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Central Park City park New York
Peak November 1 2026 forecast
Olmsted's 843 acres turn late for the latitude, and the park's elms, maples, and oaks usually hold color into early November. The Mall's American elm cathedral and the wooded paths of the Ramble are the classic circuits.
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Prospect Park City park New York
Peak November 2 2026 forecast
Olmsted and Vaux considered Brooklyn's 526-acre park their masterpiece. The Long Meadow's tree lines, the Ravine's woodlands, and the shores of Prospect Park Lake give it some of the city's most varied late-October color.
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New York Botanical Garden Garden New York
Peak November 1 2026 forecast
The Bronx's 250-acre garden wraps fall color around the Thain Family Forest, one of New York City's last stands of old-growth woodland, with maples, tulip trees, and oaks peaking from late October into November.
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Fort Tryon Park City park New York
Peak November 1 2026 forecast
High on a ridge over the Hudson, Fort Tryon pairs foliage with river views: the Heather Garden's late perennials under turning oaks and maples, and the Cloisters framed in gold at the park's north end.
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Bear Mountain State Park State park New York
Peak October 24 2026 forecast
The Hudson Highlands' oak and hickory forests peak in mid-to-late October. Drive or hike to Bear Mountain's summit for the view over the river's S-curve, or walk the loop around Hessian Lake under the ridgeline.
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Storm King Art Center Garden New York
Peak October 23 2026 forecast
Five hundred acres of open-air sculpture in the Hudson Valley, where monumental works sit against hillsides of turning maple, oak, and birch. Peak color usually arrives mid-to-late October.
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Minnewaska State Park Preserve State park New York
Peak October 17 2026 forecast
On the Shawangunk Ridge 90 miles north of the city, sky lakes and white quartz cliffs frame pitch pine, chestnut oak, and maple color. Old carriage roads make the big overlooks easy to reach on foot or by bike.
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Boston Public Garden Garden Massachusetts
Peak October 23 2026 forecast
America's first public botanical garden colors gently through late October, with weeping willows around the lagoon, ginkgos and maples over the promenades, and the Common's big oaks and elms right across Charles Street.
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Arnold Arboretum Arboretum Massachusetts
Peak October 23 2026 forecast
Harvard's 281-acre living museum in Jamaica Plain holds one of North America's great tree collections (maples, hickories, ginkgos, and conifer-framed hillsides), usually at its best from mid-October to early November.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery Garden cemetery Massachusetts
Peak October 23 2026 forecast
America's first garden cemetery is quietly one of Greater Boston's best foliage walks: 175 acres of century-old sugar maples, beeches, and oaks over Victorian monuments, with a tower view back to the Boston skyline.
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Middlesex Fells Reservation State park Massachusetts
Peak October 22 2026 forecast
Twenty-five hundred acres of rocky oak-and-hickory woodland just north of the city. The Skyline Trail's ledges open over reservoirs ringed in October color, close enough to reach on the Orange Line.
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Walden Pond State Reservation State park Massachusetts
Peak October 21 2026 forecast
Thoreau's kettle pond in Concord rings itself in oak, maple, and hickory color by mid-to-late October. The 1.7-mile shore path is an easy morning walk, with the clearest light early and the fewest people on a weekday.
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Mount Greylock State Reservation State park Massachusetts
Peak October 10 2026 forecast
Massachusetts' highest summit rises 3,491 feet over the Berkshires, and its northern hardwood forests turn a week or more ahead of Boston. The auto road's overlooks stack ridgelines of early-October color.
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Kancamagus Highway Scenic drive New Hampshire
Peak October 12 2026 forecast
New Hampshire's Route 112 through the White Mountains is New England's benchmark foliage drive: 34.5 miles of maple, birch, and beech over Kancamagus Pass, with pullouts at Sabbaday Falls, Rocky Gorge, and the Swift River.
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Washington Park Arboretum Arboretum Washington
Peak October 13 2026 forecast
The 230-acre arboretum on Lake Washington runs vivid from mid-October into November, with Japanese maples along Azalea Way, the Pacific Connections gardens, and canoe-level color from the Foster Island waterside trail.
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Kubota Garden Garden Washington
Peak October 10 2026 forecast
Fujitaro Kubota's 20-acre Japanese garden in Rainier Beach layers maples over ponds, bridges, and stonework. It's Seattle's most concentrated fall-color spot, usually peaking late October into mid-November, free, and quieter than it deserves.
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Green Lake Park City park Washington
Peak October 13 2026 forecast
The city's favorite 2.8-mile loop rings Green Lake with sweetgums, maples, and cottonwoods that color through late October. It's an easy golden-hour walk, with the water doubling every tree on a still evening.
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Franklin Falls Trail Washington
Typically October 1–October 20
An easy two-mile round trip off Snoqualmie Pass through old-growth hemlock and cedar to a 70-foot waterfall, with vine maple burning red and gold through the understory in early-to-mid October.
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Mount Rainier, Paradise National park Washington
Typically September 15–October 5
Paradise at 5,400 feet doesn't do tree color. It does tundra: huckleberry and mountain-ash meadows turn scarlet against Rainier's glaciers from mid-September to early October, some of the earliest fall color in the Lower 48.
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The Enchantments Trail Washington
Typically September 25–October 15
Washington's alpine larches turn gold in the first week of October, and the Enchantments' granite basins near Leavenworth are their cathedral. It's a brutal day hike or lottery-permit overnight, but Colchuck Lake delivers the postcard for mortal legs.
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Algonquin Provincial Park, Highway 60 State park Ontario — Algonquin & Muskoka
Peak October 8 2026 forecast
The Highway 60 corridor cuts 56 km through Algonquin's maple and birch highlands, Ontario's benchmark foliage drive. Lookout Trail and the Algonquin Visitor Centre deck survey ridge after ridge of red and sugar maple, usually peaking late September into early October.
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Agawa Canyon Tour Train Scenic railway Ontario — Algonquin & Muskoka
Color nearby peaks October 11 2026 forecast
Algoma Central's day-long rail trip runs roughly 114 miles north from Sault Ste. Marie into Agawa Canyon's granite gorge, where color usually peaks the third week of September. A two-hour stop on the canyon floor reaches waterfalls and lookout trails before the train turns back.
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Dorset Scenic Lookout Tower Viewpoint Ontario — Algonquin & Muskoka
Peak October 10 2026 forecast
A 100-step steel tower above the village of Dorset gives the classic Muskoka fall panorama: hundreds of lakes and hardwood ridges stretching toward Algonquin, usually near peak in late September.
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Niagara-on-the-Lake Historic town Ontario — Algonquin & Muskoka
Color nearby peaks October 19 2026 forecast
Ontario's best-preserved 19th-century town sits where the Niagara River meets Lake Ontario, ringed by escarpment vineyards that turn gold and crimson through October. Queen Street's clapboard shopfronts and the surrounding wine route make it a fall day-trip staple.
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Bruce Peninsula National Park National park Ontario — Algonquin & Muskoka
Peak October 13 2026 forecast
Georgian Bay's turquoise water meets orange hardwood ridges near Tobermory, at the peninsula's tip. The Grotto and cliffside stretches of the Bruce Trail look their best in early-to-mid October, when maple and birch color rims the shoreline.
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Mont-Tremblant, Panoramic Village Viewpoint Québec — Laurentians & Eastern Townships
Peak October 10 2026 forecast
Quebec's most-photographed fall view: a chairlift from the colorful pedestrian village climbs Mont Tremblant for a 360-degree look over Laurentian ridgelines turning red and gold, usually peaking late September into early October.
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Parc national du Mont-Orford State park Québec — Laurentians & Eastern Townships
Peak October 10 2026 forecast
This Eastern Townships park anchors the region's fall scenery, with three summits and Lac Stukely's shoreline trails framed by sugar maple. The Cerisier discovery centre is the gateway to hikes that peak alongside the Townships' vineyards and covered bridges in late September.
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Île d'Orléans, Apple Orchards Orchard Québec — Laurentians & Eastern Townships
Color nearby peaks October 10 2026 forecast
Just downriver from Quebec City, Île d'Orléans has grown apples since the 17th century. Cidrerie Verger Bilodeau's rows run toward the St. Lawrence, with u-pick and cider tastings, while the island's Chemin Royal turns color through late September and October.
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Mont-Royal City park Québec — Laurentians & Eastern Townships
Peak October 14 2026 forecast
Frederick Law Olmsted's mountain park gives Montreal its best fall overlook: Kondiaronk Belvedere's terrace looks past the chalet roofline over the entire city canopy turning color, typically peaking around the first week of October.
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Gatineau Park, Champlain Lookout Viewpoint Québec — Laurentians & Eastern Townships
Peak October 11 2026 forecast
The National Capital Region's essential fall view, just across the river from Ottawa: a platform atop the Eardley Escarpment surveys the Ottawa Valley's patchwork of farmland and hardwood forest, usually peaking early-to-mid October.
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Cabot Trail, Skyline Trail Scenic drive Nova Scotia — Cape Breton
Peak October 10 2026 forecast
The 298-km Cabot Trail loops Cape Breton Highlands National Park along coastal headlands where boreal forest and hardwood stands turn color against the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The Skyline Trail boardwalk, jutting toward the sea near French Mountain, is the drive's signature stop.
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Annapolis Valley, Noggins Corner Farm Farm Nova Scotia — Cape Breton
Color nearby peaks October 15 2026 forecast
The Annapolis Valley is Nova Scotia's orchard belt, and Noggins Corner Farm in Greenwich is its harvest-season hub: apple picking, a corn maze, and a pumpkin patch spread beneath the North Mountain's turning hardwoods, about 30 minutes from Wolfville.
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Larch Valley & Moraine Lake Trail Alberta — Canadian Rockies
Peak August 30 2026 forecast
The most sought-after larch hike in the Rockies climbs from Moraine Lake through subalpine meadows where entire larch forests turn gold for roughly two weeks in late September. Shuttle reservations and early starts are essential once the color turns.
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Vermilion Lakes Viewpoint Alberta — Canadian Rockies
Peak August 27 2026 forecast
A quiet lakeside drive minutes from Banff townsite, where three shallow lakes mirror Mount Rundle and Sulphur Mountain. Aspen groves along the shoreline turn gold through late September, framing one of the Rockies' most photographed reflections.
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Manning Park, Blackwall Peak Trail British Columbia
Peak September 12 2026 forecast
BC's answer to Alberta's larch pilgrimage: the Heather Trail from Blackwall Peak crosses subalpine meadows where alpine larch turn gold in the last weeks of September, with layered Cascade peaks in every direction.
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VanDusen Botanical Garden Garden British Columbia
Peak October 10 2026 forecast
Vancouver's 22-hectare botanical garden turns its Japanese maple, katsura, and ginkgo collections into a curated fall show through late October, with a lake-view boardwalk and a formal Rhododendron Walk that colors early.
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Fundy National Park National park New Brunswick
Peak October 11 2026 forecast
Acadian hardwood forest runs down to the Bay of Fundy's 12-metre tides, coloring through late September and early October. Trails like Dickson Falls and the Coastal Trail pair fall canopy with the world's highest tides at Alma's harbor.
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Arashiyama Historic town Kansai — Kyōto & Nara
Kyoto's western district pairs a famous bamboo grove with maple-lined temple grounds. Tenryu-ji's garden and the Togetsukyo Bridge over the Katsura River are the classic frames. Color usually peaks mid-to-late November, among Japan's latest.
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Tofuku-ji Garden Kansai — Kyōto & Nara
Kyoto's largest Zen temple complex hides a maple-choked ravine crossed by the wooden Tsutenkyo bridge, the shot that anchors most magazine spreads on Kyoto in autumn. About 2,000 maples turn through mid-to-late November; expect timed-entry queues.
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Kiyomizu-dera Garden Kansai — Kyōto & Nara
The wooden veranda of this UNESCO temple juts over a hillside of maples above Kyoto, lit for night viewing during peak color in mid-to-late November. The view back from Otowa Falls, framed by the pagoda, is one of Kyoto's signature shots.
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Oirase Gorge Trail Tōhoku — Northern Honshū
A mossy mountain stream draining Lake Towada, walked on a level path beneath maple and beech for nine miles of waterfalls and rapids. It's Tohoku's most famous single walk, usually turning through mid-to-late October.
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Naruko Gorge Viewpoint Tōhoku — Northern Honshū
A basalt gorge in Miyagi Prefecture cut by the Oyasu River, walked via a riverside path and viewed from the Ofukazawa observation deck. It's one of Tohoku's most famous fall panoramas, usually peaking in mid-October.
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Daisetsuzan (Asahidake) National park Hokkaidō
Japan's fall color starts here: alpine shrubs on Asahidake, Hokkaido's highest peak, turn scarlet in early-to-mid September, weeks ahead of anywhere else in the country. The ropeway lifts hikers to the Sugatami trail's crater views.
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Kamikochi National park Japanese Alps — Chūbu
A car-free valley in the Northern Japan Alps, ringed by the jagged Hotaka peaks and walked via the Kappabashi Bridge over the Azusa River. Beech and larch color moves down from the ridgelines through mid-to-late October.
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Yabakei Gorge Viewpoint Kyūshū & Western Japan
Cliffs and pinnacles carved from volcanic rock line this gorge in Oita, threaded by the Ao-no-Domon tunnel a monk reputedly hand-dug in the 18th century. Maples color the ravine through most of November, among Kyushu's latest color.
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Naejangsan National Park National park South Korea
South Korea's most famous foliage destination: a natural amphitheater of ridgelines packed with native maples, plus a planted maple-tunnel entrance road that draws the country's biggest fall crowds every late October.
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Seoraksan National Park National park South Korea
Korea's fall color starts here in late September, working down bare granite peaks and the jagged Ulsanbawi ridge. The cable car up to Gwongeumseong fortress and the walk to Sinheungsa Temple are the two classic ways to see it.
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Nami Island Garden South Korea
A half-moon island in the Han River planted with tree-lined avenues. The central ginkgo walk turns solid gold by late October, and the metasequoia allée made famous by Korean television draws crowds through November.
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Jiaju Tibetan Village Historic town Jiuzhaigou & Western Sichuan
Stone-and-wood Tibetan watchtower houses climb a hillside above the Daduhe valley in Danba County, ringed by walnut and poplar trees that turn gold through October. The village was named China's most beautiful by its national geographic society.
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Fragrant Hills Park City park Beijing Hills — Fragrant Hills
Beijing's most crowded fall pilgrimage: smoke trees and maples blaze across this Western Hills park, viewed by cable car or on foot up to Incense Burner Peak. Color peaks in late October and draws immense weekend crowds.
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Westonbirt Arboretum Arboretum United Kingdom
England's national arboretum in Gloucestershire holds one of the world's great tree collections. Japanese maples along the Maple Loop turn first, then the Old Arboretum's oaks and beeches follow, peaking mid-to-late October.
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The Enchanted Forest Fall festival United Kingdom
Oct 8 – Nov 8
Faskally Wood outside Pitlochry becomes Scotland's biggest autumn event each October: a sound-and-light trail through beech and larch color, staged after dark for about six weeks around peak season since 2002.
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Neuschwanstein Castle Viewpoint Germany
Ludwig II's fairy-tale castle above Hohenschwangau turns its beech-and-maple hillside gold each October, best seen from the Marienbrücke footbridge over the Pöllat Gorge, the single most photographed castle view in Germany.
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Englischer Garten City park Germany
One of the world's largest urban parks, bigger than Central Park, turns amber through its plane-tree avenues and the meadows around the Chinese Tower beer garden. It's Munich's easiest fall walk, peaking mid-to-late October.
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Lauterbrunnen Valley Viewpoint Switzerland
Dozens of waterfalls drop from sheer limestone walls into this glacial valley beneath the Jungfrau. Larches on the upper slopes turn gold through October while the valley floor's orchards and meadows go amber below.
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Lavaux Vineyard Terraces Trail Switzerland
Vines terraced above Lake Geneva since the 11th century turn deep red through October, seen best from the walking path linking villages like Rivaz, St-Saphorin, and Chexbres. It's a UNESCO landscape best walked, not driven.
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Hallstatt Historic town Austria
An alpine village on the Hallstätter See, its 16th-century houses stacked between lake and cliff, framed each October by beech and larch turning on the surrounding slopes. The classic lakeside view draws such crowds that tour buses now run on strict time slots.
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Forêt de Fontainebleau Forest France
Fifty square miles of oak and beech south of Paris, threaded with sandy trails and famous sandstone boulders. A royal hunting forest since the 12th century, it's now France's benchmark autumn walk, peaking late October to mid-November.
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Plitvice Lakes National Park National park Croatia
Sixteen terraced turquoise lakes connected by waterfalls, framed by beech forest that turns gold and copper through October. Croatia's oldest national park, UNESCO-listed since 1979, is noticeably quieter once summer's crowds thin out.
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Bran Castle Haunted attraction Romania
Oct 24 – Nov 1
The castle marketed as Dracula's, perched on a crag in the Carpathians, runs a Halloween party through late October as the beech forest below turns. It's the closest Eastern Europe gets to a horror-tourism pilgrimage.
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Val di Funes Viewpoint Italy
The onion-domed Church of St. Johann in Ranui, built in 1744, sits alone in an alpine meadow below the jagged Odle peaks, ringed by larches that turn gold through most of October. It's a small chapel that draws outsized crowds for the view alone.
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Lake Bled Lake Slovenia
An island church and a clifftop medieval castle ring this alpine lake, with beech and maple color on the surrounding hills through October. Rowing out to the island still falls to 23 pletna boats, a right granted to the same local families under empress Maria Theresa.
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Arrowtown Historic town Central Otago & Queenstown
A former gold-rush town near Queenstown planted thick with European poplars, oaks, and sycamores that turn gold through April. The annual Arrowtown Autumn Festival each late April draws crowds for the color and a parade.
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Bright Fall festival Victoria High Country
Apr 23 – May 2
A high-country town in Victoria's alps planted a century ago with European trees for the color. Poplars, oaks, and elms turn through the Autumn Festival each ANZAC weekend in late April, one of Australia's few real foliage events.
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Cerro Campanario Viewpoint Bariloche & the Argentine Lakes
A chairlift outside Bariloche climbs to a 360-degree panorama once ranked by National Geographic among the world's best views: lakes and forested peninsulas below, where native lenga and ñire forest turns red and gold each April and May.
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Parque General San Martín City park Mendoza — Vineyards & Andes
Nearly 1,000 acres of plane trees and elms designed by Charles Thays anchor Mendoza's west side, turning gold through April and May as the surrounding vineyards bring in the harvest. It's Argentina's wine capital at its most photogenic.
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Cradle Mountain, Dove Lake National park Tasmania — Central Highlands
Australia's only winter-deciduous tree, the shrub-like fagus (Nothofagus gunnii), turns red and gold across Cradle Mountain's slopes in late April and early May, a brief event called the 'turning of the fagus,' walked from Dove Lake.
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Sleepy Hollow Historic town New York
Color nearby peaks October 29 2026 forecast
Washington Irving's legendary hamlet leans fully into October: Philipsburg Manor hosts the theatrical night walk Horseman's Hollow, nearby Van Cortlandt Manor lights thousands of hand-carved jack-o'-lanterns for The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze, and Sleepy Hollow Cemetery runs lantern tours past its 1685 Old Dutch Church.
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Letchworth State Park State park New York
Peak October 14 2026 forecast
New York's 'Grand Canyon of the East' carries the Genesee River through a 17-mile gorge with cliffs up to 550 feet, framed by three major waterfalls and dense maple-and-oak forest. Overlooks near the Castile entrance turn brilliant red and gold through early-to-mid October.
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Whiteface Veterans Memorial Highway Scenic drive New York
Peak October 11 2026 forecast
An 8-mile toll road built in the 1930s switchbacks from Wilmington up Whiteface Mountain, the Adirondacks' fifth-highest peak, ending at a castle and elevator to the 4,867-foot summit. On clear fall days the High Peaks unfold in every direction before the road closes for the season around Columbus Day.
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Kaaterskill Falls Trail New York
Peak October 15 2026 forecast
A roughly 1-mile trail from the Laurel House Road lot climbs to New York's tallest two-tiered waterfall, a 260-foot cascade on Spruce Creek that Thomas Cole and other Hudson River School painters made the visual shorthand for Catskills autumn. Roadside parking on Route 23A is enforced, so use the lot.
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Taughannock Falls State Park State park New York
Peak October 16 2026 forecast
A single 215-foot plunge (33 feet taller than Niagara) drops through a half-mile gorge just north of Ithaca, with rim trails on both sides framing the falls through sugar maple and hemlock color. The 750-acre park sits on Cayuga Lake, one of the Finger Lakes' best fall drives.
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Adirondack Railroad Scenic railway New York
Color nearby peaks October 12 2026 forecast
Vintage rail cars run Fall Foliage Saturday excursions out of Thendara station near Old Forge, tracing the Adirondack Rail Corridor's Utica-to-Tupper Lake segment through spruce, maple, and birch color deep in the park. The former northern leg to Lake Placid is now a rail trail, not a train ride.
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Pennings Farm Cidery Cider mill New York
Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
The Pennings family has farmed in Warwick since the 1930s; their cidery, opened in 2016, draws crowds for hard cider, wood-fired pizza, and cider donuts alongside 50-plus acres of pick-your-own apples in New York's Hudson Valley apple country.
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Fishkill Farms Orchard New York
Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
Founded in 1913 by Henry Morgenthau Jr. and still family-run, this 270-acre Hudson Valley farm (now partly organic) offers pick-your-own apples across 40 orchard acres, a fall corn maze, wagon rides, and an on-site cider bar most weekends September through October.
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Longwood Gardens Garden Pennsylvania
Peak November 1 2026 forecast
Pierre S. du Pont's 1,100-acre estate near Kennett Square anchors its fall season with the Chrysanthemum Festival (some 4,500 mums, including an 18-month-trained 'thousand bloom' specimen) set against woodland and meadow color running into mid-November.
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Eastern State Penitentiary Haunted attraction Pennsylvania
Oct 2 – Nov 7 Color nearby peaks November 3 2026 forecast
Philadelphia's crumbling 1829 penitentiary (one of the first true prisons in the world, abandoned in 1971) turns its cellblocks into Halloween Nights each fall: five haunted houses and an outdoor scare zone staffed by 200-plus performers, running select nights from mid-September through Halloween.
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Ricketts Glen State Park State park Pennsylvania
Peak October 17 2026 forecast
The Falls Trail's 7.1-mile loop threads past 22 named waterfalls, including the 94-foot Ganoga Falls, through a National Natural Landmark old-growth forest. Fall color across the 13,050-acre park peaks mid-to-late October, with the Route 118 trailhead near Benton the standard starting point.
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Leonard Harrison State Park State park Pennsylvania
Peak October 15 2026 forecast
The east rim overlook of Pine Creek Gorge (800 feet deep and nearly 4,000 feet across, and nicknamed the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon) turns into a sea of red and gold each October. Leonard Harrison donated the 585-acre park's land in 1922; its visitor center sits steps from the main overlook.
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Ghost Tours of New Hope Ghost tour Pennsylvania
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 31 2026 forecast
Lantern-lit walking tours have wound through this Bucks County river town since 1982, gathering at the corner of Main and Ferry streets beside the Parry Mansion and setting off at 8pm past the 1727 Logan Inn. Public tours run Saturday nights from June through the Saturday before Thanksgiving, adding Friday nights and Halloween itself in October.
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Pool Forge Covered Bridge Covered bridge Pennsylvania
Color nearby peaks October 29 2026 forecast
Built in 1859 by Levi Fink, this red Burr-arch truss bridge carries a quiet lane over the Conestoga River in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania's covered-bridge capital, with roughly 200 spans statewide. It sits free and open in a small township park beside a colonial-era ironmaster's house.
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Cherry Crest Adventure Farm Corn maze Pennsylvania
Sep 19 – Nov 7 Color nearby peaks October 29 2026 forecast
The Horst family cut Pennsylvania's first corn maze here in 1996; nearly three decades later the 5-acre maze still gets a new theme every year, backed by a pumpkin patch and 60-plus other fall activities on this Lancaster County farm.
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Skyline Drive Scenic drive Virginia
Peak October 21 2026 forecast
Shenandoah National Park's 105-mile ridge-top drive along the Blue Ridge crest strings together 75 overlooks of the Shenandoah Valley and Piedmont, with color typically peaking mid-to-late October at the higher elevations near the Front Royal entrance.
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Old Rag Mountain Trail Virginia
Peak October 20 2026 forecast
The 9-mile circuit to Old Rag's 3,284-foot summit climbs through a mile-long boulder scramble that's become Virginia's most popular hike, so popular that a capped day-use ticket, bought in advance on recreation.gov, is now required year-round on top of the park entrance pass.
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Cox Farms Farm Virginia
Color nearby peaks October 31 2026 forecast
This Centreville farm runs a daytime Fall Festival of slides, hayrides, and pumpkins alongside Fields of Fear, a nighttime haunted attraction with a scare-zone cornfield and hayride, on Friday and Saturday nights from late September into early November.
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Great Falls Park National park Virginia
Peak November 2 2026 forecast
The Potomac drops 76 feet over jagged bedrock cascades at this 800-acre National Park Service site near McLean, with cliffside trails past the ruins of George Washington's Patowmack Canal offering some of the region's most dramatic river-gorge foliage views.
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Graves Mountain Farm Orchard Virginia
Color nearby peaks October 20 2026 forecast
Family-run since 1965 at the foot of the Blue Ridge in Madison County, this 1,800-acre farm and lodge holds its Apple Harvest Festival across the first three weekends of October, with pick-your-own apples, hayrides, bluegrass, and a country buffet.
