Heart of Brevard’s signature event, our White Squirrel Weekend combines a stellar line up of live music, a smorgasbord of tasty food offerings from vendors and local craft breweries, an assortment of treasures from craft and retail vendors, family activities and games for the kids, all rolled into one fantastic three day event. The music line up and a full schedule are coming soon. We will have bike valet parking. Learn more about White Squirrel Weekend 2024 at... Read More
Family-friendly and fantastic artistic fun or great date night with beautiful lighted carved pumpkin displays on a short walking trail, talented local musicians, food trucks and coffee house, games, storytelling, face painting, white squirrel scavenger hunt, and the Silvermont historic mansion open for tours. The new 2021 “White Squirrel Circus” display returns, as well as 18 other lighted pumpkin displays such as Butterfly Garden, Pirates Cove, Under the Sea, Witches Garden, Ghost Circle, Totem Garden, and more. A new 2022 exhibit has been developed by Friends of Silvermont’s Pumpkinteers that ties throughout many of the other exhibits- Syd, The Lost Little White Squirrel, searches for her family. Several photo-op sites will also be set up throughout the Pumpkin Fest Displays. Location- Silvermont Park 364 E. Main St. Brevard, NC 28712. Admission is $5 per person (2 and over) cash or check with ID. The cost to use credit/debit is $5.25 per person. Onsite parking cost $5 cash per car. Free parking is available offsite on nearby streets and at church and Comporium parking lots one or two blocks away. Handicap sticker- free parking onsite. Date – Time – Music Schedule – Food Trucks (plus Cup and Saucer Drinks and Cookies Every Night) Oct. 7 Friday 6-9 pm Nikki Talley and Jason Sharp, Toasted Cuban, Jenny’s Minis Donuts Oct. 8 Sat. 6-9 pm Nikki Talley and Jason Sharp, Feta Flav, Big Pasta, Glykalogy Donuts Oct. 14 Friday 6-9 pm McIntosh and the Lionhearts, Big Pasta, Glykalogy Donuts Oct. 15 Sat... Read More
Family-friendly and fantastic artistic fun or great date night with beautiful lighted carved pumpkin displays on a short walking trail, talented local musicians, food trucks and coffee house, games, storytelling, face painting, white squirrel scavenger hunt, and the Silvermont historic mansion open for tours. The new 2021 “White Squirrel Circus” display returns, as well as 18 other lighted pumpkin displays such as Butterfly Garden, Pirates Cove, Under the Sea, Witches Garden, Ghost Circle, Totem Garden, and more. A new 2022 exhibit has been developed by Friends of Silvermont’s Pumpkinteers that ties throughout many of the other exhibits- Syd, The Lost Little White Squirrel, searches for her family. Several photo-op sites will also be set up throughout the Pumpkin Fest Displays. Location- Silvermont Park 364 E. Main St. Brevard, NC 28712. Admission is $5 per person (2 and over) cash or check with ID. The cost to use credit/debit is $5.25 per person. Onsite parking cost $5 cash per car. Free parking is available offsite on nearby streets and at church and Comporium parking lots one or two blocks away. Handicap sticker- free parking onsite. Date – Time – Music Schedule – Food Trucks (plus Cup and Saucer Drinks and Cookies Every Night) Oct. 7 Friday 6-9 pm Nikki Talley and Jason Sharp, Toasted Cuban, Jenny’s Minis Donuts Oct. 8 Sat. 6-9 pm Nikki Talley and Jason Sharp, Feta Flav, Big Pasta, Glykalogy Donuts Oct. 14 Friday 6-9 pm McIntosh and the Lionhearts, Big Pasta, Glykalogy Donuts Oct. 15 Sat... Read More
