There’s lots to do this October in Myrtle Beach! We've made things easy (and much less scary) by collecting some of our favorite events and putting them together in a list just for you. We’ve arranged events by categories so you can go to that category by clicking on your interest below:
Join Jamin' Leather for their biannual LIVE AUCTION! They will be auctioning off leather apparel, accessories and much more! This auction benefits Red Cross Disaster Relief. If you would like to donate any items to be auctioned off, contact them at 800-795-2646.
Freedom Boat Club, Cinzia Spa, FPS Showcase, Dick's Last Resort
and Barefoot Landing are teaming up to bring you Bras Across the Water, an event to raise money and awareness for Breast Cancer. Come out to enjoy entertainment, food by Dick's Last Resort and a Survivor Ceremony with the unveiling of the bras across the water! Lots of fun for a great cause!
Put on your pink and head out to Barefoot Landing Saturday, October 11th to support the American Cancer Society and Breast Cancer Awareness. The Pink Your Flamingo 5th Annual Flock Walk starts with registration at 9 am at the House of Blues. The walk starts at 10 am with free breakfast buffet and party to follow at The Deck of the House of Blues. Come on out, have fun and support a great cause! Go to the Barefoot Landing office Monday through Friday 8 am to 5 pm to register or call the American Cancer Society at 843-213-0333.
The 4th Annual Myrtle Beach Out of the Darkness Community Walk will take place at Broadway at the Beach's Heroes Harbor next to Margaritaville. Join the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention as they support those who have been affected by suicide. Registration begins at 9 am with the walk starting at 10 am.
The Waccamaw Heart Walk will begin and end at Heroes Harbor next to Margaritaville. Registration begins at 9 am and the Walk at 10 am. Designed to promote physical activity and heart-healthy living, the Heart Walk creates an environment that's fun and rewarding for the entire family. Your participation will help raise even more in the fight to save lives. Walk with friends, family, coworkers or strangers you'll bond with along the way. For more information or to register, click
here.
This amazing half marathon is a South Carolina Dream! Experience Myrtle Beach Mini Marathon and experience a year round, nationally acclaimed vacation destination as you like it best…on your feet. This surfing themed half marathon, with its surfboard finisher medals, surf style bands and awesome post race beach party is the new MUST do race on the Atlantic Coast. The new and improved course features over 5 miles of oceanfront running! After the event, pull up your beach chair and relax at Plyler Park by the main stage and enjoy the post event live entertainment....even take a swim in the warm waves. Why not, it’s Myrtle Beach, come run and have an awesome time!
At the 7th Annual Oktoberfest at The Market Common you’ll enjoy live German music on Saturday, fun and games for the kids, German food, a large selection of Oktoberfest beer, pumpkin patch for kids to decorate pumpkins, Oktoberfest steins, face painting, inflatables and more!
Just down the road from Plantation Resort. Bring the whole family to enjoy live bands, over 130 vendors, food, a video game truck and free inflatables!
More scarecrows, more animals and more fun! Brookgreen’s annual fall festival, Harvest Home Weekend is filled with outdoor activities the whole family will enjoy. There will be favorite activities such as scarecrow building, pumpkin painting, hayrides, live entertainment plus some exciting new events.
The Conway Fall Festival will feature arts and crafts, food, entertainment, a kids play zone, a car show and more family fun!
This is a charity festival. You'll find vendors, food, knight fighting demonstrations, free kids activities, jugglers, live music and much more!
Billed as the "Beach's Biggest Bavarian Boardwalk Block Party", Oktoberfest on the Boardwalk is guaranteed to have something for everyone with three city blocks of entertainment, 6 live bands on stage throughout the day, food and retail vendors, German car show, an absolutely huge "Better Brands" beer garden, petting zoo with camel and pony rides, inflatable bounce houses, carnival games and on-stage entertainment for the kiddies, sidewalk sales at area businesses and so much more!
Come hungry! The vendors of the Little River ShrimpFest are well practiced in the art of cooking shrimp and a variety of other food. In addition to the best shrimp in the world, you’ll find a great lineup of music, local vendors and so much fun!
This free arts event features more than 50 local artists and crafters displaying and selling their work including painting, glasswork, woodwork and jewelry.
This annual festival is sure to have everyone feeling just a little bit Italian! The festival will be held in parking lot 3 next to Hard Rock Cafe! Enjoy authentic Italian food, Italian theme souvenirs, arts and crafts vendors plus continuous entertainment including Bobby Valli singing Frankie Valli.
Enjoy over 40 wines from around the world, plus live music, food and over 20 specialty vendors.
Volition Fashion Design and Artist Showcase seeks to explore the multi-faceted identity of fashion, culture, beauty, health and personal choices in relation to the rest of the world through the pure passion of artists. The main showcase features over 50 models wearing Japanese Street, Gothic Couture, Steampunk, Avant Garde, sustainable and eco-friendly wear, graphic design from the Dominican Republic and many other high fashions created by talented artists from across the region and around the globe. During Intermission, you will be amazed and mystified by live performances from musical talents Doctrine of Ethos and the local dance experts showcasing a range of moves from Zumba to Belly Dance. Dolce Lusso Salon and Spa join our student and freelance professionals providing hair and makeup to bring the designers' looks to life. The intermission show with live entertainment and music will be sure to entertain. Visit www.volitionfashion.com for more information or to reserve your seat today.