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New River Gorge National Park & Preserve National park West Virginia
Peak October 19 2026 forecast
Redesignated a full national park in 2020, this 876-foot-deep gorge is spanned by one of the highest bridges in the Americas; the Canyon Rim Visitor Center overlook is the classic vantage for the bridge and the sea of ridge-line color that peaks around mid-October, before Bridge Day draws crowds each fall.
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Blackwater Falls State Park State park West Virginia
Peak October 12 2026 forecast
Tannic acid from hemlock and red spruce needles tints the Blackwater River amber as it drops 57 feet at this Tucker County park, where elevation near 3,000 feet brings some of West Virginia's earliest peak color, typically in early-to-mid October.
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Cass Scenic Railroad Scenic railway West Virginia
Color nearby peaks October 11 2026 forecast
Restored Shay geared locomotives haul open-air cars up Back Allegheny Mountain from a preserved 1901 logging town, with fall excursions climbing to Bald Knob and Cheat Mountain for sweeping views. The state park's trains run under lease by the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad.
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Seneca Rocks Viewpoint West Virginia
Peak October 12 2026 forecast
A 900-foot Tuscarora quartzite fin rises sheer above the North Fork Valley in Monongahela National Forest, its South Peak accessible only by technical rock climbing while a switchbacking overlook trail gives hikers sweeping fall views for a fraction of the effort.
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Terhune Orchards Orchard New Jersey
Color nearby peaks November 2 2026 forecast
Farmed since the 1920s and family-run as an orchard since 1975, this roughly 200-acre Princeton-area farm and winery holds Fall Festival weekends through September and October with pick-your-own apples across 34 varieties, pumpkins, and a corn maze.
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Alstede Farms Farm New Jersey
Color nearby peaks October 27 2026 forecast
On 600 acres of preserved Chester farmland, Alstede's corn maze covers more than 10 acres and three miles of paths beneath a lookout bridge, with night 'Harvest Moon' maze runs alongside pick-your-own pumpkins and apples every fall since 1982.
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Mount Tammany Trail New Jersey
Peak October 23 2026 forecast
From the Dunnfield Creek lot in Worthington State Forest, a 3.5-mile loop climbs Mount Tammany for New Jersey's classic view of the Delaware River slicing through the Kittatinny Ridge, part of the roughly 70,000-acre Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area established in 1965.
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High Point State Park State park New Jersey
Peak October 18 2026 forecast
A 220-foot veterans' monument built in 1928-30 marks New Jersey's highest elevation at 1,803 feet, with panoramic Sussex County views reaching toward the Poconos and Catskills. It's one of the state's most rewarding fall-foliage overlooks.
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Swallow Falls State Park State park Maryland
Peak October 15 2026 forecast
Muddy Creek Falls, Maryland's highest free-falling waterfall, drops 53 feet through this 257-acre Garrett County park near Deep Creek Lake, reached by an easy loop trail through one of the state's few stands of old-growth hemlock and white pine.
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Cunningham Falls State Park State park Maryland
Peak October 29 2026 forecast
Cunningham Falls tumbles 78 feet down a rock face in the Catoctin Mountains, the largest cascading waterfall in Maryland, reached by a short trail from the Houck day-use area of this roughly 6,000-acre park established in 1954 alongside the 43-acre Hunting Creek Lake.
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Butler's Orchard Orchard Maryland
Color nearby peaks November 2 2026 forecast
Five generations of the Butler family have farmed this roughly 300-acre Germantown property since 1950; its Pumpkin Festival, running since 1980, fills fall weekends with pick-your-own pumpkins, hayrides, and a corn maze.
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Winterthur Garden Delaware
Peak November 2 2026 forecast
Henry Francis du Pont's 979-acre former estate near Wilmington, opened as a museum in 1951, pairs a renowned American decorative-arts collection with a 60-acre naturalistic garden, where mature oaks, tulip poplars, and Japanese maples color 25 miles of trails into late October.
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Tunnel of Trees (M-119) Scenic drive Michigan
Peak October 15 2026 forecast
M-119 threads twenty miles of canopied hardwoods along the Lake Michigan bluffs between Harbor Springs and Cross Village, narrowing to one lane at the hairpin known as Devil's Elbow. Sugar maple and beech peak here early-to-mid October, with glimpses of open water below.
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Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive Scenic drive Michigan
Peak October 14 2026 forecast
This 7.4-mile loop inside Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, built by lumberman Pierce Stocking in 1967, climbs through beech-maple forest to twelve overlooks, including a platform 450 feet above Lake Michigan. Dune views and fall color combine here like nowhere else on the coast.
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Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore National park Michigan
Peak October 10 2026 forecast
The first national lakeshore in the U.S. (1966) protects 42 miles of Lake Superior shoreline near Munising, where sandstone cliffs up to 200 feet tall streak with mineral color above the water. Boat tours and cliff-top trails run through October as birch and maple turn along the bluffs.
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Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park State park Michigan
Peak October 14 2026 forecast
Michigan's largest state park, established 1945, holds roughly 60,000 acres near Ontonagon and one of the Midwest's largest old-growth hardwood stands. The Lake of the Clouds overlook (a sheer drop to a mirror lake ringed by turning maple and hemlock) peaks late September into early October.
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Hartwick Pines State Park State park Michigan
Peak October 11 2026 forecast
A 49-acre remnant of Michigan's original white and red pine forest survives near Grayling, donated in 1927 by Karen Michelson Hartwick in memory of her husband. A logging museum and the paved Old Growth Forest Trail explain the timber era that cleared nearly everything else like it.
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Yates Cider Mill Cider mill Michigan
May 1 – Dec 23 Color nearby peaks October 18 2026 forecast
Founded in 1863 on the Clinton River in Rochester Hills, Yates has pressed cider since 1876 from the same water-turbine building it occupies today, one of Michigan's oldest continuously running businesses. Fall visitors queue for fresh cider and donuts beside the original mill machinery.
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Uncle John's Cider Mill Cider mill Michigan
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 16 2026 forecast
The Beck family's St. Johns farm has run a cider mill since the early 1970s and now anchors it with a 9-acre themed corn maze redesigned every year, plus wagon rides, orchards, and a hard cider taproom. A fifth generation now runs what their great-grandparents started.
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Circleville Pumpkin Show Fall festival Ohio
Oct 21 – Oct 24 Color nearby peaks October 24 2026 forecast
Circleville has run this four-day October festival since 1903, drawing 300,000-plus visitors downtown for giant-pumpkin weigh-offs and Lindsey's Bakery's roughly 400-pound pumpkin pie. Billed as 'The Greatest Free Show on Earth,' it's one of the country's largest pumpkin festivals.
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Hocking Hills State Park State park Ohio
Peak October 24 2026 forecast
Ohio's first state land purchase in 1924 has grown into 2,356 acres of sandstone gorges, recess caves, and waterfalls around Old Man's Cave. Hemlock and hardwood ridges turn mid-to-late October, drawing hikers along trails linking Old Man's Cave, Cedar Falls, and Ash Cave.
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Cedar Point HalloWeekends Haunted attraction Ohio
Sep 17 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
One of America's oldest amusement parks, open in Sandusky since 1870, turns its midway into haunted mazes and zombie-themed shows on fall weekends through early November, alongside a daytime trick-or-treat trail for kids. Roller coasters run by day; the scares take over after dark.
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Holmes County Amish Country Historic town Ohio
Color nearby peaks October 21 2026 forecast
Berlin anchors the largest Amish settlement in the world, a patchwork of Holmes County farmland where buggies share the road with cars past cheese houses and furniture shops. The Amish & Mennonite Heritage Center's 'Behalt' cyclorama mural tells the community's story against turning farmland.
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Mohican State Park State park Ohio
Peak October 21 2026 forecast
A 300-foot-deep gorge cut by the Clear Fork River anchors this park near Loudonville, crossed by a covered bridge built in 1968 from hemlock and hardwood milled in the adjacent state forest. Canoeing the river and hiking the gorge rim are the fall rituals here.
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Lynd Fruit Farm Farm Ohio
Color nearby peaks October 22 2026 forecast
Four generations of the Lynd family have farmed this 300-plus-acre spread in Pataskala since 1919, growing apples, peaches, and pumpkins. Fall brings U-pick orchards, a corn maze, and a market stocked with fresh cider and doughnuts, a central Ohio harvest fixture since before the Depression.
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Starved Rock State Park State park Illinois
Peak October 25 2026 forecast
Eighteen sandstone canyons cut into the bluffs above the Illinois River near Oglesby, many holding seasonal waterfalls that run heaviest after fall rain. Maple and oak color the canyon rims through October across roughly 2,630 acres of trails, Illinois's signature fall hiking destination.
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Morton Arboretum Arboretum Illinois
Peak October 24 2026 forecast
Salt magnate Joy Morton founded this 1,700-acre living museum in 1922; it now holds over 4,300 plant varieties across 16 miles of trails and is metro Chicago's benchmark fall-color destination. Tram tours and a tree-canopy walk put maple, oak, and hickory color at eye level and above it.
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Richardson Adventure Farm Corn maze Illinois
Sep 12 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks October 22 2026 forecast
The Richardson family's Spring Grove farm has cut a corn maze every fall since 2000, now spanning about 28 acres and nine miles of paths across four linked mazes, marketed as the world's largest. Roughly 100,000 visitors a season also come for the pumpkin patch and corn cannons.
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Brown County State Park State park Indiana
Peak October 29 2026 forecast
Indiana's largest state park, 15,696 acres opened in 1929 near Nashville, earned the nickname 'Little Smokies' for ridge-and-hollow scenery that rivals the real thing. Overlooks like Hesitation Point draw crowds for peak color, typically the second and third weeks of October.
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Parke County Covered Bridge Festival Covered bridge Indiana
Color nearby peaks October 29 2026 forecast
Parke County holds 31 historic covered bridges and calls itself the Covered Bridge Capital of the World, backing it up each October with a ten-day festival centered on Rockville's 1882 courthouse square. More than two million visitors come for driving tours, crafts, and small-town food stands.
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Beasley's Orchard Orchard Indiana
Color nearby peaks October 27 2026 forecast
Family-owned in Danville since 1946, this 165-acre farm centers on a Civil War-era barn market and draws crowds for U-pick apples, hayrides to the pumpkin patch, and a corn maze. Its cider has been named Indiana's best, and the Heartland Apple Festival runs the first two weekends of October.
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Ha Ha Tonka State Park State park Missouri
Peak November 2 2026 forecast
The stone walls of a 1905 mansion, gutted by fire in 1942, stand above a Lake of the Ozarks inlet as the centerpiece of this 3,751-acre park near Camdenton. An easy 0.8-mile paved trail leads to the castle ruins, passing karst sinkholes, a natural bridge, and lake overlooks along the way.
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Katy Trail State Park (Rocheport) Trail Missouri
Peak October 30 2026 forecast
The longest developed rail-trail in the country runs 240 miles across Missouri, and its Rocheport segment is the showpiece: an 1892 limestone tunnel through the bluffs opens straight onto river views and turning hardwoods, a favorite fall ride since the trail's 1990 debut.
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Maquoketa Caves State Park State park Iowa
Peak October 20 2026 forecast
Thirteen caves, more than any other Iowa state park, riddle the wooded, limestone-bluffed ravines here, first protected by a local women's club starting in 1921 and dedicated a state park in 1933. Roughly 370 acres of hardwood forest color up around the cave trails each October.
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Center Grove Orchard Orchard Iowa
Color nearby peaks October 21 2026 forecast
The Black family has grown apples on this Cambridge farm since 1986 and opened it to the public in 1994; today it holds 6,000 trees across 31 varieties on 18-plus acres. Fall brings U-pick apples, a corn maze, hayrides, and a pumpkin patch just off I-35 outside Des Moines.
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Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway Scenic drive South Dakota
Peak October 11 2026 forecast
US-14A runs nearly 20 miles between Spearfish and Cheyenne Crossing through a limestone canyon in the northern Black Hills, passing Bridal Veil, Spearfish, and Roughlock Falls. Birch and aspen against spruce and pine peak late September into early October along one of the region's classic fall drives.
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Custer State Park State park South Dakota
Peak October 12 2026 forecast
South Dakota's largest state park spans more than 71,000 acres of the Black Hills, where the Needles Highway winds through granite spires and narrow rock tunnels and the Wildlife Loop Road crosses grassland grazed by some 1,300 free-roaming bison. Aspen color peaks late September into early October.
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park (South Unit) National park North Dakota
Peak October 6 2026 forecast
The South Unit's 36-mile scenic loop near Medora crosses badlands banded in red and gray, with cottonwood groves along the Little Missouri River turning gold each fall. Bull elk bugle through the rut near Cottonwood Campground and Buck Hill, sometimes stopping traffic as they cross the road.
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Peninsula State Park State park Wisconsin
Peak October 15 2026 forecast
Door County's flagship park, established 1909, covers 3,776 acres and eight miles of Green Bay shoreline near Fish Creek and Ephraim. Climb Eagle Tower or bike the shoreline trails as sugar maples turn against the water. It's the peninsula's most photographed fall scenery, peaking late Sept into early Oct.
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Devil's Lake State Park State park Wisconsin
Peak October 15 2026 forecast
Wisconsin's most-visited state park rings a 360-acre lake with 500-foot quartzite bluffs near Baraboo, its 9,217 acres crossed by 29 miles of trail past formations like Balanced Rock and Devil's Doorway. Oak and maple color the bluff tops in early October above climbers and lake-trail hikers alike.
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Holy Hill Basilica Viewpoint Wisconsin
Peak October 16 2026 forecast
A minor basilica built by Discalced Carmelite friars crowns a Kettle Moraine hilltop in Hubertus, where a 178-step observation tower climbs above the church for 360-degree views over turning maple and oak, with Milwaukee's skyline visible some 30 miles off on a clear fall day.
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Apostle Islands National Lakeshore National park Wisconsin
Peak October 11 2026 forecast
Established in 1970, this Lake Superior park protects 21 islands and 12 miles of mainland shoreline near Bayfield, home to the National Park System's largest collection of lighthouses. Fall boat and kayak tours thread sea caves and sandstone cliffs backed by turning birch and maple, usually peaking late September.
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The Elegant Farmer Orchard Wisconsin
Color nearby peaks October 19 2026 forecast
Founded as a dairy farm in 1946 and now run by its fourth generation in Mukwonago, this market ships close to 10,000 Apple Pies Baked in a Paper Bag nationwide during Thanksgiving week alone. Fall visitors browse the pumpkin patch and harvest market for the same pie fresh off the farm.
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Gooseberry Falls State Park State park Minnesota
Peak October 6 2026 forecast
Minnesota's most-visited state park, established 1937 near Two Harbors, centers on multi-tiered waterfalls where the Gooseberry River drops toward Lake Superior. The falls and their birch-and-aspen canyon are the signature stop on the North Shore, drawing the heaviest crowds of the year during late-September color.
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North Shore Scenic Drive (Highway 61) Scenic drive Minnesota
Peak October 4 2026 forecast
This All-American Road runs 154 miles from Duluth's Canal Park to the Canadian border near Grand Portage, hugging Lake Superior below the Sawtooth Range through 96 waysides. Immortalized by Bob Dylan, it's Minnesota's benchmark fall drive, with birch and maple color moving south down the shore through late September.
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Lutsen Mountains Viewpoint Minnesota
Peak October 2 2026 forecast
The Midwest's largest ski area turns its lifts over to leaf-peepers each fall, with the Summit Express Gondola climbing about 1,000 feet up Moose Mountain for panoramic views over Lake Superior and the Sawtooth Range. Rides run daily through mid-October, then weekends into early November.
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Aamodt's Apple Farm Orchard Minnesota
Color nearby peaks October 10 2026 forecast
Family-run near Stillwater since 1948, this orchard is a Twin Cities fall-weekend fixture built around U-pick Honeycrisp apples, wagon rides, a petting farm, and a bakery. It's the kind of low-key harvest outing (cider donuts, not amusement-park scale) that Minnesotans return to every October.
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Sever's Corn Maze & Fall Festival Corn maze Minnesota
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 9 2026 forecast
The Peterson family cut the first corn maze in the Midwest here in 1997, and Sever's is now cited as the second-oldest hand-cut maze in the country. Each fall's redesigned maze anchors a full festival ground of hayrides, a pumpkin patch, and food stands south of the Twin Cities.
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Smugglers' Notch (Vermont Route 108) Scenic drive Vermont
Peak October 9 2026 forecast
Route 108 squeezes through Vermont's most dramatic mountain pass, threading hairpin turns beneath 1,000-foot cliffs between Mount Mansfield and Sterling Peak. The 3.5-mile stretch between Stowe and Jeffersonville closes each winter and peaks with maple and birch color in early-to-mid October.
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Mount Philo State Park State park Vermont
Peak October 12 2026 forecast
Vermont's first state park (1924) tops out at just 968 feet, but a short auto road or one-mile trail delivers an outsized payoff: a sweeping view over the Champlain Valley's turning maples to the lake and New York's Adirondacks beyond.
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Quechee Gorge State park Vermont
Peak October 11 2026 forecast
Known as Vermont's Little Grand Canyon, this 165-foot-deep gorge cut by the Ottauquechee River is spanned by a US Route 4 bridge with a pedestrian walkway, framed by red maples that make it one of the state's most-photographed fall stops.
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Cold Hollow Cider Mill Cider mill Vermont
Color nearby peaks October 11 2026 forecast
Vermont's best-known cider mill has pressed apples on this Waterbury Center site since 1974, using a century-old rack-and-cloth press visible through viewing windows. The bakery's cider doughnuts and gallons of fresh sweet cider draw a steady line of leaf peepers off Route 100.
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Shelburne Farms Farm Vermont
Color nearby peaks October 12 2026 forecast
A 1,400-acre former Vanderbilt-Webb estate on Lake Champlain, now a nonprofit education farm with a working dairy, a cheese-making barn, gardens, and 10 miles of walking trails through pastures and hardwoods that turn gold and crimson each October.
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Appalachian Gap (Vermont Route 17) Scenic drive Vermont
Peak October 9 2026 forecast
Vermont Route 17 hairpins up to a 2,369-foot summit between Waitsfield and Bristol, with the Long Trail crossing right at the height of land. Roadside pull-offs open onto the Champlain Valley and the Adirondacks beyond, on one of the state's steepest, most scenic fall drives.
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Camel's Hump (Monroe Trail) Trail Vermont
Peak October 8 2026 forecast
Vermont's only major undeveloped peak (its bare, rocky profile appears on the state seal) rewards a 6.9-mile round-trip hike via the Monroe Trail with 360-degree views across the Green Mountains, prized in fall for miles of ridgeline color in every direction.
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Woodstock Village Historic town Vermont
Color nearby peaks October 11 2026 forecast
An elliptical village green ringed by Federal and Greek Revival houses, covered and iron bridges over the Ottauquechee River, and a brick-sidewalk Main Street make Woodstock the New England town that fall foliage postcards are modeled on.
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Franconia Notch State Park State park New Hampshire
Peak October 12 2026 forecast
The White Mountains' other great pass carries I-93 as a two-lane parkway past Cannon Mountain and Echo Lake to the Flume Gorge, an 800-foot boardwalk chasm through 12,000-year-old granite walls draped in ferns and, by October, flaming maple.
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Mount Washington Cog Railway Scenic railway New Hampshire
Color nearby peaks October 8 2026 forecast
The world's first mountain-climbing rack railway has hauled passengers up Mount Washington's west slope since 1869. Biodiesel and vintage steam locomotives grind up a 37% grade past treeline, fall color giving way to alpine tundra near the 6,288-foot summit.
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Bath Covered Bridge Covered bridge New Hampshire
Color nearby peaks October 11 2026 forecast
Built in 1832 over the Ammonoosuc River, this 375-foot bridge is the oldest working covered bridge in New Hampshire and still carries daily traffic in and out of Bath village, with fall foliage along the riverbank framing its weathered lattice trusses.
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Coppal House Farm Farm New Hampshire
Color nearby peaks October 20 2026 forecast
A 1740s working farm in Lee that plows its six-acre corn maze into a new aerial design every year, with sheep, hogs, and Belgian draft horses sharing the fields, alongside a fall sunflower festival, pumpkin harvest, and farm-stand cider doughnuts.
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Applecrest Farm Orchards Orchard New Hampshire
Color nearby peaks October 22 2026 forecast
Continuously operated since 1913 on land settled in 1665, Applecrest is the oldest working apple orchard in the United States and New Hampshire's largest, growing 40-plus varieties across grounds that still include its 1812 farm market and 1815 farmhouse.
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Castle in the Clouds Viewpoint New Hampshire
Peak October 14 2026 forecast
Shoe magnate Thomas Plant's 1914 mountaintop mansion, Lucknow, sits on a 5,500-acre former estate above Lake Winnipesaukee, with trails past waterfalls and carriage roads opening onto some of the Lakes Region's widest fall-foliage panoramas.
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Acadia National Park (Park Loop Road) National park Maine
Peak October 15 2026 forecast
The 27-mile Park Loop Road threads Acadia's granite coastline and Mount Desert Island's hardwood forest past Sand Beach and Thunder Hole to the summit road up Cadillac Mountain, where sunrise crowds and fall color both peak in early-to-mid October.
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Camden Hills State Park State park Maine
Peak October 16 2026 forecast
A toll auto road switchbacks to the 800-foot summit of Mount Battie, where a stone tower frames the classic view of Camden Harbor, Penobscot Bay's islands, and the surrounding hills, one of the most reproduced fall-foliage panoramas on the Maine coast.
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Height of Land (Rangeley Lakes Scenic Byway) Scenic drive Maine
Peak October 8 2026 forecast
The best pull-off on the 52-mile Rangeley Lakes National Scenic Byway sits at 2,300 feet on Route 17, framing Mooselookmeguntic Lake against layered mountain ridgelines. It's routinely named among the best fall foliage views in the country.
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Treworgy Family Orchards Orchard Maine
Color nearby peaks October 14 2026 forecast
Branded Maine's Pumpkin Farm since the 1980s, this Levant orchard plows a new corn maze design every year (repeatedly voted the country's best by USA Today readers) alongside u-pick apples, a pumpkin patch, and a farm-animal barnyard.
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Damariscotta Pumpkinfest & Regatta Fall festival Maine
Oct 9 – Oct 12 Color nearby peaks October 18 2026 forecast
For two weeks each October, Damariscotta's Main Street fills with giant pumpkins grown from a single seed strain distributed to locals every spring. The festival peaks with the Pumpkinboat Regatta, where growers paddle hollowed-out 600-pound pumpkins across the Damariscotta River.
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Kennebunkport Historic town Maine
Color nearby peaks October 18 2026 forecast
A working harbor village turned genteel summer colony, Kennebunkport pairs Dock Square's shops and lobster shacks with the Ocean Avenue drive past the Bush family compound at Walker's Point, quieter and more colorful once the summer crowds thin out in fall.
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Salem Historic town Massachusetts
Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
The site of the 1692 witch trials leans fully into October, when Essex Street's pedestrian mall, museums, and Salem Common host Haunted Happenings, a month-long calendar of parades, psychic fairs, and costumed crowds that peaks on Halloween weekend.
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Mohawk Trail (Hairpin Turn) Scenic drive Massachusetts
Peak October 12 2026 forecast
Route 2's 63-mile run through the Berkshires climbs to a 1,700-foot hairpin turn on the North Adams-Clarksburg line, opening onto a 90-mile view across the Hoosac Valley toward Mount Greylock. It's New England's oldest official scenic auto route, marked in 1914.
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Bash Bish Falls State Park State park Massachusetts
Peak October 16 2026 forecast
Massachusetts' tallest single-drop waterfall plunges 60 feet into a rocky gorge pool near the New York line, reached by a half-mile trail through Berkshire hardwoods that turn early and hard in the park's high-elevation microclimate.
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October Mountain State Forest Forest Massachusetts
Peak October 13 2026 forecast
Massachusetts' largest state forest spreads across 16,500 acres of the Berkshires above Lee and Washington, its name reportedly coined by Herman Melville for the mountain's autumn color; old woods roads and trails wind through miles of turning hardwood.
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Lookout Farm Orchard Massachusetts
Color nearby peaks October 22 2026 forecast
Farmed continuously since 1651, Lookout Farm ranks among the oldest working farms in America. Its 160 acres along the Charles River in South Natick grow 29 apple varieties for pick-your-own, alongside a taproom pouring farm-made hard cider.
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Topsfield Fair Fall festival Massachusetts
Oct 2 – Oct 12 Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
Running since 1818, America's oldest agricultural fair fills the Topsfield Fairgrounds for ten October days with livestock shows, a midway, and the All New England Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off, where growers' entries have topped 2,500 pounds.
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Cider Hill Farm Donuts & cider Massachusetts
Color nearby peaks October 22 2026 forecast
A 145-acre family farm since 1978, Cider Hill presses its own sweet cider daily into apple cider doughnuts made fresh from opening day to close, alongside pick-your-own orchards, hayrides, and an on-site hard-cider house, Cider Hill Cellars.
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Kent Falls State Park State park Connecticut
Peak October 19 2026 forecast
Connecticut's tallest waterfall drops 250 feet in a series of cascades over exposed bedrock, visible in full from a switchbacking trail that climbs alongside it, framed each October by the Litchfield Hills' turning oak and maple.
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Gillette Castle State Park State park Connecticut
Peak October 24 2026 forecast
Actor William Gillette, famous for playing Sherlock Holmes on stage, built this 24-room fieldstone castle above the Connecticut River in 1919, complete with hand-carved oak doors and a former narrow-gauge railroad grade, now trails through river-valley foliage.
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Essex Steam Train & Riverboat Scenic railway Connecticut
Color nearby peaks October 26 2026 forecast
A vintage steam locomotive pulls 1920s coaches from Essex through the lower Connecticut River valley, connecting at Deep River Landing to a riverboat cruise past Gillette Castle and the Goodspeed Opera House, a fall-foliage combination running since 1971.
