The Fall Festival will feature arts & crafts, touch a truck, bouncy rides, a costumed pooch parade, a kids costume parade, and craft vendors! There will also be a DJ present the entire day as well as costume characters! The shops of Pier Village and Chamber of Commerce trailer will be participating in trick-or-treating so come prepared to bring home candy!
Register your pooch online for the costume pooch parade! Pooch Parade will begin at 12PM with the line-up starting at 11:30AM. Kids Costume Parade will begin at 2PM.
A favorite October tradition for Belmar residents, the annual Halloween Contest and Parade brings out the kid in all of us! Children, infants through grade 8, can dress up and compete for prizes in different categories for their age group.
After the contest, the Belmar Elementary School Band strikes it up and leads the parade down to Pyanoe Plaza where the winners are awarded their prizes. Treats are given to those who register for the contest and a ghoulish time is had by all!
With multiple events going on, our Downtown Freehold Irish Week definitely brings people out of the cold winter blues and into the feeling that Spring is right around the corner!
Freehold Borough Arts Council’s 7th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade! Presented by the Freehold Borough Arts Council, the Ancient Order of Hibernians Div. 16, the Freehold Elks, and DowntownFreehold.com.
Sunday, March 11 at 12 PM – 2:30 PM
– Assemblage at McLean Street starting at 12:00 pm
– Parade Kick Off at 1:00 p.m.
The new parade route this year is packed with tons of fun and Irish tradition, as participants will march from McLean Street to the Elk’s Lodge. Thank you Freehold Borough Arts Council and the Ancient Order of Hibernians Div 16 for making this all possible. The parade will assemble at McLean Street starting at noon and the parade kicks-off at 1:00pm!
Trophies for the Best Dressed Baby, Best Dressed Dog, Best Dressed Adult, Best Decorated Bike, and Best Decorated Motorcycle at the end of the Parade at the Elks!
Please Park in Borough and other Public Parking Lots. Please do not park in private lots.
After Party at the Freehold Elk’s Lodge 1454 featuring Joe Baracata Band!
A Wildwood’s tradition since 1909! Registration at Wildwood’s Convention Center from 4:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. No entries accepted after 5:30 p.m. Judging occurs while participants are lined up in the circle in front of the Convention Center. Line-up begins at 5:30 p.m., parade steps off at 6 p.m. SHARP with final route TBD. Baby Parade Winners are announced following the parade. FREE to register. PAID parking at the convention center’s daily rate. Rain date is Thursday.
Santa rides the NJ Transit train into Red Bank for the annual Town Lighting & Holiday Express concert. Join Santa on the train in Little Silver or meet him at the Red Bank train station when he arrives. There’ll be festivities before and after the train arrives with the Kathryn Barnett dancers and the Pipes and Drums of the Atlantic Watch. Once in Red Bank, Santa will board a firetruck and lead the parade to Broad Street for the Holiday Express Concert & Town Lighting.
Santa Express departs from Little Silver Train Station
(Branch Ave, between Sycamore & Oceanport Aves)
Festivities and train arrival at Red Bank Train Station
(Monmouth St & Bridge Ave)
Parade down Monmouth Street to Holiday Express Concerton Broad Street.
A ceremony will begin on the front steps of North Wildwood City Hall, 10th & Atlantic Avenue, in North Wildwood beginning at 11:30 a.m. A festive parade will begin at noon and proceeds north on Atlantic Avenue to Olde NJ Avenue. Participants include VFW Color Guard, Vietnam Veterans of America, Ancient Order of Hibernians, Irish Pipe Brigade, Emerald Society, Miss North Wildwood, Queen Oceania, Anglesea Irish Society, Sheriff Mounted Patrol, local school bands, and much more! FREE to attend. 609.522.2955 or http://www.NorthWildwood.com
The parade starts at noon from City Hall. Festival includes live performances, over 100 vendors, family zone and food court. FREE.
On the first Saturday of October, Asbury Park welcomes the largest gathering of the un-dead in the state!