Escape To The Southeast

Pumpkins at Calloway
2025-09-13 - 2025-11-01

The NC Folk Fest
2025-09-12 - 2025-09-14

Sumter Iris Festival
2025-05-16 - 2025-05-18
The 3-day festival includes concerts, arts & crafts, plants & flowers, antique & classic car shows, several contests and lots of children’s activities. The fun begins the evening before the festival, with the annual crowning of The King & Queen scholarship recipients followed by the “Taste at the Gardens”, featuring great music and great food from some of the area’s leading restaurants, chefs, and caterers.

Night Market BTR
2025-05-10 15:00 - 21:00 UTC | Downtown Baton Rouge, LA

Battle Below the Clouds
2025-05-03
Ruby Falls annual event, Battle Below the Clouds, is the friendliest barbecue competition in the South! Amateur grillers and smokers compete for bragging rights as the best backyard cooks in five different barbecue categories.
During this day-long festival, guests enjoy live bluegrass music, delicious BBQ and beer for purchase, kids’ activities and door prizes.
100% of team entry fees and additional contributions are donated to the Lana’s Love Foundation, a Chattanooga nonprofit that provides fun, year-round activities for local kids fighting cancer and their families.

Farm to Fork - Ride or Run
2025-04-25 - 2025-04-26
The Farm to Fork- Ride, Run, Crit (F2F), hosted by Extra Table, is a unique two-day outdoor event in southern Mississippi, focusing on the athletes’ experience while highlighting Hattiesburg as an outdoor and culinary destination.
The event features a Criterium, 34, 48, and 62-mile bike rides and a 5K, 10K, and half marathon. THIS RACE FEEDS PEOPLE, we like to say. F2F raises the much-needed funds that allow Extra Table to buy healthy, shelf-stable food that is delivered monthly for free to our 62 food pantry and soup kitchen partners across Mississippi.

Double Decker Arts Festival
2025-04-25 - 2025-04-26 | Downtown Oxford, MS, Oxford, Mississippi
The 28th annual Double Decker Festival will be held in Spring, April 2025. Originally inspired by the Double Decker bus that Oxford imported from England in 1994, the festival showcases Oxford as a town that supports the arts and has grown to be one of the champion events in the region.
Double Decker started with the bed of an old pickup truck serving as the stage for music, and only hosted a handful art and food vendors. Today, the event is centered around the historic Courthouse Square, and boasts a crowd of more than 60,000 people.
Now in a two-day format, Double Decker will kick-off on Friday with art demonstrations around the Square and the evening with with music. Saturday is an all-day affair featuring over 100 art and 20+ local food vendors while a generous mix of touring musicians take to the stage.

Baton Rouge Blues Festival
2025-04-04 - 2025-04-06 | Downtown Baton Rouge, LA
The Baton Rouge Blues Festival is a free, weekend-long annual celebration of swamp blues held in
downtown Baton Rouge.
Originating in 1981, it is one of the oldest blues festivals in America, first held
on the campus of Southern University. The festival, produced by the Baton Rouge Blues Festival and
Foundation, honors legendary home-grown blues artists like Slim Harpo, Rudy Richard, Silas Hogan,
Whisperin’ Smith, Guitar Kelly, Schoolboy Cleve, Chewin’ Gum Johnson, and Raful Neal. Over the years,
Blues Fest has featured nationally and internationally recognized artists such as Bobby Blue Bland,
Marcia Ball, Phil Guy, Larry Garner, and Charlie Musselwhite. Notable performances include hometown
favorite Buddy Guy in 2016 and Louisiana darling Mavis Staples in 2019.
Swamp blues, a genre that originated in Louisiana’s capital city, gained significant exposure in the 1950s
thanks to Crowley record producer J.D. Miller. Miller’s distribution of recordings from Baton Rouge blues
artists through Nashville’s Excello Records brought names like Lightnin’ Slim and Slim Harpo into the
American music scene with hits like “Rooster Blues” and “Rainin’ In My Heart.”

42nd Annual Conyers Cherry Blossom Festival
2025-03-22 - 2025-03-23 | GA International Horse Park/City of Conyers, GA, 1996 Centennial Olympic Park, Conyers, GA, 30013, United States
Spring it On at the Conyers Cherry Blossom Festival! The 2025 event marks 44 years of the Conyers Cherry Blossom Festival in Conyers. Shop among unique art and craft exhibitors, eat your way through the multiple food courts, enjoy cultural performances, listen to live music, and play in the children’s area.
The Cherry Blossom Festival originated as a way to encourage cultural understanding and friendship through international music, dance, games, food and crafts. The cherry blossom is a symbol of short-lived beauty in Japan, and the City of Conyers embraces this tradition as well. The blooming of the cherry trees offers a time to reflect upon our lives. Like the blooming of the trees, life is short, so you have to appreciate and embrace it.
The Conyers Cherry Blossom Festival has received many awards over the years for Best Event in the Southeast by the Southeast Festival and Events Association. It has also been selected over the years as a Top 20 Event in the Southeast by the Southeast Tourism Society for multiple years. Most recently the festival was selected as a Signature Event in the Southeast by the Southeast Tourism Society!
Festival Hours:
Saturday and Sunday
10:00AM-5:00PM
Admission and Parking Fee:
Enjoy free admission with a $10 parking fee per vehicle. The festival accepts credit or debit cards ONLY for parking fees. In an effort to reduce person-to-person contact, cash is NOT accepted for parking fees. This applies to parking fees only. Vendors participating in the festival may choose to accept credit cards, debit cards or cash at their booth locations.
For festival information, contact us today at 770-860-4190.