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B.F. Clyde's Cider Mill Cider mill Connecticut
Sep 1 – Dec 24 Color nearby peaks October 25 2026 forecast
The last steam-powered cider mill in the United States has pressed apples in Old Mystic since 1881, its 19th-century belt-driven press still running each fall. The mill sells sweet and hard cider, cider doughnuts, and pumpkins from a National Historic Landmark barn.
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Bull's Bridge Covered bridge Connecticut
Color nearby peaks October 20 2026 forecast
One of only two Connecticut covered bridges still open to cars, this 1842 span crosses the Housatonic River in Kent beside a churning gorge that George Washington is said to have nearly ridden into. It's postcard-pretty against fall color on the Appalachian Trail corridor.
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WaterFire Providence Fall festival Rhode Island
May 30 – Dec 11 Color nearby peaks October 24 2026 forecast
More than 80 bonfires burn just above the surface of the three rivers through downtown Providence during scheduled lightings, accompanied by music and torch-lit boats, a public art installation running since 1994, with fall dates stretching toward Halloween.
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Colt State Park State park Rhode Island
Peak October 26 2026 forecast
Industrialist Samuel Colt's former farm gives Bristol 464 acres of Narragansett Bay shoreline, its open fields lined by a mile of stone walls and a tree-shaded loop drive that's especially popular for fall cycling and picnicking with bay views.
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Newport Cliff Walk Trail Rhode Island
Peak October 26 2026 forecast
A 3.5-mile National Recreation Trail traces Newport's rocky Atlantic shoreline below the Gilded Age mansions of Bellevue Avenue, from Easton's Beach past The Breakers and Marble House to Bailey's Beach, with dramatic surf and ocean light through the fall.
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Sweet Berry Farm Pumpkin patch Rhode Island
Sep 26 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks October 26 2026 forecast
A 100-acre Aquidneck Island farm running pick-your-own fields from June through October, Sweet Berry's fall pumpkin patch spreads across open, rolling ground with farm-stand cider, a café, and honey from its own hives.
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Maroon Bells Scenic Area Viewpoint Colorado
Peak September 24 2026 forecast
Maroon Lake mirrors the Maroon Bells' twin 14,000-foot peaks framed by golden aspen groves ten miles from Aspen. Colorado's most photographed view requires a shuttle bus once the parking lot fills each fall weekend.
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Kebler Pass Scenic drive Colorado
Peak September 26 2026 forecast
Colorado Highway 12 crosses 10,007-foot Kebler Pass between Crested Butte and Paonia through the largest contiguous aspen forest in North America, a 30-mile drive, partly unpaved, that turns solid gold by late September.
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Independence Pass Scenic drive Colorado
Peak September 11 2026 forecast
Highway 82 crests the Continental Divide at 12,095 feet between Aspen and Twin Lakes, Colorado's highest paved through-pass, with alpine tundra and aspen-lined switchbacks that shut to long vehicles before winter snow closes the road entirely.
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Million Dollar Highway Scenic drive Colorado
Peak August 17 2026 forecast
US 550 climbs 11,018-foot Red Mountain Pass between Ouray and Silverton on cliffside switchbacks with no guardrails, part of the 236-mile San Juan Skyway loop through old mining towns and turning aspen groves in the San Juans.
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Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Scenic railway Colorado
Color nearby peaks October 2 2026 forecast
Coal-fired steam locomotives built in the 1920s haul open-air cars 45 miles along the Animas River gorge from Durango to Silverton on track laid in 1882 for silver ore, running fall-color specials through canyon walls of turning cottonwood and aspen.
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Bear Lake Corridor, Rocky Mountain National Park National park Colorado
Peak September 22 2026 forecast
Bull elk bugle across Moraine Park's meadows through the September rut while aspen gild the slopes above Bear Lake at 9,450 feet. A timed-entry permit governs this corridor of Rocky Mountain National Park during peak fall weeks.
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Estes Park Historic town Colorado
Color nearby peaks September 28 2026 forecast
Rocky Mountain National Park's eastern gateway fills with visiting elk that wander onto golf courses and downtown lawns each fall rut, while the 1909 Stanley Hotel and Riverwalk shops anchor a town built around the autumn tourist season.
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Alpine Loop Scenic Byway Scenic drive Utah
Peak October 7 2026 forecast
A 20-mile paved loop climbs American Fork Canyon past Timpanogos Cave and over an 8,000-foot summit between Mount Timpanogos and Cascade Mountain, closing for winter by late October just after its maple and aspen canyons peak.
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Guardsman Pass Scenic drive Utah
Peak October 2 2026 forecast
A steep, narrow road switchbacks to 9,717 feet between Big Cottonwood Canyon and the Heber Valley, linking Brighton to Midway through some of the Wasatch Range's densest aspen stands with views toward Park City and Deer Valley.
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Pando Forest Utah
Peak October 8 2026 forecast
A single quaking aspen clone spanning 106 acres on Fish Lake's southwest shore, Pando shares one root system across an estimated 47,000 genetically identical trunks, a contender for the largest living organism on Earth, and it turns uniform gold every fall.
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Cedar Breaks National Monument National park Utah
Peak October 11 2026 forecast
A 2,000-foot amphitheater of eroded limestone spires above Cedar City sits at 10,000 feet, ringed by ancient bristlecone pines and aspen groves that turn gold against red rock. Most facilities close for the season by mid-October.
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Aspen Vista Trail Trail New Mexico
Peak October 11 2026 forecast
A wide, gently graded old logging road climbs six miles above Santa Fe through what may be the largest aspen grove in New Mexico, gaining nearly 2,000 feet to a ridge over the Rio Grande Valley, 13 miles up Hyde Park Road from downtown.
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Sandia Crest Viewpoint New Mexico
Peak October 17 2026 forecast
A scenic byway switchbacks to Albuquerque's 10,678-foot skyline ridge, where aspen groves color the upper slopes and the summit deck looks west over the entire Rio Grande Valley. The Sandia Peak Tramway reaches the same summit from the city below.
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Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Fall festival New Mexico
Oct 3 – Oct 11 Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
Hundreds of hot-air balloons fill the sky over Balloon Fiesta Park each early October in the world's largest ballooning event, with mass ascensions and the Special Shape Rodeo drawing crowds to New Mexico's signature fall spectacle, running since 1972.
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Oak Creek Canyon Scenic drive Arizona
Peak October 22 2026 forecast
Highway 89A drops 2,000 feet in 12 miles between Flagstaff and Sedona through a canyon of red-rock cliffs and bigtooth maple, with Oak Creek Vista's switchback overlook offering the classic view where Arizona's fall color meets its red rock.
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Lockett Meadow Trail Arizona
Peak October 19 2026 forecast
A dirt-road trailhead inside the volcanic caldera of the San Francisco Peaks leads into the Inner Basin, where dense aspen groves ring Arizona's highest mountain and turn gold by late September, the state's definitive aspen hike above Flagstaff.
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Hannagan Meadow Scenic drive Arizona
Peak October 18 2026 forecast
US 191's Coronado Trail twists through more than 400 curves over the White Mountains' high country, and Hannagan Meadow at 9,100 feet, with its 1926 lodge, anchors Arizona's most remote and reliably golden aspen stretch, far from Sedona's crowds.
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Lost Maples State Natural Area State park Texas
Peak November 26 2026 forecast
A relict stand of bigtooth maples, cut off from Appalachian relatives since the last ice age, turns red and orange along the Sabinal River each November, Texas's singular fall-color destination, popular enough that the park caps daily entries.
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McKittrick Canyon National park Texas
Peak November 9 2026 forecast
Bigtooth maples and velvet ash light up a spring-fed desert canyon inside Guadalupe Mountains National Park, usually peaking in late October or November, a 4.8-mile round trip past the stone Pratt Cabin to the canyon's famous grotto.
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Caddo Lake State Park State park Texas
Peak November 17 2026 forecast
Bald cypress draped in Spanish moss ring a maze of sloughs and bayous on the Texas-Louisiana border, and paddling out from the park near Uncertain each fall brings amber cypress needles and still water among the largest cypress forest in the world.
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Oxbow Bend Viewpoint Wyoming
Peak September 22 2026 forecast
A slow bend in the Snake River mirrors Mount Moran and a wall of turning cottonwood and aspen each September, the single most photographed view in Grand Teton National Park, busiest at sunrise when the water goes glassy still.
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Snowy Range Scenic Byway Scenic drive Wyoming
Peak September 21 2026 forecast
Wyoming Highway 130 crosses the Medicine Bow Mountains between Laramie and Saratoga, topping out above 10,000 feet at Libby Flats, where granite peaks, alpine lakes, and aspen-covered slopes make it one of the state's classic fall drives before winter closure.
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Going-to-the-Sun Road Scenic drive Montana
Peak September 26 2026 forecast
Glacier National Park's 50-mile alpine crossing peaks at Logan Pass, 6,646 feet on the Continental Divide, where subalpine larch needles turn gold in late September alongside valley aspen. The road typically closes to full-length travel by mid-October.
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Beartooth Highway Scenic drive Montana
Peak September 29 2026 forecast
US 212 climbs from Red Lodge to nearly 11,000 feet across switchbacks above treeline, and Rock Creek Vista Point, just below the summit, frames an aspen-lined valley and jagged Beartooth peaks on a drive Charles Kuralt once called America's most beautiful.
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Teton Scenic Byway Scenic drive Idaho
Peak September 27 2026 forecast
Idaho Highway 31 runs nearly 70 miles from Swan Valley to Victor over 6,754-foot Pine Creek Pass, its aspen and cottonwood turning gold each September against Teton Valley's farmland and the Tetons' quieter, western-facing side.
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Great Basin National Park National park Nevada
Peak October 20 2026 forecast
Wheeler Peak's aspen groves turn gold beneath bristlecone pines over 4,000 years old in one of the least-visited national parks in the country, with Lehman Caves tours and a scenic drive climbing to 10,000 feet near the Utah border.
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Talimena National Scenic Byway Scenic drive Oklahoma
Peak November 9 2026 forecast
Oklahoma State Highway 1 runs 36 miles along the crest of the Winding Stair and Kiamichi Mountains inside Ouachita National Forest, with more than a dozen overlooks surveying oak-hickory ridgelines that turn deep red and gold each November.
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Blue Ridge Parkway (Graveyard Fields) Scenic drive North Carolina
Peak October 25 2026 forecast
The Blue Ridge Parkway's high country near Asheville crosses Graveyard Fields at milepost 418.8, a wind-stunted valley of blueberry shrub and yellow birch that turns scarlet in October, with waterfall trails and overlooks at nearly every mile toward Mount Pisgah.
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Chimney Rock State Park State park North Carolina
Peak November 4 2026 forecast
A 315-foot granite spire above Hickory Nut Gorge, reached by elevator or stairs, gives views over Lake Lure and a fall canopy of oak, hickory, and maple across the gorge walls that typically peaks in late October.
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Grandfather Mountain Viewpoint North Carolina
Peak October 27 2026 forecast
America's highest suspension footbridge, the 228-foot Mile High Swinging Bridge, crosses to Linville Peak at 5,305 feet, with sweeping Blue Ridge views that turn color at the summit by early October and in the valleys through mid-November.
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Biltmore Estate Garden North Carolina
Peak October 28 2026 forecast
George Vanderbilt's 8,000-acre Gilded Age estate outside Asheville pairs its 250-room chateau with Frederick Law Olmsted's gardens, where the Walled Garden and Bass Pond turn gold and crimson through October alongside the estate winery's fall harvest.
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Sky Top Orchard Orchard North Carolina
Color nearby peaks November 2 2026 forecast
Henderson County's best-known u-pick orchard sits above Flat Rock at roughly 2,500 feet, with nearly two dozen apple varieties, wagon rides, farm animals, and cider donuts drawing crowds against Blue Ridge views from August through October.
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Great Smoky Mountains Railroad Scenic railway North Carolina
Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
Vintage diesel and steam locomotives haul open-air and dome cars from a 1940s depot in Bryson City along the Tuckasegee River and into the Nantahala Gorge, with dedicated fall-foliage excursions each October framing the ride in turning hardwoods.
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DuPont State Recreational Forest Forest North Carolina
Peak November 1 2026 forecast
Roughly 10,400 acres of granite domes and three major waterfalls (High Falls, Triple Falls, and Hooker Falls) laced with trails between Hendersonville and Brevard, where hardwood color usually peaks in the last two weeks of October.
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Cades Cove Scenic drive Tennessee
Peak October 26 2026 forecast
An 11-mile one-way loop circles this pastoral valley ringed by 5,000-foot peaks in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where October brings elk bugling in the fields and yellow poplar and sourwood coloring the surrounding slopes.
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Foothills Parkway Scenic drive Tennessee
Peak October 28 2026 forecast
This 33-mile ridgetop parkway skirts the Smokies' western edge; the Look Rock Tower observation deck near its midpoint delivers a 360-degree view of the whole range, a favorite for watching October color wash across ridge after ridge.
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Dollywood's Harvest Festival Fall festival Tennessee
Sep 14 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks October 24 2026 forecast
Dolly Parton's Pigeon Forge theme park fills its 1890s-style streets with thousands of hand-carved pumpkins each fall, adding barbecue and bluegrass acts and nightly Great Pumpkin LumiNights displays from September into early November.
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Fall Creek Falls State Park State park Tennessee
Peak November 7 2026 forecast
Tennessee's largest state park centers on a 256-foot waterfall, the tallest east of the Rockies, dropping into a hemlock-shaded gorge on the Cumberland Plateau where sourwood and maple color typically peaks in late October.
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Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area National park Tennessee
Peak November 1 2026 forecast
125,000 acres of sandstone gorge country straddling the Tennessee-Kentucky line hold natural arches, cliffside overlooks, and the free-flowing Big South Fork river; the Twin Arches and Angel Falls Overlook trails draw crowds once October color sets into the canyon.
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National Storytelling Festival Fall festival Tennessee
Oct 2 – Oct 4 Color nearby peaks October 26 2026 forecast
Tennessee's oldest town fills striped tents along Main Street every first weekend of October for the country's premier storytelling event, drawing tellers and audiences from around the world to Jonesborough's historic district since 1973.
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Amicalola Falls State Park State park Georgia
Peak November 4 2026 forecast
Georgia's tallest waterfall drops 729 feet in a series of cascades below the state park's namesake lodge, with the approach trail to Springer Mountain (the Appalachian Trail's southern end) coloring up through October in mixed oak-hickory forest.
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Tallulah Gorge State Park State park Georgia
Peak November 2 2026 forecast
A two-mile, nearly 1,000-foot-deep gorge carved by the Tallulah River, crossed by a suspension bridge 80 feet above the water, with rim and floor trails set against oak-hickory color that peaks in late October.
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Burt's Farm Pumpkin patch Georgia
Sep 1 – Nov 10 Color nearby peaks November 5 2026 forecast
This 40-acre family farm on Georgia 52 just south of Amicalola Falls has grown pumpkins since the 1980s, with hundreds of varieties spread across the fields alongside popcorn, gourds, hayrides, and boiled peanuts every September and October.
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Rock City Gardens Garden Georgia
Peak November 10 2026 forecast
Frieda Carter's rock-garden trail winds through ancient sandstone formations atop Lookout Mountain to Lover's Leap, where the barn-roof-advertised promise to 'See Rock City,' a Southern roadside icon since the 1930s, delivers a seven-state view on a clear fall day.
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Helen, Georgia Historic town Georgia
Color nearby peaks October 30 2026 forecast
A former logging town rebuilt as a Bavarian alpine village in the 1960s, Helen hosts the country's longest-running Oktoberfest, with polka bands and steins inside the riverside Festhalle running from mid-September into November.
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Red River Gorge Forest Kentucky
Peak October 27 2026 forecast
Daniel Boone National Forest's sandstone canyon country holds more natural arches than anywhere else in the eastern U.S.; the short loop to Sky Bridge, a rock arch near Slade, is one of the most photographed spots once the canopy turns in mid-to-late October.
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Cumberland Falls State Resort Park State park Kentucky
Peak November 1 2026 forecast
Known as the 'Niagara of the South,' this 68-foot, 125-foot-wide waterfall on the Cumberland River is one of the few places in the Western Hemisphere with a regularly visible moonbow, ringed by an oak-and-hemlock gorge that colors up through October.
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Keeneland Fall festival Kentucky
Oct 2 – Oct 24 Color nearby peaks October 27 2026 forecast
Lexington's storied Bluegrass racecourse, built in 1936, was the last major U.S. track to add a public-address announcer, holding out until 1997; its fall meet each October still draws crowds under turning maples for tailgate breakfasts and paddock-side fashion.
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Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill Historic town Kentucky
Color nearby peaks October 28 2026 forecast
The country's largest restored Shaker community spreads 34 nineteenth-century buildings across 3,000 acres of Bluegrass farmland near Harrodsburg, with fall harvest programs, wagon rides, and craft demonstrations set against original stone fences.
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Whitaker Point (Hawksbill Crag) Trail Arkansas
Peak November 4 2026 forecast
A roughly 3-mile round-trip hike through the Upper Buffalo Wilderness ends at a narrow sandstone ledge jutting over the Buffalo River headwaters. It's the most photographed overlook in the Ozarks, especially once the valley below turns in late October.
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Queen Wilhelmina State Park State park Arkansas
Peak November 8 2026 forecast
Perched atop 2,681-foot Rich Mountain near where the Talimena Scenic Byway crosses into Oklahoma, this park's 'Castle in the Sky' lodge overlooks ridge after ridge of the Ouachita Mountains, with color along the drive running mid-October into early November.
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War Eagle Mill Fair Fall festival Arkansas
Oct 15 – Oct 18 Color nearby peaks November 5 2026 forecast
A working 1973 reconstruction of an 1832 gristmill on War Eagle Creek hosts the region's biggest craft fair every third week of October, when hundreds of artisans set up alongside the mill's stone-ground flour and its one-lane 1907 bridge over turning Ozark hillsides.
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Table Rock State Park State park South Carolina
Peak November 4 2026 forecast
A granite monadnock rising 3,124 feet above the Blue Ridge foothills gives this park its name and its signature hike, an 8-mile round trip past Carrick Creek's cascades to a summit view that takes in South Carolina's clearest fall color.
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South Carolina State Fair Fall festival South Carolina
Oct 15 – Oct 25 Color nearby peaks November 12 2026 forecast
Columbia's Rosewood Drive fairgrounds have hosted the state fair since 1869, with a midway, livestock and agricultural competitions, and deep-fried fair food running twelve days around mid-October each year.
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Cheaha State Park State park Alabama
Peak November 11 2026 forecast
Alabama's highest point at 2,407 feet anchors this Talladega National Forest park, where stone-built Bunker Tower's observation deck overlooks the state's best mountain fall color, usually peaking in early-to-mid November along the Pinhoti Trail's ridgelines.
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DeSoto State Park State park Alabama
Peak November 10 2026 forecast
Little River Canyon's upper reaches cut through this Lookout Mountain park, where 104-foot DeSoto Falls drops into a rhododendron-lined gorge and trails color up through late October and into November, later than most of the state.
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Natchez Fall Pilgrimage Fall festival Mississippi
Sep 17 – Oct 17 Color nearby peaks November 26 2026 forecast
Since 1932, Natchez has opened its antebellum mansions (Longwood, Stanton Hall, and Melrose among them) for guided tours each fall, when hostesses in hoop skirts lead visitors through homes that survived the Civil War essentially untouched.
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St. Francisville Historic town Louisiana
Color nearby peaks November 28 2026 forecast
A bluff-top town 'two miles long and two yards wide' above the Mississippi River anchors West Feliciana Parish's cluster of antebellum plantations (Rosedown, the Myrtles, the Cottage), with candlelit ghost tours and fall garden days drawing visitors through October.
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Halloween Horror Nights Haunted attraction Florida
Aug 28 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks December 5 2026 forecast
Universal's after-hours haunt takeover has run every fall since 1991, filling the Orlando park with a rotating slate of maze houses and scare zones built around horror franchises, typically running from late August through the first weekend of November.
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June Lake Loop Scenic drive California
Peak September 26 2026 forecast
A 16-mile loop off US 395 threads four alpine lakes below Carson Peak, and by early October its aspen groves turn the roadside gold. Pull off anywhere along the pavement; Reversed Creek and the June Lake overlook give the classic Eastern Sierra shot.
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Bishop Creek Canyon Scenic drive California
Peak September 28 2026 forecast
South Lake Road climbs from Bishop into a narrow Eastern Sierra canyon where quaking aspens along Bishop Creek turn brilliant gold, usually peaking mid-to-late October. North Lake and South Lake bookend one of California's densest fall color drives.
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Yosemite Valley National park California
Peak September 29 2026 forecast
Yosemite Valley's black oaks and bigleaf maples color the meadows below El Capitan and Half Dome in late October, thinning the summer crowds without thinning the granite. Cook's Meadow and the Valley Loop Trail frame the display.
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Lundy Canyon Trail California
Peak September 22 2026 forecast
A trail up Lundy Canyon climbs past beaver ponds and waterfalls through some of the Eastern Sierra's thickest aspen groves, glowing gold by mid-October. The out-and-back from Lundy Lake is Mono County's signature fall color hike.
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Apple Hill Orchard California
Color nearby peaks October 29 2026 forecast
El Dorado County's Apple Hill district strings dozens of family orchards, cider presses, and pie stands along Carson Road above Placerville, a Sierra foothill harvest tradition since the 1960s, running weekends from September through December.
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Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival Fall festival California
Oct 17 – Oct 18 Color nearby peaks November 20 2026 forecast
Half Moon Bay calls itself the World Pumpkin Capital each October, closing Main Street for two days of giant-pumpkin weigh-offs (entries have topped 2,700 pounds) plus art booths and pie contests tied to the coastal town's commercial pumpkin fields.
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Napa Valley Wine Train Scenic railway California
Color nearby peaks November 15 2026 forecast
Restored Pullman cars roll from Napa's 1868 depot up-valley through vineyards turning red and gold during harvest, pairing the crush season with a multi-course meal on rails that's run since 1989. Fall departures coincide with grape-picking along the route.
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Julian Historic town California
Color nearby peaks November 16 2026 forecast
This 1870s gold-rush town in the Cuyamaca Mountains reinvented itself on apples, and Main Street's bakeries queue out the door for cider and pie every fall weekend. Volcan Mountain's black oaks add rare color above one of Southern California's few true apple towns.
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Columbia River Gorge Scenic drive Oregon
Peak October 19 2026 forecast
The Historic Columbia River Highway threads waterfalls and bigleaf maples between Troutdale and Hood River, with Vista House at Crown Point framing the gorge 700 feet below. The route's maples turn in late October, after summer's crowds thin out.
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Silver Falls State Park State park Oregon
Peak October 20 2026 forecast
The Trail of Ten Falls loop passes behind and beside ten waterfalls through a canyon of vine maple and Douglas fir that color through October. South Falls, a 177-foot curtain you can walk behind, anchors Oregon's largest state park.
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Portland Japanese Garden Garden Oregon
Peak October 24 2026 forecast
Terraced ponds and a strolling garden in Washington Park turn deep red and gold as Japanese and vine maples color through late October into November. Regularly ranked among the finest Japanese gardens outside Japan, it's Portland's most concentrated fall-color stop.
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Hood River Fruit Loop Orchard Oregon
Color nearby peaks October 13 2026 forecast
A signed 35-mile drive loops through the orchards and vineyards between Hood River and Parkdale, where pear and apple trees turn color alongside Mount Hood views. Farm stands along the route sell fresh-pressed cider through the October harvest.
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Mount Angel Oktoberfest Fall festival Oregon
Sep 17 – Sep 20 Color nearby peaks October 24 2026 forecast
The Pacific Northwest's largest Oktoberfest fills this small Willamette Valley town's streets with biergartens, a Grand Parade, and Northwest wines and microbrews each September. It's been running since 1966 and draws crowds many times the town's population.
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Bauman's Farm & Garden Farm Oregon
Color nearby peaks October 25 2026 forecast
Bauman's Harvest Festival turns this fourth-generation Gervais farm into one of Oregon's biggest fall outings, with a corn maze cut fresh each year, a pumpkin patch, and a bakery running daily through October.
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Leavenworth Historic town Washington
Color nearby peaks September 13 2026 forecast
This Bavarian-themed village at the foot of the Cascades leans hard into fall, with an Oktoberfest running three weekends in October and half-timbered facades that make the theme oddly convincing against real alpine scenery.
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Smallwood's Harvest Farm Washington
Color nearby peaks September 16 2026 forecast
A roadside fruit stand and farm park on Highway 2 between Leavenworth and Cashmere, Smallwood's has anchored Wenatchee Valley apple country for decades with a pumpkin patch, corn maze, and petting zoo alongside its fruit stand each fall.
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North Cascades Highway Scenic drive Washington
Peak September 15 2026 forecast
Washington's alpine larches turn gold in early-to-mid October, and the pullout at Washington Pass Overlook on State Route 20 frames whole slopes of them beneath Liberty Bell Mountain. The highway closes at the first heavy snow, so the window is short.
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Tumwater Canyon Scenic drive Washington
Peak September 8 2026 forecast
Highway 2 squeezes through this granite gorge west of Leavenworth, where vine maples flare scarlet against the Wenatchee River each October. Numerous pullouts along the eleven-mile stretch make it the valley's most-photographed fall drive.
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Denali National Park National park Alaska
Peak August 31 2026 forecast
Denali's tundra turns crimson and gold in the first weeks of September, weeks ahead of any deciduous color farther south. Savage River, at Mile 15, is the last point drivable by private vehicle and puts hikers straight into the color.
