The Fell's Point Fun Festival turns 60 this weekend, with three days of vendors and bands along Thames Street starting Friday night. On Saturday morning Daniel Tiger brings a dance party to the B&O Railroad Museum, and in the afternoon the Poe Festival at Lexington Market runs a costume parade anyone can join.
Further down: a Harford County apple festival, a free Jurassic Park screening in Irvington Park, honey extraction at Oregon Ridge, a BMA photography opening with art-making, glass pumpkins you blow yourself, and the Ravens at home Sunday.
Top Pick
60th Fell's Point Fun Festival — Thames Street from Caroline to Wolfe, Fells Point, Baltimore City Friday 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM, Saturday from 11:00 AM, Sunday from 12:00 PM ET | All ages | Free
Baltimore's longest-running street festival hits 60 this year, filling Thames Street with vendors, food and drink stalls, and local bands like Love Riot and Downtown Tumbao on the CFG Bank Main Stage. Friday is a night market, and Sunday brings a pet parade.
Quick Weekend Wins
Free, and you can just show up
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Darlington Apple Festival at the Darlington Firehouse grounds, 2600 Castleton Rd, Darlington (Harford County) Saturday, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET. Free admission; parking is $5. A one-day festival with crafters, food, an apple pie contest, and live entertainment.
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See Beyond Festival at the Maryland School for the Blind, 3501 Taylor Ave, Baltimore Saturday, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM ET. Free. The school opens its campus for a fifth year of live music, food trucks, adaptive sports, and hands-on sensory activities designed for every age and ability.
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First Sunday Arts Festival on West Street and Calvert Street, Annapolis (Anne Arundel County) Sunday, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET. Free. More than 130 artists and crafters sell pottery, glass, jewelry, and paintings along West Street, and the Johnson Male Chorus closes out the music from 2:30 PM.
Ticketed This Weekend
Not So Spooky Hayride & Sorta Spooky Haunted Orchard Walk — Hansel Hill Farm, Anne Arundel County Friday 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM, Saturday 4:00 PM – 7:30 PM, Sunday 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM ET | Ages 3+ | $10 per person A hayride, then a walk through the orchard after dark, with no chainsaws and no professional haunted-house actors. The farm's own scare scale: "VERY scary" under 5, "sorta scary" from 6 to 12.
Pumpkin Workshop at Corradetti Glassblowing — Corradetti Glassblowing Studio & Gallery, Clipper Park Rd, Woodberry, Baltimore City Sunday, sessions at 11:00 AM, 12:00 PM, 1:00 PM, and 2:00 PM ET | Ages 6+ | $75 per person A guided 15-minute session in which you make your own colorful glass pumpkin with an instructor.
Budget-Friendly Finds
Community Day: Flashback at the BMA — Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Dr, Charles Village, Baltimore City Sunday, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET | All ages | Free Opening day for Flashback: Two Centuries of Baltimore Photography: 200+ images spanning 185 years, from rare daguerreotypes and Civil War–era photographs to the work of one of the city's first Black-owned portrait studios. The afternoon adds art-making and gallery talks led by artists.
Glen Burnie Fall Fest — Glen Burnie Carnival Grounds, 19 Crain Hwy S, Glen Burnie (Anne Arundel County) Saturday, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET | All ages | Free More than 125 local vendors, food trucks, live music, a square dance demonstration, and the Kuethe Library's fall book sale in the hall.
For Toddler Families
Be My Neighbor Day with Daniel Tiger — B&O Railroad Museum (National Museum of Railroad History & Innovation), 901 W Pratt St, Baltimore City Saturday, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM ET | Young children and families | Free Daniel Tiger visits for a meet-and-greet while a DJ fills the Roundhouse, with face painting, a balloon artist, and firefighters, paramedics, and police to meet. Families go home with free goodies, and the museum asks you to register ahead.
Honey Harvest Festival — Oregon Ridge Nature Center, Cockeysville (Baltimore County) Sunday, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET | All ages | $5 per person at the gate Watch honey come out of the comb in extraction demos, meet live wildlife at the nature center, and shop jars from local beekeepers.
Tween-Approved
International Edgar Allan Poe Festival — Lexington Market Plaza, 112 N Eutaw St, Baltimore City Saturday and Sunday, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET | School-age and up | Free Saturday's Costume POErade leaves the main stage at 3:00 PM, open to anyone in costume, and the grounds hold a cryptography workshop run by the National Cryptologic Museum. There's a 21+ beer garden on site, and Poe House tours are $25.
Jurassic Park Rebirth in Irvington Park — Irvington Park, Baltimore City Friday, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM ET | Rated PG-13 | Free An outdoor screening in the Rhythm & Reels series, with free popcorn while it lasts.
Lion Turtle Island Lantern Puppet Build — Black Cherry Puppet Theater, 1115 Hollins St, Baltimore City Saturday, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET | Drop-ins welcome | Free Help build Black Cherry's giant Lion Turtle Island lantern puppet, which marches in the Great Baltimore Lantern Parade on Oct 24.
During the Week
- Monster Mashup with Risa Reyes — Enoch Pratt Govans Branch. Monday, Oct 5, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM ET. Ages 8–14. Free. Maryland monster lore and cryptozoology, then kids invent a monster of their own, backstory included.
- Science Heroes Presents: Digging It! — Enoch Pratt Edmondson Avenue Branch. Tuesday, Oct 6, 3:00 PM ET. Free. An after-school science show.
- Fire Engine Visit at sweetFrog Rosedale — Rosedale (Baltimore County). Tuesday, Oct 6, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET. Free ticket on Eventbrite. Local firefighters bring a real engine to a frozen-yogurt shop for Fire Prevention Week.
- Popsicle Stick Cars — Enoch Pratt Central Library. Wednesday, Oct 7, 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM ET. Kids 4–11. Free, no registration.
- Movie: Finding Nemo — Enoch Pratt Edmondson Avenue Branch. Thursday, Oct 8, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET. Free. The screening comes with a scavenger-hunt sheet for finding the movie's fish at the National Aquarium.
Mark Your Calendar
- Great Baltimore Lantern Parade & Día de los Muertos Festival — Patterson Park (Pulaski Monument), Baltimore City. Saturday, Oct 24: festival 4:00 PM, parade 7:00 PM ET, rain date Oct 25. Free. A Kids & Family Costume Contest registers at 3:30 PM. The Walters' free Family Day: Lanterns/Linternas on Saturday, Oct 10 (1:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET) is a lantern-making afternoon ahead of it.
- Fiesta Baltimore — Patterson Park, Baltimore City. Saturday and Sunday, Oct 10–11, 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM ET. Free. The eighth year of the region's largest Latino cultural festival, which draws more than 20,000 people.
- BSO Music Box: The Four Seasons — Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore City. Saturday, Oct 10, 10:00 AM and 11:30 AM ET. $10. Vivaldi for young listeners, played by the BSO String Quartet.
- Disney On Ice: Spotlight Magic — CFG Bank Arena, Baltimore City. Thursday–Sunday, Oct 15–18. Check the link for pricing.
- Halloween is a Saturday: the BSO's The Conductor's Spellbook plays the Meyerhoff at 11:00 AM ET on Oct 31, and Pete the Cat is at Center Stage Oct 31 and Nov 1. Check the links for pricing.
Also This Weekend
- Ravens vs. Titans — M&T Bank Stadium, Baltimore City. Sunday, 1:00 PM ET.
- Highlandtown First Friday Art Walk — Highlandtown, Baltimore City. Friday, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM ET. Free. A self-guided walk through 25+ galleries, shops, and restaurants with artist pop-ups.