Theme Park Food Events and Festivals: Current, Upcoming, and Seasonal Celebrations
Hey Foodie Fam! ✨
Theme parks are great if you’re all about rollercoasters, thrill rides, watching your kids face light up being able to ride that big kid ride for the first time, and meeting their favorite character and taking pictures with them.
But there are some theme parks that go above and beyond to introduce new experiences through festivals and events throughout their operating season.
The theme park food events and festivals page is all about compiling monthly theme park food events, yummy food guides and reviews, and food-exclusive options that appear there.
If you have never been to one of these festivals, I recommend you check out this guide before proceeding: Your Straightforward Guide to Theme Park Food and Wine Festivals. It runs through the general gist of festivals, what to expect, the different kinds, and then you can come here to find out the schedule of current and next-month events. As such …
This is a links-heavy page.
Current Theme Park Food Festivals (June 2025)
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay → Red, White & Brews, Fridays through Sundays, May 24 – July 7
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay → Sesame Street Safari of Fun 15th Birthday, June 6 – August 3
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay → Summer Nights, Select Days May 23 – August 10
Busch Gardens Williamsburg → Food & Wine Festival, Thursdays through Sundays, April 24 – June 22
Busch Gardens Williamsburg → Summer of Wonder, June 27 – July 31
Dollywood → Flower & Food Festival, April 18 – June 8
Dollywood → Smoky Mountain Summer Celebration, June 14 – August 3
Gilroy Garden Family Theme Park → Cherry Jubilee, June 6 – July 6
Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari → Holidays in the Sky, evenings of June 21 – August 3
Kennywood → Bites and Pints Festival, Fridays to Sundays & Memorial Day, May 23 – June 29
Kings Dominion → A Golden Summerbration, May 31 – August 3
Kings Island → Food & Wine Festival, Fridays to Sunday, May 30 – June 22
Knott’s Berry Farm → Summer at Knott’s, June 13 – September 1
LEGOLAND Florida Resort → LEGO® Festival, Weekends, May 3 – June 8
LEGOLAND New York Resort → LEGO® Festival, May 3 – June 8
SeaWorld Orlando → Summer Spectacular, May 23 – September 1
SeaWorld San Antonio → Summer Spectacular, May 31 – August 3
SeaWorld San Diego → Summer Spectacular, May 23 – September 1
Sesame Place Philadelphia → Elmo’s Springtacular, April 26 – June 15
Sesame Place Philadelphia → Summer Splash, June 16 – September 1
Sesame Place San Diego → Sesame Summer Splash, May 23 – September 1
Silver Dollar City → Summer Celebration, June 7 – August 3
Six Flags Discovery Kingdom → ¡Viva La Fiesta!, May 24 – June 29
Six Flags Fiesta Texas → Summerbration, May 24 – September 1
Six Flags Magic Mountain → DC Heroes & Villains Fest, Saturdays and Sundays, Fridays & Saturdays, June 20 – July 26
Six Flags Over Texas → Summerbration, May 31 – August 17
Six Flags St. Louis → Summerbration, May 24 – July 27
- KidZfest, July 12 – 27
Splish Splash → KidsFest, Saturdays & Sundays starting June 7th
Wild Adventures → Splash Island Nights, June 6 – July 25
- Celebrate America Festival, June 21 – July 6
Upcoming Theme Park Festivals (July 2025)
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay → Bier Fest Brews & BBQ, Fridays – Sundays, July 25 – August 31 & Monday, Sept 1
Carowinds → Star-Spangled Nights, July 4, 5
Carowinds → Viva La Fiesta, July 18 – August 10
Cedar Point → Boardwalk Nights, July 18 – August 17
Gilroy Gardens Family Theme Park → Carnival Nights, Fridays, July 25 – September 12
Idlewild & SoakZone → Neighbor Days, Weekends, July 11 – August 3
- Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, July 11 – 13
- Alma’s Way, July 18 – 20
- Daniel Tiger, July 25 – 27
Kennywood → All-American Summer, Select Dates in July
Kings Dominion → Star-Spangled Nights, July 4 – 5
Kings Island → Grand Carnivale, July 19 – August 3
LEGOLAND Florida Resort → Red, White & BOOM, July 4
LEGOLAND New York Resort → Red, White & BOOM!, July 4
