Sausage Festival & Halloween Happenings
This year, there is a special treat on Halloween on the Alabama Gulf Coast. The Elberta German Sausage Festival is October 31. This free, twice-yearly festival is a great way celebrate fall.
The Elberta Fire Department owns the special recipe and orders 7,000 pounds of the German sausage each festival. It is almost as much fun to watch the firefighters cook the sausages as it is to eat them. They have a great system in place and can serve the more than 30,000 people without much of a wait. The festival is from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., but the sausages usually sell out by 3 p.m., so plan to arrive early to get your taste of Germany. There are other food vendors as well as music, dancing, arts and crafts, children’s rides and games.
After your German Sausage Festival experience, be sure to check out some of these spooky happenings in the area:
• Annual Halloween BooLu’s Haunted House, Gulf Shores – LuLu’s recruits local middle and high school students to create an amazing haunted house at the world famous restaurant on the Intercoastal Waterway. There is a spooky maze for adults and older children and age-appropriate Halloween games for the younger kids. All proceeds go directly to the art departments of several local schools. For info: 251-967-5858.
• Maizing Family Fun Farm, Elberta – This farm has something for everyone and incorporates a little history in with the fun. They are open until midnight Halloween and will have a haunted corn maze, hay bale maze (for little ones), hay rides, u-pick garden, pumpkin patch, antique tractors, live farm animals and a corn cannon (you can shoot ears of corn at targets across a field). For info: 251-747-1368
• Trick or Treat TangerStyle, Foley – Tanger Outlets is holding a “spooktacular” event for Halloween with trick or treating and costume parade. The event starts at 5:30 p.m. with the parade and a prize for all children who participate. Trick or treat “TangerStyle” in participating stores from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
• Scream for the Arts! Haunted House at The Wharf, Orange Beach – This haunted house takes you into the bayous and beyond. You’ll experience what really happens to the pirates and scoundrels when they’ve turned away from the light to live in the shadows. The event benefits the Fine Arts program at Gulf Shores High School. Located across the street from the Ferris wheel behind Sand Dollar Lifestyles, spooky family fun (all ages) from 6 to 8 p.m. and spine tingling scary (not for small children) from 8 to 10 p.m. For info: 251-224-1015.