Family-friendly and fantastic artistic fun or great date night with beautiful lighted carved pumpkin displays on a short walking trail, talented local musicians, food trucks and coffee house, games, storytelling, face painting, white squirrel scavenger hunt, and the Silvermont historic mansion open for tours. The new 2021 “White Squirrel Circus” display returns, as well as 18 other lighted pumpkin displays such as Butterfly Garden, Pirates Cove, Under the Sea, Witches Garden, Ghost Circle, Totem Garden, and more. A new 2022 exhibit has been developed by Friends of Silvermont’s Pumpkinteers that ties throughout many of the other exhibits- Syd, The Lost Little White Squirrel, searches for her family. Several photo-op sites will also be set up throughout the Pumpkin Fest Displays. Location- Silvermont Park 364 E. Main St. Brevard, NC 28712. Admission is $5 per person (2 and over) cash or check with ID. The cost to use credit/debit is $5.25 per person. Onsite parking cost $5 cash per car. Free parking is available offsite on nearby streets and at church and Comporium parking lots one or two blocks away. Handicap sticker- free parking onsite. Date – Time – Music Schedule – Food Trucks (plus Cup and Saucer Drinks and Cookies Every Night) Oct. 7 Friday 6-9 pm Nikki Talley and Jason Sharp, Toasted Cuban, Jenny’s Minis Donuts Oct. 8 Sat. 6-9 pm Nikki Talley and Jason Sharp, Feta Flav, Big Pasta, Glykalogy Donuts Oct. 14 Friday 6-9 pm McIntosh and the Lionhearts, Big Pasta, Glykalogy Donuts Oct. 15 Sat... Read More
Family-friendly and fantastic artistic fun or great date night with beautiful lighted carved pumpkin displays on a short walking trail, talented local musicians, food trucks and coffee house, games, storytelling, face painting, white squirrel scavenger hunt, and the Silvermont historic mansion open for tours. The new 2021 “White Squirrel Circus” display returns, as well as 18 other lighted pumpkin displays such as Butterfly Garden, Pirates Cove, Under the Sea, Witches Garden, Ghost Circle, Totem Garden, and more. A new 2022 exhibit has been developed by Friends of Silvermont’s Pumpkinteers that ties throughout many of the other exhibits- Syd, The Lost Little White Squirrel, searches for her family. Several photo-op sites will also be set up throughout the Pumpkin Fest Displays. Location- Silvermont Park 364 E. Main St. Brevard, NC 28712. Admission is $5 per person (2 and over) cash or check with ID. The cost to use credit/debit is $5.25 per person. Onsite parking cost $5 cash per car. Free parking is available offsite on nearby streets and at church and Comporium parking lots one or two blocks away. Handicap sticker- free parking onsite. Date – Time – Music Schedule – Food Trucks (plus Cup and Saucer Drinks and Cookies Every Night) Oct. 7 Friday 6-9 pm Nikki Talley and Jason Sharp, Toasted Cuban, Jenny’s Minis Donuts Oct. 8 Sat. 6-9 pm Nikki Talley and Jason Sharp, Feta Flav, Big Pasta, Glykalogy Donuts Oct. 14 Friday 6-9 pm McIntosh and the Lionhearts, Big Pasta, Glykalogy Donuts Oct. 15 Sat... Read More
Family-friendly and fantastic artistic fun or great date night with beautiful lighted carved pumpkin displays on a short walking trail, talented local musicians, food trucks and coffee house, games, storytelling, face painting, white squirrel scavenger hunt, and the Silvermont historic mansion open for tours. The new 2021 “White Squirrel Circus” display returns, as well as 18 other lighted pumpkin displays such as Butterfly Garden, Pirates Cove, Under the Sea, Witches Garden, Ghost Circle, Totem Garden, and more. A new 2022 exhibit has been developed by Friends of Silvermont’s Pumpkinteers that ties throughout many of the other exhibits- Syd, The Lost Little White Squirrel, searches for her family. Several photo-op sites will also be set up throughout the Pumpkin Fest Displays. Location- Silvermont Park 364 E. Main St. Brevard, NC 28712. Admission is $5 per person (2 and over) cash or check with ID. The cost to use credit/debit is $5.25 per person. Onsite parking cost $5 cash per car. Free parking is available offsite on nearby streets and at church and Comporium parking lots one or two blocks away. Handicap sticker- free parking onsite. Date – Time – Music Schedule – Food Trucks (plus Cup and Saucer Drinks and Cookies Every Night) Oct. 7 Friday 6-9 pm Nikki Talley and Jason Sharp, Toasted Cuban, Jenny’s Minis Donuts Oct. 8 Sat. 6-9 pm Nikki Talley and Jason Sharp, Feta Flav, Big Pasta, Glykalogy Donuts Oct. 14 Friday 6-9 pm McIntosh and the Lionhearts, Big Pasta, Glykalogy Donuts Oct. 15 Sat... Read More
