Palm Beach Gardens, FL: October Events, Halloween Happenings and Community Updates
October is when Palm Beach Gardens comes back to full speed. The Gardens GreenMarket reopens on Sunday, October 4, Stories in the Park returns, and Halloween brings the fall festival season to the city and its neighbors. This is what is happening this month, plus the local updates that matter if you are watching this market from the Northeast.
Local Events in October 2026
The Gardens GreenMarket Returns
Dates: Every Sunday starting October 4, 2026
Time: 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: City Hall Municipal Campus, 10500 North Military Trail
More than 100 vendors, live entertainment and seating on site. Rain or shine, and no pets. The season runs through next September. If you are planning a fall scouting trip, a Sunday morning here is the single best way to see the city's year-round residents in one place.
Stories in the Park
Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2026
The city's story time series returns for the season, running the first Tuesday of each month through May.
Life Time Run Club
Dates: Thursdays, October 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29, 2026
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: Downtown Palm Beach Gardens
A free weekly evening run that starts and ends downtown, open to all paces. The kind of no-cost community fixture that tells you more about a place than any amenity list.
Live Music at Downtown Palm Beach Gardens
Dates: Throughout October
Location: Downtown Palm Beach Gardens
Voodoo Bayou runs live music Wednesday evenings from 6:00 to 9:00 PM, Sunday afternoons from noon to 3:00 PM, and Friday and Saturday nights from 9:30 PM. Avocado Cantina adds live music and dancing every Friday from 8:30 to 11:30 PM. Both run daily happy hours from 3:00 to 6:00 PM, as does Yard House, which adds a late-night happy hour from 10:00 PM.
Halloween in and Around the Gardens
Palm Beach Gardens Fall Festival
Date: [CONFIRM 2026 DATE AND TIME AT PBGFL.GOV]
The city's annual Fall Festival is one of its signature family events of the year. Check the city's special events page for this year's date, location and activities.
Pumpkin Fest at Harbourside Place, Jupiter
Date: Saturday, October 10, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Location: Harbourside Place, 200 U.S. 1, Jupiter
About 15 minutes north. The 10th annual Pumpkin Fest benefits the Chasin A Dream Foundation, with a pumpkin patch, trick-or-treating at more than 50 vendor booths, live music, face painting and stilt walkers.
Town of Jupiter Halloween Spooktacular
Date: Saturday, October 17, 2026
Time: 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Location: Jupiter Community Center, 200 Military Trail, Jupiter
Free and open to all ages. Trick-or-treating, inflatables, a live DJ, a monster maze, a tot zone and food trucks.
Ongoing and Seasonal Highlights
City Programming Returns
After a quiet September, the city's fall calendar restarts in October with the GreenMarket and seasonal programming. Vendor applications have been open for the Gardens Harvest and Holiday Bazaar, and the city has been accepting original art for the 2027 GreenMarket Anniversary Bag. Small things that say something about how this city treats its residents.
PBG Aquatic Complex
The Aquatic Complex at 4420 Burns Road runs on seasonal hours in the fall. Check the current schedule for the Main Pool and Splash Zone before you go.
Burns Road Community Center
The renovated Burns Road Community Center offers recreation, wellness and community programming for all ages, including fitness classes, tennis and pickleball. It is also the registration point for resident-only city events.
Development and Infrastructure
Dick's House of Sport at the Gardens Mall
On August 6, the City Council voted 5 to 0 on first reading to allow Dick's House of Sport to take over the former Sears space at the Gardens Mall. The proposal is a 140,000 square foot, two-story interactive store with rock climbing walls, batting cages, golf bays and virtual reality sports, plus an outdoor athletic field. Sears closed in 2024 and the space has sat empty since. The second and final vote was scheduled for September. [UPDATE WITH THE SEPTEMBER VOTE RESULT.] An opening date has not been publicly announced.
Health Park at Avenir
Health Park at Avenir broke ground on June 24, 2026, developed with Sina Companies and Jupiter Medical Center. The campus is planned to include a 53,000 square foot neighborhood hospital with up to 29 inpatient beds, emergency services, four operating rooms and imaging, plus nearly 75,000 square feet of medical office space. Completion is expected in early 2028. For buyers weighing western Palm Beach Gardens, hospital-level care on site changes the calculus.
Freestanding Emergency Room
The 12-bay, around-the-clock freestanding emergency room approved in January is planned for Coconut Boulevard and Northlake Boulevard, an $18 million investment affiliated with Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, with CT, ultrasound, X-ray and on-site lab services.
Avenir Town Center
Publix has opened, anchoring a mixed-use retail and lifestyle district of roughly 200,000 square feet, with more dining and retail tenants opening on a rolling schedule. Less driving south on Northlake for everyday errands. Confirm individual tenant openings before planning around any one of them.
Avenir Community Expansion
Avenir continues to add neighborhoods across its 4,752 acres, with more than 4,000 homes anticipated at full buildout. The northern end of the city is becoming a complete district rather than a bedroom community. If you are comparing new construction at Avenir against an established golf or club community, the tradeoff is maturity versus infrastructure built to current standards.
Burns Road Improvements
Road work continues along Burns Road, including paving and a two-way bicycle track on the south side. Expect intermittent lane closures if you are touring in that corridor.
Community Updates: What Is Happening in the Gardens This Month
The Season Turns on October 4
Through September the city ran at its most local. When the GreenMarket reopens, the fall calendar restarts and the pace picks up week by week. A visit this month shows you both sides of the Gardens: the year-round residents on a Sunday morning, and the season beginning to arrive.
Hurricane Season Is Not Over Yet
Hurricane season runs through November 30, and October storms still happen. If you are buying in the Gardens, keep working through flood zone designation, wind mitigation credits, roof age and impact window condition on every property you consider. New construction at Avenir is built to current code, which is a different risk profile than older inventory, and that difference is worth pricing out rather than assuming. Insurance costs vary by property, elevation, roof age, construction type and carrier. Consult your carrier or a licensed Florida insurance agent for a quote on the specific property.
Buyers Are Positioning for Winter Now
Fall inventory and competition build from October forward. Buyers targeting a January move are touring now and writing offers before winter pricing returns. In the Gardens, that means weighing new construction at Avenir against established golf and club communities. Northeast buyers, including many from Bergen and Hudson County, use this stretch to get under contract. If your goal is to be in the home by January, the search starts this month, not in November.
Thinking About Living in Palm Beach Gardens?
Palm Beach Gardens is less a single location than a set of lifestyles: golf and club communities, walkable retail districts, year-round outdoor recreation, and luxury new construction including Avenir. If you are considering a second home, an investment property, or a full relocation from Bergen or Hudson County to South Florida, working with someone who understands both markets simplifies every decision. Scott Selleck is a Broker / Sales Associate with The Selleck Group at KW City Views Realty in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and is licensed in Florida through Keller Williams Boca Raton Realty. He helps buyers match neighborhoods to how they actually live, evaluate new construction and luxury communities, and plan market timing with a long-term strategy in mind.
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Event details are from the City of Palm Beach Gardens, Downtown Palm Beach Gardens and event organizers as of September 28, 2026 and may change. Confirm times with each organizer before you go.
