Fall Fun Fest, Port St. Lucie

Fall Fun Fest is a free, three-day autumn festival that the City of Port St. Lucie stages at the MIDFLORIDA Event Center on SE Event Center Place.

The city's Fall Fun Fest event page describes three days of live music, sweets and treats, food trucks, a fall marketplace and a Street of Treats trick-or-treating program, with circus-style acts, balloon art, face painting and fortune telling woven into the evenings. The final day of the Port St. Lucie festival is listed as carnival rides only. The location given on that page is the MIDFLORIDA Event Center, 9221 SE Event Center Place, 34952.

The Special Events Department summarizes the festival on its calendar as live music, carnival rides, food, family fun and trick-or-treating, and states that admission is free (Special Events Department page). A September 2026 city news release on the fall lineup adds that food and drinks are sold throughout the festival and that the event is open to all ages, with carnival ride tickets sold during the event (city fall events news release).

The festival is produced by the City of Port St. Lucie Special Events Department, whose office sits in City Hall, Building A, at 121 SW Port St. Lucie Blvd.

Per the Special Events Department page, that office keeps weekday hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and answers at 772-344-4139, with the main city number, 772-871-1775, as a backup. The department sums up its role in three parts: staging community events, brokering sponsor and vendor partnerships, and helping residents who organize their own gatherings in Port St. Lucie.

Festival staff positions sit inside the Parks and Recreation budget. The FY 2023-24 adopted budget book lists a Special Events Administrator and two Special Events Coordinator positions in the Parks and Recreation recreation division, plus a Special Events Administrator at the MIDFLORIDA Event Center. The same book carries a Special Events general fund line with $107,970 in adopted operating expenses for 2024, against $100,874 audited for 2022.

City records show Fall Fun Fest running at the same Port St. Lucie venue in 2019, when the building was still called the Port St. Lucie Civic Center and the Parks and Recreation Department presented it with a local Lions Club.

The City Manager's bi-weekly PSL on the Pulse report of October 18, 2019 advertised that year's festival at the Civic Center, 9221 SE Civic Center Pl., with free admission, a midway carnival, a talent show billed as PSL's Got Talent, food vendors, arts and crafts and live music. It credited the City of Port St. Lucie Parks and Recreation Department, in partnership with the Port St. Lucie Downtown Lions Club, and listed a costume contest with indoor trick-or-treating (PSL on the Pulse, October 18, 2019). The same issue counted 108,000 people at 282 events at the Civic Center in fiscal 2018/19.

An April 2026 city story on the City Youth Council says the Port St. Lucie council hosted its first Outdoor Movie Night on Oct. 31 in conjunction with Fall Fun Fest and that council members volunteer at the festival alongside other city events such as the International Festival and PSLinLights (City Youth Council news story). The MIDFLORIDA Event Center guide explains how the Civic Center took its current name.

The 2019 Port St. Lucie festival leaned on a talent show, arts and crafts and an indoor costume contest, while the current version adds tribute bands, circus-style acts and a fall marketplace, and is credited to the Special Events Department.

The 2019 column comes from the October 18, 2019 City Manager report; the current column comes from the Fall Fun Fest event page and the Special Events calendar. Neither record states a founding year for the Port St. Lucie festival.

Entry to the Port St. Lucie festival is free; the carnival is paid through day wristbands or individual ride tickets priced on the city event page, and food and drinks are sold separately.

The Fall Fun Fest event page says each ride takes 4 to 6 tickets at $1 apiece and also lists 36 tickets for $30 and 48 tickets for $40. A note on that page says the schedule is subject to change.

A voluntary contribution comes in cans rather than cash. The Port St. Lucie September 2026 fall events release invites festival goers to carry in shelf-stable canned food for the Treasure Coast Food Bank, and the event page repeats that request.

Port St. Lucie is preparing a 10-year Special Events Master Plan that, per the city, will assess current event programming and long-term needs for events and venues.

An April 21, 2026 City of Port St. Lucie news release says the plan will guide the future of City events by assessing current programming and identifying long-term needs for events and venues, and it scheduled two public input sessions for late April 2026, one at Keiser University on SW Discovery Way and one at The Saints Golf Course on SE Morningside Blvd. (Special Events Master Plan news release). The release lists 772-871-7663 for PSL Special Events questions about the plan.

For the event itself, the Special Events Department calendar is the live source: it posts each Fall Fun Fest schedule and lineup, and its general festival FAQ covers what may be brought onto the grounds (Special Events Department page). The Port St. Lucie events hub summarizes those festival rules alongside River Nights, the International Fest and the Festival of Lights.

Last verified: October 22, 2026, against the Port St. Lucie Fall Fun Fest event page, the Special Events Department calendar, the September 2026 fall events release, the April 2026 master plan release, the October 2019 City Manager report and the FY 2023-24 budget book.