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Hatcher Pass Scenic drive Alaska
Peak August 21 2026 forecast
Hatcher Pass Road climbs from Palmer into alpine tundra that turns red and gold by early September, with the ghost buildings of Independence Mine State Historical Park as its centerpiece. The road typically closes with the season's first real snow.
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Flint Hills National Scenic Byway Scenic drive Kansas
Typically October 15–October 31
Forty-seven miles of two-lane blacktop on K-177 between Council Grove and Cassoday, crossing the largest remaining stretch of unplowed tallgrass prairie in North America. Big bluestem and Indian grass turn copper and bronze through the Flint Hills by mid-October, limestone outcrops breaking up the open horizon. The Schrumpf Hill overlook south of Cottonwood Falls is the spot to pull over.
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Clinton State Park State park Kansas
Typically October 18–November 3
Cottonwoods and bur oak line the north shore of Clinton Lake at the edge of Lawrence, a reservoir formed by damming the Wakarusa River a few miles above its meeting with the Kansas River. Nearly 25 miles of shoreline trail loop through the color, and on calm October mornings the turning trees double themselves in the water.
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Elk City State Park State park Kansas
Typically October 24–November 7
Sandstone hills capped with blackjack and post oak rise above Elk City Reservoir in the Chautauqua Hills, a narrow belt of rougher country crossing the otherwise flat plains of southeastern Kansas. The Table Mound Trail climbs through the oak woods to a rock-rimmed overlook, with the blackjack oaks turning deep crimson into early November.
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Smith Falls State Park State park Nebraska
Typically October 10–October 20
A spring-fed creek drops 63 feet over a sandstone ledge into a shaded canyon on the south side of the Niobrara River, the tallest waterfall in Nebraska. Paper birch and quaking aspen, boreal species that persist here as a cooler-climate relict, color gold in the canyon while cottonwoods along the river turn a week or two later.
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Chadron State Park State park Nebraska
Typically October 10–October 20
Nebraska's first state park sits among the buttes and pine-covered canyons of the Pine Ridge escarpment, nine miles south of Chadron. Ponderosa pine holds its green year-round, but maple along Chadron Creek and around the campground turns orange and gold by mid-October, and a stand of aspen that spread in after the 2012 West Ash Creek fire adds a patch of white and gold to the ridgeline.
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Platte River State Park State park Nebraska
Typically October 24–October 31
Wooded bluffs above the Platte River, roughly halfway between Omaha and Lincoln, carry cottonwood, bur oak, and green ash that color through most of October. Two observation towers on the ridgeline look out over the river's braided channel, and a trail along Stone Creek follows a shaded ravine down to Jenny Newman Lake.
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Riding Mountain National Park National park Saskatchewan & Manitoba
Typically September 24–September 30
An island of forest rising nearly 1,500 feet above the Manitoba wheat fields around it, where aspen parkland grades into boreal spruce and birch. The floating boardwalk across Ominik Marsh and the drive out to the bison paddock at Lake Audy both cross open aspen stands that turn gold by late September, with tamarack adding a last flush of yellow into early October.
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Prince Albert National Park National park Saskatchewan & Manitoba
Typically September 15–October 5
A million acres where prairie fescue grassland gives way to aspen forest and then true boreal spruce and jack pine farther north. Highway 263, a single-lane gravel road, crosses this transition for 63 kilometers past the Kinowa Lake bridge and the Spruce River, and the 8.5-kilometer Spruce River Highlands Trail loops above the valley through birch and aspen that turn gold by mid-September.
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Duck Mountain Provincial Park State park Saskatchewan & Manitoba
Peak October 6 2026 forecast
Manitoba's highest ground, cresting at Baldy Mountain (2,726 feet), carries white spruce, jack pine, and quaking aspen across rolling hills pocked with ponds and creek channels. The road toward the summit clears the canopy partway up for a wide view over the aspen forest below, gold by late September while the spruce and jack pine hold their color underneath.
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Gros Morne National Park National park Newfoundland
Typically September 24–October 8
A UNESCO World Heritage site on Newfoundland's west coast, where the freshwater fjord of Western Brook Pond cuts 16 kilometers into the Long Range Mountains between thousand-foot cliffs. Balsam fir and white birch on the lower slopes turn gold and rust against the bare orange rock of the Tablelands, a slab of the Earth's mantle thrust to the surface, peaking in late September and early October.
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Terra Nova National Park National park Newfoundland
Typically September 24–October 8
Rocky fingers of Bonavista Bay reach into black spruce and balsam fir forest on Newfoundland's northeast coast, with pockets of maple, mountain ash, and tamarack breaking up the conifers along the shoreline trails. The Ochre Hill Lookout climbs above the treeline for a view over the inlets and forested hills, best in late September to early October before the tamarack needles drop.
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Barachois Pond Provincial Park State park Newfoundland
Peak October 1 2026 forecast
A park on Newfoundland's west coast, twenty kilometers from Stephenville, where yellow birch and maple mix into the spruce and balsam fir around Barachois Pond. The Erin Mountain trail climbs 3.5 kilometers through the color to a rocky summit at 340 meters, with views across Bay St. George to the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
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Kluane National Park and Reserve National park Yukon — Kluane & Interior
Typically September 8–September 14
Mount Logan, Canada's highest peak, anchors a park that's 83 percent ice and rock, but the accessible eastern edge along Kathleen Lake turns color fast in the short subarctic autumn. Willow and dwarf birch on the King's Throne trail above the lake go red and gold by early September, with balsam poplar and trembling aspen following in the valley below.
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Sheep Mountain / Kluane Lake Viewpoint Viewpoint Yukon — Kluane & Interior
Typically September 8–September 14
A pullout on the Alaska Highway above Kluane Lake, the largest lake entirely within Yukon, facing the bare slopes of Sheep Mountain (Thechal Dhal) where Dall sheep graze above the treeline. Willow and dwarf birch on the flats below the highway turn red and gold in the first half of September, framed by the turquoise lake and the Kluane Ranges beyond.
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Miles Canyon Trail Yukon — Kluane & Interior
Peak September 2 2026 forecast
The Yukon River narrows through a basalt-walled canyon just south of downtown Whitehorse, crossed by the Robert Lowe Suspension Bridge and looped by a trail along both rims. Balsam poplar and aspen at the canyon edge turn gold through September above water that swamped gold-rush boats bound for Dawson in 1898, before police began regulating passage through the rapids below.
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Killarney National Park Oakwoods Forest Ireland
Typically September 25–October 15
Sessile oak and holly climb the lower slopes of Torc and Tomies mountains above Lough Leane, one of the largest native oakwoods left in Ireland. Nearby, Reenadinna Wood on the Muckross Peninsula holds a 5,000-year-old yew stand, and arbutus trees drop red, strawberry-like fruit onto the woodland floor as the oaks turn.
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Glendalough National park Ireland
Typically October 6–October 26
Two glacial lakes and the ruins of a sixth-century monastic settlement sit inside a valley of sessile oak, within Wicklow Mountains National Park. A 4.5km valley-floor loop passes the round tower and church walls under turning canopy, and the Spinc boardwalk climbs the ridge above the Upper Lake for a wider view of the color.
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Glenveagh National Park National park Ireland
Typically October 6–October 26
A 4km nature trail follows the shore of Lough Veagh through sessile oak, birch and hazel woodland below the quartzite peaks of the Derryveagh Mountains, among the largest stretch of native woodland left in Donegal. At Glenveagh Castle the walled garden, planted with exotics since the 1870s, turns red and gold alongside it, while red deer rut in the glen through October.
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Avondale Forest Park Arboretum Arboretum Ireland
Samuel Hayes began planting this arboretum above the River Avonmore in 1777, and the 500-acre estate now holds sequoia, Douglas fir, larch and oak gathered from around the world, some among the tallest trees recorded in Ireland. A 1,440-metre treetop boardwalk threads the canopy near the birthplace of Charles Stewart Parnell.
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Þórsmörk Forest Iceland
Typically September 15–October 5
A highland river valley walled in by three glaciers, Eyjafjallajökull, Tindfjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull, warm enough in its own pocket microclimate to grow downy birch scrub that most of interior Iceland can't support. Reached by unbridged river crossings or the last F-road buses of the season, usually running through mid-September, right as the birch and dwarf willow turn gold and rust.
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Skaftafell National park Iceland
Typically September 15–October 5
Iceland's tallest native birch grows in Bæjarstaðarskógur, a stand inside Vatnajökull National Park reached by a rough 16km round-trip trail across the Morsá river footbridge. Closer to the visitor center, the short climb to Svartifoss passes through more accessible birch woods that gold up through September against black basalt columns and the Skaftafellsjökull glacier tongue.
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Hallormsstaðaskógur Forest Iceland
Typically September 15–October 12
Iceland's first protected forest, set aside in 1905 along the Lagarfljót river in the Eastfjords. Native birch and rowan color the 740-hectare reserve alongside an 85-species arboretum of introduced larch, spruce and pine, with color often holding into October longer than anywhere else in the country.
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Vaglaskógur Forest Iceland
Typically September 1–September 15
Iceland's straightest, tallest native birch grows here in Fnjóskadalur valley near Akureyri, some trunks over 12 meters where most Icelandic birch stays shrubby. A dozen kilometers of forest trails and campsites reward an easy walk, and North Iceland's colder interior climate turns the canopy gold earlier than the south, typically through the first half of September.
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Sognefjellsvegen Scenic drive Norway
Typically September 20–October 8
The highest mountain pass road in Northern Europe, climbing to 1,434 m at Fantesteinen on the 110-km run between Lom and Gaupne through Jotunheimen. Mountain birch along the roadside turns bronze through late September, with glaciers and 2,000-meter peaks in view most of the drive.
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Sohlbergplassen Viewpoint Norway
Typically August 23–September 20
A cantilevered viewing platform built around living pine trunks on the Rondane tourist road, framing the same view of Lake Atnsjøen and its round-shouldered peaks that Harald Sohlberg painted in 1914's Winter Night in the Mountains. Birch on the slopes below turns gold from late August into September.
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Gaustatoppen Viewpoint Norway
Telemark's highest peak at 1,883 m, reached by a red-marked trail from Stavsro or by tunnel and funicular blasted into the mountain in the 1950s for a NATO relay station. On clear days the summit view spans roughly a sixth of mainland Norway, with the heath and dwarf birch below the ridge flaring red as autumn arrives at altitude first.
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Aurlandsdalen Trail Norway
Typically September 1–October 10
A 19-km hike descending from the Østerbø lodge at 820 m to Vassbygdi at 80 m near the Aurlandsfjord, through a glacier-carved gorge nicknamed Norway's Grand Canyon for its sheer walls and waterfalls. Birch along the Aurlandselvi river turns gold from September into early October.
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Sarek National Park National park Sweden
Typically August 28–September 10
Sweden's most demanding national park has no marked trails, no bridges, and no huts, just 1,970 square kilometers of glacier-hung peaks and the braided delta of the Rapa Valley. Dwarf birch and willow on the tundra turn first, often by late August, with taller subalpine birch following into September as the first snow dusts Sarektjåkkå's 2,089-meter summit.
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Tiveden National Park National park Sweden
Pine trees several hundred years old cover this rocky ridge between lakes Vänern and Vättern, split by rift valleys jammed with glacial boulders the size of houses. Swedish folklore held the forest sheltered trolls and outlaws hiding from the law; 34 kilometers of marked trail now wind through birch, aspen and rowan that color through October.
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Fulufjället National Park National park Sweden
Typically September 4–September 21
Njupeskär's 93-meter drop, Sweden's tallest waterfall, cuts through a gorge below a birch-covered plateau in northern Dalarna. Mountain birch clinging to the rock, some barely shrub height and bent by wind, turns gold and rust through September; nearby grows Old Tjikko, a roughly 9,550-year-old spruce considered one of the world's oldest living trees.
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Tyresta National Park National park Sweden
Twenty kilometers south of central Stockholm, Scots pines up to 400 years old cover ridges above an old rift valley, one of the largest tracts of untouched forest left in southern Sweden. Aspen, birch and alder scattered among the conifers color through September and into October along Barnvagnsslingan, a stroller-friendly 5-kilometer loop past lakes and wetland.
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Koli National Park National park Finland
Typically October 1–October 10
A bald quartzite ridge over Lake Pielinen in North Karelia, its view painted by Eero Järnefelt in 1911 and picked by Sibelius for his honeymoon. Birch and aspen cloaking the 347-meter summit's slopes turn gold and copper in early October, the park's single busiest week of the year.
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Kiilopää Fell Viewpoint Finland
Typically September 1–September 10
A 546-meter fell in the Saariselkä range, on the western edge of Urho Kekkonen National Park in Lapland. The bare summit is a two-kilometer climb from the Kiilopää fell center, and in early September the dwarf birch and willow on its lower slopes turn copper against grey scree above the tree line.
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Repovesi National Park National park Finland
Logged for tar and timber from the 1600s until UPM donated the last tract in 2001, this Kymenlaakso forest of pine and birch is now laced with granite-walled lakes below the Olhavanvuori cliff, a near-vertical 50-meter drop into Lake Olhavanlampi. The Lapinsalmi suspension bridge crosses the narrows nearby.
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Oulanka National Park National park Finland
Typically September 5–September 18
Straddling the Russian border near Kuusamo, this 270-square-kilometer park follows the turquoise Oulankajoki river through pine and spruce forest, its banks lined with birch that turns gold against the evergreen canopy. The Kiutaköngäs rapids, an 8-km round trip from the visitor center, are the classic short walk; local tradition in Kuusamo marks 12 September as the day ruska arrives.
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Rold Skov Forest Denmark
Denmark's second-largest forest, 8,000 hectares of beech and heath in Himmerland south of Aalborg. The gnarled, wind-bent beeches of Troldeskoven ("Trolls' Forest") are over 300 years old and turn deep copper through October, while the heather hills of neighboring Rebild Bakker redden alongside them.
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Gribskov Forest Denmark
North Zealand's largest beech forest at 5,600 hectares, bordering Lake Esrum and part of the UNESCO-listed Par force hunting landscape. Spruce plantations planted in the 1800s are being cleared to restore old beechwood, and the trails out of Nødebo village fill with copper leaf-litter through October.
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Mols Bjerge National Park National park Denmark
Denmark's second national park, 180 square kilometers of moraine hills up to 137 meters near Ebeltoft on the Djursland peninsula. Old oak and beech in pockets like Tolløkke Wood turn through October above heath and pasture, with the ruined 14th-century Kalø Castle standing on its own tidal islet at the edge.
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Jægersborg Dyrehave Forest Denmark
An 11-square-kilometer royal hunting park north of Copenhagen, fenced by King Frederik III in 1669 and grazed today by some 2,100 red, fallow, and sika deer. Ancient oaks, a few reputedly over 1,000 years old, turn gold and rust through October around the Baroque lodge Eremitageslottet, timed with the rut.
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Lahemaa National Park National park Estonia
Typically October 1–October 17
Bogs, sea cliffs and manor parks along Estonia's north coast, an hour east of Tallinn. Birch and aspen color the raised bog at Viru first, in late September, while the oak-lined avenues of Palmse and Sagadi manors turn through early October.
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Soomaa National Park National park Estonia
Typically September 22–October 9
Estonia's 'fifth season' wetland floods every spring, but autumn is when the raised bog of Kuresoo turns crimson and gold under open sky. Floating boardwalks and broad bog shoes let you cross the sphagnum carpet without sinking, best in late September into early October.
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Otepää Nature Park State park Estonia
Typically October 1–October 17
A hilly upland in southern Estonia better known as a ski resort, but just as worth an autumn visit: birch and pine woods ring Pühajärve lake and climb the moraine hills around Tehvandi, coloring through late September and into October.
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Gauja National Park (Sigulda) National park Latvia
Typically October 10–October 20
Sandstone cliffs and pine-topped bluffs line the Gauja River below the town of Sigulda, Latvia's deepest river valley. Oak and maple color the gorge walls by mid-October, seen from a cable car strung high above the water or from trails past Gūtmaņa Cave.
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Turaida Museum Reserve Viewpoint Latvia
Typically October 10–October 20
A red-brick castle tower built in 1214 rises over the Gauja valley from a wooded hilltop across the river from Sigulda. Below it, Dainu Hill's carved oak folk-song sculptures and an old wooden church sit among maples that turn by mid-October.
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Great Ķemeri Bog Boardwalk Trail Latvia
A 1.4- or 3.4-kilometer wooden boardwalk crosses the open raised bog of Ķemeri National Park west of Jūrmala, past sulfur-spring pools and wind-stunted pine. Cotton grass and sphagnum moss turn rust and orange through autumn, with no canopy to block the view.
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Aukštaitija National Park National park Lithuania
Typically October 5–October 20
Lithuania's oldest national park, established in 1974, holds 126 lakes under forest covering roughly 70 percent of its area in the country's northeast. At Ginučiai, a working 19th-century water mill sits on the shore, and birch and pine color the lake hills through early-to-mid October.
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Parnidis Dune, Curonian Spit Viewpoint Lithuania
Typically October 5–October 20
A drifting sand dune south of Nida climbs above the Curonian Lagoon, topped by a sundial marking where 19th-century forester Wilhelm Franz Epha began anchoring the shifting sand with pine plantings after villages were buried by drift sand. That planted pine forest below colors through October.
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Dzūkija National Park National park Lithuania
Typically October 5–October 20
Pine covers about 90 percent of this national park along the Nemunas, Merkys and Ūla river valleys in southern Lithuania, among the country's oldest continuous forest. Wooden villages like Zervynos sit deep inside it, and the birch and aspen understory turns gold through October.
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Trakai Island Castle Historic town Lithuania
Typically October 5–October 20
A Gothic brick castle rebuilt on a small island in Lake Galvė, seat of Grand Duke Vytautas, who died here in 1430. Maples along the lakeshore promenade color through early-to-mid October, framing the red towers against the water.
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Białowieża National Park National park Poland
Typically October 27–November 4
Europe's last sizable fragment of primeval lowland forest, with oaks over 500 years old and a herd of European bison free-ranging through hornbeam and lime. The strict reserve can only be entered with a guide; the bison rutting season and the forest's reddest color both fall around the end of October.
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Kościeliska Valley, Tatra National Park Trail Poland
A flat 9-kilometer valley-floor walk in the Western Tatras, from the village of Kiry past the Mroźna and Mylna karst caves to the Ornak refuge, built in 1948. Beech and spruce climb the limestone walls on both sides, coloring through late September and October.
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Połonina Wetlińska, Bieszczady National Park Trail Poland
Typically October 6–October 21
A red-marked trail climbs from Przełęcz Wyżna through beech forest to the open subalpine meadow of Połonina Wetlińska at 1,253 meters, passing Chatka Puchatka, the highest mountain shelter in the Bieszczady. The beech below turns gold and copper by mid-October.
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Hoge Veluwe National Park National park Netherlands
Typically October 1–October 15
Sand dunes and heath run through pine, birch, and oak woodland across this 55-square-kilometer park, where stands of red oak planted a century ago turn scarlet against the pale sand in October. Free white bicycles let you cover ground between the forest and open heath.
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Amsterdamse Bos City park Netherlands
Typically October 1–October 15
A 1,000-hectare woodland planted by unemployment-relief crews starting in 1934, with the last trees going in during the 1970s. Oak and beech along the southern paths near Aalsmeer and Bovenkerk color first; the 1937 Bosbaan rowing course reflects it all from the water.
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Kroondomein Het Loo Forest Netherlands
Typically October 1–October 15
The largest contiguous estate in the Netherlands, a royal hunting ground since the 17th century, spreading northwest from Apeldoorn into the forestry units of Hoog Soeren, Uddel, and Gortel. Eight marked routes of 2 to 13 kilometers cross oak and beech woods below Het Loo Palace.
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Hautes Fagnes (High Fens) Nature Reserve State park Belgium
Belgium's oldest nature reserve, a 4,500-hectare raised peat bog on the country's highest plateau, its treeless moor ringed by birch and fir forest that turns gold through October. Boardwalks cross the bog to Signal de Botrange, the 694-meter high point of Belgium.
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Tombeau du Géant Viewpoint Belgium
A hilltop overlook near Botassart where the Semois River doubles back on itself in a tight, forested hairpin below. Beech, oak, and hornbeam cover the valley slopes on both sides of the loop, turning through October; a Celtic legend claims a defeated giant threw himself from the cliff opposite.
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La Roche-en-Ardenne Historic town Belgium
A river town wrapped around a bend of the Ourthe, overlooked by the ruins of an 11th-century castle. Roughly half the surrounding 85-square-kilometer municipality is forest, split evenly between conifer and deciduous stands, making the drives out along the Ourthe valley the real draw each fall.
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Müllerthal Trail Trail Luxembourg
Called Little Switzerland for its sandstone canyons rather than any real peaks, this 112-kilometer network of three connecting loops threads beech and oak forest, moss-covered rock corridors, and streams around Berdorf and Echternach, turning copper through most of October.
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Vianden Castle Historic town Luxembourg
One of the largest fortified castles west of the Rhine, its Romanesque and Gothic halls set on a rock spur 310 meters above the Our River. Beech and oak forest lines the valley below, colored through October; Victor Hugo lived in a house across the square during his 1871 exile.
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Upper Sûre Lake Lake Luxembourg
Luxembourg's largest body of water, a 380-hectare reservoir dammed in 1961 for drinking water and power, ringed by Ardennes forest at the heart of the Upper Sûre Natural Park. The medieval village of Esch-sur-Sûre sits on a rock loop of the river just below the dam.
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Šumava National Park National park Czechia
The largest continuous forest in Central Europe, 680 square kilometers along the Bavarian border where spruce plantations give way to old-growth remnants like the Boubín virgin forest, home to beech and fir trees 300 to 400 years old. Glacial lakes and raised peat bogs punctuate the ridgeline.
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Pravčická brána Viewpoint Czechia
Typically October 15–October 31
Europe's largest natural sandstone arch, 26.5 meters wide, rising over the pine and beech forest of Bohemian Switzerland National Park near Hřensko. A trail climbs to the viewing terrace above it; below, flat-bottomed boats pole visitors through the narrow Kamenice River gorge.
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Krkonoše National Park National park Czechia
Czechia's oldest national park, established in 1963 around Sněžka, the country's highest peak at 1,603 meters. Beech and spruce forest climbs from the valley floor to alpine tundra near the summit, with 800 kilometers of marked trails through a range shared as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve with Poland.
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Slovak Paradise National Park National park Slovakia
A karst plateau cut by narrow gorges, including the 11.7-kilometer Prielom Hornádu canyon and the ladder-and-chain route through Suchá Belá. Beech, spruce, and fir cover 90 percent of the park, turning through October above waterfalls that visitors climb past on iron rungs bolted to the rock.
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Štrbské Pleso Lake Slovakia
Typically October 15–October 21
A glacial lake at 1,346 meters, the second-largest on the Slovak side of the High Tatras, ringed by beech and oak that turn gold and maroon while larch higher up the slopes goes bright yellow. A level lakeside promenade gives an easy view of the peaks without the climb.
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Morské oko (Vihorlat) Lake Slovakia
A lake dammed by an ancient landslide in the volcanic Vihorlat Mountains, sitting at 618 meters and ringed by beech forest that runs almost unbroken toward the nearby Kyjovský prales reserve, part of the UNESCO-listed primeval beech forests of the Carpathians.
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Bükk National Park National park Hungary
Typically October 15–October 29
Named for the beech (bükk) that covers its limestone karst, a 431-square-kilometer range of caves and karst springs above Miskolc. Trails from Szilvásvárad and Lillafüred climb through dense, often mossy beech woods that turn orange and gold through most of October.
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Kékes Viewpoint Hungary
Typically October 15–October 29
Hungary's highest point at 1,014 meters, a volcanic summit in the Mátra range reached by a paved road that climbs through beech and oak forest from Gyöngyös. A circular lookout terrace beneath the old TV tower gives a clear view over the colored slopes below.
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Visegrád Historic town Hungary
Typically October 15–October 29
A hilltop citadel built by King Béla IV above a hairpin of the Danube, briefly the seat of Hungary's kings under Charles Robert of Anjou in the 14th century. The ruined lower palace sits at river level while forested hills climb behind, framing the bend in color through mid-October.
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Perućica Primeval Forest Forest Bosnia & Herzegovina
Typically October 10–October 23
A strict nature reserve inside Sutjeska National Park protecting one of Europe's last two unlogged forests, with beech, fir, and spruce past 300 years old and trunks over a meter thick. Entry requires a licensed park guide, and by mid-October the canopy over the Perućica gorge turns gold.
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Bjelašnica Viewpoint Bosnia & Herzegovina
A 2,067m limestone massif above Sarajevo, its bare alpine plateau ringed by a beech forest belt that colors through October below the men's downhill course from the 1984 Winter Olympics. Stone shepherd huts, still used each summer, dot the upper pastures below the ridge.
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Štrbački Buk Viewpoint Bosnia & Herzegovina
The Una River drops 24.5 meters over a fan of travertine tiers near Bihać, the tallest of several cascades inside Una National Park. A boardwalk trail threads riverside forest to viewing platforms at the base and rim, with the current running full after autumn rain.
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Banjska Stena Viewpoint Serbia
Typically October 1–October 20
A cliff-edge platform at 1,065m above the Drina River canyon and Perućac Lake, reached by a two-hour forest trail from the village of Mitrovac inside Tara National Park. The surrounding beech and pine burn orange and red through October, and the endangered Balkan lynx still ranges these slopes.
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Zlatibor State park Serbia
A rolling limestone plateau in western Serbia said to take its name from the golden hue its high pastures turn each fall, ringed by beech and black pine above 1,000m. Trails climb Tornik peak at 1,496m, and the resort town of Zlatibor makes an easy base for day hikes through the color change.
