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Bayou City Art Festival
Houston, TX · Arts & Culture
- When
- October 9–11, 2026
- Where
- Memorial Park · Houston · TX
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Bayou City Art Festival turns Memorial Park into an open-air gallery each October, with several hundred juried artists selling original paintings, sculpture, and jewelry alongside live music and food trucks. It has run since 1971 and is regularly ranked among the top art festivals in the country by trade publications. A companion spring edition is held downtown.
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- Bayou City Art Festivalsame spot
Bayou City Art Festival turns Memorial Park into an open-air gallery each October, with several hundred juried artists selling original paintings, sculpture, and jewelry alongside live music and food trucks.
- Salt Grass Trail Ride0.1 mi
Twelve trail rides on horseback and covered wagon converge on Memorial Park from towns across Texas each February, some covering more than two hundred miles, before riding into downtown Houston for the rodeo parade the next morning.
The training camp whose Black soldiers marched on Houston in August 1917 after months of Jim Crow harassment.
The Texas Children's Houston Open brings the PGA Tour to the public Memorial Park Golf Course each spring, drawing top ranked professionals in the tune up week before the Masters.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston lights up its Bayou Bend estate each December with thousands of lights across the 14 acre grounds, a gingerbread village and a model train circling a towering tree.