Barracks Row Fall Festival

Name: Barracks Row Fall Festival
Start: 2026-09-26
End: 2026-09-26
Location: 8th Street SE

Washington, DC · Festival

When: September 26, 2026
Where: 8th Street SE · Washington · DC
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

Capitol Hill's 8th Street SE corridor closes to traffic for a fall street festival with a beer garden, live music, vendor booths and family activities near the Marine Barracks. It has run annually since 2002, usually on a Saturday in late September.

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Barracks Row Fall Festivalsame spot
Capitol Hill's 8th Street SE corridor closes to traffic for a fall street festival with a beer garden, live music, vendor booths and family activities near the Marine Barracks.
Marine Barracks established0.1 mi
Jefferson and the Marine commandant chose the site on horseback for being within marching distance of the Capitol.
Eastern Market opens0.4 mi
The last of the city's nineteenth-century public markets still trading.
Washington Navy Yard established0.5 mi
The oldest continuously operating naval facility in the country, burned by its own commandant in 1814 to keep it from the British.
Where DC's enslaved were freed first0.7 mi
Freed about 3,100 people in the District nine months before the Emancipation Proclamation, the only place where the federal government paid owners compensation.