South Euclid is swapping out its October Feast backdrop this year. The free community festival is moving from Bexley Park to the South Euclid Food Truck Park at 4477 Rushton Road, with festivities running from noon to 5 p.m. on October 24, according to City of South Euclid.
The South Euclid Food Truck Park is this year's festival venue.
Music, Food and a Pair of $250 Contests
The lineup pairs the Polka Pirates, a Lakewood-based band, with Cheeseburgers in Paradise, a Cleveland-based Jimmy Buffett tribute band, according to the City of South Euclid.
Food trucks will keep appetites in check, with offerings from The Pierogi Lady and FranksnShakes, the same report notes. Attendees looking to compete can enter the costume contest or the stein-holding contest, each of which carries a $250 cash prize, as noted by City of South Euclid.
Kids' Activities, Free Trees and Pumpkins
Families will find plenty to keep younger festivalgoers busy, including a bubble performer, face painting and inflatables. The South Euclid Tree Commission will be on hand giving out free trees, continuing a festival tradition that pairs with the event's signature free pumpkins.
The gathering traces back to 2021, when the city combined its Pumpkins in the Park and Harvest Fest events into a single fall celebration, per a report from FreshWater Cleveland, according to freshwatercleveland.com. City officials have previously estimated that October Feast draws 700 to 1,000 people in good weather, based on figures the outlet cited ahead of the 2024 event at Bexley Park.
A Food Truck Park Built Up for Bigger Crowds
The venue change comes after the city poured significant resources into the Food Truck Park, which freshwatercleveland.com describes as Ohio's only publicly owned food truck park. City officials told the outlet that total improvements were probably getting close to $400,000 or $450,000, with winter infrastructure work replacing the park's parking lot with permeable pavers as part of broader stormwater-management upgrades.
Stormwater Rules and the Park Upgrade
As general regulatory context—not a determination about South Euclid’s status or the Food Truck Park project—Ohio EPA says Phase II regulations address stormwater runoff from MS4s serving populations of less than 100,000, which it calls small MS4s. That context helps explain why runoff management can be part of public-space infrastructure planning, but it does not establish that permeable pavers were required for this project or assess their performance.
The larger footprint also gives the city room to close roads and expand programming, officials told FreshWater Cleveland. The outlet cited the summer Rock the Block series, with its non-stop music, as an example of how the park can host larger events.
How This Year Compares to Past October Feasts
Last year's October Feast, held October 25, 2025, at Bexley Park, featured pet-costume, human-costume and beer-stein-holding contests, each carrying the same $250 prize structure now carrying over to the new venue. The 2024 edition, held that October 26 at Bexley Park, also ran noon to 5 p.m. and was staged rain or shine, with Franks and Shakes and The Pierogi Lady serving food that year as well.
This year's event keeps the noon-to-5 p.m. window and the free-and-open-to-the-public format that has defined October Feast since its 2021 debut, just with a new address and considerably more space to spread out.
