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Utah Valley Weekend Watch: October is here and it’s time for scary fun

By Staff | Oct 1, 2026
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Glen Ray's Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch is shown Monday, Sept. 29, 2025, in Leland.
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Cornbelly's in Lehi is pictured in Sept. 2026.

Here is a look at many of the events going on in Utah Valley and beyond this weekend (visit the listed website for more information):

CENTRAL

Provo

Oct. 2

Salt Lake Symphonic Winds: A Symphonic Tribute to Broadway, Covey Center for the Arts, 7 p.m. (covey.provo.gov)

Sundance Oktoberfest 2026, Sundance Resort, 11 a.m.-midnight (Oct. 2-4, sundanceresort.com)

Final Cut Film Festival, BYU Arts Building, 7:30 p.m. (Oct. 2-3, onstage.byu.edu)

The Schtick Men: Got Schtick?, BYU Music Building, 7:30 p.m. (onstage.byu.edu)

Drop-n-Decorate Cookie Kit (October), Baking Me Crazy, 4-8 p.m. (shopbakingmecrazy.com)

2026 Provo Art Stroll, Downtown Provo, 6-9 p.m. (facebook.com/downtownprovo)

Acoustic Open Mic Night, Provo Library, 7-8:30 p.m. (provolibrary.gov)

Fall 2026 Beehive Bazaar Handmade Art and Craft Fair, The Beehive, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. (Oct. 2-3, beehivebazaar.com)

Gilded Paradise: Recasting Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Baptistery Doors, BYU Museum of Art, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. (Oct. 2-24, moa.byu.edu)

Mimi Chen Ting: Make Movement Visible, BYU Museum of Art, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. (Oct. 2-10, moa.byu.edu)

The Afters, Arlington Hall, 10 p.m. (linktr.ee/theaftersutah)

Oct. 3

AURHE “Album Release”, Velour, 7 p.m. (24tix.com)

Homemade Soft Pretzel Class, Baking Me Crazy, noon-2 p.m. (shopbakingmecrazy.com)

Provo City Library Writing Group, Provo Library, 4-5 p.m. (provolibrary.gov)

Sundance Harvest Mini Markets 2026, Sundance Resort, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. (sundanceresort.com)

Orem

Oct. 2

Conrad Tao & Caleb Teicher: Counterpoint, Noorda Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30 p.m. (uvu.edu/thenoorda)

UVU Theatre Presents Clue, Noorda Center for the Performing Arts, 5 p.m. (Oct. 2-31, uvu.edu/arts)

Film: March of the Penguins, Orem Library, 6-8 p.m. (orem.librarycalendar.com)

NOISES OFF, SCERA Center for the Arts, 7:30 p.m. (Oct. 2-10, scera.org)

Nouveau Lumière: Illuminating Legacies, Gallery on 6th, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. (Oct. 2-22, uvu.edu/events)

Lindon

Oct. 2

Lindon Movies in the Park 2026: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, City Center Park, dusk (lindon.gov)

SOUTH

Springville

Oct. 2

Art City Sidewalk Sessions, Festival Street, 6:30-8 p.m. (springvilleutah.gov)

America250 Youth Art Exhibition, Springville Museum of Art, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (Oct. 2-24, smofa.org)

Oct. 3

Dungeons and Dragons, Springville Library, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (springvilleutah.gov/library)

Spanish Fork

Oct. 2

Crystal Festival – A Rock, Mineral, Gem, & Crystal Show, Spanish Fork Fairgrounds, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. (Oct. 2-4, crystalfestival.com)

Glen Ray’s Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch 2026, Glen Ray’s Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch, 4-11 p.m. (Oct. 2-31, glenrayscornmaze.com)

2026 Gordon’s Family Farm Fall Festival, Gordon Family Farm, noon-9 p.m. (Oct. 2-31, gordonfamilyfarms.com)

Oct. 3

Written For A Stranger, Angelus Theatre, 7:30 p.m. (tategifford.com)

Harvest and Seed Swap, Spanish Fork Library, 10 a.m. (spanishfork.gov)

Plants for Utah Landscapes, Spanish Fork Library, 10:30 a.m. (spanishfork.gov)

Movie Marathon, Spanish Fork Library, 1:30 p.m. (spanishfork.gov)

Payson

Oct. 2

Family Movie Night: Toy Story 5, Payson Library, 6:30 p.m. (paysonutah.gov/library)

Live Local Music Night, Center of the Universe Cafe, 6 p.m. (cotucafe.com)

Oct. 4

Sunday Open Mic in Payson, Center of the Universe Cafe, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. (cotucafe.com)

Santaquin

Oct. 2

Santaquin Witches Night Out 2026, Santaquin Recreation, 6 p.m. (santaquin.activityreg.com)

Rowley’s Red Barn Fall Festival 2026, Rowley’s Red Barn, 3:30-9 p.m. (Oct. 2-30, rowleysredbarn.com)

Oct. 3

Apple Harvest Run – 10K – 5K – 1 Mile, Rowley’s Red Barn, 8 a.m. (runsignup.com)

NORTH

Pleasant Grove

Oct. 2

Beams and Screams: A Spooktacular Halloween Laser Show, Christa McAuliffe Space Center, 7 p.m. (Oct. 2-31, spacecenter.as.me)

Pride and Prejudice, The Ruth and Nathan Hale Theater, 7:30 p.m. (Oct. 2-Nov. 7, theruth.org)

PG Players: Something’s Afoot, Keith Christeson Little Theater, 7:30 p.m. (Oct. 2-12, pgplayers.com)

Oct. 3

Saturday Morning Movies: Tower of Terror, Pleasant Grove Library, 10:30 a.m. (pgcityutah.gov/departments/library)

Lehi

Oct. 2

Spooktober 2026, Thanksgiving Point, 5-8 p.m. (Oct. 2-30, thanksgivingpoint.org)

Frightbelly’s 2026, Thanksgiving Point, 7 p.m.-midnight (Oct. 2-30, cornbellys.com)

Cornbelly’s Pumpkin Fest in Lehi 2026, Thanksgiving Point, 4 p.m.-midnight (Oct. 2-31, thanksgivingpoint.org)

American Fork

Oct. 2

2026 Haunted Forest, Haunted Forest, 7:30-11 p.m. (Oct. 2-Nov. 7, hauntedforestutah.com)

Rug Tufting Workshop, The Rug Room, 6-9:30 p.m. (Oct. 2/3/9/10, therugroomutah.com)

WEST

Saratoga Springs

Oct. 2

2026 Saratoga Springs Fall Festival, Shay Park, 4-8 p.m. (saratogasprings-ut.gov/609/Fall-Festival)

Eagle Mountain

Oct. 3

Farmer’s Market, Cory Wride Memorial Park, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. (eaglemountain.gov)

Hocus Pocus, Cory Wride Memorial Park, 7-9 p.m. (eaglemountain.gov)

Cedar Valley

Oct. 2

2026 Ghosts of Camp Floyd, Camp Floyd State Park and Stagecoach Inn Museum, 7 p.m. (Oct. 3-31, stateparks.utah.gov/parks/camp-floyd/events)

NEARBY

Salt Lake City

Oct. 2

Breakaway Utah 2026, America First Field, 4 p.m. (Oct. 2-3, americafirstfield.com)

Oct. 3

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints General Conference, Conference Center, 10 a.m./2 p.m. (churchofjesuschrist.org)

Know of an event that should be listed? Let us know by emailing jlloyd@heraldextra.com.

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