Guide: 39th Annual Fall Festival for Fairfax

Rides, music, Touch a Truck, plus over 400 arts and crafts and food vendors are just a few highlights of Fairfax City’s 39th annual fall festival.

The festival will be held in Historic Old Town Fairfax on October 10th from 10:00 am to 5:00pm. The rain date for the event is October 11th.

Admission will be free but there will be a cost associated with amusement rides, and activities such as face and hair painting.

Other activities include a mechanical bull ride, puppet shows, reptiles alive, and the All-American Lumberjack Show and the interactive Lumberjack Camp.

In the lumberjack show, two teams of professional lumberjacks will compete in 11 different events against each other including axes, modified racing chainsaws, water events and giveaways. Free autographs/souvenirs for the kids from the lumberjacks are after every show.

Families can also attend open houses.

Open Houses:

City of Fairfax Museum & Visitor Center

10209 Main Street, Fairfax, VA 22030

9am -5pm

Ratcliffe-Allison House

10386 Main Street, Fairfax, VA 22030

10am – 4pm

Open for guided tours

Historic Blenheim and the Civil War Interpretive Center

3610 Old Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA 22030

Gallery and interpretive walking trail open for self-guided tours from 12 – 4 pm.

Historic House (first floor) and Guided Site Tour at 1 pm.

Fairfax Volunteer Fire Department


Sparky’s Harvest Bash- 
An educational event for kids on fire prevention and safety!
Station #3, 4081 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030

10am – 5pm

Open House

Image, courtesy of City of Fairfax