The first Gold Coast Greek Festival in 13 years runs at HOTA in Surfers Paradise on Saturday 31 October and Sunday 1 November 2026, with adult tickets at $11.60 on HOTA’s page, free entry for children 13 and under, and fireworks on Saturday night.
Five of the six Halloween events we found in the City of Gold Coast’s What’s On listing are free, and all five take place on Saturday 31 October 2026, but three of them need a booking or registration. The sixth, a Michael Jackson-themed kids’ party at Burleigh Heads on Sunday 1 November, costs $30.
The City of Gold Coast is running free outdoor movie nights in local parks from September 2026 to April 2027, and 13 of them are listed from Friday 30 October 2026 to Saturday 17 April 2027. The next one is Hotel Transylvania at Runaway Bay Cricket Club this Friday.
The Gold Coast 500 circuit roads in Surfers Paradise and Main Beach stay one-way, anti-clockwise, all of Monday 26 October and return to normal at 5am on Tuesday 27 October, and parking is banned in special event clearways until then. Removal works continue on the roads until mid-November.
If you are driving to Natural Bridge, expect long delays on Nerang-Murwillumbah Road at Caves Creek Bridge, where QLDTraffic lists all lanes affected until 5:30pm on Thursday 5 November 2026. Springbrook Road has full closures on Sunday and Monday nights while restoration works run until 27 November.
Old Pacific Highway at Pimpama will be closed between Pimpama Train Station and Nexus Drive from 7pm on Friday 23 October until 6am on Monday 26 October 2026, so the City of Gold Coast can continue building traffic signals at the Mebbin Street intersection. The detour runs via Bedford Road, Yawalpah Road and Nexus Drive.
This brief covers five City of Gold Coast road closures that start or are scheduled between 19 and 28 October 2026, including a full closure of Broadbeach Boulevarde between Thursday 22 and Monday 26 October while a developer dismantles a tower crane. The City lists many more closures than these. The full closures keep local access, and most entries are notice windows, not full-time closures.
Tamborine-Oxenford Road has lane reductions at five sites in the Gold Coast City area, from Upper Coomera to Wongawallan, with the last notice running until Friday 18 December 2026. Two of the five are night works, so the main change for drivers is slower travel at night as well as by day.
The City of Gold Coast’s own list of road projects shows work running into 2027 in Pimpama, Southport, Broadbeach, Coolangatta, Surfers Paradise and across the road network. The City lists two closures on its Mebbin Street project in Pimpama: Mebbin Street itself, shut from 7pm Tuesday 6 October until early December 2026, and a weekend closure of Old Pacific Highway from 7pm Friday 23 October to 6am Monday 26 October.
If you live in a time-limited parking area of the Gold Coast, the City of Gold Coast can give you a free resident parking permit, but only if you have limited off-street parking and your street has no paid meters. For visitor permits, the City lists a $119 application fee and a $119 annual permit fee as of October 2026.