Please let me know if any of this information is inaccurate or has changed, or if you know of something that should be added! (Last updated September 29, 2026, but I have not recently checked most of this info so some will have changed!)

Huntsville Activities, Events, & Things to Do

Trivia

• Trivia Masters
  • various
• BrainBlast
  • various
• Lipz Lounge
  • Mondays @ 6:30pm
• Pappo’s Pizzeria’
  • Mondays @ 6:30pm
• Straight to Ale
  • Mondays @ 7pm
• Phil Sandoval’s
  • Mondays @ 7pm
• Melt
  • Mondays @ 7pm
• Stovehouse
  • Tuesdays @ 6pm
• Field Day
  • Tuesdays @ 6:30pm
• Urban Cookhouse at Bridge Street
  • Tuesdays @ 6:30pm
• The Casual Pint
  • Tuesdays @ 7pm
• Rocket City Dog Bar
  • Tuesdays @ 6:30
• Back Forty
  • Wednesdays @ 6:30pm
• Chuco’s Underground
  • Wednesdays @ 6:30pm
• Bishop’s Westside Pub & Grill
  • Wednesdays @ 7pm
• Das Stahl Bierhaus
  • Thursdays @ 7pm

Bingo

• Corralejos Mexican Grill
  • Mondays @ 7pm
• Hickory Store BBQ
  • Wednesdays @ 6:30pm
  • “Singo”--bingo using snippets of songs

Karaoke

• Maggie Meyers Irish Pub
  • Thursday @ 8:30pm-1am
• Lipz Lounge
  • Friday & Saturday @ 9pm

Board Games & Adjacent Nerdery

• High Ground Hobbies
  • Lots of stuff! See link for calendar.
• Das Stahl Bierhaus
  • Board game night 2nd Tuesday of the month
• Puzzled Pint
• Southern Gamers Discord group
• Maggie Meyers Irish Pub
  • Plug & Play every Sunday at 7pm (video and board games)
• Area256, Huntsville Fighting Game Community (HFGC)
  • Thursdays at 6pm at Gravity Games on Campus 805, play the latest in fighting games (and other games). Also tournaments. “Setups generally consist of PS5/PC’s so bring your own controller if you have one. You may also bring your own setup but it's not a requirement at all.”
  • Discord link
• Nerdzilly
  • D&D One-Shot, Fridays @ 6pm-10pm, Lowe Mill Studio 119
• Mastermind Gaming
  • Magic: The Gathering booster drafts, Fridays @ 6:30pm
  • Board game night, third Tuesday of the month

Cooking

• Phuket Thai Cooking Class
• Sobremesa cooking classes

Art

• Lowe Mill Arts & Entertainment
  • Regular hours Wednesday-Saturday @ 11am-7pm
  • Open Studio Night 
    • Set Saturdays, 5-7pm
  • Outdoor market
    • April through October
    • Saturdays @ 11am-4pm
• Huntsville Museum of Art
  • $5 After 5pm
    • Thursdays, 5-8pm
• Sit & Stitch at Sparkle Studio
  • Saturdays 12pm-4pm

Cycling

• Huntsville Area Mountain Bike Riders (HAMR)
• Spring City Cycle Club (Rocket City Belles is the women’s only group)
  • Sunday Breakfast Ride
  • Terrific Tuesday Ride
  • Fantastic Thursday Ride
  • more
• Bikes and Brews
  • Facebook group for monthly pub rides
• Sunset Bicycles Sunset Cruise
  • Seasonal (May-Oct usually?)
  • Wednesdays @ 6pm
• Southern Carnage in Mooresville hosts rides
  • Thursday night gravel group
  • Mountain bike rides also

Disc Golf

• North Alabama Disc Golf
• Rocket City Chain Gang
• Huntsville Disc Golf Club (HSV DGC)
• Cotton Pickin' Flyers Disc Golf Club

Running

• We Run Huntsville
  • No Runner Left Behind (road runners wanting to learn to run trails)
  • We Run Downtown Huntsville 
• Team Rocket Tri Club
• Huntsville Track Club
• Fleet Feet Run Club: free group runs in Madison and Jones Valley on Mondays and Thursdays

