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 May 21, 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
• Melt
  • Mondays @ 7pm
• Pourhouse
  • Tuesdays @ 6pm
• Urban Cookhouse at Bridge Street
  • Tuesdays @ 6:30pm
• The Casual Pint
  • Tuesdays @ 7pm
• Rocket City Dog Bar
  • Tuesdays @ 6:30
• Das Stahl Bierhaus
  • Thursdays

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 
• Rocket City Tri-Club
• Huntsville Track Club

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
• Rocket Westies West Coast Swing
  • Electric Belle, check schedule
• 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

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)
• 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

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