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Fruška Gora National Park National park Serbia
Typically October 1–October 25
Serbia's oldest national park, a low wooded ridge of oak and hornbeam rising from the Pannonian plain above the Danube, ringed by sixteen Orthodox monasteries known collectively as Serbia's 'Holy Mountain.' By October the canopy turns gold around the vineyards of nearby Sremski Karlovci.
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Biogradska Gora National Park National park Montenegro
Typically October 1–October 31
One of Europe's last three primeval forests, alongside Perućica and Poland's Białowieża, its 1,600-hectare core reserve rings glacial Biograd Lake with beech and fir past 500 years old. An easy lakeside loop trail makes the old growth accessible without a guide, colors often holding into late October.
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Black Lake (Crno Jezero) Lake Montenegro
Typically September 15–October 15
The largest of Durmitor National Park's eighteen glacial lakes, formed of two basins that merge into one sheet of water when autumn rain raises the level. A flat 3.6km trail circles the shore through black pine forest, three kilometers from Žabljak, with Meded peak's cliffs reflected on calm mornings.
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Đurđevića Tara Bridge Viewpoint Montenegro
Typically September 15–October 15
A 365-meter concrete arch bridge completed in 1940, spanning the Tara River Canyon 172 meters above the water and, at the time, the largest vehicular concrete arch in Europe. The canyon it crosses is the deepest in Europe, its pine-forested walls turning gold and rust through the fall.
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Mavrovo Lake Lake North Macedonia
Typically September 24–October 24
An artificial reservoir at 1,200m ringed by pine and beech slopes inside Mavrovo National Park, North Macedonia's largest protected area. Mount Korab, the country's highest peak at 2,764m, rises beyond the far shore, and low fall water levels sometimes expose a submerged church steeple near the dam.
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Saint Jovan Bigorski Monastery Historic town North Macedonia
An Orthodox monastery founded in 1020 on a cliff above the Radika River gorge inside Mavrovo National Park, rebuilt after an 1863 fire and known for a wooden iconostasis carved between 1829 and 1835. The five-minute approach walk from the gate climbs through pine forest that colors through October.
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Galičica National Park National park North Macedonia
Typically September 1–October 7
A narrow limestone ridge climbing to 2,265m between Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa, its beech forest slopes giving way to alpine pasture near the summit. The Galičica Ridge traverse, about six hours end to end, is the rare spot where both lakes are visible at once, Ohrid's deep teal against Prespa's green.
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Valbona Valley National Park National park Albania
Typically October 1–October 31
A glacially carved valley in the Accursed Mountains (Bjeshkët e Namuna), its beech forest floor rising to limestone walls over 2,400m. The valley is the northern trailhead for the Peaks of the Balkans route, and October brings golden foliage to the valley floor before the high passes close for winter.
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Theth National Park National park Albania
Typically October 1–October 27
A stone-built village at 770m below the Albanian Alps, its 19th-century kulla tower and hillside church backed by beech forest that colors from late September into November. Trails from the village center lead to the Blue Eye springs and over Valbona Pass into the neighboring valley.
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Grunas Waterfall Viewpoint Albania
Typically September 15–October 15
A 25-meter cascade on Theth valley's western slope, dropping through a narrow limestone trough below Boshi peak. The walk from Theth village center takes about 50 minutes through beech and pine forest, declared a natural monument in 2002 and busiest in September and October's cooler light.
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Vikos Gorge Trail Greece
Typically October 15–November 11
Listed by Guinness as the deepest gorge relative to its width, cut by the Voidomatis River through the Pindus Mountains to depths near 900m. The O3 trail through the core of Vikos-Aoos National Park links the villages of Monodendri and Vikos, its oak and maple rim starting to turn by mid-October.
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Papigo (Megalo Papigo) Historic town Greece
Typically October 15–November 11
A stone-built Zagorohoria village at 960m under the sheer Astraka towers of the Tymfi massif, its slate roofs and cobbled lanes largely unchanged for generations. Papigo is the usual trailhead for the alpine lake Drakolimni and sits a short drive from the Vikos Gorge rim.
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Enipeas Gorge Trail Greece
Typically October 1–October 20
A river gorge on Mount Olympus's eastern flank, climbing from Litochoro at 320m to the Prionia trailhead at 1,100m along the E4 European long-distance path. Beech forest lines the water most of the twelve-kilometer route, past a 38-meter waterfall and pool, with mountain refuges closing by mid-October.
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Rila Monastery Forest Bulgaria
Typically October 7–October 25
Bulgaria's largest Orthodox monastery, rebuilt in the 19th century around a surviving 14th-century tower, sits at 1,147m in a valley of the Rila Monastery Nature Park. Coniferous and beech forest wraps the surrounding hills, the broadleaf stands turning yellow, red, and brown through October.
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Central Balkan National Park (Botev Peak) National park Bulgaria
Bulgaria's largest natural beech forest, part of the transnational UNESCO World Heritage beech forests listing, climbs the Balkan Mountains to Botev Peak at 2,376m, the range's highest point. Nine strict reserves protect old-growth stands above the town of Karlovo, quiet and largely empty of crowds by fall.
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Trigrad Gorge Trail Bulgaria
Typically October 1–October 31
A marble canyon in the western Rhodope Mountains with walls up to 300 meters, its river vanishing underground into the Devil's Throat Cave past a 42-meter subterranean waterfall. Beech forest colors the gorge rim through October, and the narrow access road is one of Bulgaria's more dramatic drives.
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Selva de Irati Forest Spain
Typically October 16–November 5
Europe's second-largest beech-fir forest after the Black Forest, 17,300 hectares straddling Navarra's Aezkoa and Salazar valleys between Mount Okabe and Pic d'Orhy. Trails from the Ochagavía or Orbaitzeta entrances run under beech and silver fir that turn copper and gold through late October, carpeting the forest floor by early November.
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Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park National park Spain
Typically October 1–October 24
The Pradera de Ordesa meadow, at 1,300m, is the trailhead for a glacial valley walled by limestone cliffs over 1,000m tall. Beech forest along the Faja Pelay route toward the Cola de Caballo waterfall turns gold through October, with color holding longest on the shaded canyon floor into early November.
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Los Pilones, Garganta de los Infiernos Trail Spain
Typically October 27–November 16
A gorge above the Jerte Valley, on the southern flank of the Gredos massif, where a mountain stream has scoured a chain of smooth granite pools known as Los Pilones. Chestnut woods crowding the ravine turn brown-gold by late October, timed with the chestnut-roasting Calbotá festivals held in valley towns like Hervás.
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Casal de Loivos Viewpoint Viewpoint Portugal
Typically October 27–November 16
A terrace 5km above Pinhão looks down on the Douro's tightest S-bend, schist terraces of vine stacked on both banks below. Vine leaves turn copper and crimson through the October harvest weeks, holding color into early November once the grapes are in and the terraces empty out.
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Poço do Inferno Trail Portugal
Typically October 1–October 31
A 10m waterfall on the Ribeira de Leandres, reached by a climb from Manteigas through evergreen woodland that gives way to beech and oak higher on the slope. The surrounding Serra da Estrela, mainland Portugal's highest range, turns gold and rust through October before its first snow.
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Mata de Albergaria Forest Portugal
Typically September 1–October 24
Centuries-old pedunculate oaks line the old Roman road, the Geira, near the Portela do Homem crossing into Peneda-Gerês National Park, one of the last intact fragments of the Iberian Peninsula's original forest cover. Chestnut and oak color the understory through late September and October.
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Kaçkar Mountains National Park National park Pontic Mountains — Northern Turkey
Typically October 8–October 21
Turkey's Black Sea range crests at Mount Kaçkar, 3,937m, its lower slopes holding Colchic forest of oriental beech, sweet chestnut and alder that runs down toward the coast. Color climbs the mountainside through October, with the second and third weeks typically showing the most vivid red and gold.
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Yedigöller (Seven Lakes) National Park National park Pontic Mountains — Northern Turkey
Typically October 15–November 15
Seven small lakes formed by ancient landslides sit inside a beech and hornbeam forest at 900m in Bolu Province, the westernmost reach of Turkey's Black Sea forest belt. The trees color from mid-October into November, ringing Büyükgöl and the other lakes in red, yellow and rust doubled in still water.
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Uzungöl Lake Pontic Mountains — Northern Turkey
A landslide-dammed lake at 1,100m in Trabzon's Çaykara district, formed when the Haldizen Stream was blocked and now ringed by spruce forest and chestnut-farmed slopes descending toward the Black Sea coast. Forest around the shoreline turns through September and October ahead of highland snow.
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Ushguli Historic town Georgia — Greater Caucasus
Typically September 20–October 15
Four hamlets at 2,100m near the foot of Shkhara, among the highest continuously inhabited settlements in Europe, their stone defensive towers dating to the 9th to 12th centuries. Birch and beech on the surrounding slopes turn brass and amber by late September, usually holding into mid-October before the Zagari Pass road closes for winter.
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Truso Valley Trail Georgia — Greater Caucasus
A U-shaped glacial valley 22km from Stepantsminda, threading between the Caucasus and Khokh ranges past travertine mineral springs and abandoned Ossetian hamlets. Scattered birch and willow through the valley turn yellow in autumn, a quieter alternative to the crowds at nearby Gergeti Trinity Church.
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Sighnaghi Historic town Georgia — Greater Caucasus
Typically October 5–October 20
A walled hill town above the Alazani Valley, its 18th-century defensive rampart running 4.5km around cobblestone streets and balconied houses. Kakheti's vineyards below turn gold through the rtveli grape harvest and the Gombori Pass road nearby peaks around mid-October, seen in full sweep from the town walls.
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Dilijan National Park National park Armenia — Dilijan & Lesser Caucasus
Typically September 1–October 24
Forested hills in Tavush Province, 240 sq km of oriental beech, Caucasian oak and hornbeam that locals call 'Armenia's Switzerland' for the fog that settles into the valleys. September and October bring the best hiking conditions, the canopy turning orange around 19th-century monasteries on the hillsides.
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Sevanavank Monastery, Lake Sevan Viewpoint Armenia — Dilijan & Lesser Caucasus
Typically September 20–October 15
Two 9th-century churches sit on a former island, now a peninsula, at the northwestern edge of Lake Sevan, Armenia's inland sea at almost 1,900m elevation. The drive along the lake's northern shore through Tsaghkadzor colors up from late September into mid-October, one of the country's most reliable autumn routes.
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Tatev Monastery Viewpoint Armenia — Dilijan & Lesser Caucasus
A 9th-century monastic complex on a basalt plateau above the Vorotan Gorge in Syunik Province, reached by the Wings of Tatev cable car, at 5.7km one of the longest reversible aerial tramways in the world. The forested gorge below colors through September and October, seen in full sweep from the cabin windows.
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Hirkan National Park National park Talysh — Azerbaijan Hyrcanian
A relict Hyrcanian forest reserve between the Lankaran lowlands and the Talysh Mountains, roughly 40,000 hectares protecting 435 tree and shrub species, about 150 of them found nowhere else. Persian ironwood, whose leaves turn crimson, orange and gold on the same branch, is the reserve's signature autumn tree, alongside chestnut-leaved oak and hornbeam.
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Lerik Historic town Talysh — Azerbaijan Hyrcanian
A highland town in the Talysh Mountains near the Iranian border, known locally as the 'Land of Centenarians' for its unusually high concentration of long-lived residents, documented at its Museum of Longevity. Oak, chestnut, hornbeam and beech color the surrounding Girkan forest through autumn, with the Sivakeran waterfall a short drive away.
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Yubeng Valley, Meili Snow Mountain Trail Shangri-La — Northwest Yunnan
Typically September 1–October 31
A two-village trekking base reached only on foot or by mule, Yubeng sits at 3,050 to 3,150 meters below Kawagarbo, the 6,740-meter sacred summit of the Meili Snow Mountains that Tibetan Buddhists have never allowed anyone to climb. Forest along the trail to the glacier turns color through September and October.
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Pudacuo National Park National park Shangri-La — Northwest Yunnan
Typically October 1–October 31
China's first officially designated national park protects a plateau of alpine lakes east of Shangri-La, Shudu Lake sitting at 3,705 meters ringed by spruce and fir. Birch along the lake's east shore turns gold through October, framed by early snow on the surrounding peaks.
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Napa Lake (Napahai) Lake Shangri-La — Northwest Yunnan
A seasonal plateau lake eight kilometers from Shangri-La town, Napahai fills with water in summer and recedes into the Yila Grassland by winter. In autumn the grassland turns gold and the wetland draws migrating black-necked cranes, with Khampa herders grazing yak on the surrounding pasture into October.
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Hidimba Devi Temple & Dhungiri Van Vihar Forest Himachal & Uttarakhand
A cedar grove called Dhungiri Van Vihar surrounds this 16th-century pagoda-roofed temple above Manali's old town, deodars reaching 60 meters and keeping the forest floor in permanent shade. The conifers stay green, but horse chestnut and walnut along the Beas below turn gold through October.
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Great Himalayan National Park National park Himachal & Uttarakhand
A UNESCO World Heritage park in the Kullu Himalaya, reached via the Tirthan Valley roadhead at Gushaini, where deodar and blue pine climb to birch scrub and alpine meadow above 3,000 meters. Musk deer and Himalayan black bear move down through the Parkachh meadows as the high grass cures gold each autumn.
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Sangla Valley (Baspa Valley) Orchard Himachal & Uttarakhand
Typically September 1–October 15
The Baspa River valley in Kinnaur, its slopes terraced with Royal Delicious and Kinnaur Golden apple orchards below deodar forest near the old Hindustan-Tibet road. Harvest runs from late August into October, the orchards reddening as roadside stalls sell apples straight off the trees.
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Chopta-Tungnath Trail Trail Himachal & Uttarakhand
Typically October 1–October 31
A 4-kilometer trail from the meadow hamlet of Chopta up to Tungnath, the world's highest Shiva temple at 3,680 meters, through oak and rhododendron forest with maple scattered near the ridge. Post-monsoon skies clear in October and the meadows around the trail turn a distinct gold before the temple closes for winter.
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Sagarmatha National Park (Namche Bazaar) National park Nepal Himalaya
Everest's gateway park climbs from Monjo's pine and hemlock through a birch-juniper-rhododendron belt to Namche Bazaar, the horseshoe-shaped Sherpa trading town at 3,440 meters. Autumn brings the year's clearest skies to the Dudh Kosi valley once the monsoon clouds lift.
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Langtang Valley (Kyanjin Gompa) Trail Nepal Himalaya
Typically September 1–October 31
A glacier-carved valley north of Kathmandu, walked from Syabrubesi through alder and oak to the world's only stand of deciduous Himalayan larch, ending at the 3,870-meter monastery village of Kyanjin Gompa. Autumn brings golden forest color beneath Langtang Lirung's icefall.
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Poon Hill Viewpoint Nepal Himalaya
Typically October 1–October 31
A sunrise viewpoint above the village of Ghorepani, reached through oak and rhododendron forest on Nepal's most-walked short trek. The rhododendron bloom is a spring event; October is the golden month instead, for clear post-monsoon air and an unbroken Annapurna-Dhaulagiri panorama from the 3,210-meter summit.
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Barun Valley, Makalu Barun National Park National park Nepal Himalaya
A glacial gorge east of Everest, climbing from subtropical forest through 25 species of rhododendron and bamboo thickets grazed by red pandas toward the ice walls under Makalu's south face. Far fewer trekkers reach it than Everest or Annapurna, and autumn's clear skies run from September into November.
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Taktsang Trail (Tiger's Nest), Paro Valley Trail Bhutan
The pilgrim path to Paro Taktsang climbs 900 meters from the Ramthangkha car park through blue pine and fir to the cliffside monastery at 3,120 meters, built in 1692 where Guru Rinpoche is said to have landed on a flying tigress. October's clear post-monsoon skies give the best views back over Paro Valley.
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Punakha Valley & Punakha Dzong Farm Bhutan
Typically October 1–November 15
Bhutan's former winter capital sits at the confluence of the Pho Chhu and Mo Chhu rivers, its whitewashed 17th-century dzong ringed by red and white rice terraces climbing the valley walls. The terraces turn gold through the October-November harvest, when post-monsoon skies stay clear over the valley.
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Phobjikha Valley (Gangtey) Forest Bhutan
Typically October 23–November 21
A glacial valley in Wangdue Phodrang ringed by blue pine forest, its wetland floor left unplowed for the black-necked cranes that migrate here from the Tibetan plateau each year, circling Gangtey Monastery three times on arrival. The cranes touch down from late October into November, after the valley grass has cured tawny.
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Chele La Pass Viewpoint Bhutan
Bhutan's highest motorable road, at 3,988 meters between the Paro and Haa valleys, climbing 1,800 vertical meters through blue pine, spruce and rhododendron before opening onto a prayer-flag-strung ridgeline with Jomolhari visible on clear days. October's dry post-monsoon air gives the most reliable views of the year.
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Lake Tekapo Lake Canterbury & Mackenzie Country
Typically April 15–April 20
Poplars and willows planted as farm shelterbelts ring the turquoise lake at Tekapo, turning gold against the water and the tussock-colored Mackenzie Basin below Aoraki/Mount Cook. The stone Church of the Good Shepherd, built in 1935 on the lakeshore, is the classic foreground for the display.
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Twizel Lake Canterbury & Mackenzie Country
Typically April 10–April 30
A Mackenzie Basin town built in the 1960s to house the Upper Waitaki hydro workforce, now ringed by planted poplar and willow groves along Lake Ruataniwha, the Wairepo Arm canals and Lake Alexandrina. The color holds about two weeks, framing turquoise glacial water against tussock hills.
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Rakaia Gorge Walkway Trail Canterbury & Mackenzie Country
A walking track along the glacier-carved Rakaia Gorge near Methven, following the old ferryman's trail above turquoise braided water before climbing through montane forest and shrub. Mid-Canterbury's planted shelterbelts turn through the season, with Mount Hutt and the Southern Alps as backdrop.
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Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens Garden Southern Tasmania
Founded in 1818 on the Queens Domain above the Derwent, Australia's second-oldest botanical garden pairs a colonial-era conservatory and convict-built walls with a large Japanese maple collection that colors through the fall.
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Mount Field National Park (Tarn Shelf) National park Southern Tasmania
Typically April 20–April 30
Tasmania's oldest national park, an hour from Hobart, where the alpine bench of the Tarn Shelf above Lake Fenton holds Australia's only cold-climate deciduous tree. Nothofagus gunnii, known locally as fagus, turns from green to gold, orange and red in low twisted thickets before dropping its leaves, usually around Anzac Day, 25 April.
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Huon Valley (Grove) Orchard Southern Tasmania
The apple-growing valley southwest of Hobart along the Huon River, its 19th-century orchards still producing Pink Lady, Crofton and Fuji sold from roadside stalls near Grove's Apple and Heritage Museum. Deciduous orchard rows and the valley's oaks and elms color as the harvest wraps up each fall.
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Mount Wilson Garden Blue Mountains — NSW
Typically April 10–May 15
A cool-climate village on a basalt-capped ridge in the upper Blue Mountains, its unusually rich soil supporting plane trees, elms and beeches planted by 19th-century Sydney families as a deliberate echo of European estates. Several private gardens, including Breenhold and Bebeah, open to the public on autumn festival weekends.
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Campbell Rhododendron Gardens Garden Blue Mountains — NSW
Typically April 1–April 30
An 18-hectare reserve at Blackheath, the Blue Mountains' highest town at 1,065 meters, planted with rhododendrons and azaleas among native eucalypt bushland. The shrubs flower in spring, but the gardens carry brilliant autumn color through April as the surrounding bushland cools toward winter.
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Corbett Gardens City park Blue Mountains — NSW
A town-center park in Bowral dating to 1911, when the local tourist association bought what was then Deadmans Paddock for public use. Better known for its spring tulip festival, its deciduous plantings still turn through the Southern Highlands' cooler April weeks.
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National Arboretum Canberra Arboretum Canberra & the ACT
Typically March 15–May 5
A hillside collection of 94 forests, one per species, planted from 2005 on land burned in the 2003 Canberra bushfires, ranging from Himalayan cedar to Californian redwood. The forests color from mid-March into early May, with the Dairy Farmers Hill lookout giving the widest view of the canopy.
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Lake Burley Griffin Foreshore (Commonwealth Park) City park Canberra & the ACT
Typically March 15–May 5
The planted foreshore of Canberra's central lake, oaks and poplars along the water and a row of mature Manchurian pears near the National Library, with the National Gallery's sculpture garden a block inland. Color builds from mid-March into early May along the paths of Commonwealth Park.
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Mount Lofty Botanic Garden Garden Adelaide Hills
Typically March 15–May 31
A 97-hectare cool-climate garden on the eastern slopes of Mount Lofty above the Piccadilly Valley, its ash and oak collections turning scarlet and bronze from mid-March through May and into June some years. The Arboretum section and the plantings around the Main Lake hold the most reliable color.
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Hahndorf Historic town Adelaide Hills
Australia's oldest surviving German settlement, founded in 1839, its Main Street planted with cork elm, oak and chestnut in 1885 on the advice of Adelaide Botanic Garden director Richard Schomburgk, chosen to blaze red each fall. A block of 54 Autumn Blaze maples at the town's edge honors the settlement's founding families.
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Sevenhill, Clare Valley Farm Adelaide Hills
The heart of the Clare Valley wine region, founded by Jesuit priests in 1851 around Sevenhill Cellars, Australia's oldest Jesuit winery still in operation. Riesling vines run between stone farm buildings on stringybark ridgelines, the rows turning gold as the fall harvest finishes.
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Petrohué Falls, Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park National park Chilean Lake District
Basalt channels carved by the Petrohué River run turquoise below Osorno Volcano, crossed by a short boardwalk loop through coigüe and lenga forest. The lenga turns gold and rust through April, the volcano often catching its first snow as the color peaks.
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Villarrica National Park National park Chilean Lake District
Villarrica, Quetrupillán and Lanín volcanoes rise in a line above this park's araucaria and lenga forest south of Pucón. The lenga colors first, flaring orange and red on the upper slopes through April while the araucaria canopy stays evergreen above it.
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Puerto Varas Historic town Chilean Lake District
German families from Hesse and Silesia settled this shore of Lake Llanquihue in 1853, below the volcanic cone of Osorno. Its rosedal fades by autumn, but maple and coigüe plantings along the lakefront promenade color through April as the volcano gathers its first snow.
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Frutillar Historic town Chilean Lake District
Timber houses in Bavarian style face Lake Llanquihue at this German-founded town, its lakeside Teatro del Lago hosting a UNESCO-recognized music festival each summer. Orchard and street plantings color through autumn, a quieter counterpart to Puerto Varas 20 kilometers south.
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Cerro Castillo National Park National park Aysén — Northern Patagonia
Typically April 1–May 31
Granite spires above Villa Cerro Castillo give way to lenga and ñirre forest that burns red and orange through April, reached by a trail past Laguna Cerro Castillo below the jagged 2,675-meter summit. The Carretera Austral runs along the park's eastern edge, 64 kilometers south of Coyhaique.
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Marble Caves, Lake General Carrera Lake Aysén — Northern Patagonia
Wave action over 6,200 years has hollowed these calcite formations on the shore of Lake General Carrera, reached by small boat or kayak from Puerto Río Tranquilo. Lenga forest on the slopes above turns deep red through autumn, the lake itself shifting turquoise with glacial silt each spring.
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Río Simpson National Reserve Forest Aysén — Northern Patagonia
Typically April 1–May 31
The highway between Coyhaique and Puerto Aysén threads this steep river canyon, ñirre and lenga turning gold on the valley walls through April. Peaks above 1,600 meters frame the Simpson River's rapids and waterfalls, a half-day stop on the Carretera Austral's approach to Aysén.
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French Valley, Torres del Paine Trail Torres del Paine & Magallanes
Typically April 1–April 30
A glacial trough between the granite Horns and Cerro Paine Grande, reached by trail from Lago Pehoé past lenga forest that turns deep red through April. The hanging Glaciar Francés calves audibly from the valley floor, and the trail's end at Mirador Británico frames peaks on three sides.
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Puerto Natales Historic town Torres del Paine & Magallanes
A former sheep-ranching port on the Señoret Channel, its corrugated-metal houses facing Última Esperanza Sound. The town is the road and ferry gateway to Torres del Paine, 65 kilometers north, with steppe giving way to lenga forest on the first slopes of the Paine massif.
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Magallanes National Reserve Forest Torres del Paine & Magallanes
Five kilometers from Punta Arenas on the Brunswick Peninsula, this reserve climbs through lenga and coigüe forest to windswept viewpoints over the Strait of Magellan. Rain keeps the understory mossy, and the lenga canopy turns russet through autumn on trails easily walked in half a day.
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Laguna de los Tres, Fitz Roy Trail Trail El Chaltén & Santa Cruz
Typically March 1–March 31
The classic approach to Fitz Roy climbs through 7 kilometers of flat lenga forest along the Río de las Vueltas before a steep, 400-meter moraine push to Laguna de los Tres. Cerro Torre and Fitz Roy's granite towers stand over the glacial lake, the lenga below turning red and gold through March.
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Laguna Torre Trail Trail El Chaltén & Santa Cruz
Typically March 1–April 15
Nine kilometers of lenga beech forest and open pampa lead from El Chaltén to this glacial lake beneath Cerro Torre's near-vertical granite needle. Icebergs calved from the Torre glacier drift across the water, and the forest along the way turns red and gold through March, a gentler grade than the Fitz Roy route.
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Perito Moreno Glacier Viewpoint El Chaltén & Santa Cruz
Typically April 1–April 30
A 30-kilometer tongue of ice off the Southern Patagonian Ice Field calves into Lago Argentino below a system of steel walkways, one of the few advancing glaciers left in Patagonia. Lenga and ñire forest along the approach road from El Calafate turns red and gold through April.