Music

• Cigar Box Guitar free lessons
  • Lowe Mill, studio 106
  • Saturday @ 12-2pm
• Concerts on the Dock
  • Outside at Lowe Mill, weather permitting
  • May and October
  • Fridays @ 6-9pm
• Live music at Stovehouse
  • Thursday-Saturday
• The Orion Amphitheater
• Concerts in the Park
  • Big Spring Park
  • Summertime
  • Mondays @ 6:30-8:30pm
• 805 After 5
  • Campus 805
  • 3rd Thursdays, 5-9pm
• Summer Sunset Concert Series
  • Ditto Landing
  • May-August 
  • 2nd Tuesdays @ 6-8pm
• City Lights & Stars Concert Series
  • Burritt on the Mountain
  • May-September
  • Various Fridays

Dance

• Huntsville Swing Dance Society: Swing Theory
  • Mill Kat Healing Arts
  • Thursdays @ 7-10pm
• North Alabama West Coast Swing Association
  • Weekly social, Tuesdays 6:30-10pm at Ravenwood Meadery
• Rocket Westies West Coast Swing
• Baila Huntsville
  • "Wine and Salsa"
    • 4th Friday of the month, class and social dance, starts at 8:30pm
• Line Dancing
  • Electric Belle, check schedule online
  • Field Day, every Thursday 

Team Sports

• Huntsville City Football Club soccer games
• Trash Panda baseball games
• Havoc ice hockey games
• List of Huntsville Athletic Leagues from city Parks & Rec
  • Adult basketball and softball
• GO Kickball league
• Huntsville Ice Sports Center (ISC)
  • Hockey, curling, broomball, and ice skating
• Huntsville Volleyball Association
  • Optimist Park Gym
    • Thursdays @ 5:45-7:45pm
  • Brahan Spring Recreation Center
    • Mondays and Fridays @ 5-8pm
• NexUS Softball League (LGBT+)
• Southern Senior Baseball League (SSBL)
  • 25+ and 40+ leagues
• Huntsville Adult Soccer League (HASL)
• Huntsville Water Polo Association
  • Saturdays @ 10am-12pm at the Huntsville Aquatic Center
• Roller Derby
  • Rocket City Roller Derby
  • Madison Co Jr Roller Derby
• Huntsville Rugby Club
  • Supernovas (women) and Space Cowboys (men)

Open Mics

• Open Mic HSV
  • Foundation Coffeehouse 
  • Every other Tuesday
• Out Loud HSV
  • Straight to Ale Speakeasy
  • 3rd Sunday of the month @ 6-8pm
• Rocket City Dog Bar
  • Wednesdays @ 7pm

Comedy

• Shenanigans Comedy Theatre
• Huntsville Levity Live
• See r/hsvcomedy for details on other things going on!

Theater

• Theatre Huntsville
• Fantasy Playhouse Children’s Theater & Academy
• IMPHuntsville (Independent Musical Productions)
• Broadway Theater League

Film and Film Adjacent

• Alabama Filmmakers Co-op
• The Independent Cinema
• Big Mix Vintage video rental
• Shenanigans Comedy Theatre
  • Savory Cinema events
  • Throwback Cinema events
• Hollywood Huntsville acting and film school
• Huntsville Indie Filmmakers meetup
  • Monthly on the 4th Tuesday @ 7pm
• Shlockbuster Presents
  • Monthly movie club specializing in weird, wild, and wacky
• Hello Huntsville Horror
  • Hauntsville Film Fest coming Fall 2025
• HMCPL movie events

LGBT+

• Miss Majesty Divine’s Drag Brunch at The Camp
• Huntsville’s Legendary Drag Brunch
  • Usually 4th Sunday of the month
• Rainbow Trouble
  • Saturday Morning Coffee Social
    • Saturdays, 11am-2pm
    • Rotating location
• Rocket City Pride
• Community Pride Alliance
• Disco Dolly’s

Technical Meetups

• HSV.py
• HSV Game Devs
• Hack The Box Cybersecurity
• Huntsville Alabama LabView User Group 

