LocktoberfestDC is a series of free volunteer-guided walks and bike rides celebrating 19th-century Washington D.C. canals, locks, canal boats, and lockkeeper houses – and the people who built and used them. Our walks and bike rides are followed by a pay-as-you-go Bavarian-style Oktoberfest celebration.
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LocktoberfestDC 2025 will be held Saturday September 27 (rain date is October 4).
To see photos from the 2024 event, click here.
Click on Festival Summary to review LocktoberfestDC activities.
Click on Canals of D.C. if you want to learn more about D.C.'s two major canals of the 19th century.
We encourage all LocktoberfestDC participants to Support Our Parks, without which our walks and bike rides would be impossible.
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