Celebrate spring with free admission to Tryon Palace’s 16 acres of colonial gardens bursting with blooming tulips, heirloom azaleas, dogwoods, and English boxwoods. Features garden lectures, living history tours, and heritage spring plant sales.
The annual New Bern Rotary Oktoberfest brings authentic Bavarian festivities to the New Bern Riverfront Convention Center. Featuring traditional polka bands, authentic German bratwurst, sauerkraut, Bavarian pretzels, stein-hoisting competitions, costume contests, and German seasonal biers poured by local Rotary volunteers to fund local student scholarships.
MUMFest is Eastern North Carolina’s award-winning autumn street festival, drawing over 80,000 visitors to the historic waterfront. Downtown New Bern transforms into a pedestrian wonderland of over 200 artisan vendors, carnival amusement rides, live music stages, stunt water shows, craft brews, and thousands of brilliant blooming chrysanthemums.
The Sudan Shriners Winter Parade is a colorful, high-energy New Bern tradition featuring mini-cars, pirate ships, marching bands, clowns, and horse patrols rolling down Broad and Middle streets to support the Shriners Hospitals for Children.
Now in its fifth decade, the New Bern Antiques Show and Sale brings premier antique dealers from across the United States to the Riverfront Convention Center, featuring rare 18th and 19th century American and English furniture, estate jewelry, silver, porcelain, quilts, and fine art.