when is shrimp festival in gulf shores
October 13, 2016 - October 16, 2016. Description: From Gulf Shores National Shrimp Festival Website: Consistently rated one of the top annual events in the nation, the Annual National Shrimp Festival is held the second full weekend of October. In 2015, the event was a huge success, bringing more than 250,000 people to the Alabama Gulf Coast for a weekend filled with food, music, fun, cultureand, most important, shrimp! A FREE event open to everyone, the 2016 edition of the Shrimp Festival is slated for Oct. 13-16.