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SC October Festivals, Events

Oct 1-4: United States Disc Golf Championship - Rock Hill

Oct 2-5: Christmas in October Craft Show - Rock Hill

Oct 2-26: Fall Tours of Homes & Gardens - Charleston - Thursdays-Sundays

Oct 3-4: Beaufort Shrimp Festival - music, food, live entertainment, 5K run/walk

Oct 3-4: Heritage Jubilee - Edgefield - cook-off, entertainment, carnival rides, car show

Oct 3-4: Moonshiner's Reunion and Mountain Music Festival - Campobello

Oct 3-4: Squealin' on the Square - Laurens - bbq cook off, music, rides - scroll down

Oct 3-5: Pee Dee Fall Plant and Flower Festival - Florence - Pee Dee State Farmers Market

Oct 4: Belton Standpipe Festival - entertainment, children's area, car show, street dance, fireworks

Oct 4: First Ladies' Walk for Life - Columbia - 3 miles - breast cancer awareness, benefit

Oct 4: Isle of Palms Connector Run and Walk for the Child - 10K and 5K - benefit

Oct 4: TRAM Fair - Travelers Rest - Gateway Park - art, music, poetry, food, children's area

Oct 5: Festival Hispano - North Charleston - food, music, dancing

Oct 6: Brain Injury Alliance of South Carolina Charity Golf Tournament - Newberry - scroll down

Oct 6-12: Piedmont Interstate Fair - Spartanburg

Oct 8-19: South Carolina State Fair - Columbia

Oct 10-11: Antique Bottle & Collectible Show & Sale - Moncks Corner - benefit

Oct 10-11: Francis Marion / Swamp Fox Symposium - Manning - Carolina Tech College Auditorium

Oct 10-11: Kershaw Hog Jam - bbq cookoff, music, arts & crafts, children's activities

Oct 10-12: Fall For Greenville - music and food

Oct 11: Autumn Candlelight Tour - Ninety Six National Historic Site

Oct 11: Columbia Blues Festival - Martin Luther King Park, 5 Points - free!

Oct 11: Dragon Boat Upstate Festival - Greenville - paddling events - benefits cancer research

Oct 11: Edisto & Beyond Tour - visit plantations and churches - music, food, crafts

Oct 11: South Carolina Sweet Potato Festival - Darlington - entertainment, car show, food

Oct 11-12: Little River Shrimp & Jazz Fest

Oct 12: Columbus Day - Sunday

Oct 12: Kitchen Tour - Summerville - home & garden tour, treats from top chefs - benefit

Oct 12: Taste of Charleston - Mount Pleasant - Boone Hall Plantation - benefit

Oct 12-15: Government Finance Officers Association of SC Fall Conference - Myrtle Beach

Oct 13: Columbus Day Observed - federal holiday - Monday

Oct 14-18: Union County Fair - Union County Fair Grounds

Oct 16: Light the Night Walk - Charleston - benefit and raise awareness of leukemia and lymphoma

Oct 17: SC Community Association Day Educational Conference & Tradeshow - Hilton Head Island

Oct 17-18: Lee County Cotton Festival - Bishopville - parade, food, street dance, rides, crafts

Oct 17-18: Model T's to Olar Festival - music, rides, parade, car show, more

Oct 17-19: Charleston Garden Festival - Middleton Place

Oct 17-19: Euro Auto Festival - Greer - car shows

Oct 17-19: Oktoberfest - Walhalla - hot air ballons, music, food, crafts, carnival rides

Oct 17-19: South Carolina Jazz Festival - Cheraw - celebrating Dizzy Gillespie

Oct 18: Apple Harvest Festival - York - Windy Hill Orchard

Oct 18: Loris Bog-Off Festival

Oct 18: Race for the Cure - Daniel Island - Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation - 5K

Oct 18: Wooden Boat Show - Georgetown

Oct 18-19: A Day to Remember Colonial Times - North Augusta - Living History Park - free!

Oct 19: Mount Pleasant Children's Day Festival - recreation center

Oct 20-26: Historic Bluffton Arts & Seafood Festival - 5K run, food, music, art, fireworks

Oct 24-25: Carolina Q Cup - Lexington - BBQ festival, competition

Oct 24-26: South Carolina Writers Workshop Conference - Myrtle Beach

Oct 25: Aiken Fall Steeplechase - Holiday Cup - horse racing

Oct 25: Governor's Cup Road Race - Columbia - half marathon & 8K

Oct 25-26: Easley's Antiques on Main

Oct 30: Light the Night Walk - Myrtle Beach - benefit and raise awareness of leukemia and lymphoma

Oct 30 - Nov 2: Concours d'Elegance & Motoring Festival - Hilton Head Island - vintage automobiles

Oct 30 - Nov 8: Coastal Carolina Fair - Ladson

Oct 31: Halloween - Friday

Oct : South Carolina Archives Month - click Calendar of Events on left for happenings around the state

Oct : MOJA Arts Festival - Charleston

Oct : Aiken Polo Festival - tournaments, parties

Oct : Sumter County Fair

Oct : Gopher Hill Festival - Ridgeland - music, parade, pet show, tub races, crafts

Oct : Taste of Uptown - Greenwood

Oct : Carolina Downhome Blues Festival - Camden

Oct : Downtown Blues Festival - Rock Hill

Oct : Rock Around the Clock Festival - Winnsboro - parade, music, car show, street dance

Oct : West Farm Corn Maze - Moncks Corner - weekends

Oct : Greer Station Oktoberfest - art, food, fun

Oct : Jazz! Carolina - Hartsville

Oct : Spirit of the Arts Fall Festival - Columbia - Earlewood Park - music, art, food, family fun

Oct : Confederate Ghost Walk - Charleston

Oct : Anderson County Fair

Oct : Cayce-West Columbia Jaycees Hall of Horrors - Cayce - not open every night

Oct : Chalk on the Walk - Beaufort - music, art

Oct : Habitat For Humanity Run / Walk - West Columbia - benefit - Adobe Reader

Oct : Shelter Pawty and Treat Fest - Bluffton - benefits Palmetto Animal League

Oct : Taste of the Town - Myrtle Beach Convention Center - culinary festival, benefit

Oct : Kingstree Pig Pickin' Celebration - cook-off, carnival, fireworks, music, parade

Oct : Western Carolina State Fair - Aiken Fairgrounds

Oct : University of South Carolina's Fall Festival of Authors - Columbia - not every day

Oct : Coastal Discovery Museum Community Festival - Hilton Head Island - Honey Horn

Oct : District 58 Toastmasters Fall Conference

Oct : Hospice Hot S'Yacht Regatta - Lake Hartwell

Oct : October Festival - Port Royal - car show, children's area, art, music

Oct : Taste of Archaeology - Historic Brattonsville - York Co - how Carolinians have eaten for 12,000 years

Oct : Boo Bash - Greenwood

Oct : Wheelchair Hunt - Yemassee - Nemours Plantation - for disabled hunters - scroll down

Oct : Ridge Spring Harvest Festival - Saluda County

Oct : Historic Hayride & Ghost Walk - Gaffney

Oct : Fall Festival of Houses - Beaufort

Oct : South Carolina Wildlife Federation Bass Fishing Tournament - Camden - Lake Wateree

Oct : Sugarfoot Festival - Honea Path - music, food, family fun

Oct : Fall Plantation Tour - Charleston area - St John's Parish - SC Historical Society

Oct : Pee Dee Coalition Kitchen Tour - Florence - benefit

Oct : WagsFest - Bishopville - open-air music festival - country, bluegrass, acoustic, gospel

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