The Tolay Fall Festival presents two weekends of old-time, nature-based fun from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. October 12-13 & 19-20, 2019 at Tolay Lake Regional Park southeast of Petaluma. 

More than just a pumpkin patch, the Tolay Fall Festival is a seasonal celebration of the beauty and history of this special park. Fall Festival activities are low-key, hands-on and educational by design.

• Explore the "Nighttime Creatures Barn" full of native and exotic snakes, birds of prey, tide pool animals, and taxidermied wildlife

• Venture into the "Creepy Crawly Room," where tarantulas and scorpions glow under black lights

• Take a hayride to a pumpkin patch and find the perfect Halloween pumpkin

• Enjoy Alaguali cultural activities

• Try farm activities like wool-carding and candle-dipping

• Enter the World-Record Pumpkin-Seed Spitting Contest

• Join hands-on demonstrations in archery, astronomy and nature photography

• Compete in gunnysack races. Find your way through a straw maze. Pet barnyard animals

• Sample food and desserts from local vendors or bring a picnic

Admission: 

$5 for adults 
$3 for children 12 and younger. 
Activities inside the festival are free.

Parking is $7.