The Chattanooga Market | Oktoberfest • First Horizon Pavilion • The region’s best family-friendly Oktoberfest celebration! Come join our city celebration where the sights, smells, and sounds of German traditions take on a Chattanooga flair. There’s something for everyone at this two day festival featuring live entertainment on two stages, shopping with local artists, and a chicken dance or two! • The festival includes an array of German traditions: Brats and other German-inspired foods, a biergarten featuring dozens of varieties of local and seasonal craft brews, and an Oompah Band. Don’t miss our annual Mr. & Ms. Chattanooga Oktoberfest! Contest at the front stage Saturday evening. Contest open to all ages — just show up dressed in your lederhosen or dirndl! • Chattanooga Oktoberfest is an annual must-attend festival for locals and tourists alike, come enjoy this FREE event. German attire highly recommended • Sunday 11:00 – 5:00 pm Touch The Sky Events & Promotions | Hocus Pocus Fall Market • Camp Jordan Park • Join us for this exciting Hocus Pocus Fall Market inside Camp Jordan Arena sponsored by Magic Lamp Entertainment! Shop over 140 vendors, food, and a special visit from those silly sisters from Salem! • Bring the kids and have them trick-or-treat with each vendor, enjoy animal encounters, inflatables, and much more! • Admission $5, kids 10 & under FREE! • 10:00 – 4:00 pm  NoogaLights Presents: Halloween Walk-Thru Light Show at The Choo Choo • Beginning in October, NoogaLights at the Choo Choo will feature a Halloween walk-thru light show. Showcasing an immersive, family-friendly light show with nearly 1 million lights synchronized to holiday-specific music, NoogaLights at the Choo-Choo will have all your ghouls and goblins grinning from ear to ear • Nightly from October 1st – November 3rd | Sun–Thurs: 6:00 –10:00 pm | Fri & Sat: 6:00 – 11:00 pm • Get Tickets Here | $20 Adults + $12.50 Child (Fri. & Sat.) & $15 Adults + $10 Child (Sun. – Thurs.)  Dread Hollow | Vengeance • Dread Hollow is back with a Vengeance! Tortured souls, bewitching whispers, and monstrous evil exact their Vengeance in the tainted town of Dread Hollow! Chattanooga’s award-winning haunted attraction is back with 3 new haunted house experiences, and escape rooms! • Get $25 Tickets Here • Open Saturday 9/28 & Thursdays – Sundays In October • Thursdays: 8:00 – 10:00 pm | Fridays: 8:00 – 11:00 pm | Saturdays: 7:00 – 11:00 pm | Sundays 7:00 – 10:00 pm  Unknown Caller Bar | Harry Potter World • Wingardium Leviosa! Welcome to HARRY POTTER WORLD @ UNKNOWN! A whole MONTH of magic, wizardry and spell-binding fun at your favorite cocktail bar! • Relive the nostalgia of everyone’s favorite book/movie series this Halloween with No tickets required! • You know we go big for Halloween and this year is no different! The bar will be transformed into muggle-friendly replicas of your favorite scenes – from the Forbidden Forest, to Privet Drive and of course – Hogwarts itself! • We’ll have a FULL menu of alcoholic and non-alcoholic Harry Potter themed COCKTAILS! From our version of the famous ‘ Butter Beer’ to some insane ‘Bertie Botts Every Flavor Shots’! We cant wait to wow you with our creations! • Come dressed up in ANY Halloween costume or just come in your muggle clothes! Just be ready to solemnly swear you are up to no good • Starting October 1st – November 3rd  John P. Franklin Funeral Home • Annual Fall Festival • Get ready for an afternoon of fun, food, and family at John P. Franklin Funeral Home’s Annual Community Fall Festival! Join us in the parking lot of John P. Franklin Funeral Home located at 1101 Dodds Avenue in Chattanooga. This free event has something for everyone—enjoy delicious food, music, dancing, and exciting activities for all ages! Let’s come together and celebrate fall. Bring your family, friends, and neighbors! • 2:00 – 4:00 pm  Rock City Gardens • Fall Colors • There is nothing like Autumn at Rock City Gardens, and this year, we will mark the season with new sights, sounds, and tastes that celebrate the colors, the crispness, and the delicious nothing-else-like-it feeling of Fall • Experience the music inspired by the hills and mountains of Appalachia. Join us daily at Lover’s Leap as musicians play original Ol’ Time music of our region | Stop by Prospector’s Point to paint your own mini pumpkin to get into the fall sprit! • Now – November 8th • Get Tickets Here  Tennessee Aquarium • Oddtober • Things get wonderfully weird around the Tennessee Aquarium during ODDtober – a month-long celebration of strange creatures from around the world and in our own backyard. Learn odd facts about Aquarium animals and look for fun fall touches inside our exhibits. See pumpkins flicker with an eerie glow, flashing along with the pulses of an Electric Eel. Find out why some “scary” species are not-so-creepy after all. At the end of your tour, grab a free sticker in the gift shop when you mention “ODDtober” (while supplies last) • PLUS – Underwater pumpkin carving is back for 2024! Watch SCUBA divers slicing up jack-o-lanterns as fish and turtles swim by – Saturdays at 2:00 pm in the River Journey building • Starting October 1 – 31st • Get Tickets Here Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum • Rails, Wizards, & Spells • Step into a world of wizarding fun with the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s brand-new “Rails, Wizards, and Spells” adventure! Begin your journey through the Enchanted Forest, leading to Wizards Way, where you can purchase hand-crafted wands, special charms, and seasonal treats. Board the train at Platform 4 1/2 for a magical ride to Chamberlain Crossing Station, featuring interactions with Professor Americus Hillmore and an engine turning demonstration • 3:30 & 5:00 pm • More Info & Tickets Here