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Pechanga Tacos & Tequila Festival 2026 (5th Annual)

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Pechanga Tacos & Tequila Festival 2026 (5th Annual)

Sep 19, 2026 Ticketed — see pechanga.com 45000 Pechanga Pkwy, Temecula, CA …

The 5th Annual Pechanga Tacos and Tequila Festival returns to Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula on September 19, 2026. Spend the afternoon sampling tacos from top local and regional vendors competing with creative fillings, housemade salsas, and tortillas pressed fresh on-site. Wash it down with curated tequila and mezcal tastings from premium producers, plus margarita competitions and cocktail stations throughout the grounds. Live entertainment runs all day on the main stage, and local chefs compete in a taco cook-off with crowd voting. Proceeds benefit local Temecula Valley charities. Pechanga Resort Casino is located at 45000 Pechanga Parkway in Temecula, about 10 minutes from the I-15 corridor. Ample parking on-site. This is part of Pechanga's recurring culinary event series alongside Sushi and Sake Fest and Whiskey and Wings. The taco festival draws the widest crowd: families, foodies, and tequila enthusiasts from across SoCal. Tickets available at pechanga.com. Advance tickets recommended as this event typically sells out. The Temecula and Murrieta community turns out in force for this one every year. Bring an appetite and arrive early for the best taco variety before vendors run out.

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K-Pop Takeover San Diego 2026

Sep 19, 2026 TORO, 672 Fifth Ave, San Diego, CA…

K-Pop Takeover comes to San Diego for a high-energy afternoon where K-pop fandom meets club culture at TORO on Fifth Avenue in the heart of the Gaslamp Quarter. This is the event for fans who want to celebrate their favorite artists, hear the hottest tracks, and connect with the local K-pop community in a real venue setting. The K-Pop Takeover format mixes DJ sets of fan-favorite tracks, from classic 2nd generation hits to the latest from 4th gen groups, with a social atmosphere that encourages cosplay, fan outfits, and merch displays. The crowd is mixed: hardcore stans who know every B-side, casual fans who want a fun afternoon out, and first-timers discovering the genre through friends. All of them end up knowing each other by the end. Doors open at noon with last entry at 1:00 PM. Under-18 attendees must be accompanied by an adult 21 or older. No outside food or beverages permitted. The event includes flashing lights and high-volume music. Date: Saturday, September 19, 2026. Time: 12:00 PM to 3:30 PM. Last entry: 1:00 PM. Venue: TORO, 672 Fifth Ave, San Diego, CA 92101. Tickets: Available via Like It Love It Events. Ages: All ages; under 18 must be accompanied by an adult 21 or older.

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Melrose Trading Post — Sept 20

Sep 20, 2026 Fairfax High School, 7850 Melrose …

Melrose Trading Post is one of Los Angeles's most beloved weekly outdoor markets — a Sunday institution at Fairfax High School in West Hollywood where vendors sell vintage clothing, handcrafted artisan goods, antique furniture, art, records, and one-of-a-kind objects to a crowd that treats the market as a social gathering as much as a shopping trip. The Melrose Trading Post has been running since 1995, which gives it something most markets cannot manufacture: a real community. The same vendors return week after week, the same customers show up every Sunday, and the collective accumulation of that repetition creates something that feels more like a neighborhood ritual than a commercial event. The quality is genuinely variable — treasure hunting is part of the culture — but the atmosphere is consistent: creative, laid-back, and decidedly LA. Fairfax High School, 7850 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046 (parking lot). Every Sunday, year-round, from approximately 9 AM to 5 PM. $3 admission goes to benefit Fairfax High School programs. Parking limited in the lot — street parking on Melrose and Fairfax, or take the 217 bus. The market covers the school's full parking lot and can accommodate a few hours of serious exploration. Food trucks and vendors are on-site. Rain occasionally interrupts — check @melrosetradingpost for same-day status.

