Local guide to unique festivals near Pittsburgh, PA
Family Friendly Festivals around South West Pennsylvania
Fairs, Festivals and Events all year ’round!
SWPA Festivals by Month
“A Way to Spend the Day”
In my opinion, the best days are spent at a good festival. Music, meandering, and COMMUNITY TOGETHERNESS.
The greater Pittsburgh region has many wonderful events throughout the year. SWPA is home to an electic mix of folks; and there’s diversity for every one and every age.
Different Cultures,
Celebrated Together..
Whatever you celebrate.. Enjoy the day, and the people gathered around you. Everyone gets to have fun! Hold onto memories to remember together.
I love helping people, and the best way to help yourselves.. is to Find an Adventure!
Festivals in SWPA, by Month
- Connelsville Polar Plunge (Annually on New Years day)
- January Ice Jam (January)
- A FREE Bluegrass music festival held @ Ramada Inn Beaver, PA.
- Somerset Fire & Ice Festival (January)
- Ligonier Ice Festival (January)
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- Nemacolin Winterfest (February)
- Punxsutawney Groundhog Day (February)
- Pittsburgh Fringe Festival (March)
- St. Patrick’s Day Parade (March)
- Chainsaw Carvers Rendezvous (March)
- 412 Day (April)
- PA Maple Festival (April)
- Pittsburgh Mac & Cheese Festival (May)
- Pike Days (National Road Yard Sale) (3rd weekend in May)
- One year, we got a hotel in Grantsville, MD. Woke up, drove Rt 40 to Uniontown/ Bentleyville/Washington. So many yard sales the entire way!
- Sheep and Fiber Fest (May)
- Leaf’s Spring Thing (May)
- Pittsburgh Pierogi Festival (May)
- Johnstown Polkafest (May)
- National Pike Steam Show (May & August)
- PA Firefly Festival (June)
- Canal Days (June)
- Garrison Day Sale (June)
- Movement on the Mountain Festival (June)
- Mammoth Festival (June)
- Bantam Jeep Festival (June)
- Seeing this in person, I felt like such an outsider with my Toyota prius.
- West Fest (June)
- A cowboy festival with rodeos, gun-slingin’ and honky tonk.
- Picklesburgh (July)
- New Castle Fireworks Fest (July)
- Canonsburg 4th of July Celebration (July 4)
- Set out your chair and save a spot!
- Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix (July)
- Kecksburg UFO Festival (July)
- Funky Fest (July)
- Flood City Music Festival (July)
- Rain Day Festival (July 29th)
- Jacktown Fair (July)
- SWPA’s longest running festival since 1866!
- Bullskin Fair (August)
- Rock, Reggae, Relief (August)
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- Vicary Day (August)
- Knotweed Festival (August)
- Take a tour Blairsville Underground Railroad during this festival!
- PGH Renaissance Festival (August)
- Squonkapalooza Cryptid Festival (August)
- Tubapalooza (August)
- Float on down the river for a tubing-music-festival!
- Pittsburgh Irish Festival (September)
- Annual Pow Wow (September)
- 50’s Fest & Car Cruise (September)
- Farmers and Thresherman’s Jubilee (September)
- Ligonier Highland Games (September)
- Flax Scutching Festival (September)
- PA Covered Bridge Festival (September)
- Hop and cross all over SWPA for this particular festival.
- Ebensburg Potato Festival (September)
- Baconburgh (September)
- Grass (Roots) in the Glades (October)
- Pittsburgh Dirty Dozen (October)
- Race up twelve of the steepest streets in Pittsburgh.
- Fort Ligonier Days (October)
- Confluence Pumpkin Fest (October)
- Houston Pumpkin Festival (October)
- Ohiopyle Buckwheat Festival (October)
- Scare at the Fair (October)
- Monroeville Train & Toy Show (November)
- Pittsburgh Pet Expo (November)
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- Canonsburg Old Fashioned Christmas (December)
- Noel Night (December)
- Basically it’s a Christmas Caroling festival in Volant, PA
- Volant Christmas Cookie Crawl (December)
- Christmas in the Mountains (December)
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