The Mariners’ ARRRtober Festival – Oct. 13 Family-friendly event featuring pirate-themed activities all day long!
The Mariners’ ARRRtober Festival
Trails, Ales and Pirate Tales
Sunday, October 13, 2019
1 – 5 PM
Harvey Field at The Mariners’ Museum Park
The Mariners’ ARRRtober Festival is a family-friendly event in the Mariners’ Museum Park featuring pirate-themed activities all day long! The event will begin with the Noland Trail Marathon & Relay in the morning.
Shiver Me Timbers! Pirates Invade The Mariners’ Museum and Park This Weekend
This coming Sunday, October 13, pirates will invade The Mariners’ Museum Park for the second annual Mariners’ ARRRtober Festival: Trails, Ales, and Pirate Tales. The festival will feature a marathon and relay on the Noland Trail, pirate encampments and storytelling, Pirate Costume Contest, pumpkin painting, games, hayrides, craft beer, food trucks, live music, and much more.
The festival portion of the day runs from 1 – 5 p.m., with the Noland Trail Marathon and Relay beginning at 7 a.m. The relay is produced by Flat-Out Events and gives runners the opportunity to run the only race held on the Noland Trail. Runners can take on the challenge solo, or team up with friends and complete the race as a relay. Festival entrance and craft beer tasting tickets are included in registration for the runners.
The festival features a craft beer, cider, and wine tasting component. Unlimited tasting tickets can be purchased in advance for $25 and include a souvenir tasting glass and free admission to the festival. Single drink tickets will be sold day-of for $5, and tasting tickets will be sold day-of for $25 if still available. Museum Members get a discounted price of $20 for tasting tickets.
Participating breweries include: Alewerks, Billsburg Brewery, Bold Rock, Caiseal, Devils Backbone, Heavy Seas, New Realm Brewing, Oozlefinch, Sly Clyde Ciderworks, and Tradition Brewing. The Williamsburg Winery will also have several wine selections available.
Local food trucks and vendors will be present at the festival providing food for purchase and include Southern Hospitality, Nosh, Pelican Pete’s Pizza, Sliders 757, Stuft, Kilwins of Williamsburg, and Corny Fred’s.
The family-friendly day is filled with pirate-themed activities — learn to be a pirate in Blackbeard’s Scallywag School, enter the Pirate Halloween costume contest, and enjoy pirate encampments and storytelling. Live music will be provided by the Brandon Bower Band. Guests can also experience pumpkin decorating, face painting, family games, the Teeny Tiny Farm petting zoo, and shuttle hayrides. The Pirate Halloween costume contest will be held at the main stage at 3:15pm. There will be prizes for the first and second place in the adult and kids costume category.
Entrance to the festival is $2 per person. Children 3 and under are free. All children’s activities are included with festival admission. For more information about the festival, please visit MarinersMuseum.org/ARRRtober. Festival admission and drink tickets sold day-of will be cash only. There will be an ATM on-site.
Museum Drive will be closed to through traffic the entire day of event and the Noland Trail will be closed until 3pm. Festival goers will enter through the main entrance to The Mariners’ Museum and Park from Avenue of the Arts/J Clyde Morris. There will be one-way traffic on Museum Drive the entire day of the event and access from Lions Bridge will be closed. There will be on-street parking on Museum Drive as well as parking in the main Museum parking lots. Look for Museum staff and volunteers directing traffic to the closest parking available. Handicap parking will be available close to the event site at Harvey Field. Enjoy a free hayride shuttle to and from parking lots/festival area.
For more information, visit MarinersMuseum
The Mariners’ Museum and Park
100 Museum Dr, Newport News, VA 23606
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