Boomtown Brewery Tuesday Trivia — September 22

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Boomtown Brewery Tuesday Trivia — September 22

Sep 22 – Sep 23, 2026 Boomtown Brewery, 700 Jackson St, …

Boomtown Brewery in downtown Los Angeles runs free trivia every Tuesday at 8 PM — a general knowledge quiz hosted in the Arts District taproom, drawing teams from the downtown LA creative community for a night of craft beer and competitive trivia with prizes for the winners. The format is a standard general knowledge quiz with themed rounds mixed in, hosted by a rotating set of trivia hosts who keep the energy live and the pace honest. The Boomtown space itself contributes to the event: an industrial-chic Arts District brewery with rotating food trucks, a full tap list of craft beers, and a neighborhood crowd that has adopted Tuesday trivia as a standing weekly commitment. Teams of up to six. Free to play. Prizes for the top finishers. The crowd is a mix of downtown creatives, brewery regulars, and competitive trivia teams who have been coming since the night launched. It is a casual event that people take seriously — which is exactly the right balance. Boomtown Brewery, 700 Jackson St, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Arts District, downtown LA. Every Tuesday at 8 PM. Free to play. Metro: Little Tokyo/Arts District station on the Gold Line, short walk. Street parking on Jackson St and the surrounding Arts District grid. Food trucks on-site most nights — check Boomtown's social media for the weekly truck announcement.

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Knott's Scary Farm 2026

Sep 24 – Oct 31, 2026 Knott's Berry Farm, 8039 Beach Blv…

Knott's Scary Farm transforms Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park into Southern California's most iconic Halloween haunt event, running select nights from late September through Halloween 2026. Since 1973, Knott's Scary Farm has been defining what a theme park Halloween event looks like — it invented the format that every other "Halloween Horror Nights" and "Fright Fest" has attempted to copy for the past fifty years. The event runs nightly with 12–15 mazes (indoor haunted houses with professional actors, specialized sets, and IP-licensed themes ranging from slasher horror to supernatural to dark comedy), a dozen scare zones that transform the park's pathways into gauntlets of costumed characters, and four live entertainment shows running simultaneously throughout the night. The Knott's Berry Farm grounds are transformed completely — the ghost town becomes a genuine ghost town, the midway games take on horror themes, and the food and beverage offerings lean into seasonal specials. Over 1,000 professional performers are employed for Scary Farm, giving it a density of live interaction that smaller haunt events cannot match. Knott's Berry Farm is at 8039 Beach Blvd in Buena Park, easily accessible from the 91 and 5 freeways. Parking on-site ($25+). Scary Farm requires separate tickets from regular park admission — tickets sell out on weekend nights and advance purchase is strongly recommended. The event runs Thursday through Sunday and select weeknights, from approximately 7 PM to 2 AM.

Monterey Jazz Festival 2026 - Monterey, CA

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Monterey Jazz Festival 2026 - Monterey, CA