SeaWorld Orlando → Bands, Brew & BBQ, Weekends, July 5 – August 24
Silver Dollar City → Summer Nights, July 13 – August 4
Six Flags Discovery Kingdom → Star-Spangled Nights, July 4 – 5
Six Flags Fiesta Texas → Star-Spangled Nights, July 4 – 5
Six Flags Frontier City → Star-Spangled Nights, July 4 – 5
Six Flags Great America → Great American Nights, July 12 – August 3
- Fireworks, July 4 & 5
- Drone Shows, July 11 – 19
Six Flags Magic Mountain → Star-Spangled Nights, July 4 – 5
Six Flags New England → Food & Brew Festival, Saturdays & Sundays, July 26 – August 10
Six Flags Over Texas → Star-Spangled Nights, July 4 – 5
Splish Splash → Neon Nights, Fridays & Saturdays, July 11 – August 16th
Theme Park Festivals’ Existing Menus, Pricing, and Food Reviews
Thankfully, there’s a whole buffet of experiences waiting for you already. I’ve already kicked off the feast with a couple of posts that dive into the deliciousness of some remarkable food-exclusive (and some adjacent) events and festivals.
I’ve divided them into accordion-style to help clean up this page up a bit. You can click the down arrow to read up on what each post will be about, but you can click directly on the title to take you to the post you need if there are no links in the drop down. Over time these events will have more years added so they may end up changing, but for now, I’m going to keep it simple. ?
seasonal, halloween, and christmas theme park park festivals
Not looking for Halloween or Christmas/Holiday-centered festivals? This list will have the Food & Wines, the Kids Fests, Harvest Festivals, Summer Festivals, and other festivals like it.
All across the USA, theme parks run amazing displays of spooky, detailed Halloween events and this is a complete list of those events. My personal favorite so far has to be Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando if you haven’t gone, but yours may be somewhere I’ve never been yet!
Full of falling snow, dazzling lights, brightly lit trees, and maybe even parades full of one special elf screaming, “Naughty!” this list has all of the theme parks running their holiday events which will include Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Years festivities.
SEAWORLD ORLANDO
A Foodie Guide to SeaWorld Orlando’s Howl-O-Scream (2024): Full Menu, Prices, Overview
Universal Studios: Orlando
Festival Food Guides
Looking for information on the festivals / events that happen at Universal Orlando? All of these guides offer full menus, prices, and overviews of these events all in one place.
Food Guide to Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights (2024): Full Menu, Prices, Overview
Festival Food Reviews
This is my favorite part! Eating! These are Universal Orlando’s festival / event food reviews here as they come. Enjoy!
Walt Disney World, Epcot
Festival Food Guides
Looking for information on the festivals / events that happen at EPCOT? All of these guides offer full menus, prices, and overviews of these events all in one place.
Food Guide to EPCOT’s International Festival of the Arts (2025): Full Menu, Prices, Overview
Food Guide to EPCOT’s International Festival of the Arts (2024): Full Menu, Prices, Overview
Food Guide to EPCOT’s Flower and Garden Festival (2024): Full Menu, Prices, Overview
Food Guide to EPCOT’s Food and Wine Festival (2024): Full Menu, Overview + 2024 EPCOT Food and Wine Menu Prices
Festival Food Reviews
Of course, the yummiest part of it all – the noms: the food reviews at EPCOT’s festivals / events.
WALT DISNEY WORLD, MAGIC KINGDOM
Food Guide to Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party (2024): Full Menu, Prices, Overview
WALT DISNEY WORLD, HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS
A Foodie Guide to Jollywood Nights (2024): Overview
If you’re hungry for more, I suggest reading through and finding what festivals are right in your backyard and eating through the parks (especially the food reviews on our site)!
And if you haven’t as of yet, please follow me on our other social media channels (YouTube, Instagram & Tik Tok – @themeparkbites) once I’m movin’ and groovin’. Thank you for allowing me to be your tasty theme park companion!