10th Annual Barktoberfest

10th Annual Barktoberfest

🎃🐾 Get ready for a howling good time—Barktoberfest is back for its 10th year! 🐾🎃

Join Dog-Harmony for the Emerald Coast’s most beloved doggie costume contest and canine-only trick-or-treat celebration at Grand Park in Grand Boulevard at Sandestin on Thursday, October 30, 2025, from 4:30–6:30 PM!

Dress up your pup and get ready for:

🍺 Tasty Oktoberfest-inspired drinks

🧀 Light bites from JC’s Gourmet

🎶 Live beats from DJ Diamond Dan

🎁 Amazing raffle prizes

📸 Pet photo booth sponsored by Theresa Felton, Broker Associate with La Florida

👻 And, of course, the legendary Halloween Costume Contest!

For just a $15 donation (or $20 day-of), you and your costumed pup can strut your stuff and compete for fun prizes.

This dog-gone good time is free and open to the public, and is proudly part of the Coastal Culture Series, thanks to the Grand Boulevard Arts & Entertainment Program.

No prong, choke, or shock collars, please—we’re all about positive vibes and wagging tails.

Don’t miss this paws-itively festive evening of fun, fur, and fall celebration!

Register for the Canine Costume Contest

Event Sponsors

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Ninth Annual Barktoberfest

Ninth Annual Barktoberfest

The Emerald Coast’s favorite doggie costume contest and social is back! Join Dog-Harmony at the 9th Annual Barktoberfest, a canine-only trick-or-treating event, at Grand Park in Grand Boulevard at Sandestin on Friday, October 25, 2024, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm.

Complete with Oktoberfest libations, light bites from JC’s Gourmet, music by GTS Entertainment, and incredible raffle prizes, this event will feature a canine Halloween costume contest. For a $15 donation (or $20 the day of), costumed pets and pawrents can enter to win prizes in the Halloween costume contest. 

Rescue Animal Photography is sponsoring professional photographs of you and your canine trick-or-treater.

This event is free and open to the public and is presented as part of the Coastal Culture Series made possible by the Grand Boulevard Arts & Entertainment Program.

No prong, choke, or shock collars, please.