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Gastonia Fall Festival
Gastonia, NC · Festival
- When
- October 17, 2026
- Where
- Rotary Centennial Pavilion, 107 N South St · Gastonia · NC
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Downtown Gastonia closes streets around the Rotary Centennial Pavilion for an afternoon of food trucks, live music, and free carnival rides. The city runs the fall festival annually as a community gathering point.
The history within reach
- Gastonia Fall Festivalsame spot
Downtown Gastonia closes streets around the Rotary Centennial Pavilion for an afternoon of food trucks, live music, and free carnival rides.
- Cotton Ginning Days3.7 mi
A restored, operational cotton gin anchors this three-day heritage festival, with more than 300 pieces of antique farm and textile machinery, a crank-up of steam and gas engines, and craft demonstrations.
The Whitewater Center is the largest artificial whitewater river in the world, pumped in a circle by seven pumps moving half a million gallons a minute, built as the US Olympic training site for the discipline..
Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden strings its walking paths, orchid conservatory, and canal with lights for a nightly holiday walk, with a trackless train and visits from Santa on select evenings.
Every New Year's Day, costumed shooters fire black-powder muskets outside homes and businesses across Cherryville to chase off bad luck and welcome the new year, a tradition German settlers brought to the area in the 1750s.