38th Annual Forsythia Festival
2025-03-08 - 2025-03-09
The Forsythia Festival will celebrate its 38th year in 2025! The festival season begins with Hello Yellow 2 weeks before Festival weekend. The town is encouraged to show their yellow leading up to the Festival. Our Festival is free to the public and features handmade arts and crafts, a 5K run, a food truck frenzy, a cornhole tournament, lots of live entertainment as well as lots of activities for the family!
The Forsythia Festival is a favorite event for all locals and travelers. During this time, we see our local businesses, citizens, schools & churches all come together to “Show Us Your Yellow”!

100 Million Steps in March
2025-03-01 - 2025-03-31 | Ruby Falls, 1720 S. Scenic Hwy, Chattanooga, TN, 37409, United States
Ruby Falls supports the mission of the American Heart Association Go Red for Women in a big way by accepting the challenge to walk 100 million steps at Ruby Falls every March!
Come get active by walking the cavern trail to the thundering underground waterfall and sign the event banner to show your participation in the 100 million step goal. Together, we’re taking steps towards healthier hearts and creating amazing memories along the way.

Georgia National Rodeo
2025-02-20 - 2025-02-22
The Georgia National Rodeo is Georgia’s can’t-miss family-friendly rodeo, featuring nationally recognized professional cowboys and girls competing in seven events. Ordained by the Pro Rodeo Cowboy Association, contestants at the Georgia National Rodeo compete to earn qualifying points to compete in the National Rodeo Finals in Las Vegas.
Each February, this event welcomes 15,000 rodeo fans to three nightly performances. The Rodeo wouldn’t be complete without premium western apparel vendors and activities, including goat roping and inflatable bull riding.

Dread Hollow
2024-12-28 | Ruby Falls, 1720 S. Scenic Hwy, Chattanooga, TN, 37409, United States
Chattanooga’s award-winning haunted attraction returns every fall with all new terrifying sets, storylines, and scares. Frightening fear-seekers for 21 years, the masterminds behind Dread Hollow unleash new evolutions of terror each season with ominously interactive actors and twisted storylines playing out over 25,000+ square feet of all-new, meticulously detailed haunted house sets, unsettling illusions, and horror-themed escape rooms.
Two dates for fall: Saturday, December 28 and Saturday, January 4

Peace River Botanical & Sculpture Gardens' Gardens Aglow
2024-12-06 08:00 - 2024-12-23 17:00 | Peace River Botanical & Sculpture Gardens, 5827 Riverside Drive, Punta Gorda, 33982, United States
Now in its sixth year of celebration, Gardens Aglow, put on by the Peace River Botanical & Sculpture Gardens, is a magical experience for the whole family to enjoy. Enjoy the enchanting annual event where acres of beautifully adorned gardens sparkle with thousands of lights, creating the ideal holiday excursion for family and friends through:
• A mesmerizing stroll around the Gardens illuminated by thousands of lights and accompanied by enchanting music.
• Festive Christmas carol performances and the opportunity to capture magical moments with Santa every night.
• S’mores roasting over a cozy fire pit and the option to savor hot chocolate.
• A chance to win a Christmas tree through a festive raffle.
• A holiday gallery and a variety of enjoyable activities for the entire family.
Nestled alongside the serene Peace River, Peace River Botanical & Sculpture Gardens’ 30-acre sanctuary combines the richness of five unique ecosystems: marshlands, wetlands, mangroves, uplands, and tidal basins. Its gardens are alive with year-round blooms, showcased alongside a sprawling network of 15,000+ square feet of boardwalks and docks—perfect for immersing yourself in its collection of grand sculptures.
Dive deeper into the origins, aspirations, and ongoing evolution of this flourishing botanical haven.
Gates close at 8:15 pm for admission, and Gardens Aglow illuminates the sky until 9 pm.
Gardens Aglow is an exclusive ticketed event and does not grant access to the Garden during regular hours of operation. For inquiries, please contact us at 941.621.8299.

Extra Table - March of Mayors
2024-11-12 08:00 - 17:00
5 days, 5 regions, and FIFTY MAYORS TEAMING UP TO FEED OUR HUNGRY NEIGHBORS
March of the Mayors is a canned food drive, a fundraiser and it’s ‘Mississippi’s Largest Food Box Packing Party’ complete with Moon Pies, Mardi Gras beads, and volunteers all rolled into one jazzy Second Line with a mission to feed hungry Mississippians!⁠
