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Tolay Fall Festival


  • Tolay Lake Regional Park 5869 Cannon Lane Petaluma, CA, 94954 United States (map)

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. 

Earlier Event: October 11
Halloween Harvest Festival
Later Event: October 12
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