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Tierra del Fuego National Park National park Tierra del Fuego
Typically April 1–April 30
The world's southernmost national park, its lenga and ñire forest climbing from the Beagle Channel to 600 meters before giving way to bare peaks. The Senda Costera footpath follows the shore from Ensenada Bay to Lapataia, the ñire glowing red through April against water that rarely warms past 8°C.
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Ushuaia Historic town Tierra del Fuego
Typically April 1–April 30
Built on a narrow shelf between the Beagle Channel and the Martial Mountains, this is the world's southernmost city, its old prison-colony rail line now running as a tourist train into the national park. Surrounding lenga forest turns color through April, autumn's brief window before winter.
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Lago Fagnano Lake Tierra del Fuego
A 100-kilometer glacial lake splitting Tierra del Fuego between Argentina and Chile, its shoreline lenga and coihue forest shifting from summer green to red and gold through autumn. Ruta 3 follows the northern shore near the sawmill town of Tolhuin, the quietest approach to the lake's forested arm.
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Dark Hour Haunted House Haunted attraction Texas
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 16 2026 forecast
A Plano warehouse haunt staffed by the Sisters of Mercy coven, running full-contact scare experiences through the fall. The team also runs lights-on oddities like Chicken Night, billed on their site as "A FRIGHT FREE EVENT!" for visitors who want the sets without the scares.
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Phobia Haunted Houses Haunted attraction Texas
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 26 2026 forecast
Eight separate haunted houses stacked on one Beltway 8 site south of Houston, with two more at the company's Kemah Boardwalk location. Phobia tells visitors to arrive early and budget about 15 minutes per attraction, so a full eight-haunt run is a genuine evening out.
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13th Floor Haunted House Houston Haunted attraction Texas
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 26 2026 forecast
Named one of USA Today's Top 5 most terrifying haunted houses in the USA, this northwest Houston haunt runs two attractions for its 2026 season: Containment: Sector 9 and Cannibals Crossing. A Respawn Pass lets you walk both houses a second time.
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Cutting Edge Haunted House Haunted attraction Texas
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 18 2026 forecast
Guinness World Record holder for the longest walk-through haunted house, set inside a 100-year-old abandoned meatpacking plant in Fort Worth. The walk averages about 55 minutes, and HauntWorld rated it the world's scariest haunted house for 2025.
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Thrillvania Haunted House Park Haunted attraction Texas
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 17 2026 forecast
Fifty haunted acres east of Dallas holding three attractions: Haunted Verdun Manor, Cassandra's House of Clowns and Sam Hain's Trail of Torment. The wooded Terrell site leans on outdoor trails and a built manor rather than warehouse corridors.
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Six Flags Over Texas Fright Fest Haunted attraction Texas
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 18 2026 forecast
Fright Fest turns the Arlington park - home to more than 100 rides, shows and attractions including 14 roller coasters - over to scare zones and haunted mazes on select autumn nights. The park opened in 1961 under founder Angus G. Wynne, Jr.
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Hall's Pumpkin Farm & Corn Maze Corn maze Texas
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 18 2026 forecast
A Grapevine pumpkin farm whose corn maze covers over 2 acres of twists, turns and dead-ends - walkable by day, or by flashlight after dark for a harder run. Billed as DFW's favorite fall tradition. Bring cash; the farm does not take cards.
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NETHERWORLD Haunted House Haunted attraction Georgia
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 13 2026 forecast
One of the most decorated haunts in America, NETHERWORLD is known for enormous custom creatures and effects built in-house. Its 2025 run was billed as the 29th Season of Screams, and it took USA Today 10Best Readers' Choice honors in both 2024 and 2025.
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Anderson Farms Pumpkin patch Colorado
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 9 2026 forecast
A multi-generation family farm in Erie with over 7 miles of corn maze trails cut at three difficulty levels, plus 40-odd acres of pumpkin fields growing some 70 varieties. After dark the same corn becomes Terror in the Corn, a separately ticketed haunt.
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Cottonwood Farms Pumpkin patch Colorado
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 8 2026 forecast
A Boulder County pumpkin patch and corn maze on Isabelle Road, run by Bob and Amy, whose family has farmed in Colorado since the 1850s. Flat Front Range fields with the Boulder foothills on the skyline make it an easy stop between Boulder and Lafayette.
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Parmenter's Northville Cider Mill Cider mill Michigan
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 17 2026 forecast
An urban cider mill tucked among the historic homes of Northville's Cabbage Town, thanking visitors for over 150 years of business. Cider is pressed on site and served with doughnuts, with the Northville Winery & Brewing Co. next door. It shuts over the summer and reopens for cider season in August.
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Blake's Orchard & Cider Mill Orchard Michigan
Color nearby peaks October 17 2026 forecast
The original Blake Farms orchard in Armada, marking 80 years as a family operation. The cider mill anchors a sprawling fall complex with u-pick apples, a Funland activity area and a tasting room voted Best Cidery by HOUR Detroit in 2024 and 2025.
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State Fair of Texas Fall festival Texas
Sep 25 – Oct 18 Color nearby peaks November 17 2026 forecast
Big Tex looms over Fair Park for a 24-day run of fried everything, Midway rides, livestock barns and the Cotton Bowl. The 2026 fair opens Sep 25 and closes Oct 18, with gates 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.
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Creepy Hollow Haunted House Haunted attraction Texas
Sep 25 – Nov 7 Color nearby peaks November 26 2026 forecast
Three attractions on one wooded site south of Houston - 288 Scare Factory, Dark Woods and Pitch Black - running Fridays and Saturdays from Sep 25. Attractions officially open at 7:30 p.m., and the season closes with two Lights Out with Krampus nights on Nov 6 and 7.
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Preston Trail Farms Farm Texas
Color nearby peaks November 14 2026 forecast
A working country store, feed store and petting farm on Preston Road north of the Metroplex, open year-round Monday to Saturday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Big Orange Pumpkin Farm - hay maze, hayrides, farm train and pumpkin patch - typically opens each September.
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Ghosts & Gravestones Savannah Ghost tour Georgia
Color nearby peaks November 23 2026 forecast
A trolley "frightseeing" run through Savannah's historic district, boarding at the Simply Savannah Depot on River Street. Tours depart nightly and last about 1 hour and 20 minutes, with costumed guides working the city's cemeteries, squares and haunted houses.
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Fright Fest at Six Flags Over Georgia Haunted attraction Georgia
Sep 12 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks November 13 2026 forecast
The Austell park hands its midway over to scare zones, haunted mazes and after-dark coaster rides on select nights from Sep 12 through Nov 1, 2026. A daytime Tricks and Treats program runs the same window, so families can split the day between candy and carnage.
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Mercier Orchards Orchard Georgia
Color nearby peaks November 1 2026 forecast
Founded by Bill and Adele Mercier in 1943 and now fourth-generation family and veteran-owned, this Blue Ridge orchard grows over 40 apple varieties alongside peaches and berries. U-pick apples run through fall; the market and bakery stay open year-round for cider and fried pies.
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13th Floor Haunted House Denver Haunted attraction Colorado
Sep 11 – Nov 14 Color nearby peaks October 11 2026 forecast
Denver's long-running haunt, run by Thirteenth Floor Entertainment Group - the outfit behind over 15 haunted houses nationwide. The Halloween run goes select nights from Sep 11 to Nov 14 at the East 52nd Avenue warehouse, with Krampus and Valentine's shows filling the off-season.
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The Dexter Cider Mill Cider mill Michigan
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 16 2026 forecast
Michigan's longest continuously operating cider mill, pressing on the Huron River since 1886 and marking its 140th season in 2026. It opens for cider season on Friday, August 28 and runs Wednesday through Sunday, 8am to 5pm, on into November.
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Cops & Doughnuts - Clare City Bakery Donuts & cider Michigan
Color nearby peaks October 13 2026 forecast
The Clare City Bakery has run continuously since 1896, and in 2009 all nine members of the town's police department banded together to buy it and keep it from closing. The cop puns are relentless, the cases are full, and it's open daily - a reliable stop on the drive north.
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Gull Meadow Farms Corn maze Michigan
Sep 12 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks October 17 2026 forecast
A Richland fall destination advertising 30-plus attractions across two activity areas, anchored by a 5-acre corn maze. U-pick apples and pumpkins, wagon rides and a petting farm fill out a season that runs from mid-September through Halloween.
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Lucky Ladd Farms Pumpkin patch Tennessee
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 9 2026 forecast
A 60-acre family farm park south of Nashville whose Fall Harvest Festival adds a pumpkin patch and corn maze to nearly 60 standing attractions. The Travel Channel named the patch one of the top 15 in the U.S., and the petting farm is billed as Tennessee's largest.
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Honeysuckle Hill Farm Corn maze Tennessee
Sep 26 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks November 8 2026 forecast
Half an hour north of Nashville, this Robertson County farm runs a cut corn maze alongside a pumpkin patch, pig races, a pumpkin cannon and a skeleton band. The 2026 season is posted as September 26 through November 1.
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Jones Orchard Orchard Tennessee
Color nearby peaks November 11 2026 forecast
Started in 1940 by H. L. "Peaches" Jones and still supplying Memphis eight decades on, this 600-acre Millington orchard grows 110 acres of peaches across 25 varieties, plus apples, pears, plums, berries and pumpkins for pick-your-own.
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Old Baker Farm Pumpkin patch Alabama
Sep 26 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks November 14 2026 forecast
A Shelby County farm with over 200 years of history, opening its pumpkin patch southeast of Birmingham on September 26, 2026. Visitors ride a hay wagon out to the field, walk a corn maze and pick cotton straight from the row.
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Atrox Factory Haunted attraction Alabama
Oct 2 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks November 13 2026 forecast
Fifty thousand square feet of indoor haunt east of Birmingham, billed as the largest all-indoor haunted house in the Southeast and ranked among the top 10 in the country. Over a quarter-mile of hallways; the 2026 season opens Friday, October 2.
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French Quarter Phantoms Ghost tour Louisiana
Color nearby peaks November 28 2026 forecast
Established in 2006, this locally owned outfit walks just under a mile through the Quarter and Treme on a 105-minute Ghost and Vampire tour, voted New Orleans' number one haunted tour eight years running. It runs 364 days a year.
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The Mortuary Haunted Mansion Haunted attraction Louisiana
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 28 2026 forecast
A genuine former funeral home at the dead end of Canal Street, where more than 20,000 funerals took place between 1930 and 2003. Each Halloween the mansion reopens as New Orleans' best-known haunted house, on the cemetery streetcar line.
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Cedar Hill's Haunted Farm Haunted attraction Mississippi
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 13 2026 forecast
Five night attractions on a working farm south of Memphis: a haunted hayride, a quarter-mile Trail of Terror through dark woods, the Sensturbia barn, a 2.5-acre flashlight corn maze and mounted-gun zombie paintball.
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Gallrein Farms Pumpkin patch Kentucky
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 27 2026 forecast
Run for more than 30 years by Bill Jr. and Randie Gallrein, this Shelbyville farm east of Louisville closes its season with u-pick pumpkins, hayrides out to the patch, a corn maze and a petting zoo, plus a cafe and bakery.
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Baxter Avenue Morgue Haunted attraction Kentucky
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 31 2026 forecast
A theatrical haunt inside a 100-year-old Louisville morgue building, run as a tight 15-to-25-minute walk through low ceilings and narrow corridors. Seven doors marked with yellow chickens let you bail out; the seventh reads "Last Chance".
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Nightmare on 13th Haunted attraction Utah
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 13 2026 forecast
Utah's longest-running indoor haunted attraction, going on 35 years of Hollywood-quality sets in a warehouse south of downtown Salt Lake. Two haunts run under one roof, Nightmare Haunted House and Institute of Terror, with an all-new third attraction announced for 2026.
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Fear Factory SLC Haunted attraction Utah
Sep 18 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks October 13 2026 forecast
A haunt built into a derelict cement plant in Salt Lake's industrial west side: six buildings, some six stories high, plus two underground passages. Buzzfeed ranked it #3 in the world, and USA Today and the Travel Channel have both put it in the US top ten.
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Cross E Ranch Fall Festival Fall festival Utah
Sep 18 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks October 14 2026 forecast
A working ranch on Salt Lake City's north edge that turns over to an adventure farm each fall: corn maze, pumpkin patch, pig racing, zip lines and archery, all included in one admission. Closed Sundays, and it shuts at 5pm on Halloween.
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Fear Farm Haunted attraction Arizona
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 22 2026 forecast
Billed as Arizona's largest Halloween event, Fear Farm packs haunted houses, a Field of Fear corn maze and a gellyball zombie range onto one Valley site. The operation recently moved to a new McClintock Drive address in Tempe, and every ticket is sold online only.
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Schnepf Farms Pumpkin & Chili Party Fall festival Arizona
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 23 2026 forecast
For over 25 years this Queen Creek farm has run the East Valley's big October harvest party, with a four-acre corn maze, pumpkin patch, hay rides, pig races and chili. Schnepf's own site says the farm "transforms into a harvest wonderland" every October.
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Tucson Terror in the Corn Haunted attraction Arizona
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 23 2026 forecast
Run by the Buckelew family, who farmed Three Points for 30 years before moving the haunt closer to town, this Marana cornfield is now in its 26th season. Four haunts, a zombie shootout and what the site calls the region's biggest corn maze are stitched together by the corn itself.
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The Gilcrease Orchard Orchard Nevada
Color nearby peaks November 6 2026 forecast
Sixty acres of you-pick orchard in northwest Las Vegas, run since 1997 by the non-profit Gilcrease Orchard Foundation on land the Gilcrease brothers farmed from the 1970s. Ted called it his "pick and pay" orchard; fall brings apples, a pumpkin patch, corn maze and wagon rides.
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Haunted Harvest at Springs Preserve Fall festival Nevada
Oct 22 – Oct 25 Color nearby peaks November 8 2026 forecast
The lights-on, kid-scale alternative to Vegas haunts: four evenings of trick-or-treat stations, crafts and food trucks scattered through the Springs Preserve's "Boo-tanical" Garden, with costumed characters lurking in the beds. Tickets are timed-entry and online only.
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McCall's Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin patch New Mexico
Sep 19 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks October 21 2026 forecast
In its 29th season on the Estancia Valley plains east of Albuquerque, McCall's runs a daytime pumpkin patch with hay rides, a corn maze and a castle experience, then flips after dark into the McCall's Haunted Farm on Friday and Saturday nights.
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La Union Maze Corn maze New Mexico
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 11 2026 forecast
A 13-acre maze cut to a new design every year in the Mesilla Valley farm country south of Las Cruces, ringed by a wagon-ride pumpkin patch, cow trains, pig races and a Canna Fairytale Trail. October Friday and Saturday nights add a Haunted Maze.
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Soergel Orchards Orchard Pennsylvania
Color nearby peaks October 20 2026 forecast
A German immigrant named John Conrad Soergel settled this spot in 1850 and began planting apple trees; six generations later the family still presses cider and runs the market, bakery, garden center and pick-your-own north of Pittsburgh.
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Trax Farms Farm Pennsylvania
Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
Six generations and more than 150 years in, Trax sits 12 miles south of Pittsburgh on Route 88 and calls its fresh-pressed apple cider the best in the city. One of the oldest and most-awarded fruit and vegetable farms in the South Hills.
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Hundred Acres Manor Haunted attraction Pennsylvania
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
Pittsburgh's big-ticket haunt threads multiple attractions and a themed maze into one dark walk through Bethel Park, with different themes each night and a tour that runs 40 minutes to an hour. Doors open at dusk and it runs rain or shine.
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The Darkness Haunted attraction Missouri
Sep 19 – Nov 13 Color nearby peaks November 1 2026 forecast
In its 33rd year of fear next to historic Soulard Market, this two-floor St. Louis landmark pairs detailed monster sets with a Slaughterhouse attraction and escape rooms. The 2026 season opens with a one-night Slasher Weekend on Sep 19 and closes Nov 13.
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Weston Red Barn Farm Farm Missouri
Color nearby peaks October 29 2026 forecast
A turn-of-the-century working farmstead northwest of Kansas City that has run school tours for over 30 years and weddings for 25. Fall brings u-pick apples and pumpkins, hayrides, pony rides, a maze, caramel apples and cider donuts.
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The Beast Haunted attraction Missouri
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 29 2026 forecast
Full Moon Productions has been building fear in the West Bottoms since 1975, and its flagship walks you through voodoo curses, witch trials and a Jack the Ripper London across multiple stories of animatronics and illusions.
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Louisburg Cider Mill Cider mill Kansas
Color nearby peaks October 30 2026 forecast
A 1977 roadside stand grown into a third-generation mill whose country store stays open year-round for signature cider and apple cider donuts. Fall adds a 10-acre corn maze, pumpkins, pressing-barn tours, bluegrass and the Ciderfest weekends.
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The Great Pumpkin Farm Fall festival New York
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 17 2026 forecast
The Clarence farm started in 1996 by hosting the World Pumpkin Weigh-off and landed in the Guinness Book for the first 1,000-pound pumpkin. Its fall festival brings a 5-acre corn maze, rides, apple cannons and a zombie paintball train.
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Wickham Farms Farm New York
Color nearby peaks October 18 2026 forecast
Five generations of farming and a stand established in 1986 just outside Rochester, with apple picking, an on-site cidery, hayrides and barnyard attractions. The Sunflower Spectacular hands off to the Fall Festival as the season turns.
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Shaw Farms Farm Ohio
Color nearby peaks October 25 2026 forecast
Over 200 years of farming on Route 131 east of Cincinnati, where Pumpkin Times runs through October with a 15-acre corn maze and kid-friendly treasure hunt, two playgrounds, horse- and tractor-drawn hayrides and pick-your-own pumpkins.
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The Dent Schoolhouse Haunted attraction Ohio
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 25 2026 forecast
The Dent Public School opened in 1894 and, as the legend goes, gave up the remains of missing students from its basement in 1955. Cincinnati's flagship haunt now fills the building with the murderous janitor Charlie McFree and a killer faculty.
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Stocker Farms Corn maze Washington
Sep 19 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks October 10 2026 forecast
A Snohomish Valley farm "bringing hearts together since 1919," Stocker packs 30-plus attractions into its fall festival: the corn maze, a u-pick pumpkin patch, zip lines, pig races, a cow train and jumping pillows, with a beer garden open Friday through Sunday.
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Bob's Corn & Pumpkin Farm Corn maze Washington
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 10 2026 forecast
Bob's has been challenging visitors to its corn-fusing labyrinth of 10-foot-tall corn since 2001, and the 12-acre maze still anchors this Cathcart Valley farm. A Night Maze runs Friday and Saturday evenings in October alongside a u-pick pumpkin patch, country store and donut window.
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Swans Trail Farms Pumpkin patch Washington
Sep 12 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks October 10 2026 forecast
The Krause family bought the Staswick Dairy Farm in 1984 and added a pumpkin patch in 1995. The draw now is a 12-acre corn maze cut as a map of Washington State, with 250 roads, 400 towns and landmarks and 4.5 miles of paths, plus ziplines, a three-story hay maze and Farmer Ben's pig show.
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Nightmare on 9 at Thomas Family Farm Haunted attraction Washington
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 10 2026 forecast
Nightmare on 9 opened in 2012 and was rebuilt from scratch in 2019 into two haunts: Rippers Hollow, a cursed coal town, and the Vogel Institute, a dream-therapy asylum founded in 1932 by the fictional Doctor Joseph Vogel. Zombie paintball, a flashlight corn maze and a haunted hayride share the field.
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Knott's Scary Farm Haunted attraction California
Sep 17 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks November 30 2026 forecast
Southern California's original theme-park haunt hands Knott's Berry Farm over to 10 mazes and 5 scare zones on select nights, with hundreds of monsters loose across the midways after dark. The 2026 run goes September 17 through October 31.
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Underwood Family Farms Fall Harvest Festival Fall festival California
Sep 26 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks November 27 2026 forecast
The 29th Annual Fall Harvest Festival spreads across 50 acres of the Tierra Rejada Valley: a corn maze, tractor-drawn wagon rides, pick-your-own fields, a gigantic pumpkin patch, hay-climbing pyramids, pig races and Farmer Craig's Chicken Show, with live entertainment on weekends.
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Los Angeles Haunted Hayride Haunted attraction California
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 30 2026 forecast
Griffith Park's abandoned Old Zoo becomes the town of Midnight Falls each fall, with a tractor-pulled hayride through the ruins at its center and mazes, a seance theatre, a scary-go-round and zombie gellyball ringing the town square. Past seasons added celebrity-designed mazes.
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Tanaka Farms Farm California
Color nearby peaks November 29 2026 forecast
Five generations of the Tanaka family have farmed in California since Great-Grandfather Takeo emigrated from Hiroshima in the early 1900s; they moved onto this 30-acre Irvine plot in 1998. The farm grows over 60 varieties of fruit and vegetables and runs u-pick wagon tours for thousands of schoolchildren a year.
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Riley's Farm Orchard California
Color nearby peaks November 15 2026 forecast
A working apple orchard in Oak Glen with over 30 varieties, from heirlooms grown for flavor over appearance to trees more than a hundred years old planted by the original Oak Glen family. U-pick fruit sells by weight, and costumed living-history programs run alongside the harvest.
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Bates Nut Farm Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin patch California
Sep 17 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks November 21 2026 forecast
A San Diego County ritual on a Valley Center farm whose name carries a 1921 date. Admission to the patch is free; tractor hayrides and a straw maze run daily from opening, and all of October adds pony rides, a petting corral, a corn pit and a bounce house.
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The Haunted Trail of Balboa Park Haunted attraction California
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 28 2026 forecast
Reinventing fear for 27 years, the Haunted Trail runs a mile through the gnarled oaks of historic Marston Point, paired with the 3,500-square-foot eXperiment Maze. The free Dark Carnival, with games, roaming creatures and food trucks, returns for a second year and needs no ticket.
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Hodges Family Farm Pumpkin patch North Carolina
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 16 2026 forecast
A pick-your-own pumpkin patch on Rocky River Road in east Charlotte, built around the property's 1932 barn with hay rides and farm animals. The 2025 run was daily 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. with the entrance gate closing at 5:30 p.m.; no 2026 window is posted yet.
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Haunted Forest at Panic Point Haunted attraction North Carolina
Sep 19 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks November 15 2026 forecast
Five attractions on a Franklin County farm north of Raleigh, anchored by a half-mile Haunted Forest trail of 12 scenes. The site advertises 38 unique scenes and 100 creatures across the property, plus a Carny Crypt trailer for an extra $7. Box office opens 7:30 p.m.
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Kersey Valley Spookywoods Haunted attraction North Carolina
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 13 2026 forecast
Running since 1985 across 92 acres of working farm outside Greensboro, with 180+ scare actors staffing the trail every night and a 1925 farmhouse still standing on site. America Haunts named it a Top 5 US Haunt Destination in 2025.
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Hunt Club Farm Harvest Fair Fall festival Virginia
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 16 2026 forecast
Virginia Beach's long-running harvest fair on London Bridge Road, where $18 admission covers the petting farm, a treewalk adventure and unlimited farm-tour hayrides. The petting farm runs 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with pony rides from 11 to 4.
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Hanover Vegetable Farm Pumpkin patch Virginia
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 1 2026 forecast
A Hanover County farm north of Richmond that has been selling produce since 1902 and opens its pumpkin field each autumn. Through the peak season the farm is open every day 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., shifting to Monday-Saturday hours from early November.
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Haunts of Richmond Ghost Tours Ghost tour Virginia
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 2 2026 forecast
Billed as Richmond's original ghost tour company since 2004, running six walking tours at $27 a head through Shockoe Bottom, Church Hill and Capitol Square. The Shadows of Shockoe tour covers about three-quarters of a mile in 90 minutes.
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Boone Hall Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin patch South Carolina
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 23 2026 forecast
An autumn pumpkin patch on the grounds of Boone Hall, a 738-acre plantation founded in 1681 about eight miles from downtown Charleston and famous for its live oak avenue. One of several seasonal events the estate runs through the year.
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Denver Downs Farm Corn maze South Carolina
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 10 2026 forecast
An Anderson County farm owned by the Garrison family since 1869, which turns over to a corn maze, fall festival and after-dark Pumpkin Nights each autumn. The farm also runs a sunflower festival earlier in the season and a fall music series.
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Ghosts & Gravestones St. Augustine Ghost tour Florida
Color nearby peaks December 2 2026 forecast
A nightly 80-minute narrated trolley tour of the oldest city in the country, stopping at Tolomato Cemetery, the Old City Gates and the Old Jail, which the operator calls the town's most haunted building. Boards at the San Marco Avenue welcome centre.
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Amazing Grace Family Farms Corn maze Florida
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks December 1 2026 forecast
A Clay County farm on State Road 21, about 30 minutes south of Jacksonville, that opens a crop maze and pumpkin patch each autumn alongside a cow train and other farm attractions. The farm also runs a sunflower festival earlier in the year.
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Ghost City Tours Austin Ghost tour Texas
Color nearby peaks November 26 2026 forecast
Three after-dark walking tours of downtown Austin, all running seven days a week year-round. The all-ages Ghosts of Austin tour steps off at 8 p.m. from the gates of the Texas State Capitol and runs 90 minutes, rain or shine.
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House of Torment Haunted attraction Texas
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 26 2026 forecast
Austin's flagship scream house on Ridgepoint Drive, running select nights each fall. The Travel Channel has called it "the scariest haunted house in America", and the site is quoting that line while it sells 2026 discount presale passes ahead of announcing the schedule.
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Round Rock Donuts Donuts & cider Texas
Color nearby peaks November 26 2026 forecast
A Round Rock institution since 1926, famous for its oversized yellow-orange yeast donuts made from the original owner's recipe. The color comes from fresh eggs, and on busy days the bakery hand-rolls, cuts, fries and ices more than 500 dozen of them.