Sep 25 – Sep 27, 2026 Monterey County Fairgrounds, 2004 …

The oldest continuously running jazz festival in the world has been held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds since 1958. Sixty-nine years of outdoor jazz on the Monterey Bay. The experience is one of productive wandering. You build your own schedule across five stages spread through the fairgrounds, stumbling into performances you did not plan and discovering artists you will listen to for the rest of your life. Evenings at the main arena carry the weight of history -- musicians who have played here include Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Billie Holiday. The setting adds its own texture: Monterey fog rolls in at night, temperatures drop dramatically, and the crowd wraps itself in jackets and blankets without missing a note. The daytime has a wine-country ease to it -- Thai and Jamaican food stalls, local Monterey County wines poured at on-site tastings, and a crowd that ranges from jazz scholars to families simply drawn in by a beautiful September weekend on the California coast. If you love music discovery and the pleasure of experiencing something with genuine cultural history, Monterey Jazz is worth every dollar. The Grounds Pass is the insider move -- it gives access to all five stages and most artists, and the unexpected discoveries in the smaller tents are often the sets people remember longest. This is not for people who need a massive headliner to justify the weekend. It is for people who understand that the best music experiences are the ones nobody planned. The lineup rewards depth over spectacle. Bring layers. Monterey evenings can drop into the 50s even in September -- veterans pack a waterproof jacket, gloves, and a stadium seat cushion for concrete bleachers. Use the remote parking lots and the free festival shuttle instead of attempting to park close. The venue is cashless. Food lines move quickly in early afternoon but back up significantly at dinner. The free Monterey Jazz Festival app carries the full schedule with filtering by stage and time -- download it before you arrive and use the My Lineup feature to avoid schedule conflicts. Cashless payments only, so load up a card before you go. Monterey Jazz Festival is on Falkor's Nation's Best list because it represents something rare in American culture: a living institution. Sixty-eight years of continuous programming makes this not just a festival but a timestamp -- every year it runs, the art form gets another year of documentation. When Miles Davis played here in 1964 or Herbie Hancock in 2019, those nights are now part of the permanent record. Attending in 2026 means adding yourself to that record. Tickets and full lineup at montereyjazzfestival.org.

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State Fair of Texas 2026 — Dallas, TX

Sep 25 – Oct 19, 2026 22 Fair Park, 3921 Martin Luther King…

Twenty-four days. More total attendance than any other state fair in America. A new fried food every year, and the city of Dallas reorganizing its calendar around it. Fair Park is a permanent venue of architectural significance — a 277-acre National Historic Landmark built for the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition, featuring 50 buildings of Art Deco design that serve as the fair's permanent infrastructure. The experience is enormous in every dimension: 150+ food vendors including the annual Fried Food Competition whose winners become national food media stories, livestock exhibitions on genuine agricultural scale, a midway larger than most county fair grounds, and the Cotton Bowl stadium hosting the Red River Rivalry game between Texas and Oklahoma during fair week — one of the most attended college football rivalries in the country. The State Fair of Texas has operated continuously since 1886. This is for people who want to understand Texas — and by extension, a significant portion of American identity — from the inside. Texas pride is not a tourism concept here; it's the air the fair breathes. If you're from Texas, this is homecoming. If you're not, it's one of the most genuinely immersive cultural experiences available in the country. The fair is not for people who want curation or sophistication — it's for people who want scale, authenticity, and the particular pleasure of sharing space with two million people who are genuinely happy to be exactly where they are. The Cotton Bowl game (Red River Rivalry, typically early October) is peak week for attendance — visit mid-week in late September for the best experience-to-crowd ratio. The Fried Food Competition results are announced in early October; visiting afterward means eating the year's winning creation. DART light rail provides direct access to Fair Park. Buy Big Tex passes on the official site in advance for savings. The Creative Arts and Agriculture buildings are undervisited by casual fairgoers and worth two hours each. The State Fair of Texas is on Falkor's Nation's Best list because nowhere in America holds 24 days of this kind of sustained, genuine community celebration. Most people outside the South have never seriously considered the Texas State Fair as a destination. They should. The combination of historic Fair Park, Texas culture at full volume, Big Tex, and the country's most creative fried food competition creates a context you cannot access anywhere else. September 25 – October 18, 2026, Fair Park, Dallas, TX. Tickets and schedule at bigtex.com.

Pacific Islander Festival San Diego 2026

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Pacific Islander Festival San Diego 2026

