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53rd Annual Chincoteague Oyster Festival | Chincoteague, Virginia | Oct. 10

Oyster season deserves a proper welcome. Chincoteague has been giving it one for more than half a century with an all-you-can-eat celebration that puts the island’s signature shellfish front and center. Add live music from longtime festival favorite Island Boy and you have a fall tradition worth crossing state lines for. But don’t wing this one. Tickets typically sell out well before festival day.

>>Go: 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Tom’s Cove Park. $65; children younger than 5 free. chincoteaguechamber.com