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Sweet Berry Farm Pumpkin patch Texas
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 26 2026 forecast
A 152-acre Hill Country farm that bills itself as the original and biggest Central Texas strawberry and pumpkin patch, going on 26 years. Fall brings the Texas Maze, a candy corn maze, hayrides, goat racers, flower pickin' and pumpkin painting.
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Sisters Grimm Ghost Tours Ghost tour Texas
Color nearby peaks November 26 2026 forecast
Founded by San Antonio natives Lauren and James Swartz, this outfit has been "Keeping San Antonio Spooky Since 2011" and has been rated in the top 3 ghost tours in the country for five straight years by USA TODAY. Tours leave nightly from Alamo Plaza.
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13th Floor Haunted House San Antonio Haunted attraction Texas
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 26 2026 forecast
A downtown San Antonio haunt on East Commerce Street built around a main walk-through house, Dose of Decay, plus bolt-on extras including The Last Spinehelm zombie shooting range, a Respawn Pass for a second run and a secret bar combo.
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Six Flags Fiesta Texas Fright Fest Fall festival Texas
Sep 11 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks November 26 2026 forecast
The San Antonio park turns over to Fright Fest on select nights from September 11 to November 1, 2026, with roaming scare zones after dusk and separately ticketed pay-to-panic haunted mazes on top of the usual coasters.
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State Fair of Oklahoma Fall festival Oklahoma
Sep 17 – Sep 27 Color nearby peaks November 9 2026 forecast
Eleven days of midway, livestock barns and fried everything at OKC Fair Park, September 17 to 27, 2026. The fair traces back to October 5, 1907, and is run by a not-for-profit that calls it one of the premier state fairs in the nation.
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Orr Family Farm Pumpkin patch Oklahoma
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 9 2026 forecast
South Oklahoma City's fall festival farm, advertising 25+ attractions across a season that runs on select dates from mid-September into November, with late-night hours on October weekends. Hayrides, a corn maze and a pumpkin patch anchor it.
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The Hex House Haunted attraction Oklahoma
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 9 2026 forecast
Tulsa's best-known haunt, themed on the real 1944 "Hex House" occult case, packs three attractions into one site: HexHouse, Haunted Overdrive and The Experiment. HauntWorld has rated it one of the 15 best haunted houses in the world.
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Cidrerie Michel Jodoin Orchard Québec — Laurentians & Eastern Townships
Color nearby peaks October 13 2026 forecast
A cider house on the slopes of Mont Rougemont, the heart of Quebec's apple country east of Montreal, making crackling, still and sparkling ciders alongside roses and apple spirits. The Jean-Baptiste-Jodoin trail climbs through the orchards to a lookout and is open to walkers until 3 p.m., no reservation needed.
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Vergers et Cidrerie Denis Charbonneau Orchard Québec — Laurentians & Eastern Townships
Color nearby peaks October 13 2026 forecast
Founded in 1981 and now run by the third generation of the Charbonneau family at the foot of Mont-Saint-Gregoire. Pick your own apples, pears, plums and pumpkins into October, then work through a cidery of eight cuvees, a buckwheat creperie and a cafe-bistro, with a petting farm and playgrounds for the kids.
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Vergers Petit & Fils Orchard Québec — Laurentians & Eastern Townships
Color nearby peaks October 13 2026 forecast
A 50,000-tree orchard at the foot of Mont-Saint-Hilaire on Montreal's South Shore, picking ten apple varieties from Melba to Honeycrisp between mid-August and November. Beyond the trees sit a giant cornfield maze, a mini-farm, weekend tractor rides, an observation bridge and a cellar of more than twenty award-winning ciders.
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Downey's Farm Pumpkinfest Pumpkin patch Ontario — Algonquin & Muskoka
Sep 19 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks October 13 2026 forecast
Caledon's harvest festival runs daily from September 19 to October 31, 2026, packing more than 40 attractions into one admission: an eight-acre corn maze, a pick-your-own pumpkin field, wagon rides, a barn bounce, and weekend dog and puppet shows. Tickets must be bought online in advance.
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Screemers Haunted attraction Ontario — Algonquin & Muskoka
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 14 2026 forecast
Toronto's original Halloween event, now in its 30th year and third season at Assembly Park in Vaughan. One ticket covers seven walk-through haunted mazes worked by more than 120 live actors, plus unlimited rides on the Midway of Madness and stage shows under a giant festival tent.
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Snyder's Family Farm Corn maze Ontario — Algonquin & Muskoka
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 13 2026 forecast
A fall-fun farm in Bright, between Kitchener and Woodstock, with more than 20 attractions built around its corn maze and pick-your-own pumpkin patch. Hayrides, a play area, campfire pods and a farm-fresh bakery round out the day, and the same fields host an Old Fashioned Christmas once the pumpkins are gone.
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Maan Farms Halloween Fright Festival Haunted attraction British Columbia
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 11 2026 forecast
Billed as the Scariest Corn Maze in Canada, the Halloween Fright Festival takes over Maan Farms, an Abbotsford farm the family started in 1977. Separate from the daytime pumpkin patch, its after-dark haunts include The Slaughterhouse, the 3D CarnEvil and Pitch Black, a walk in total darkness.
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Aldor Acres Family Farm Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin patch British Columbia
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 10 2026 forecast
A three-generation, 80-acre working farm in Langley's Fraser Valley whose pumpkin patch sprawls across five acres. The draw is the open-air animals - pigs, goats, donkeys, sheep, emus, horses and cows - alongside hayrides and fields where you cut your own pumpkin, priced by size.
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Hatfield Farm Halloween Hoedown Fall festival Nova Scotia — Cape Breton
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 19 2026 forecast
A cowboy-themed adventure farm about 25 minutes from downtown Halifax, built around Fort Clayton, a mock western town reached by wagon. Come Halloween it hosts a Hoedown - a costume-contest night of music and dancing under the stars - on top of its usual wagon rides and petting pens.
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Calaway Park Halloweekends Fall festival Alberta — Canadian Rockies
Sep 5 – Oct 12 Color nearby peaks September 30 2026 forecast
Calgary's outdoor amusement park turns into Hallotown for Halloweekends, a not-too-scary family Halloween with costumes and candy among the rides. The 2026 fall run is September 5 to 7 daily, then Saturdays, Sundays and Thanksgiving Monday through October 12, open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Howl-O-Scream at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay Haunted attraction Florida
Sep 11 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks December 2 2026 forecast
Busch Gardens' after-dark Halloween takeover, billed as Tampa Bay's most terrifying event, fills the animal-and-coaster park with haunted houses and roaming scare zones on select nights. The 2026 run is September 11 through November 1; gates open at 5 p.m. and the frights start at 7.
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Scott's Maze Adventures at Long & Scott Farms Corn maze Florida
Sep 26 – Nov 15 Color nearby peaks December 5 2026 forecast
Long & Scott Farms opens its fall festival northwest of Orlando around a cut corn maze, a genuine rarity in a state with almost none. Alongside it: a jumping pillow, a super slide, a castle playground, hay rides and a pumpkin patch. The 2026 season runs September 26 through November 15.
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Hunsader Farms Pumpkin Festival Fall festival Florida
Oct 10 – Oct 25 Color nearby peaks December 3 2026 forecast
For three October weekends this working farm east of Bradenton throws its long-running Pumpkin Festival, an old-school country fair of craft vendors, live music, hay rides, a petting zoo and a corn maze on the pasture. The 2026 dates are October 10-11, 17-18 and 24-25.
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Pinto's Farm Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin patch Florida
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks December 1 2026 forecast
A family entertainment farm in Miami's Redland, Pinto's turns fall into a pumpkin patch alongside its rides, goat yoga, dog-friendly weekends and an on-site brewery. It's one of the closest things South Florida has to a classic patch, minus the frost.
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House of Horror Haunted Carnival Haunted attraction Florida
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks December 1 2026 forecast
At the center of Halloween in Miami for over 25 years, this haunted carnival packs three walk-through haunted houses, including what it calls Florida's only 3D haunt, plus outdoor scare zones and a full ride midway. For 2026 it moves to Tropical Park in the heart of the city.
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Fright Nights at the South Florida Fairgrounds Haunted attraction Florida
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks December 1 2026 forecast
Every October the South Florida Fairgrounds in West Palm Beach becomes Fright Nights, a sprawling haunt of walk-through haunted houses, outdoor scare zones and a spooky carnival midway across the fairgrounds. It's the Palm Beaches' marquee Halloween attraction.
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13th Floor Haunted House Jacksonville Haunted attraction Florida
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 28 2026 forecast
The Jacksonville outpost of the national 13th Floor haunt brand runs multiple themed walk-throughs on Arlington Expressway. Its 2026 line-up is already named, Detention of the Dead, The Siren's Wake and Black Hollow Asylum, though the select-night calendar hasn't been posted yet.
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Spooktacular at Jacksonville Zoo Fall festival Florida
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 27 2026 forecast
The Jacksonville Zoo's long-running Spooktacular, in its 38th year, turns the grounds into an evening family Halloween festival with treat stations, carnival games and, for teens and up, the Lost Swamp scare zone in Riverview Gardens (ages 13+).
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Goebbert's Farm - South Barrington Pumpkin patch Illinois
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
A 40-acre fall destination northwest of Chicago where the fields fill with pig races, corn mazes, wagon rides, an Animal Land petting barn and giraffe feeding. Its mascot is a fiberglass pumpkin-eating dinosaur, and an 18-foot 'Happy Jack' pumpkin silo marks the entrance.
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HellsGate Haunted House Haunted attraction Illinois
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 24 2026 forecast
A multi-level haunted mansion in Lockport laced with secret passages, giant slides and zombie-infested woods, reached by a shuttle from off-site parking. This season the cast of the shuttered Statesville Prison joins HellsGate's crew at a single location.
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Kuipers Family Farm Orchard Illinois
Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
A 230-acre working farm in Maple Park, far west of Chicago, growing apples, pumpkins, tulips and sunflowers. Weekends bring pick-your-own apples while the Orchard Shop and Bakery turns out cider doughnuts, pies and hand-spun caramel apples; a Pumpkin FunFarm adds a corn maze and pig races.
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The Hill Has Eyes Haunted attraction Wisconsin
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 19 2026 forecast
Billed as the Midwest's top outdoor haunt, this Franklin attraction south of Milwaukee sends guests through about an hour of terror across four fully-outdoor walk-throughs - Dead End, Failed Escape, Hunger Hollow and CARNIvore - one admission for all four, with a Party Pit between the scares.
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Apple Holler Orchard Wisconsin
Color nearby peaks October 21 2026 forecast
A 78-acre family orchard between Milwaukee and Chicago with pick-your-own apples, peaches and pears, a Red Barn Restaurant serving breakfast and lunch daily, tractor-drawn hayrides, a corn maze and a forest of 150-year-old oaks. Cider doughnuts and apple-cider floats round out the visit.
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Indy Scream Park Haunted attraction Indiana
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 25 2026 forecast
A sprawling Halloween park in Anderson, up I-69 northeast of Indianapolis, packing in named haunts including Zombieland: Unchained, Backwoods, Lockdown and the 3D Neon Nightmare, plus a Zombie Paintball Assault, a Monster Midway of games and food, and Bonzo's Beer Garden.
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Tuttle Orchards Orchard Indiana
Color nearby peaks October 25 2026 forecast
A fourth-generation apple orchard east of Indianapolis, founded in 1928 and open year-round. Fall brings apple and pumpkin picking, a corn maze and a kids' farm-play area, while the on-site Farm Store and Farm-to-Table Cafe keep the place busy in every season.
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The Dead End Hayride Haunted attraction Minnesota
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 10 2026 forecast
Billed as Minnesota's scariest haunted hayride, this attraction at Pinehaven Farm in Wyoming, north of the Twin Cities, bundles a wagon ride, a walk-through and a haunted cornfield into one general-admission ticket. The first wagon rolls out 30 minutes after sunset.
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Twin Cities Harvest Festival and Maze Corn maze Minnesota
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 7 2026 forecast
The Twin Cities' largest corn maze - nearly 20 acres re-cut to a new design each year - anchors this fall festival in Brooklyn Park, at the southeast corner of 109th Avenue and Highway 169. General admission is free; a wristband unlocks the carnival, pumpkin patch and sunflower field.
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Anoka Halloween Fall festival Minnesota
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 7 2026 forecast
Anoka bills itself as the Halloween Capital of the World, home to a 106-year-old civic celebration that fills historic downtown through October. The Grande Day Parade of more than 100 units marches down Main Street, joined after dark by the illuminated Light Up the Night Parade.
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Vala's Pumpkin Patch & Apple Orchard Pumpkin patch Nebraska
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 24 2026 forecast
One of the largest fall festivals in the country, this Gretna pumpkin patch and apple orchard is celebrating 40 years and spreads 50-plus attractions across its fields just outside Omaha. Founders Tim and Jan Vala's site is promoting 'Fall 2026!' but has not yet posted opening or closing dates.
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Scary Acres Haunted attraction Nebraska
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 24 2026 forecast
An Omaha Halloween tradition since 1994, Scary Acres runs three attractions on one site: the Masters Castle, the House on the Hill and the Haunted Woods. Its 2026 season has been announced with an opening night, but a full run of dates is not yet posted on the site.
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P & M Pumpkin Ranch Pumpkin patch Kansas
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 31 2026 forecast
A western-themed, pick-your-own pumpkin ranch north of Wichita, open since 2014, with more than 30 activities: a 'Double Barrel Chute' of side-by-side 80-foot slides, a corn maze, a rope-web climb, pig races and zinnia and sunflower fields. The site lists its fall run only as 'Mid Sept-Mid Nov.'
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Gieringer's Family Orchard & Berry Farm Orchard Kansas
Color nearby peaks October 30 2026 forecast
A U-pick orchard and berry farm on the southwest edge of the Kansas City metro. Its picking calendar runs from strawberries in May through blueberries, blackberries and peaches to apples and pumpkins in October, and an on-site farm market sells homegrown produce alongside the pumpkin patch each fall.
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Howell's Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin patch Iowa
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 22 2026 forecast
A greenhouse and pumpkin patch about 25 minutes south of Des Moines, where a paid 'Fall Fun' admission covers a wagon ride to the patch, a corn maze and a Kiddie Korral play area with a giant slide, pedal tractors and a corn box. The site is still showing last year's September-6 opening, so 2026 dates aren't set.
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Wilson's Orchard & Farm Orchard Iowa
Color nearby peaks October 21 2026 forecast
Established in 1980 just north of Iowa City, this pick-your-own orchard and farm is open to visitors February through December and turns its own apples into cider at an on-site ciderhouse and bakery. Autumn is the peak, with pick-your-own apples, a farm market and apple-cider treats.
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Papa's Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin patch North Dakota
Sep 12 – Oct 25 Color nearby peaks October 6 2026 forecast
Bismarck's family pumpkin patch since 1983, ranked by the Travel Channel among the top 10 in the country. For 2026 it moves to a new home on Burnt Creek Loop and runs September 12 through October 25, open noon to 7 daily, with pumpkins and family activities across the season.
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Lil' Bitz Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin patch North Dakota
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 8 2026 forecast
A family-run pumpkin patch in north Fargo where one gate admission covers over 25 attractions, from horse-drawn wagon rides to a corn maze. The site is still displaying its 2024 calendar, so opening dates for the 2026 season have not been posted yet.
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Our Farm Pumpkin patch South Dakota
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 18 2026 forecast
A family pumpkin patch and fall theme park west of Sioux Falls, near Parker, with a corn maze, pick-your-own pumpkins, zip lines, a hay-bale mountain, gourd launchers and a petting zoo. The site says November 2 is its last day of the season but gives no year, so 2026 dates aren't confirmed.
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Mazing Acres Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin patch South Dakota
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 19 2026 forecast
Billed as the 'First Dakota Corn Maze,' this Yankton-area pumpkin patch cuts a five-acre maze and stacks 30-plus fall attractions alongside its pick-your-own pumpkins. The site still lists its 2024 run, so 2026 opening dates have not been posted.
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Frightland Haunted attraction Delaware
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 4 2026 forecast
A cluster of eight haunted attractions on a farm outside Middletown, including the Haunted Hayride, Idalia Manor, Zombie Prison, Ghost Town and Ravenwood Cemetery, all wrapped around a midway of amusement rides. The ticket booth runs 6 to 9 p.m. on operating nights.
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Fifer Orchards Orchard Delaware
Color nearby peaks November 6 2026 forecast
A Kent County farm and country store near Wyoming, Delaware, whose autumn Fall Fest layers a corn maze, pumpkin picking, pedal tractors, mega slides and a Pumpkin-Palooza photo area over the orchard. U-pick apples run late August to mid-October and pumpkins through October.
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Field of Screams Maryland Haunted attraction Maryland
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 3 2026 forecast
A multi-haunt scream park on Olney Laytonsville Road, north of the Capital Beltway, known for its Trail of Terror, Haunted Trail and Slaughter Factory haunted house. The park sat out the 2025 season for a full rebuild of its trail and says it will return in 2026.
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Original Fells Point Ghost Walk Ghost tour Maryland
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 4 2026 forecast
An all-ages walking tour of Baltimore's waterfront Fells Point, run by Baltimore Ghost Tours since 2001 and departing from Broadway Square by Max's Taphouse. Guides tell haunting tales drawn from real events across the cobblestone district on Friday and Saturday nights, spring through November.
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Bowles Farms Corn maze Maryland
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 5 2026 forecast
A Southern Maryland farm on Budds Creek Road in St. Mary's County that opens a walk-through corn maze, pumpkin field and barnyard on fall weekends. Wagon rides, barrel rides through the pumpkin patch and a straw jumping pit round out the day; the 2025 maze marked 25 years of the attraction.
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Brad's Farm Market Farm Maryland
Color nearby peaks November 2 2026 forecast
A seasonal produce farm and market on Asbury Road in Churchville, Harford County, open April through October. Every weekend in October it turns into a fall festival, with the farm stand carrying fresh local produce daily from 9 a.m. through the picking season northeast of Baltimore.
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Coopers Rock State Forest Forest West Virginia
Peak October 19 2026 forecast
A West Virginia state forest less than 15 miles east of Morgantown, famous for a sandstone overlook high above the Cheat River gorge that blazes with color each October. More than 50 miles of trails thread the boulder fields and cliffs, a draw for hikers and rock climbers alike.
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Orr's Farm Market Orchard West Virginia
Color nearby peaks October 25 2026 forecast
A family orchard and market southwest of Martinsburg, farmed by the Orrs since George S. Orr Jr. bought the land in 1954. Autumn brings pick-your-own apples and a pumpkin patch, plus a barnyard open six days a week and weekend bluegrass-and-barbecue days running into October.
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Busch Gardens Williamsburg Howl-O-Scream Haunted attraction Virginia
Sep 11 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks November 7 2026 forecast
After dark each fall, Busch Gardens Williamsburg turns its European-village theme park into Howl-O-Scream, with five haunted houses, six outdoor scare zones, four sinister shows and roller coasters running in the dark. Amplified scares start at 6 p.m. on select nights.
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Belvedere Plantation Fall festival Virginia
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 31 2026 forecast
A working farm south of Fredericksburg whose Fall Festival of Fun centers on the Great Adventure Maize Maze, a pumpkin field and wagon rides, with a jumping pillow, pedal carts, a trike track and Pumpkin Mountain for younger kids. It sits on the I-95 corridor between DC and Richmond.
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The Farmstead Corn Maze & Pumpkin Festival Fall festival Idaho
Sep 12 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks October 17 2026 forecast
The Lowe family's agritourism farm in Kuna, southwest of Boise, cuts a fresh corn maze each fall and opens a pumpkin patch alongside hayrides, a jumping pillow, cow-train rides and slides, all under one general admission. The 2026 season runs September 12 to October 31, open evenings midweek and closed Sundays.
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The Haunted World Haunted attraction Idaho
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 18 2026 forecast
Billed as Idaho's largest indoor-and-outdoor haunt, this attraction sprawls across more than 40 acres of Caldwell farmland west of Boise, pairing a themed haunted house with a corn maze that runs over a mile long. It has been scaring visitors since 2000, and a full walk-through takes roughly two hours on weekends.
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The Bozeman Maze Corn maze Montana
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks September 20 2026 forecast
A family maze farm on the north edge of Bozeman that cuts a new design into the corn every fall, wrapped with hayrides, a mini-train, a bungee trampoline, corn bins and games. It opens Wednesday and Friday evenings and runs full days on Saturdays and Sundays through the harvest season.
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Montana Corn Maze Corn maze Montana
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks September 18 2026 forecast
West of Bozeman near Manhattan, this six-acre corn maze is cut with three difficulty levels and reached by a wagon ride out to the field. Trikes, disc golf, a six-hole mini-golf course, a barrel-train ride and weekend food vendors fill out the farm, with pumpkins and honey for sale at the market.
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Ellis' Harvest Home Corn maze Wyoming
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 18 2026 forecast
A working farm two miles west of Lingle on Highway 26 that has grown its corn maze for the better part of two decades, backed by a pumpkin patch of more than fifty varieties. Kids get a hay maze, two jumping pillows, a petting zoo of pigs, goats and alpacas, and grain-cart basketball.
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SonHarvest Seasons Pumpkin patch Wyoming
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 13 2026 forecast
A pick-your-own farm in Riverton, in Wyoming's Wind River country, that runs raspberries through summer then turns to a fall pumpkin-and-squash patch with a corn maze and handcrafted fall art for sale. The pumpkin patch opens Tuesday through Sunday and is closed Mondays.
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Alaska State Fair Fall festival Alaska
Aug 21 – Sep 7 Color nearby peaks August 23 2026 forecast
Alaska's biggest annual event takes over the Palmer fairgrounds in the Matanuska Valley for about twelve days at summer's end, long famous for the giant-vegetable weigh-offs that crown record-breaking cabbages. The 2026 fair runs August 21 through Labor Day on September 7, with concerts, carnival rides and food.
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Pyrah's Pioneer Peak Farm Fall Harvest Festival Fall festival Alaska
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks August 23 2026 forecast
A pick-your-own farm below Pioneer Peak in the Matanuska Valley, worked by the Pyrah family for three decades. Its Fall Harvest Festival, running since 2005, opens the pumpkin patch on September Saturdays with hayrides, a maze, barnyard animals and games for a flat all-day admission.
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Bengtson's Pumpkin Farm Pumpkin patch Illinois
Sep 4 – Nov 8 Color nearby peaks October 25 2026 forecast
Chicagoland's favorite fall festival and pumpkin patch since 1981, this Homer Glen farm packs 14 themed mechanical rides and 25-plus attractions into its 2026 Fall Fest, from a haunted barn and pig races to hayrides, a petting zoo and a giant corn box. The season runs Sept. 4 through Nov. 8, closed Sept. 8-10.
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Gary's Farm Fest Fall festival Kansas
Sep 25 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks October 29 2026 forecast
Founded by Gary and Julie Starr in 1993 and hosting a fall festival since 2000, this Grantville farm between Topeka and Lawrence spreads over 30 attractions across its acres, including a corn maze, pumpkin patch, pig races and an after-dark Trail of Lights. Its 2026 Fall Season runs Sept. 25 through Oct. 31.
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BoBrook Farms Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin patch Arkansas
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 10 2026 forecast
A working farm, event venue and winery in Roland just west of Little Rock. Its pick-your-own pumpkin patch opens to the public Fridays through Sundays, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., with hay-pyramid slides, a corn pit, pig races, hayrides and rubber-duck races all included.
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Peebles Farm Pumpkin Patch & Corn Maze Corn maze Arkansas
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 9 2026 forecast
An 800-acre organic vegetable farm on Highway 64 between Augusta and McCrory in east-central Arkansas. Each fall it opens a 16-acre themed corn maze, 60 acres of pick-your-own pumpkins and 9 acres of sunflowers and zinnias, plus hayrides, pony rides, a barnyard and duck races.
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Prairie Gardens Adventure Farm Pumpkin patch Alberta — Canadian Rockies
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 4 2026 forecast
A family farm on Lily Lake Road near Bon Accord, about 25 km north of Edmonton, growing more than 25 acres of pumpkins. Every fall it hosts its Fall-O-Ween and Haunted Pumpkin Festival over September and October weekends, a tradition of some 30 years, with a corn maze, hayrides and haunted trails.
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Calgary Farmyard Corn maze Alberta — Canadian Rockies
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 3 2026 forecast
A fun farm in Rocky View County just northeast of Calgary, long known as the Calgary Corn Maze & Fun Farm. Its fall run brings a corn maze, wagon rides, farm animals, pick-your-own pumpkins and warm apple cider, plus after-dark Harvest Lights evenings when the maze becomes a flashlight challenge.
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Farmland Adventures Corn maze Arkansas
Sep 11 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks November 5 2026 forecast
A Springdale farm whose giant corn maze anchors a fall festival in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas, alongside a pumpkin patch, sunflower u-pick, pig races, pony rides and a petting farm. Open Fridays through Sundays from mid-September, an easy trip from Fayetteville and Bentonville.
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Nightmare Vermont Haunted attraction Vermont
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 12 2026 forecast
An all-volunteer charity haunted house near Burlington, staged since 2004 with live stage combat and original immersive theater. This year's story pits vampires against werewolves through a mansion of family secrets and unholy doings, with small groups moving through together for the scares.
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Vengeance in the Valley at Gaines Farm Haunted attraction Vermont
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 16 2026 forecast
A haunted hayride and corn maze on a working Guilford farm two miles from the Massachusetts line, added to the family's fields six years ago. Wagons haul you into the dark before you're turned loose in the maze on your own, with scares built into both.