Family-friendly and fantastic artistic fun or great date night with beautiful lighted carved pumpkin displays on a short walking trail, talented local musicians, food trucks and coffee house, games, storytelling, face painting, white squirrel scavenger hunt, and the Silvermont historic mansion open for tours. The new 2021 “White Squirrel Circus” display returns, as well as 18 other lighted pumpkin displays such as Butterfly Garden, Pirates Cove, Under the Sea, Witches Garden, Ghost Circle, Totem Garden, and more. A new 2022 exhibit has been developed by Friends of Silvermont’s Pumpkinteers that ties throughout many of the other exhibits- Syd, The Lost Little White Squirrel, searches for her family. Several photo-op sites will also be set up throughout the Pumpkin Fest Displays. Location- Silvermont Park 364 E. Main St. Brevard, NC 28712. Admission is $5 per person (2 and over) cash or check with ID. The cost to use credit/debit is $5.25 per person. Onsite parking cost $5 cash per car. Free parking is available offsite on nearby streets and at church and Comporium parking lots one or two blocks away. Handicap sticker- free parking onsite. Date – Time – Music Schedule – Food Trucks (plus Cup and Saucer Drinks and Cookies Every Night) Oct. 7 Friday 6-9 pm Nikki Talley and Jason Sharp, Toasted Cuban, Jenny’s Minis Donuts Oct. 8 Sat. 6-9 pm Nikki Talley and Jason Sharp, Feta Flav, Big Pasta, Glykalogy Donuts Oct. 14 Friday 6-9 pm McIntosh and the Lionhearts, Big Pasta, Glykalogy Donuts Oct. 15 Sat... Read More
The Slocan Ramblers will be leading off the series on June 3. This Canadian-based bluegrass ensemble will be bringing the bold, dynamic sound that garnered the 2020 IBMA Momentum Band of the Year Award in 2020. The performance is sure to be a highlight of the opening evening of Brevard’s celebration of White Squirrel Weekend coordinated by the Heart of... Read More
Four Ways To Be “One” With Our White Squirrels You don’t have to spend much time in Brevard before you catch sight of the four paws and fluffy white tail of Transylvania County’s most beloved local mascot, the white squirrel. From shops on Main Street with countless souvenirs to the official White Squirrel Institute to the actual critters themselves, scampering across lawns and into the tree branches surrounding Brevard, white squirrels are everywhere. 1 1 LEARN THEIR HISTORY The story of how white squirrels came to reside in Transylvania County has a whiff of legend about it. A longstanding theory has it that a carnival animal truck in Florida overturned in the 1940s, “freeing” a pair of white squirrels. The squirrels were corralled by a gentleman who gifted them to a friend in Brevard who in turn gave them to his niece. Over time, one of the squirrels escaped and the other was set free. The rest is (extremely cute) history. 2 2 ADOPT A WHITE SQUIRREL Brevard’s white squirrels are not albinos, in fact, they’re actually a color variation within the same species as the common gray squirrel. The White Squirrel Institute supports programs that keep track of the local population with an annual count, as well as rescue and rehabilitation. Their popular Adopt-A-Squirrel Program allows humans to support their cause with a donation. 3 3 MEET A CELEBRITY WHITE SQUIRREL Pisgah Penny, a rescue squirrel turned local celebrity, sometimes puts in an appearance at Brevard events. Notably,... Read More
Getting Here
Videos
General Info
Outdoors
Arts & Culture
Festivals
Event Calendar
