Día de Muertos | Day of the Dead
The Montevallo Día de Muertos Festival is a free Day of the Dead celebration held every fall in the Pecan Grove at Orr Park in Montevallo, Alabama. The 2026 festival, our fourth, is Sunday, November 1, from 2:00 to 9:00 PM. More than 3,000 people came in 2025, from Montevallo and from across Shelby County.
Día de Muertos is not Halloween, and it is not a sad day. It is the day families set a place for the people they have lost: a photograph, the food they loved, a candle to help them find the way home. In Montevallo that happens under the pecan trees. Altars go up along the grove, there is music on the stage and food from local kitchens, faces get painted as Catrinas, and once the sun is down there are lights in the branches.
Bring your family, and bring a photograph. Stay until dark if you can. The grove is at its best once the lights are on.