Sep 26 – Sep 27, 2026 1155 West Mission Bay Drive, San D…

The Pacific Islander Festival San Diego is North America's largest and longest-running celebration of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander culture, returning to Ski Beach in Mission Bay on September 26-27, 2026. Now in its 38th year, this two-day outdoor festival is entirely free and open to all, drawing tens of thousands of visitors to celebrate the rich heritage of communities from Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia. The festival grounds span the grassy shores of Mission Bay, featuring over 100 vendor booths selling traditional crafts, jewelry, clothing, and Pacific Islander food from Hawaiian, Samoan, Tongan, Fijian, Tahitian, and Chamorro cuisines. Live entertainment runs continuously across the main stage, featuring traditional hula, fire knife dance, Polynesian drumming, and contemporary Pacific Islander musicians and performers. Ski Beach is located at 1155 West Mission Bay Drive in San Diego, directly on the water with stunning views of the bay. Plentiful free parking is available along West Mission Bay Drive and at the park lots. The venue is fully accessible and family-friendly, with activities designed for all ages including keiki (children's) areas with games and crafts. This event brings together the Pacific Islander community and their neighbors for a weekend of cultural education, delicious food, and world-class performance. Admission is free both days. No tickets required — simply arrive, explore, and enjoy. Bring lawn chairs or blankets, sunscreen, and an appetite for some of the best Pacific food in Southern California.

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Adams Avenue Street Fair 2026

Sep 26, 2026 Adams Ave, Normal Heights, San Die…

The Adams Avenue Street Fair is one of Southern California's largest free music festivals — a two-day event on Adams Avenue in Normal Heights that turns the neighborhood's main commercial strip into an outdoor music and arts venue with multiple stages, 300+ arts and crafts booths, a carnival section, food vendors, and beer gardens. What makes Adams Avenue Street Fair different from a generic street festival is the music: the booking covers an unusually wide range of genres, the stages are spread across several blocks, and the crowd that shows up reflects the Normal Heights neighborhood itself — one of the more musically knowledgeable and culturally mixed communities in San Diego. The fair has been running for over thirty years and has a genuine local reputation that national touring acts don't manufacture. Adams Avenue between 30th and 35th Streets, Normal Heights, San Diego, CA 92116. Last weekend of September 2026 — typically Saturday and Sunday. Free admission to the street fair. Beer garden and some attractions require a wristband. Parking throughout Normal Heights — the 15 Freeway exits to El Cajon Blvd, which connects to Adams Ave. The neighborhood is walkable from multiple bus lines. The fair is stroller-friendly during daytime hours and gets louder in the evenings.

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Pacific Beach Block Party 2026

Sep 26, 2026 Free to attend Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach, San Die…

Pacific Beach Block Party returns September 26, 2026 — the one day a year that Garnet Avenue, San Diego's loudest street, becomes an outdoor venue for roughly 20,000 people who showed up for the music and stayed because they couldn't find a reason to leave. Runs noon until the lights come on. Multiple stages stretch across a six-block span of Garnet. Local acts open at noon. Bigger names fill the afternoon. The crowd is a cross-section of everyone who calls the 92109 home, plus everyone else who drives across the city for this specific energy: sunburned, relaxed, and certain they're exactly where they should be. Beer gardens anchor every block. Food trucks fill the gaps. The booths running down the sidewalk alternate between local craft vendors and neighborhood nonprofits. Between stages you'll hear three different things happening at once — someone's reggae set bleeding into a hip-hop act bleeding into the distant bass from the main stage. There's no ticket required to walk the street. Wristbands give you beer garden access — get one. Show up by noon to stake out a spot near the main stage. Wear sunscreen. PB in late September still runs hot. The afternoon will run longer than you planned. That's the whole point.

Princess Mononoke 4K Remaster — Studio Ghibli Fest 2026

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Princess Mononoke 4K Remaster — Studio Ghibli Fest 2026

Sep 26, 2026 AMC The Grove 14, 189 The Grove Dr…

No clean villains, a forest worth bleeding for, a war between industry and nature with no easy side — Princess Mononoke is the Ghibli film adults reach for when they want to prove the studio makes serious art. The 4K remaster is the reason to finally see it the size it deserves. Princess Mononoke in 4K at AMC The Grove, part of Studio Ghibli Fest 2026, is event-tier for the Ghibli-and-arthouse crossover crowd: the people who'll argue about San and Lady Eboshi in the lobby afterward, who have opinions about dub versus sub, who treat this as a sacred text. This is the screening you plan a whole evening around — the 'we are absolutely going together' kind. A restored print, a full house, Joe Hisaishi's score in a real theater. Saturday, September 26, 2026, 3:00 PM at AMC The Grove 14, Los Angeles. Tickets and full showtimes via GKIDS / Fathom Events.

