--- title: 'Gilmore Girls' Festival Coming to Connecticut Town description: "Gilmore Girls" is coming to life this fall with a festival taking place in the town that inspired the show's setting canonical: https://time.com/4465381/gilmore-girls-fan-fest/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-24T22:52:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:50.720Z og:title: A 'Gilmore Girls' Festival is Coming to the Town That Inspired Stars Hollow og:description: All you have to do is go to Connecticut og:url: https://time.com/4465381/gilmore-girls-fan-fest/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A 'Gilmore Girls' Festival is Coming to the Town That Inspired Stars Hollow twitter:description: All you have to do is go to Connecticut twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # A _Gilmore Girls_ Festival is Coming to the Town That Inspired Stars Hollow by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 24, 2016 10:52 PM UTC by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 24, 2016 10:52 PM UTC _Gilmore Girls_ is coming to life this fall with a festival taking place in the town that inspired the show’s setting. Washington Depot, Conn., will transform into Stars Hollow this October for the [_Gilmore Girls_ Fan Fest](http://gilmoregirlsfanfest.com), a three-day affair dedicated to celebrating all things Gilmore. The town of Washington Depot directly inspired show creator [Amy Sherman-Palladino](http://time.com/3911714/gilmore-girls-reunion-amy-sherman-palladino/) to create Stars Hollow. The festival promises several themed activities sure to draw in any [_Gilmore Girls_](http://time.com/4439235/gilmore-girls-scott-patterson-revival-rumors/) fan who has long dreamt of visiting Stars Hollow. Cast members Kelly Bishop (Emily Gilmore), Jackson Douglas (Jackson Belleville), Yanic Truesdale (Michel Gerard), Vanessa Marano (April Nardini) and several others have confirmed they will attend the event. A knit-a-thon, coffee at the hardware store, cake tasting and a ‘Friday Night Dinner’ are in the works. The series pilot, finale and 10 episodes of fans’ choosing will be shown during the festival. The festival will take place Oct. 21-23, about a month before the [_Gilmore Girls_ revival](http://time.com/4426758/gilmore-girls-revival-show-releases-the-first-trailer-and-a-premiere-date/) airs on Netflix. Tickets are available [here](http://gilmoregirlsfanfest.com). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4465381/gilmore-girls-fan-fest/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4465381/gilmore-girls-fan-fest/"},"headline":"A Gilmore Girls Festival is Coming to the Town That Inspired Stars Hollow","datePublished":"2016-08-24T22:52:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:50.720Z","description":"All you have to do is go to Connecticut","url":"https://time.com/4465381/gilmore-girls-fan-fest/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4465381/gilmore-girls-fan-fest/","name":"A Gilmore Girls Festival is Coming to the Town That Inspired Stars Hollow"}}]}] ```