Most days, Village Green Park behaves like it belongs to the people who live around it. The lawn stays level and empty. A ring of pathway curves along the perimeter for whoever's out for a jog. A scatter of natural boulders sits where a landscape architect decided a boulder should sit. At the south end, a stage faces out toward the canyon, unused, waiting for something. A visitor who wanders in from outside the neighborhood on an ordinary Tuesday will find a nice park and not much else. Ask around and you'll hear the same thing: this is a resident's amenity first, and everyone else gets in as someone's guest.
Then the last weekend of September arrives, and for 72 hours, that arrangement flips.
Two Events, One Address, Back to Back
The Del Sur Community Services Council has scheduled its two biggest gatherings of the year on top of each other. The Del Sur Carnival runs Friday, September 25, 2026, from 6 to 10 p.m. Fall Festival takes over the same lawn the very next morning and runs through Saturday and Sunday, September 26 and 27. Both events sit at the same address: 16120 Paseo Del Sur, the entrance to Village Green.
That's not an accident of scheduling. It's a decision about how the neighborhood spends its one big production weekend of the fall. Running both events back to back means a single vendor load-in, one round of staffing and parking logistics, and one stretch when the boundary around a normally resident-first park comes down, instead of spreading that disruption across two separate weekends on a lawn that isn't built for regular public traffic.
What Actually Runs Under Each Ticket
The two events aren't identical, and the differences matter if you're planning around them.
- Carnival, Friday evening. Six to ten o'clock, ticketed entry, with guests welcome as long as they've purchased a ticket. This is the shorter, sharper of the two: a single evening rather than a full weekend.
- Fall Festival, Saturday and Sunday. An all-day event both days. Last year's edition ran on food trucks and a rotating list of local beer and wine, open gate rather than ticketed, with one firm house rule carried over: no dogs, pets, or electric bikes on the grounds.
That last rule is worth sitting with for a second. Village Green's dirt trails and perimeter path are exactly the kind of terrain that draws dog walkers and e-bike commuters the rest of the year. For one specific weekend, the park's usual daily traffic gets rerouted so the lawn can hold a festival crowd instead.
Why It's Not Spread Across the Whole Fall
The rest of the CSC's calendar runs on a much tighter leash. Concerts and movie nights on the Village Green are billed explicitly for CSC residents, and if you're bringing a guest, there's a per-guest cost tacked on. Recent gatherings like the Memorial Day block party have run under the same residents-first structure. That's the default mode for a park that functions, for most of the calendar, as a private lawn with a public-park layout.
The Carnival and Fall Festival weekend is the exception built into the system. It's the one stretch where the guest policy loosens to "welcome with a ticket" instead of "resident plus paid guest," and where the event runs long enough and public enough to look, for two days, like an actual town square rather than an HOA amenity. If you've been meaning to see what the fuss is about without waiting for an invitation from a neighbor, this is the weekend that's built for exactly that.
The Same Lawn, Every Other Week of the Year
Outside of late September, Village Green earns its keep quietly. In one past summer, the same canyon-facing stage hosted a screening of Moana paired with a live set from a local cover band called The Nocturnes and a food truck lineup, the kind of evening where the biggest production choice was which movie to project. The boulders and the perimeter path are there for whoever's walking a dog or getting a lap in before the heat sets in. The dirt trails at the edge of the lawn drop down into the canyon that runs behind the neighborhood, continuing past the park rather than dead-ending at the grass.
None of that changes because of one loud weekend in September. It's the reverse: the quiet, resident-scaled version of the park is what makes the loud weekend work. You can only turn a lawn into a two-day festival ground if it spends the other 363 days recovering.
Planning Around It
If you live here, the practical version of all this is simple. Block off Friday evening, September 25, if you want the carnival, and buy tickets ahead rather than assuming you can walk up. Clear Saturday and Sunday, September 26 and 27, for the Fall Festival, and leave the dog and the e-bike at home both days. Parking around a lawn that isn't designed for festival-scale crowds will be tighter than usual. Show up expecting food trucks and a rotating beer and wine list rather than a sit-down dinner, and you won't be disappointed.
If you're new to the neighborhood, or you've lived here long enough to have skipped the last few Septembers, this is the one weekend worth treating differently than the rest of the calendar. The park works the same way for everybody else eleven months out of twelve. This is the 72 hours it doesn't.
For anyone weighing whether the daily rhythm of a community like this fits how you actually want to live, the Del Sur neighborhood guide from Gelbart Realty Group covers the broader picture beyond one weekend on the calendar, and the current Del Sur homes for sale listings show what's actually available if a visit to Village Green turns into something more.
If you're already living the Del Sur calendar and you're curious what your home would be worth in today's market, Kris Gelbart offers a complimentary home valuation with no pressure attached, just a straight answer from someone who knows this neighborhood block by block.
