Suffolk Tourism's Calendar Brochure: October 2021

There are so many fantastic events happening all over Suffolk in October! View and download here!

*Events subject to change

Friday Night Frights at the Center

Suffolk Tourism, in partnership with the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts, is pleased to present the Third Annual Friday Night Frights Classic Horror Film Series. Scream will return to the big screen on Friday, October 15, 2021; The Birds is slated for Fr...

Legends of Main Street: A Suffolk Ghost Walk

Enjoy a  hair-raising encounter with the "spirited" side of Suffolk! Follow a costumed guide through the shadows of historic Main Street, discovering stories, legends, and "unexplained occurrences" by lantern light. Tales of u...

Suffolk Art League's Annual Juried Exhibition

Suffolk Art League's popular Annual Juried Exhibition includes artworks in a variety of mediums by artists from throughout the Hampton Roads region and beyond. The exhibition will be on display from October 23 through December 3 at the Suffolk Ar...

Southern Holidays with "The Hamptons" Twist - A Luncheon Fundraiser

Join the Nansemond River Garden Club for Southern Holidays with "The Hamptons" Twist on Tuesday, October 26, 2021, at the Hilton Garden Inn Suffolk Riverfront. The event begins at 9:30am with coffee and vendor shopping. The demonstration begins ...

Touch A Truck, Train & Trick or Treat

Bring your little goblins and ghouls to Touch a Truck, Train & Trick or Treat on Saturday, October 30, 2021! The event begins at 11am and ends at 2pm, rain or shine. Enjoy food, candy, games, trucks, trains and more! Children can see, touch, and explo...

Suffolk Restaurant Week - Fall 2021 Edition

Indulge Yourself!From Suffolk’s best-kept culinary secrets to national award winning restaurants, Suffolk Restaurant Week promises a savory blend of the city’s signature flavors. The 2021 Fall Suffolk Restaurant Week is slated for Nove...

Suffolk Grand Illumination

The 2021 Holiday Season officially begins in Suffolk on Friday, November 19, with the Suffolk Grand Illumination Ceremony at Market Park in Downtown Suffolk. The event rings in the holidays with the park opening at 6pm. Watch the 32' tree light u...

The Great Dismal Swamp

The Great Dismal Swamp is anything but dismal.

Despite its foreboding moniker, the Great Dismal Swamp is one of few remaining American wildernesses. It is the largest intact remnant of a vast habitat that once covered more than one million acres of southea...

Suffolk Art Gallery

Nestled among Victorian and Colonial architecture, you'll find a former library constructed in the early 1960s and re-purposed as the Suffolk Art Gallery in the mid 1980s. As a community partner of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Suffolk Art Lea...

Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts

As Suffolk's premier visual and performing arts venue for Suffolk, the Suffolk Center boasts a year-round schedule featuring musical performances, theatrical productions, ballet, art exhibits, lectures and galas. The classic Greek-Revival structure was bu...

Riddick's Folly House Museum & Gift Shop

In early 1837, a fire ravaged dozens of homes and outbuildings at the north end of Main Street in Suffolk. Out of the ashes of that fire, Mr. Mills Riddick built the home that is known today as Riddick’s Folly. Mills Riddick was a member of a large and pr...

Seaboard Station Railroad Museum

This restored Main Street station displays a two-room HO-scale model of Suffolk in 1907 that was built by the Tidewater Division of the National Model Railroad Association. The station was built in 1885 and has remained basically unchanged over the years....

Suffolk Waterways

Suffolk has over 8,000 acres of lakes and miles of river shoreline. Here are just a few highlights:

Lone Star Lake:- 12 lakes total (1172-acre park)- Freshwater fishing and pier- Four-mile horse trail- Archery range and model airplane flying field- Grills ...