Park
Festival Plaza
Old Town’s gathering place at Public Road and Chester Street: the splash-pad fountains run from Memorial Day to Labor Day, Picnic on the Plaza concerts on summer Thursdays, Art Night Out on second Fridays May to September, and the Chamber’s Holiday on the Plaza in December.
· by the published hours
Festival Plaza, at 311 South Public Road, is open 6 am to 10 pm. Its splash-pad fountains run 10 am to 8 pm daily from Memorial Day to Labor Day, turned off during some events. The City holds Picnic on the Plaza here, free live music on Thursdays from noon to 1 in June, July and August, and Art Night Out, the free second-Friday street festival from May to September on Public Road between Emma and Cannon streets, 5 to 9 pm; the Chamber’s Holiday on the Plaza is here on December 5. The plaza may not be used for private events; a public event needs a Community Event Permit filed 60 days ahead. The Starkey Building beside it, renovated in 2025, rents for meetings and small workshops through the City’s portal.
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Checked November 2, 2026 against lafayetteco.gov. Hours and phone numbers change fastest, so the business’s own page is the record. Report a correction · Know something opening or closing? Tell us
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- Explore Old Town Lafayette: six places in walking order
Park at the north end of Public Road and walk south: The Collective’s free gallery, a pub with 400 whiskies, the children’s museum and a bookstore cafe on Harrison, the coal miner’s cottage that is the history museum, Odd13’s taproom, and brunch across from Festival Plaza. About a mile, mostly flat.
- Lafayette with kids: a children’s museum, a lake with paddleboats, storytimes and therapy dogs
WOW!’s thirty-year-old museum, the library’s storytimes and makerspace, the recreation center’s $4 youth admission, Waneka Lake’s boathouse and disc golf, the Coal Creek Trail, School’s Out camps on the days off, and the fall and winter dates. Where to go with children in Lafayette.
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