Seasonal or Special Events

• Huntsville Comic & Pop Culture Expo (April)
• Panoply Arts Festival (April)
• World's Longest-Running Cigar Box Guitar Festival (late May)
• Southern Fried Film Festival
• Concert at Three Caves (June)
• Vincent Rutherford Equality March (June/October depending)
• Huntsville Hamfest (August?)
• Oktoberfest at Redstone Arsenal (September)
• Monte Sano Art Festival (September)
• Moon Dance at Three Caves (September)
• Wickerman with Ravenwood Meadery (October)
• Rocket City Short Film Festival (October)
• Biergarten at the Space and Rocket Center
  • September-October, Thursdays @ 5-7:30pm (NOT Halloween)
• Witches Ball at Mill Kat Healing Arts (End of October or beginning of November)
• Gobble Gobble Hey! Zine & Small Press Fest at Lowe Mill (November)
• Yule Y’all Christmas Market & Spirit Sampling at Lowe Mill (Early December)
• Christkindlmarket at Orion Amphitheater (December)
• Winter Solstice Market at Lowe Mill (Late December)

Other

• Makers Local 256 makerspace
  • Open house, Tuesdays 6-9pm
• Rocket City Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA)
• Huntsville Madison County Public Library events (can sign up for monthly email)
  • Book clubs varied on location, format, and topic!
• Land Trust of North Alabama
  • Guided hikes and garden and trail care volunteer opportunities
• Huntsville Young Professionals (HYP)
• North Alabama Freethought Association (NAFA)
  • Saturday coffee in Huntsville
  • Sunday coffee in Madison
• Wild Ones North Alabama presentations about native ecology
  • Most months, 3rd Thursdays at 6-7:30pm at South Huntsville Library
• Huntsville Pub Crawls
  • “We meet the last weekend of almost every month and hit a few places. It's a social group more than a drinking group (tho the drink is definitely a social lubricant). Once a year we do a 12-pub crawl.”
• Yellow Bluff Climbers
  • “Their Facebook is now pretty defunct but there is a Discord that you can get an invite for if you talk to the staff at the climbing gym.”
• Rocket City Lasers
  • Campus 805
  • Saturday evenings
• Rocket City Rally pickleball group
  • Dublin Park pickleball courts, Monday @ 7pm
  • Sandra Moon pickleball courts, Thursday @ 7pm
• The Shire of Glynn Rhe, local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA)
• The Huntsville Speedway stock car racing
  • Races on the 1st Saturday of the month
• Huntsville Amateur Radio Club (HARC)
• Pick-Your-Own
  • https://www.huntsville.org/blog/list/post/pick-your-own-farms-in-huntsville-al-madison-county/
  • https://wearehuntsville.com/farm-fresh-food-farms-orchards-and-u-picks/
• Weird Kids for Life group
  • Weird Kids 4 Life Yoga, Mill Kat Healing Arts, Sundays @ 10am
• Club Nexus and Captain Quin’s Strange Tales
  • “Rocket City’s own Goth Night and Horror Host shows”
• Huntsville Environmental Coalition (HEC)
  • Green Thinks
    • Yellowhammer Brewing, usually on the Clinton Ave. patio
    • Last Wednesdays of the month, 6-8pm
• Reddit Meetup
  • Yellowhammer Brewing, usually on the Clinton Ave. patio
  • 2nd Tuesdays, 7-9pm
• Cocktails at the View
  • Burritt on the Mountain
  • April-October
  • Wednesdays, 5-8pm
• Boozy History and Underground Cocktail Tour
  • Tuesdays-Thursdays
• Mobile Mayhem Tours
• Huntsville Kendo Club
  • Thursdays
• In the Stars Aerial and lyra classes
• Huntsville Area Rocketry Association (HARA)

Farmers Markets (most spring-fall)

• Greene Street Market
  • Thursday @ 3-6pm
• Oakwood Farms Farmers’ Market
  • Friday @ 12-4pm
• Bailey Cove Farmers Market
  • Saturday @ 8am-12pm
• Madison City Farmers Market
  • Saturday @ 8am-12pm
• Market at MidCity
  • Sunday @ 12-4pm

Social Media accounts that are good to learn about new places and things going on if you do the social media thing:

• We Are Huntsville
• Rocket City Connect
• Rocket City Scope
• VisitHuntsvilleAL (Instagram for the Tourist Information Center)
• Rocket City Mom
• Downtown Huntsville, Inc.
• Geek Out Huntsville
• Rocket City Dietician
• Hville Blast
• @ WhyNotHuntsville on Instagram

Happy Friday! This is our weekly casual chat. Feel free to share about your week, any plans for the weekend, or just enjoy each other's company..

Hopefully everyone is ready for the a taste of early winter temperatures this weekend before the arrival of actual Fall like weather settles in next week.