Annual Community Events

Spring

• Gatornationals (normally the third weekend in March): the National Hot Road Association Drag Racing Competition generates about 90,000 spectators at the Gainesville Raceway
• Santa Fe College Spring Arts Festival – two-day festival, typically at the end of March, in Downtown Gainesville
• Orange and Blue Game – Gators intrasquad football scrimmage
• Morningside Farm and Forest Festival at Morningside Nature Park
• Florida Eden’s Annual Paint Out
• Newberry Watermelon Festival – May
• Windsor Zucchini Festival – May

Summer

• Juneteenth Celebration
• Yulee Railroad Days – June
• Black Music Month Celebration

Autumn

• Art in Thornebrook Village
• Downtown Art Show and Musicfest – downtown Gainesville
• Micanopy Harvest Festival
• Butterfly Festival at the Florida Museum of Natural History
• University of Florida – Homecoming Parade & Gator Growl – October

Winter

• Matheson Museum’s Historic Homes Tour – second Saturday in December
• High Springs Old Time Christmas
• Kwanzaa Celebration
• Downtown New Year’s Eve Celebration
• Hoggetowne Medieval Faire (two weekends in late January/early February)
• Dudley Farm Cane Boil and Plow Days