene County Botanical Center in Nathanael Greene/Close Memorial Park. Join us for garden seminars, tours, demonstrations, music and entertainment for all ages.

Started in the late 1960s as a marching band competition, the annual Maple Leaf Festival received its name thanks to Mother Nature. Surrounded by an array of glorious fall colors, the city of Carthage proudly welcomes visitors to this wonderful fall celebration. Numerous activities are scheduled to entertain both the young and the young at heart. These events include an arts and crafts festival, petting zoo, auto show, dog show, food vendors, and live entertainment. The grand finale day of the eight-day festival begins with one of the largest parades in southwest Missouri. The parade, the festival's key event, starts at 9 a.m. on the square and travels to the Carthage Junior High School.

Gladfest is an old fashioned fall festival with something for everyone: live entertainment, food and beverages; a Saturday morning parade, a train exhibit, camel rides, arts and crafts; a Sunday car, truck and motorcycle show, model car exhibit, a carnival and children's activities. This event will take place at 7010 N Holmes.

This festival is held at Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site. Activities include demonstrations of early 19th century crafts and Ozark agriculture; living history camps representing Nathan Boone's careers as a hunter, soldier, farmer, politician, explorer, businessman and scout; and historical interpreters to tell stories of the Boone family and their connection to the Ozarks.

This festival has something for everyone, so bring the entire family or come on your own and make new friends. We kick off the event Thursday, with the Hillbilly Kids Carnival and Kids Bike Parade downtown at 5:30 p.m. Friday-Sunday, there are arts and crafts, food, fun and entertainment at Bennett Spring State Park. Visit 100 arts and crafts booths, featuring all handcrafted items. Saturday, participate in hillbilly games, such as the gunny sack race and a cow chip fling. Sunday, go to the antique and classic car, truck and tractor show, with extras like antique steam engines. Admission is free.

This fun-filled family day includes: a tent full of business and neighborhood booths; music and entertainment every hour; inflatable activities for children; a train; a climbing wall; and vendors selling delicious foods and beverages. Special events all day, including contests, car bashing and a dunk tank.

Come to the town where Edger Buchanan (Uncle Joe on petticoat junction) was born and help us celebrate our 63rd Fall Festival. Live music all three nights; a baby contest; craft booths; food booths; flea market; games; street dancing. Humansville is off of Route 13, between Collins and Bolivar.

Celebrate fall at this annual festival with more than sixty vendors, an art show, and an apple auction. Held on Main Street, downtown.

This Mennonite Central Committee festival offers a little bit of everything: quilts; artwork; woodwork; homemade foods; antiques; crafts; music; a petting zoo; furniture; bedding plants; tools; machinery; tractor-pulled train rides; and a live steam engine. The auction begins with dinner on Friday night. Enjoy breakfast Saturday, followed by a full day of food and fun for the family. Proceeds go directly to people in need. Held at the Tri-County Auction and Convention Center.

The annual Japanese Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden presents taiko drumming, traditional tea ceremonies, martial arts, candlelight walks in the Japanese Garden. Doors open at 9 a.m. Tickets: $15; age 65+, $10; ages 3-12 and members, $5. Buy tickets in advance online at www.mobot.org. No trams.

Two well-known St. Louis County traditions are combined: the Tilles Fine Arts Festival, at the St. Louis Carousel area in Faust Park; and the Faust Folk Festival. Hop on a hay-wagon for a free ride to the Historic Village entrance. The festival features tours, demonstrations of blacksmithing, rope making, pottery firing and other historical arts and crafts. In addition, enjoy a first rate juried fine arts sale featuring artists with their original work. There are live music, food vendors and children’s activities.

Admission:$5; younger than 5, free; includes both events and a ride on the St. Louis Carousel.

Hootin’ an’ Hollarin’ is a down-home festival celebrating 50 years of fun. This free festival is held in the streets around Ozark County Court House Square; arts, crafts and food booths fill both side of the streets. Shade tree Jammin' on the court house lawn is a constant on Friday and Saturday. Country and gospel music are presented on the stage and from the gazebo throughout the Festival. There is a quilt show; turkey shoots (bow and arrows; and guns); horse shoe pitching; outhouse and bed racing; pet show; costume parade; float parade; pie baking contest; and calling contests (cow; hog, turkey and husbands). Thursday evening a Hootin’ an’ Hollarin’ Queen is selected from a bevy of local girls who are introduced and interviewed on stage. Square dancing follows that night, and after the stage shows Friday and Saturday nights. Other contests are for the Li'l Addie Lee and Li'l Cedar Pete, Li'l Miss and Li'l Princess pagents. All contestants are interviewed on stage in appropriate costumes before winners are selected and crowned. Included in the activities are old-fashioned games and contests for children.

Chicken and ham dinner with liver-dumplings and trimmings. Raffle; antique tractor exhibit; car show; live bands; horseshoe tournament; country store; Wild Bird Sanctuary exhibits; kettle corn; basket raffle; games for the family; and lots of kids games. I-55, exit 150; Route A to Zell. Dinner: $8; children, $4.

Enjoy the parade, music, food and a car show. This is a great family event with lots of vendor booths. The event is held in downtown Eldon.

Shop the many arts and crafts booths, then sit back and enjoy a bite to eat while listening to live entertainment. Send the weekend getting in touch with your German heritage. Booths are set up along Main Street in Historic Downtown Washington. A Farmers' Market will be open both days with fresh produce, delicious baked goods and hand made crafts.

This is a harvest festival and chestnut extravaganza. Activities center around the farm's Thomas Hickman House, built in 1819; one of Missouri's oldest standing brick homes. Tours of the house and farm are available throughout the day. Other activities include food and wine tasting booths, cooking demonstrations, children's games, and a chestnut roasting booth. Food concessions include grilled Missouri-produced elk, buffalo and beef products. Free admission and parking. The event is held rain or shine. Most of the activities are held under large tents. The Missouri Chestnut Roast is held at the MU Horticulture and Agroforestry Research Center.

A weekend of unforgettable memories, with family entertainment, races, music, food, street dances and a parade.

The festival features: a car and motorcycle show; flea market; car-parts swap meet; craft show; a chili and barbecue cook-off; and an apple pie contest. Activities are held around the town square.

Silver Dollar City, the Home of American Craftsmanship, welcomes hundreds of visiting craftsmen to demonstrate and display their unique talents. The festival includes the Crafts in America Exhibit, displying 50 of the nation's most stunning works of art; the Caricature Carvers of America Showcase; and a reunion of some of Silver Dollar City's legendary veteran craftsmen. Plus, don't miss America's Biggest Barn Dance in Red Gold Heritage Hall.

Admission to Silver Dollar City is required: $53; age 62+, $51; ages 4-11, $43. See website for schedule and details.

This annual festival at Boone's Lick State Historic Site features old time crafts and activities from the past.

Shrimp harvest day includes complete drainage of the grow-out pond, usually drained by 9 a.m. when sales of the prawns begin. Prawns can be bought to take home; for a fee, we will cook them at our cook shack. Shrimp dinners are available, along with hamburgers, hotdogs, brats, chips, and beverages. Wine and cheese tasting, music, shirt giveaways, and games will be going on through the day. Games include horseshoes, washers, volleyball, checkers, and ring toss. Fun and educational for all age groups. Tour the nursery and greenhouse with working hydroponic garden; hike to the natural spring; relax in the fall atmosphere. Camping available. Free admission.