Walnut Beach Calendar

Milford’s largest and most exciting community event is back!  Get out and enjoy Milford Porchfest all across our beautiful city!  Enjoy some music and make some new friends.

Saturday, October 4th, 2025, 12-6PM

Visit milfordporchfest.com for maps, schedules and information about hosting an act!

The 14th Running Water for Africa 5K in Milford steps off at the Walnut Beach Pavilion on

Saturday, October 5th, 2025
9:00AM
This 5K run, 1 Mile walk, or Kids Fun Run helps our friends in Kitagwenda District, Uganda access safe, fresh drinking water.  Milford’s long relationship with the region is celebrated annually with this event.

The 2025 race has passed, but to help support this great cause visit ugandafarmersinc.org

Presented by our good friends at WABABA!

Get ready for a spook-tacular day of Halloween family fun at the shore! Dress up in your best costume and join us for:
✨ Trick-or-Treat stops throughout Walnut Beach Arts & Business District
✨ Horse & carriage rides
✨ Live entertainment
✨ Vendors, Children’s activities & more!

Whether you’re here for the sweet treats, the festive eats, or the creative contests, there’s something for everyone. Costumes are highly encouraged—let’s make Walnut Beach the most boo-tiful spot in town! 🧙‍♀️🦇

Presented by The Giggling Pig Milford

BROUGHT TO YOU BY WABABA

Run for your lives through the spooky streets of Walnut Beach and along wooded trails of Silver Sands State Park while being chased by zombies! This timed 5K race ends at sunset and then continues with a party at Stonebridge Restaurant. Racers will receive free admission, live music by The Rumrunners and free pizza provided by Stonebridge. Run or walk but avoid getting infected.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11TH, 2025 AT WALNUT BEACH
REGISTRATION BEGINS AT 3:30PM
RACE BEGINS AT 4:30PM
For More Info…visit https://runsignup.com/Race/CT/Milford/WalnutBeachZombieRun

Benson-Crump Memorial Community Gardens on North Street

Free 6th Annual Halloween Parade & Fall Celebration

PLEASE COME AND HAVE FUN!!!!!!

Fall is here and that means that it is time for our annual Halloween Parade & Fall Celebration at the North Street Community Gardens. 

This year’s parade is on Friday, Oct. 24, from 4 to 6 pm.

(Raindate will be Sat., Oct. 25 from 11 am to 1 pm)

Our community gardeners dress up in costume and stand in their plots to hand out candy to all of our Trick or Treaters.  The more folks we have dressing up & giving out candy, the more fun it is!  We anticipate about 75 kids this year so bring your grandkids, siblings, cousins and great grandkids and join the fun!

The Halloween Parade up & down the garden plots begins promptly at 4 pm, followed by…

* Fun Halloween Selfies with scarecrows, * horse-drawn wagon rides with Farmer Brian from Maple View Farm over on the soccer field,

* free apples for young trick or treaters, *yummy ice cream from the Walnut Beach Creamery truck with owner & community gardener Susan Patrick

* and awesome taped music for our Dance Party that will round out the event.

This year, we are running a coat drive and dry/canned food drive for two charities that help many struggling families: St Gabe’s and Beacons of Hope. Please help us to help them by dropping off a used coat/jacket that you don’t need anymore and canned 

or dry goods such as peanut butter, ground coffee, stuffing, Knorr sauces, gravy, instant potatoes, apple sauce, canned vegetables, etc., when you come to the parade. 

Hope to see you all!! Happy Fall!!

Linda Ball – Supervisor

Benson-Crump Memorial Community Gardens 
Dept. of Recreation – Milford, CT 06460

“Working Together to Grow and Share Since 1968”

Recipient of the CT Food Bank’s Certificate of Appreciation Plant a Row for the Hungry – 2013 thru 2024.

For more information, call Linda Ball at the Milford Recreation Department or email her at ball13@sbcglobal.net