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Autumn Glory Festival
Oakland, MD · Festival
- When
- October 7–11, 2026
- Where
- Downtown Oakland · Oakland · MD
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Garrett County's flagship fall foliage festival, filling downtown Oakland for five days each October since 1968. A grand feature parade of marching bands and floats anchors a week of craft shows, a carnival, and a Miss Autumn Glory pageant timed to the peak of the mountain leaf color.
The history within reach
- Autumn Glory Festivalsame spot
Garrett County's flagship fall foliage festival, filling downtown Oakland for five days each October since 1968.
- Blackwater Falls21 mi
A five-storey fall stained amber by tannin from fallen hemlock and spruce needles.
- The Casselman Bridge25 mi
An eighty-foot stone arch on the National Road, the largest in America when built, and so improbable that its builder is said to have waited under it when the falsework came out.
- Dolly Sods29 mi
A high plateau that looks like Labrador dropped into the mid-Atlantic, with sphagnum bog, wind-flagged spruce and heath that belongs six hundred miles north.
This Somerset County folklife festival gathers over 100 juried artisans and craftspeople for demonstrations of pioneer era trades like blacksmithing and broom making, timed to the peak of fall foliage in the Allegheny highlands.