The third weekend of October means Alabama-Tennessee game for football fans. But for festival fans, it's time for a road trip to Powell's Crossroads to Ketner's Mill Country Fair.

The Chattanooga Zoo is holding its most spooktacular event of the year, Boo in the Zoo, on Fridays and Saturdays, Oct. 18-19 and 25-26.

The event has been postponed until April 4, 2020, due to rain.

Foodies, you can eat your way across the nation and never leave town when the first Flavored Nation comes to Chattanooga this weekend.

OK, all you Eggheads, it's show-and-tell time Saturday, Oct. 19, at the Collegedale Commons.

The Humane Educational Society will host the 17th annual Paws in the Park on Saturday, Oct. 19, at Ross's Landing beginning at 10 a.m.

This weekend's dozen festivals include one new event and a worthy list of established events that offer something to interest history buffs, quilters, crafters and children.

Each week during the month of October, the Tennessee Aquarium will highlight weirdly wonderful animals, such as the tomato frog.

Do you love a good jump-scare? Things that go bump in the dark?

What separates the inaugural Chattanooga MotorCar Festival from other car shows that roll through Chattanooga?

Stars of the classic car and racing worlds will take part in the inaugural Chattanooga MotorCar Festival this weekend.

A first-time tour and an encore tour inside two homes at Cloudland Station, a gated mountain valley community located 20 minutes from downtown Chattanooga, are set for Saturday, Oct. 12.

What happens when you combine comedians with scientists?

Wine Over Water marks its 25th anniversary this weekend. It's grown from a unique one-evening wine-tasting on the Walnut Street Bridge into a six-day festival that offers off-the-bridge food-and-wine pairings leading up to the main event on the bridge.

With 22 events on tap this weekend, there is a festival for every interest: CultureFest, history fairs, fine-art shows, Oktoberfests, community and church events. Here are four picks for the weekend:

Hair-raising Halloween fun awaits boys and ghouls at Lake WinnepeSpookah, the seasonal haunting of Lake Winnepesaukah amusement park in Rossville, Georgia.

For more than 25 years, Bill Maher has set the boundaries of where funny, political talk can go on American television. Never one to mince words, his political incorrectness is as polarizing as it is applauded.

Artist/muralist Kevin Bate, perhaps best known for murals he has painted around Chattanooga, including the "Fallen Five" on McCallie Avenue, will present "Perception is 9/10s of the Law" on Friday, Oct. 4, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Chattanooga WorkSpace, 302 W. Sixth St.

The cursed town of Dread Hollow returns for its annual fall haunting with new terrors waiting for unsuspecting visitors brave enough to step foot onto the Lookout Valley property.

Of this weekend's 15 fall events, less than half are local. But of the six that are in town, the annual Hamilton County Fair is by far the biggest.

Ready to stalk some fall fun on the farm?

The Scenic City Cruizers will host their ninth annual Scenic City Open Car Show on Saturday, Sept. 28, but this year the event is rolling into a new location.

Get ready to paw-ty!