Pioneer Village Tour at Silver Springs State Park

A horse parade on the Downtown Square, three Ocala Downtown Market events in three days, Jeeptoberfest and a free Hocus Pocus screening headline Ocala's Oct. 9-11 weekend.

Crews are driving bridge piles for the new I-75 interchange at NW 49th Street, but Buc-ee's now says its Ocala travel center will open in 2029. Here is the location, the site plan and the timeline.

The Forge, a multi-restaurant complex in downtown Ocala's former WMOP radio building, is open with The Blind Eye speakeasy, Ignite, The Hammock and five more tenants. Here is every restaurant, the hours and the history.

Ocala Breeders' Sales cataloged 378 yearlings for its October sale on Oct. 6-7, after 2025's sale rose 27% and an OBS graduate won the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby.

FUNDELIVERED, the Ocala mystery-box company founded by Rebecca Dallman and Jena Butler, pitches on ABC's Shark Tank Season 18 premiere on Wednesday, Sept. 30, with MrBeast as a guest Shark.

First Friday Art Walk returns for its new season, the Appleton opens a Kronsnoble retrospective on Free First Saturday, and the county's free fall carnival headlines a packed Ocala weekend.