Foley is the spot for high-flying adventure and family fun at the Gulf Coast Hot Air Balloon Festival. Enjoy the entertainment, arts and crafts displays and more at the festival site daily. Balloon flights, glows, and tethered rides (weather permitting) add to the fun at dawn and dusk.Admission is FREE!
Join us at the German Sausage Festival for Elberta's famous "One With Two Without" German sausage & sauerkraut, plus continuous entertainment for adults and children, and over 200 arts & crafts booths. Other scrumptious foods will include German-style filled cabbage, potato salad, goulash, red beans & rice, hamburgers, hot dogs, BBQ sandwiches, ice cream, popcorn ...Read More
The Orange Beach Festival of Art celebrates an extraordinary amount of arts, including visual, performing, musical and culinary. With more than 100 vendors displaying a variety of media, festival attendees will have plenty to see, touch, taste and hear. The event also has a kid's art alley, a culinary arts court featuring local fare, and ...Read More
After celebrating New Year's Eve at the Flora-Bama there is only one way to start the new year .... by taking a plunge into the Gulf of Mexico with a few thousand of your friends.The Flora-Bama Polar Bear Dip is THE event of New Year's Day along the gulf coast. Groups and families gather in ...Read More
Savor fresh from the Gulf seafood at the Annual National Shrimp Festival during this four-day event that attracts over 300,000 people. The festival will host more than 100 hours of musical entertainment featuring a lineup of national, regional, and local acts. There will be musical acts to please all palates, including blues, Motown, southern rock, ...Read More
We anticipate this event occurring around these estimated dates. Once we learn the confirmed dates, we will update this page. Meanwhile, read about last year's event details below.The Hangout Music Fest is known for sugar-white beaches, starry nights and red-hot music. The award-winning festival takes place in Gulf Shores, Alabama, just a short drive from ...Read More
Featuring over $100 million in boats and marine products and more than 120 exhibiting companies, it's the "Top Boat Buying Show" in the northern Gulf.Take in a display of 80 wet slip boats and yachts, more than 300 sport and console boats on land, live music, kid's art classes with marine artist Larry Rackley, instructional ...Read More
Sometimes things come together at the right place and the right time to create something truly unique. The Blue Marlin Grand Championship is a result of one such magic combination.The right team.With the tournament experience and knowledge to create a hybrid tournament scoring system emphasizing released Billfish.The right venue.Unlike any other on the Gulf Coast. ...Read More
The Orange Beach Parade started as a loose confederation of large and small groups that wanted to parade by the beach. The city of Orange Beach stepped in and took over the parade's planning. It's still open to participation by just about anybody, even groups outside of Orange Beach.The Mystical Maids of Miram and the ...Read More
This history of the Gulf Shores Mardi Gras parade dates back to 1978 when a group of locals decided Gulf Shores needed a parade. Those locals formed the Pleasure Island Players and thus Mardi Gras began in Gulf Shores. A year later the Mystic Order of Shiners joined the Pleasure Island Players to become what ...Read More