Abita Springs Fall Events 2026: Town Hall, Opry & Halloween

Abita Fall Fest ran for two days at Abita Springs Trailhead Park in 2023, on Friday, October 20 and Saturday, October 21. In 2025 it again ran two days, October 10 and 11, with four stages. This year it ran from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday, October 2, and then it was over.

The festival's own site billed the 2026 edition as "ONE NIGHT ONLY," and the organizers wrote: "As we look toward the future, we're not certain what lies ahead for the festival in the years to come." They called it possibly "a transition, a pause, or simply a return to our roots." NOLA.com's fall roundup for St. Tammany likewise said the organizers had signaled that the festival's future is unknown. Neither source gave a reason for the change.

Abita Springs still has a fall season. With the Trailhead weekend down to a single evening, most of what's left on the town calendar between now and Thanksgiving happens inside or in front of Abita Springs Town Hall at 22161 Level Street. It's run by small nonprofits and the town, and every ticketed night costs $20 or less.

What Fall Fest Used to Fill

Abita Fall Fest grew into a full weekend after it started. It is its own 501(c)(3) nonprofit, formed in 2019, and does not belong to town government. In an interview with DIG Baton Rouge, its co-founders described building a family-friendly local event. The first year's raffle benefited two schools and the town recreation center, and local civic groups volunteer at the festival and benefit from it.

Here is how the format grew and then shrank:

• 2023: two days at Abita Springs Trailhead Park, with a Kids Zone, local food and music
• 2024: the fifth-anniversary edition, with a Friday "Fall Fest After Dark" and a Saturday festival, both included in a Pumpkin Pass. Abita Brewing Company was a title sponsor and brewed a Fall Fest Ale.
• 2025: the sixth year, two days and four stages
• 2026: one evening with five mainstage bands: Electric Ramble, Honey Island Swamp Band, Flow Tribe, Bonerama and Dumpstaphunk

According to NOLA.com, adult admission this year was $25 and children under 10 got in free. Most of what follows on the calendar costs less than that, and it happens a few blocks away from the Trailhead.

The Building That Carries the Rest of the Season

The Abita Springs Opry has been around longer than Fall Fest, and its schedule held steady this year. It is produced by the nonprofit Abita Opry Inc., which puts on six concerts a year. The music is mostly acoustic Louisiana roots: old-time country, bluegrass and Southern gospel, with Cajun, zydeco and other traditions also on the bill. Its official schedule page says it has pursued that mission since 2002.

Each show has two parts. Musicians warm up informally on the Town Hall porch before the 7 to 9 p.m. concert, according to NOLA.com's profile of the Opry. Admission to the main show is $20. Seating is first come, first served, and the Opry says walk-ins can still find seats, though advance and season-ticket buyers get a better choice of seats. The Opry also records its shows for cable-access TV and posts performances online.

Two Opry nights remain this fall, plus a Cajun dance in the same hall between them:

The two Opry lineups differ. The October bill leans toward string bands and newer acts. The November show closes with The Zion Harmonizers, which fits the Southern gospel side of the Opry's stated range. If you only catch one porch set this season, choose based on which side of that range you enjoy more.

The Cajun Dancers' December holiday dance has not been dated yet. Until it is, the November 7 dance is the last confirmed one on the calendar.

Halloween Runs at Two Addresses

October 31 shows the Trailhead and Town Hall working together, with the event moving from one to the other as the afternoon goes on. "Halloween in Abita Springs" runs at the Trailhead from 2 to 6 p.m. It has music and entertainment, games, pumpkin decorating, local vendors, a story corner, candy, prizes, and fall-themed activities and contests. At 6 p.m. the activity moves to the Town Hall parking lot for the Abita Springs Trunk-or-Treat. It runs until 8 p.m. "or until the candy runs out."

Both events are free and open to all. The town lists contact details for the Trunk-or-Treat on the event page: (985) 892-0711. One thing to plan around: the afternoon program ends at the same hour the parking-lot event starts, so families going to both will be heading from the Trailhead to Level Street right at 6 p.m.

The Abita Brewing Events Are in Covington

Abita Brewing is running a full October program called "Abita After Dark," and the name can make it sound like an in-town event. It isn't. The brewery lists these events at its site at 21084 Hwy 36 in Covington. The Spooky Brewery Tour runs Friday, October 9, from 7 to 8 p.m. at $20 per person. More tours follow on October 16 and 23 at the same hour, and a Zombie Prom runs October 24 from 7 to 11 p.m., also at the Covington site.

That matters if you're planning a weekend. October 17 has the Opry on Level Street, and the brewery's tours fall on the Fridays around it. Unlike the Fall Fest weekends of earlier years, a Friday tour and a Saturday Opry seat mean two separate trips to two different towns.

The Sunday Constant, and What's Still Unannounced

The Abita Springs Art and Farmers Market runs every Sunday, rain or shine, at the Trailhead, 22049 Main Street. It's the one weekly event at the Trailhead that didn't shrink this year. The town's two web pages list different hours. The market page says 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., while the town's visitors page lists 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Showing up within the hours both pages share, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., avoids the question.

Two items on the town calendar are still blank. The Town of Abita Springs events page shows "Fall in the Springs" as upcoming but gives no date or details. The town hasn't posted its December holiday schedule either. Last year's Christmas post, from December 4, 2025, advertised Santa at the market on a Sunday that month, but that was the 2025 calendar and doesn't confirm anything for 2026.

For now, the confirmed Abita Springs calendar after Fall Fest's single night comes down to the Opry on October 17 and November 21, the Cajun dance on November 7, the Halloween handoff on October 31, and the market every Sunday. All of it runs out of Town Hall on Level Street or the Trailhead on Main.

If the changes to Fall Fest have you thinking about how Abita Springs' public life is shifting, from the Trailhead to the porch on Level Street, the team at Felicity Kahn & Associates follows these changes closely and is glad to talk through what they mean for your corner of town. When you're curious what your own Abita Springs home is worth, get your free home valuation and we'll put local context behind the number.