Nature Festival & Spooktacular

Celebrate trees, pollinators and the magic of fall with our free, family‑friendly, outdoor festival! Enjoy tree climbs with Austin Forestry, live performances and interactive drumming, facepainting and wing-painting, a live butterfly release, sapling and pollinator adoptions, garden tours, hands‑on crafts for all ages, library displays, demos from local pollinator experts and more! Come for the nature fun and stay for the YMCA’s Spooktacular event beginning at 5 p.m. with bounce-houses, trunk-or-treating, maze, games, popcorn, and more. Everything is free and open to the public. 3:00-5:30 Tree Climbing with Urban Forestry 3:00-5:30 Professional Face Painting 3:30-4:00 Dance Performance 4:00-5:30 Interactive Drumming with Soulshine Rhythm 5:00-5:15 Butterfly Release 5:30-6:00 Storytelling with Ambray Gonzales 5:00-7:00 YMCA Spooktacular Presenters: TreeFolks-tree adoptions Monarch Sanctuary Project-milkweed germination demonstrations Keep Austin Beautiful-waste sorting activity Seedy Society-plant propagation give-aways Austin Public Library-library cards & book displays North Austin Community Garden-Scavenger Hunt Squeaky Frog Farms-plant give-aways Austin Nature & Science Center Austin Climate Action & Resistance Austin Resource Recovery Beevo Beekeepers A New Start Wildlife Rescue & Rehab (ANSWRR) UT Biodiversity Center UT Insect Collection Austin Public Library is proud to host the Nature Festival & Spooktacular as part of the City of Austin's Roots & Wings Festival, which celebrates nature in our city. Learn more about the festival at RootsAndWingsFest.com.