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Melrose Trading Post — Sept 27

Sep 27, 2026 Fairfax High School, 7850 Melrose …

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Fleet Week San Diego 2026

Oct 1 – Oct 4, 2026 Free admission Broadway Pier, 1000 North Harbor D…

The Blue Angels fly over San Diego Bay once a year. This is the week. Fleet Week San Diego — a celebration of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard — transforms the waterfront into a public showcase of military heritage, precision aerial performance, and community connection. The centerpiece is the Air Show, featuring the legendary Blue Angels and a rotating cast of military and civilian aircraft performing over San Diego Bay. Spectators line the Embarcadero and North Harbor Drive for some of the most dramatic aerial views of any air show in the country, with aircraft flying low over the water against the backdrop of the downtown skyline. Fleet Week also includes ship tours (walk aboard Navy destroyers, submarines, and amphibious ships free of charge), the Parade of Ships through San Diego Bay, military band performances, and community outreach programs. The event is free to attend, family-friendly, and uniquely San Diego — the Navy is the city's largest employer, and Fleet Week is the annual reminder of how deeply naval culture is woven into the city's identity. Fleet Week 2026 runs in October at the Broadway Pier and Embarcadero, San Diego. The Air Show is the peak attendance day — arrive early via the blue line trolley stop at the Convention Center or Park Blvd.

Night of the Jack 2026 — Descanso Gardens

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Night of the Jack 2026 — Descanso Gardens

Oct 1 – Nov 2, 2026 Paid - $30-$50 King Gillette Ranch, 26800 Mulholl…

Night of the Jack is a walk-through Halloween experience at Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge, running every evening in October 2026. The event transforms the botanical garden's walking paths into a mile-long trail illuminated by thousands of hand-carved jack-o'-lanterns and pumpkin installations. The scale distinguishes it from most Halloween attractions. Hundreds of carved pumpkins line the route in themed sections — the designs range from photorealistic portraits to geometric patterns to pop culture references. The botanical garden setting adds something that warehouse haunted houses don't have: old-growth oak canopies overhead and the natural texture of a working garden at night. Night of the Jack is not a haunted house. There are no jump scares and no actors. It is a curated visual walk with ambient sound design. Families bring young children. Couples treat it as a date. The pace is self-guided and unhurried. Tickets are timed entry and sell out weeks in advance — book early. La Cañada is about 15 miles northeast of Downtown LA off the 210 Freeway. Free parking on site.

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Los Angeles Haunted Hayride 2026

Oct 1 – Nov 1, 2026 Paid - $30-$65 Old Zoo Picnic Area, Griffith Park…

The Los Angeles Haunted Hayride has been running in Griffith Park's Old Zoo Picnic Area every October since 2009. It is one of the most well-produced Halloween experiences in Southern California and the only haunted hayride format operating in the city of Los Angeles. The hayride itself is a tractor-pulled wagon moving through a 10-minute theatrical experience in the dark — actors, sets, and practical effects staged along a trail through the historic old zoo grounds. The abandoned bear grottoes and concrete animal enclosures that make up the Old Zoo are genuinely unsettling as a backdrop. The full event grounds also include a haunted maze, a campground area with food and drinks, carnival games, and the kind of Halloween village atmosphere that works as a standalone hangout separate from the ride itself. Many people come for the scene as much as the scares. The Haunted Hayride runs Thursday through Sunday evenings in October plus Halloween night. Timed tickets are strongly recommended — walk-up lines on weekend nights routinely exceed two hours. Griffith Park parking is free but fills early. Rideshare drop-offs work well.

