There’s Still Time To Catch Fall Festivals Near Palos Verdes

PALOS VERDES, CA — Fall is a great time to get outside in California and take in the rich offering of festivals.

The changing colors of autumn provide a scenic background for fall and harvest festivals, which have contests ranging from apple bobbing and pumpkin carving to lumberjack contests and Halloween parades.

Fall is also the season for corn mazes, pumpkin patches, Oktoberfests, scary Halloween celebrations and apple orchard visits.

Here are three festivals and events in the Palos Verdes area worth putting on the calendar:

• Rancho Palos Verdes Harvest Festival
  • Visitors of the festival can enjoy live music, arts and crafts, inflatables, face painting and caricatures and dessert and food vendors to celebrate the fall season in Rancho Palos Verdes.
    The festival will be from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 22 at the Point Vicente Interpretive Center.

• Halloween Spooktacular at the Peninsula Shopping Center
  • The celebration takes place on Oct. 16 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. and will include trick-or-treating, music and costumed characters.
• Howl-o-ween Costume Contest
  • Bring your dog to the South Coast Botanic Garden in a costume on Oct. 30 for a chance to win two tickets to an upcoming light exhibit.

There are also more events throughout the Southland for you to enjoy:

• Family Halloween Carnival in Manhattan Beach
• Halloween Celebration at Manhattan Village
• Shaqtoberfest alongside the Queen Mary
• Scarium of the Pacific at the Long Beach Aquarium
• Hollywood Forever - Día de los Muertos
• Vegtoberfest - A Vegan Oktoberfest: Common Space Brewery
• Halloween 80s v 90s Costume Bash @LALGBT Center presented by Fan Girl Cafe
• Santa Monica Harvest Festival
• Nights of the Jack Calabasas
• Wayback Daddies Halloween Show 2022: Warehouse Restaurant & Tiki Bar, Marina Del Rey