Dress up the kids and bring them to Barefoot Landing for Halloween Fun Day. Registration for the kids costume contests begins at noon by the carousel with the contest starting at 1 pm. There will be entertainment, kids' karaoke, free carousel rides and lots of prizes! You're sure to have a hauntingly good time!
The largest costume contest in South Carolina is back for another year! Enjoy live music from DJ Barry in the square starting at 8 pm with the costume contest later that night. 1st place - $2,000, 2nd place - $1,000 & 3rd place - $500. Enjoy free admission to the following clubs with costume: Revolutions, Crocodile Rocks, Malibu's Surf Bar, Rodeo Bar, Club Boca, Froggy Bottomz and Broadway Louie's. Rain delay date is November 1st.
The old warehouse built in 1890 just couldn’t contain Terror Under The Bridge any longer. Terror Under The Bridge is in its ninth year and looking forward to putting fear in all that come. If you are looking for Myrtle Beach haunted houses, this is the one to visit this season.
Everyone enjoys the fireworks show at Broadway at the Beach, brought to you by Helicopter Adventures.
Plantation Resort's Halloween Party
October 30
6 pm
Activity Center
Dress up, play with pumpkins and enjoy some yummy Halloween snacks and cider. It's a party full of fun for the whole family to enjoy!
Halloween Trick or Treat
October 31
4:30 pm-6:30 pmBroadway at the Beach
Calling all ghosts and goblins! Bring the little ones to Broadway at the Beach for trick or treating in a fun and safe environment. Participating merchants will be anxiously waiting with little surprises for all those in costume.
Dress up the kids (and parents too if you'd like) and bring them out for safe, fun trick or treating at Barefoot Landing on Friday, October 31.
Watch out! There are all sorts of things outdoors that can get you! Ever worry about jellyfish, copperheads, poison ivy or other scary animals? This fun and interactive program will reveal myths and help you identify some potential dangers of our wonderful outdoor wonderland and ways to avoid them. Appropriate for ages 8 to 108! Free with park admission.
The Fall season's presentation at Brookgreen Garden will be “Gullah Tings fa Tink Bout.” Ron Daise, Vice President for Creative Education, will perform a concert of songs and readings from his CD of the same title. Through a musical journey of rich imagery and evocative rhythms and instrumentation, viewers celebrate Gullah Geechee culture in the genres of traditional spiritual, blues, gospel stomp and clap, Gullah Geechee/West African pop and a Gullah Geechee/West African/Caribbean blend. Themes highlighted are African Diaspora; the common cultural connections of food ways, language, rice heritage, crafts, music; the tragedy of enslavement; the importance of family; and the resilience of survival. Programs in the Wall Lowcountry Center Auditorium and are free with garden admission.
Explore the fascinating world of turtles, lizards, alligators and snakes as we learn their importance in the ecosystem. A live snake will be on hand. Appropriate for ages 5 to 105. Free with park admission.
Interested in science? Marine scientists use a variety of tools to collect information about the ocean. Have fun using real laboratory gadgets and field equipment to conduct pure science while gathering measurements. For ages 8 years to 108! Free with park admission.
Watch a snake eat a mouse and see what other hungry animals lurk in our house! Free with park admission.
Learn the basics of sculpture conservation in this informative program given by Ted Monnich, an objects conservator with over thirty years' experience in the field of conservation. This lecture will be in the Fry Classrooms at the Welcome Center and is free with admission.
In a unique retelling of the creation of America, award winning historian Andrea Wulf will show how plants, politics and personalities are intertwined as never before. Tickets are $15 for Brookgreen members, $20 for general admission and space is limited. Tickets are available
online or by calling (843) 235-6016.
Join the zoo staff when they present a talk about Zoonotic Diseases. The lecture is in the Lowcountry Center Auditorium and is free with garden admission.
Motorcycle vendors with apparel, parts and accessories! If you're a motorcycle enthusiast, Barefoot Landing's Fall Bike Rally is the place to be!
Join Broadway at the Beach as they welcome back the PT Cruiser Show, Return to the Beach for the 15th year in a row! Return to the Beach is held inside Broadway at the Beach, where you'll see some of the coolest designed PT Cruisers around.
Broadway at the Beach is pleased to host the 4th Annual Grand Strand Mustang Stampede and Classic Ford Show on Saturday, October 4th in parking lots 3 and 4. This show will feature Mustangs, both new and classic plus many other classic Fords on display. There will be an on-site DJ, 50/50 raffle, food and games so come out enjoy the fun and see some awesome automobiles!
The Georgetown Wooden Boat Show, always held on the third weekend in October, offers fun for the whole family. The show will feature one of our nation's best wooden boat exhibits with more than 140 classic wooden boats displayed on land and water, a wooden boat building competition, children's model boat building, knot tying, maritime art and crafts, food and music. A special attraction will be the Wooden Boat Challenge when teams of two race to build a rowing skiff within a 4-hour time limit and then test their boats for seaworthiness in a rowing relay on the Sampit River.
Car and truck show, oldies music, top 50 awards plus 5 special awards. Door prizes!
It’s the biggest event in miniature golf history—the Mini Golf Masters! You can register to play or you can look to see which courses they’ll be playing, just visit their website
here.
Most of these events are just a short drive from Plantation Resort, so call 1-800-845-5039 to reserve your stay and plan your perfect October vacation! Can’t wait to see you!
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