Gainesville and Alachua County Residents know how to have fun...dozens of cultural, recreational and sports events fill the calendar. Among them are:

January:

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration

February:

• Hoggetowne Medieval Faire
• Great Gainesville Road Race

March

• Gatornationals
• Spring Pilgrimage
• Spring Garden Festival

April

• Spring Arts Festival
• Chris Collinsworth Golf Benefit Classic
• Farm and Forest Festival At Morningside

May

• High Springs Pioneer Days
• Fifth Avenue Arts Festival
• Newberry Cultural Arts Super-Fest
• Orange and Blue Football Game

June

• Newberry Watermelon Festival
• Yulee Day in Archer

July

• Fanfares and Fireworks

August

• A Cross Creek Summer Festival

September

• Possum Creek Fall Festival

October

• International Fair and Marketplace at Kanapaha Botanical Gardens
• Alachua music Harvest
• McIntosh 1890s Festival

November

• Alachua County Fair
• Homecoming Parade and Gator Gallop
• Downtown Festival and Art Show
• Downtown Jazz and Blues Festival
• Micanopy Fall Arts and crafts Show

December

• Christmas in Historic Gainesville/Festival of Lights
• O’Connell Center Arts and Crafts Show
• Alachua Dickens’s Festival