Goodguys Southwest Nationals — Del Mar 2026

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Goodguys Southwest Nationals — Del Mar 2026

Oct 2 – Oct 4, 2026 Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Du…

The Goodguys Southwest Nationals at the Del Mar Fairgrounds is one of the largest traditional hot rod and custom car shows on the West Coast, drawing thousands of vehicles and tens of thousands of enthusiasts to the iconic fairgrounds in Del Mar, California for a weekend of classic American automotive culture. Goodguys Rod & Custom Association events are the definitive annual gathering for traditional hot rod culture — pre-1973 American cars and trucks, built or restored to the standards of the rod and custom hobby. The show is judged across dozens of classes, with awards covering everything from pre-war street rods to full custom cars, restored pickups, and vintage drag cars. The judging reflects a genuine understanding of what makes a car important within this specific tradition. The Del Mar Fairgrounds at 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd sits on the coastal bluffs above the Pacific — the weather at Del Mar in autumn is ideal, and the setting gives the show a visual backdrop that inland venues can't match. Vendors of speed equipment, custom parts, period-correct upholstery, and automotive collectibles line the vendor area. Gates open Friday for early entrants. The main show runs Saturday and Sunday. Spectator admission charged at the gate; vehicle entry requires pre-registration. The event draws builders from throughout Southern California and Arizona who use the Southwest Nationals as the season's signature statement for the builds they've been working on all year.

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Miramar Air Show 2026

Oct 2 – Oct 4, 2026 MCAS Miramar, Marine Corps Dr, San…

The Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Air Show is one of the largest free airshows in the United States, held annually in October at MCAS Miramar in San Diego. The 2026 show is the one day per year that the general public can access the active military air station and witness military aviation from the ground level — aircraft on static display, aerial demonstrations, and the scale of a working Marine Corps air station made visible. The aerial demonstration lineup typically includes the U.S. Navy Blue Angels as the headline act — the Navy's flight demonstration squadron performing precision aerobatics at speeds and distances that require seeing in person to fully register. Supporting demonstrations from Marine Corps aviation units, Army helicopters, civilian aerobatic performers, and historic aircraft round out the flying program. The static display on the flight line is extensive: current frontline military aircraft from all service branches, historic warbirds, experimental and prototype aircraft, and the full ground support equipment that enables military aviation. Military and aerospace industry exhibitors occupy the vendor area with hands-on displays. MCAS Miramar is located on Miramar Road in the Miramar area of San Diego, accessible from I-15 and I-805. The show is free to attend but traffic management requires early arrival — gates typically open at 8 AM and the parking lots fill before 10. Shuttle buses from remote parking locations run throughout the show day. All ages welcome. Military ID holders often receive preferred access.

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LA Korean Festival 2026 — Koreatown

Oct 2 – Oct 4, 2026 Koreatown, Wilshire Blvd & Western…

The LA Korean Festival in Koreatown is one of the premier celebrations of Korean culture in the United States, typically held in October in the neighborhood that serves as the cultural and business center of the largest Korean American community outside of Korea. The 2026 edition draws from the extraordinary concentration of Korean cultural resources in a 2-square-mile area of Los Angeles. The festival transforms the streets of Koreatown's commercial core with live music stages, traditional Korean performance, K-pop cover dance competitions, a large-scale food marketplace, and the vendor infrastructure that Koreatown's business community deploys for the annual flagship event. Traditional Korean games, calligraphy demonstrations, and cultural education programming accompany the entertainment. Koreatown's culinary scene makes the food marketplace exceptional: everything from ganjang gejang (soy-marinated crab) to tteokbokki to Korean fried chicken to hotteok (sweet pancakes) to the full range of Korean street food and desserts appears at Korean Festival vendor stalls operated by community restaurants and food businesses. The festival grounds are centered on Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue in the heart of Koreatown. Metro Purple Line (Wilshire/Western Station) provides direct access. The festival is free to attend; food and vendor purchases are individually priced. Check the LA Korean Festival website for confirmed 2026 dates — typically the second or third weekend of October.

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