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Sam Mazza's Farm Market Corn Maze Corn maze Vermont
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 12 2026 forecast
Vermont's only three-mile corn maze, split into a one-mile and a two-mile route with twelve punch-card stations to track your progress. Weekend hayrides haul you out to the pumpkin patch, and the bakery's apple cider donuts are worth the stop on their own.
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Vermont Apple Festival & Craft Show Fall festival Vermont
Oct 10 – Oct 11 Color nearby peaks October 13 2026 forecast
A one-day, old-fashioned celebration of Vermont's apple harvest at Riverside Middle School, with a pie contest, more than sixty craft and food vendors, a farmers market, and live music on an outdoor dance floor. Kids race in the Fastest Kid in Town contest and try an obstacle course with the county sheriff's department.
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Fright Kingdom Haunted attraction New Hampshire
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 20 2026 forecast
The largest indoor haunted house in New England, forty minutes from Boston, built around five separately themed attractions from the gothic Bloodmare Manor to the sci-fi Apocalypse Z. Live actors work every room, and a costumed cast keeps the line outside entertained before you're let in.
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Cider Bellies Doughnuts at Moulton Farm Donuts & cider New Hampshire
Color nearby peaks October 15 2026 forecast
A doughnut shed on Moulton Farm's working vegetable and flower fields above Lake Winnipesaukee, frying cider doughnuts fresh every week. The farm market next door sells produce, baked goods, and seafood, so you can round out the stop with lunch before the doughnuts.
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DeMeritt Hill Farm Orchard New Hampshire
Color nearby peaks October 20 2026 forecast
A 120-acre family farm between Durham and Portsmouth, picking Cortland, Granny Smith, and half a dozen other apple varieties alongside pumpkins in the fall. Weekend hayrides run all day, and the farm bakery turns out cider doughnuts and pumpkin and peach pies.
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Sunnycrest Farm Orchard New Hampshire
Color nearby peaks October 19 2026 forecast
A pick-your-own farm south of Manchester that has grown fruit since 1943, moving from strawberries in June through peaches and grapes to a pumpkin patch by October. An ice cream stand and farm market anchor the property, and a picking hotline tells you what's actually ripe before you drive out.
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Farmington Fright Fest Haunted attraction Maine
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 13 2026 forecast
Western Maine's biggest Halloween event, staged at the Farmington Fairgrounds with three separate haunts: a sea-hag-haunted fishing wharf, a claustrophobic clown maze, and a sinister estate called Blackwater Hall. Food trucks and two dozen vendors set up around the haunts, and the last night ends in a costume contest.
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Thompson's Orchard Donuts & cider Maine
Color nearby peaks October 16 2026 forecast
A family orchard north of Portland that has fried apple cider doughnuts on site since 1906, still the reason most people pull off the road to stop here. The bakery now fills out a full menu of pies and baked goods, and live music plays most fall weekends.
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Ricker Hill Orchards Orchard Maine
Color nearby peaks October 14 2026 forecast
A working orchard in the hills above Turner with a corn maze, bounce houses, mini golf, and a petting zoo built around the main business of growing apples. Free tractor rides haul families between attractions, and the farm store sells fresh cider alongside the fruit.
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Saco Pumpkin Harvest Festival Fall festival Maine
Oct 24 – Oct 25 Color nearby peaks October 17 2026 forecast
A free, family-run harvest festival around Saco's CK Burns School and Dyer Library, organized by Saco Main Street every fall. Expect pumpkin-themed games, local vendors, and the kind of small-town crowd that turns a school parking lot into a block party for an afternoon.
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Barrett's Haunted Mansion Haunted attraction Massachusetts
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 25 2026 forecast
A mansion-themed haunted house south of Boston that combines indoor sets with an outdoor haunted trail, built up over more than two decades into one of the bigger scares on the South Shore. Timed tickets keep the line moving and go on sale night by night once the season is announced.
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Connors Farm Corn maze Massachusetts
Aug 30 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
A working farm on the North Shore where the corn maze gets a new theme every year, this season built around bumble bees as the Bee Happy Maze. General admission covers the petting zoo, pig races, hayrides, and pedal carts, with apple and pumpkin picking priced separately.
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The Big E Fall festival Massachusetts
Sep 18 – Oct 4 Color nearby peaks October 20 2026 forecast
New England's largest fair, seventeen days long, with a building for each of the six New England states, championship livestock barns, and the Avenue of States lined with food halls. It's the kind of scale where you plan a route in advance, since the cream puff line alone can take a while.
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Spellbound Tours Ghost tour Massachusetts
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
Salem's original paranormal walking tour, running since 2001 and starting at the Revere Bell outside the visitor center downtown. The ninety-minute route covers the real history behind the witch trials along with documented ghost stories and local vampire lore, rain or shine.
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Lyman Orchards Corn Maze Corn maze Connecticut
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
A corn maze cut into a new design each year at one of Connecticut's oldest working farms, paired with a Cider Donut Festival on opening weekend. The Apple Barrel Market next door sells the orchard's own cider and baked goods, and the maze traditionally opens the Saturday after Labor Day.
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Trail of Terror Haunted attraction Connecticut
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
A volunteer-run outdoor haunted trail through the woods, over forty-five minutes long and one of southern New England's longest-running Halloween traditions. Timed tickets are sold in advance for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights each October.
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Durham Fair Fall festival Connecticut
Sep 24 – Sep 27 Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
Connecticut's largest agricultural fair, four days of livestock judging, tractor pulls, and midway rides at the Durham fairgrounds. Food booths run by local nonprofits are as much a draw as the entertainment, and the exhibit halls fill with the county's produce, baking, and craft competitions.
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Belltown Hill Orchards Orchard Connecticut
Color nearby peaks October 21 2026 forecast
A fruit farm above the Connecticut River that has grown apples in South Glastonbury for a century, with pick-your-own hours that shift daily depending on what's ripe. A haunted corn maze runs some fall nights alongside the regular daytime picking, and the farm market stays open into December.
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Demon Woods at Seven Cedars Farm Haunted attraction Rhode Island
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
A haunted hayride through twenty-one acres of wooded trails northwest of Providence, adding new scenes each year alongside a few fan favorites. A heated waiting area and a movie screen make the line more bearable on cold nights, and a quieter non-scare version runs one weeknight for younger kids.
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Phantom Farms Donuts & cider Rhode Island
Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
An apple orchard and farm stand north of Providence known as much for its cider doughnuts as its pick-your-own trees. Weekend Fall Fest days add a haybale maze, hayrides, and caramel apples, while the bakery case runs doughnuts, apple crisp, and root beer floats all season.
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Confreda's Fall Festival Corn maze Rhode Island
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
A corn maze the size of seven football fields is the centerpiece of this family farm's fall festival, with free hayrides out to the pumpkin patch and more than two dozen activities included in admission. The farm grows its pumpkins across the Scituate, Hope, and Cranston countryside west of Providence.
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Franklin Farm Harvest Festival & Tractor Show Fall festival Rhode Island
Sep 26 – Sep 27 Color nearby peaks October 24 2026 forecast
A one-day fundraiser at a working Cumberland farm, with antique tractors on display, scenic hayrides, historic barn tours, and an Audubon raptor program alongside craft vendors and food trucks. It has run every fall for over a decade and stays small and local rather than commercial.
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Wickford Village Historic town Rhode Island
Color nearby peaks October 25 2026 forecast
One of the oldest preserved colonial villages in the Northeast, its harborfront streets lined with eighteenth-century houses turned into boutiques and galleries. October brings pumpkin decorating, a costume parade, and an official night of trick-or-treating through the shops, on top of the usual boat traffic and waterfront cafes.
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Arata Pumpkin Farm Pumpkin patch California
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 20 2026 forecast
A working pumpkin farm on the San Mateo coast, a few minutes from downtown Half Moon Bay, where a six acre cornfield called Pumpkin River backs up to a hay maze built like a minotaur's labyrinth. Kids ride the hayride and the mini train, pet farm animals, and wander a haunted barn before picking a pumpkin from the field.
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Lemos Farm Pumpkin patch California
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 20 2026 forecast
A small family farm on Highway 92 above Half Moon Bay that turns into a pumpkin patch every fall, with pony rides, a mini train, hayrides, and a petting zoo scaled for younger kids. The coastal fog usually burns off by late morning, leaving clear afternoons to walk the rows and pick your own pumpkin.
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Walker Apples Orchard California
Color nearby peaks November 13 2026 forecast
A family farm stand down a dirt road in the apple country west of Sebastopol, farming the same Sonoma County ground for more than a hundred years. The stand opens with Gravensteins in August and works through a rotating lineup of heirloom varieties until Pink Ladies close out the season in late November.
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Tilted Shed Ciderworks Cider mill California
Color nearby peaks November 13 2026 forecast
A small Sonoma County cidery working in wild ferments and unfiltered blends instead of the sweeter styles most tasting rooms pour. The apples come from local orchards rather than concentrate, and the tasting room north of Sebastopol opens Friday afternoons and Saturdays for pours straight from the tank.
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Festival Fright Nights at Winchester Mystery House Haunted attraction California
Sep 18 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks November 9 2026 forecast
Sarah Winchester's 160 room mansion, famous for stairs that lead nowhere and doors that open onto walls, becomes a haunted attraction on select nights each fall. Thirteenth Floor Entertainment Group built the mazes for 2026, using the house's real hallways and gardens instead of a warehouse set.
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SF Ghost Hunt Ghost tour California
Color nearby peaks November 19 2026 forecast
A 90 minute walk through Pacific Heights past mansions with a history of ghost sightings, led by a guide who has told these stories since 1998. You stop at the Chambers Mansion and a handful of other sites before the tour lets out at the Hotel Majestic for a drink. Tours run most of the year, with extra shows added in October.
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Sugarloaf Ridge State Park State park California
Peak November 12 2026 forecast
A 4,000 acre park in the Mayacamas Mountains above Kenwood, where big-leaf maple, buckeye, and a mix of oaks color the creek canyons while the surrounding hillsides stay green with bay laurel and Douglas fir. Twenty five miles of trail climb from the campground to Bald Mountain, and Sonoma Creek's waterfall runs best after the season's first rains.
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Six Flags Discovery Kingdom Fright Fest Haunted attraction California
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 16 2026 forecast
Vallejo's marine themed amusement park swaps its usual show animals and coasters for scare zones and haunted mazes each fall, without shutting down the rides. Fright Fest runs on select nights once the daytime crowds thin out, and the park has not yet posted its 2026 dates.
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Cool Patch Pumpkins Corn maze California
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 15 2026 forecast
A corn maze cut fresh into a new pattern every year on flat farmland outside Dixon, roughly halfway between Sacramento and the Bay Area on Interstate 80. Plan an hour and a half to find your way through, then let kids loose in the corn bath and hay castle while you pick pumpkins and squash from the patch out front.
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Bishop's Pumpkin Farm Pumpkin patch California
Aug 28 – Nov 15 Color nearby peaks November 13 2026 forecast
A Wheatland farm built around a u-pick pumpkin field big enough that most families ride the farm train just to get across it, plus a corn maze, carousel, and petting zoo for the younger kids. It opens for a preview weekend in late August, then runs daily from early September through mid November, about 40 minutes north of Sacramento.
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High Hill Ranch Orchard California
Color nearby peaks October 28 2026 forecast
One of the oldest and largest ranches on Apple Hill east of Placerville, open daily from mid-August to Christmas Eve for apple donuts and fritters straight out of the fryer, hayrides, pony rides, and a hard cider and wine tasting room. A craft fair with more than 60 vendors runs alongside the orchard on fall weekends.
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Rainbow Orchards Cider mill California
Aug 30 – Dec 7 Color nearby peaks October 27 2026 forecast
An Apple Hill orchard known for its hot apple cider donuts, pressed fresh at the on site cider mill alongside pies, cobblers, and tarts. Kids climb a hay bale maze in the picnic orchard while you wait for a fresh batch, and the ranch stays open into early December for a couple of bonus weekends after Thanksgiving.
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Abel's Apple Acres Orchard California
Color nearby peaks October 30 2026 forecast
A Placerville orchard that opens Labor Day weekend and stays open through Christmas Eve, with a mining themed adventure and a life-size maze running weekends and holidays. Stop at the activity center for a barbecue lunch between rounds of apple picking on the Carson Road side of Apple Hill.
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Delfino Farms Farm California
Color nearby peaks October 28 2026 forecast
A working Camino farm that stays open year round, pairing a bakery known for its apple pie with wine tasting at Edio Vineyards and hard cider from Henrietta Stich next door. Baby doll sheep, goats, and rabbits work the fence line along a short nature trail, a slower alternative to Apple Hill's busiest ranches.
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Coloma Historic town California
Color nearby peaks November 3 2026 forecast
The Sierra foothill town where James Marshall found gold in the American River in 1848 and set off the Gold Rush, now preserved as a state historic park with a reconstructed sawmill and old storefronts along the river. Pan for gold in the shallows, then drive twenty minutes up into Apple Hill for the rest of the afternoon.
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Placerville Historic town California
Color nearby peaks November 1 2026 forecast
The Gold Rush town that miners once called Hangtown, its Main Street still lined with brick storefronts and historical markers from the 1850s. It sits right below Apple Hill, so most visitors treat it as a stop on the way up rather than a destination itself, but the old town rewards a half hour of walking around before the orchards.
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Nuit de Terreur (Night of Terror) Haunted attraction Québec — Laurentians & Eastern Townships
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 14 2026 forecast
A haunted house in Laval, a short drive north of downtown Montreal, that rebuilds its maze and story each Halloween season. It runs as a full walk-through with actors and sets, closer to a theatrical scare than a quick jump-scare stop.
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Brome Fair (Expo Brome) Fall festival Québec — Laurentians & Eastern Townships
Sep 4 – Sep 7 Color nearby peaks October 11 2026 forecast
Quebec's largest rural agricultural fair, held in the Eastern Townships village of Brome over Labour Day weekend. Expect livestock judging, horse shows, a midway, a demolition derby, live music and crafts spread across four days on the fairgrounds.
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Verger de l'Abbaye de Rougemont Orchard Québec — Laurentians & Eastern Townships
Color nearby peaks October 13 2026 forecast
Cistercian monks run this u-pick apple and pear orchard on the slopes of Mont Rougemont, open Wednesday through Sunday from early September into mid-October. The first picking sack is required per car, and the shop stays open for pre-picked fruit even when rain closes the rows.
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La Face Cachee de la Pomme Cider mill Québec — Laurentians & Eastern Townships
Color nearby peaks October 14 2026 forecast
The Hemmingford cidery behind the Neige ice cider label, open daily all year for tastings and guided walks through the orchard and production rooms. It sits in Quebec's apple country south of Montreal, a short detour off the highway toward the US border.
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Halloween Haunt at Canada's Wonderland Haunted attraction Ontario — Algonquin & Muskoka
Sep 25 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks October 14 2026 forecast
Canada's Wonderland keeps its rides running after dark for Halloween Haunt, while haunted mazes and roaming scare actors take over the midways on select nights from late September to Halloween. It draws a mostly teen and adult crowd looking for rides along with the frights.
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Spirit Tree Estate Cidery Cider mill Ontario — Algonquin & Muskoka
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 12 2026 forecast
A fifty-acre orchard in the Caledon hills with a wood-fired bakery, a pizza oven and cider gardens. Pick your own apples from mid-September to Thanksgiving weekend, choosing from Honeycrisp to Northern Spy, then sit down for a flight of the estate's ciders.
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Applefest (Bowmanville) Fall festival Ontario — Algonquin & Muskoka
Oct 17 – Oct 18 Color nearby peaks October 16 2026 forecast
Downtown Bowmanville closes four blocks to traffic for a one-day street festival built around apples: cider, baked goods, an artisan craft market and live music, held the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Admission and parking are free.
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Salisbury Corn Maze Corn maze New Brunswick
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 11 2026 forecast
A corn maze behind the Green Pig Country Market in Salisbury, between Moncton and Fredericton, with a large maze that takes about ninety minutes and a shorter twenty-minute mini maze for younger kids. A pumpkin blaster and an after-dark haunted trail round out the fall lineup.
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Trueman Blueberry Farms Pumpkin patch New Brunswick
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 13 2026 forecast
Better known for its summer blueberries, this Aulac farm keeps its stand and Adventure Farm open into fall, with pumpkins among the crops and a Fall Festival on the calendar. It sits just off the Trans-Canada Highway near the Nova Scotia border.
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Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival Fall festival New Brunswick
Sep 15 – Sep 20 Color nearby peaks October 12 2026 forecast
Downtown Fredericton's historic venues host this jazz, blues and roots music festival every September, with roughly 125 performances across more than twenty stages. It fills the riverside city for six days and doubles as a good excuse for a fall weekend away.
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Hartland Covered Bridge Covered bridge New Brunswick
Color nearby peaks October 11 2026 forecast
The world's longest covered bridge spans the Saint John River at Hartland, stretching 1,282 feet since it opened in 1901. Walk or drive across for the view of the river valley, best once the hillsides along the water start turning color.
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Kentville Pumpkin People Festival Fall festival Nova Scotia — Cape Breton
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 15 2026 forecast
More than three hundred pumpkin-headed characters take over Kentville's Main Street and Park Street each October, dressed as everything from firefighters to movie characters. Follow the marked route from Exit 14 through downtown, stopping at shops and restaurants along the way.
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Bluenose Ghosts Haunted House Haunted attraction Nova Scotia — Cape Breton
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 20 2026 forecast
A haunted house at Alderney Landing on the Dartmouth waterfront, running evenings through October as part of the wider Bluenose Ghosts Festival. It is a quick ferry ride across the harbor from downtown Halifax.
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Hennigar's Farm Market Farm Nova Scotia — Cape Breton
Color nearby peaks October 16 2026 forecast
A Greenwich farm market near Wolfville that stays open through winter, selling fresh produce, baked goods and ice cream year round. In season it runs a sunflower u-pick, with the Annapolis Valley's apple orchards spread along the highway nearby.
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Annapolis Royal Historic town Nova Scotia — Cape Breton
Color nearby peaks October 13 2026 forecast
Once the capital of Nova Scotia and settled as Port-Royal, this Annapolis Valley town has more than 135 registered heritage buildings along its waterfront main street. The Harvest Moon Trailway starts here and runs past apple orchards and farmland, a natural add-on for a fall visit.
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Gros Morne Fall Festival Fall festival Newfoundland
Sep 17 – Sep 20 Color nearby peaks October 2 2026 forecast
A four-day celebration of crafts, music, food and culture in Cow Head, on the western coast beside Gros Morne National Park. Evening concerts, a craft fair, storytellers and oceanside dining fill out the program each September.
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Wright's Family Farm Pumpkin Festival Pumpkin patch Newfoundland
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 2 2026 forecast
A u-pick pumpkin patch and market on Main Street in Pasadena, near Deer Lake, that turns into a Pumpkin Festival over the first two weekends of October with rides alongside the pumpkins. The same farm grows strawberries, raspberries and blueberries earlier in the season.
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Agriculture Expo (Grand Falls-Windsor) Fall festival Newfoundland
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks September 29 2026 forecast
Central Newfoundland's Agriculture Expo takes over Joe Byrne Memorial Stadium in Grand Falls-Windsor each fall, with livestock, produce and equipment on display from farms across the region. It is one of the few places on the island to see the province's farm side up close.
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A Maze in Corn Corn maze Saskatchewan & Manitoba
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 10 2026 forecast
A corn maze in St. Adolphe, just south of Winnipeg, with a giant bale pyramid, a petting zoo and open country views across the fields. It reopens in mid-August for a sunflower expo before the maze itself takes over through the fall.
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The Shock House Haunted attraction Saskatchewan & Manitoba
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 8 2026 forecast
A haunted attraction on Broad Street in Regina, one of the longer-running names among Saskatchewan's Halloween haunts. Expect an indoor walk-through built for scares, a straightforward city-based alternative to a farm-field maze.
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Roland Pumpkin Fair Fall festival Saskatchewan & Manitoba
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 11 2026 forecast
A small Manitoba village ninety kilometers southwest of Winnipeg goes all in on giant pumpkins each October, with a weigh-off, a pumpkin smash, a pancake breakfast and a harvest supper. It has the feel of a community potluck built around vegetables the size of armchairs.
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Edmonton Corn Maze Corn maze Alberta — Canadian Rockies
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 5 2026 forecast
A corn maze west of Edmonton in Spruce Grove, with pumpkins ready for picking from early September. It closes over winter and spring, reopening by late summer to run through the fall season.
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Kraay Family Farm Pumpkin Days Pumpkin patch Alberta — Canadian Rockies
Sep 5 – Oct 17 Color nearby peaks October 5 2026 forecast
A Lacombe farm between Calgary and Edmonton that runs a corn maze, sunflower maze, jumping pillows, mini golf and gemstone mining alongside its fall Pumpkin Days. Fall hours run Wednesday through Saturday from early September to mid-October.
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Haunted Calgary Haunted attraction Alberta — Canadian Rockies
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks September 30 2026 forecast
A haunted attraction in Calgary that changes its theme every year, usually open the weekend closest to Halloween and on Halloween night itself. It runs as a social enterprise, so ticket sales support a broader community mission beyond the scares.
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Harvest Festival at the Reynolds-Alberta Museum Fall festival Alberta — Canadian Rockies
Sep 5 – Sep 6 Color nearby peaks October 5 2026 forecast
The Reynolds-Alberta Museum in Wetaskiwin turns its grounds over to steam and gasoline-powered threshing machines for a two-day Harvest Festival each September. Watch crops cut the way they were a century ago, alongside bread baking, plowing demonstrations and a petting zoo.
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Taves Family Farms Pumpkin patch British Columbia
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 11 2026 forecast
A Fraser Valley farm in Abbotsford with a pumpkin patch, corn mazes and a princess-carriage photo spot for younger kids. It is an easy stop between Vancouver and Chilliwack for a fall afternoon, part of the region's cluster of harvest farms.
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Fright Nights at Playland Haunted attraction British Columbia
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 7 2026 forecast
Playland's rides keep spinning after dark each October for Fright Nights, Western Canada's best-known haunt, with multiple haunted houses layered in alongside the midway. It runs on select nights at Vancouver's Hastings Park through Halloween.
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Fort Langley Cranberry Festival Fall festival British Columbia
Oct 10 – Oct 11 Color nearby peaks October 9 2026 forecast
Fort Langley's Glover Road closes to traffic for a one-day cranberry festival on Thanksgiving weekend, with more than a hundred vendors, food trucks, a pancake breakfast and canoe races. Fresh cranberries from regional growers are the main draw.
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Krause Berry Farms Farm British Columbia
Color nearby peaks October 12 2026 forecast
A Langley farm and bakery known for its berries, with a market, cafe and estate winery open seven days a week. It sits in the Fraser Valley farm belt southeast of Vancouver, a good stop alongside the area's pumpkin patches and corn mazes.
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Grandad's Apples 'N Such Donuts & cider North Carolina
Color nearby peaks November 2 2026 forecast
A working apple orchard on Chimney Rock Road just south of Hendersonville, with u-pick trees, a pumpkin patch, and a bakery turning out cider donuts and cinnamon rolls once the season opens in August. Wagon rides and a corn box round out a stop that fills up fast on fall weekends in the mountains.
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Carolina Renaissance Festival Fall festival North Carolina
Oct 3 – Nov 22 Color nearby peaks November 15 2026 forecast
Sixteenth-century Europe rebuilt in the woods north of Charlotte, with jousting knights, falconry, and a dozen stages of music and comedy running weekends from early October into late November. The oak canopy over the fairgrounds is well into color by the back half of the run.
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Rural Hill Corn Maze Corn maze North Carolina
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 14 2026 forecast
A corn maze cut into the fields of a working historic farm just north of Charlotte, open Friday through Sunday mornings into afternoons through October. Rural Hill also raises Scottish Highland cattle and hosts the Loch Norman Highland Games, so there is more here than the maze alone.
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North Carolina State Fair Fall festival North Carolina
Oct 15 – Oct 25 Color nearby peaks November 16 2026 forecast
Eleven days of rides and midway games at the state fairgrounds in west Raleigh, running mid to late October. Thousands of animals fill the livestock barns and deep-fried food stands line the walkways, an easy stop while the Piedmont oaks around Raleigh are turning.
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Millstone Creek Orchards Orchard North Carolina
Color nearby peaks November 15 2026 forecast
An orchard and cider house near Ramseur, between Greensboro and Raleigh, built around an Apple Barn market and a weekend Cider House pouring hard ciders alongside flatbreads and salads. U-pick peaches and blueberries run earlier in the year, with seasonal donuts from the barn once fall arrives.
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Dean's Farm Market Farm North Carolina
Color nearby peaks November 17 2026 forecast
A farm market and kitchen east of Raleigh in Wilson, where fall brings hayrides around the property and a free pumpkin for every paying rider. The market sells the farm's own produce alongside prepared food from its kitchen, an easy stop on the way toward the coastal plain's later color.
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Lazy 5 Ranch Farm North Carolina
Color nearby peaks November 15 2026 forecast
A drive-through wildlife ranch off I-77 in Mooresville, with giraffes, antelope, elk, and more along a three-and-a-half-mile trail you can feed from the car or see by horse-drawn wagon. Fall adds a pumpkin patch, a corn box, and a pumpkin slingshot to the regular animal-park visit.
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SCarowinds Haunted attraction North Carolina
Sep 11 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks November 14 2026 forecast
Carowinds turns into a scare park on the South Carolina line, with ambient scare zones threaded through the midways and separate pay-to-enter haunted mazes for anyone who wants a bigger jolt. Coasters like Fury 325 stay open into the night, running select dates from mid-September to Halloween week.
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Ghost City Tours (Charleston) Ghost tour South Carolina
Color nearby peaks November 24 2026 forecast
Charleston's history comes with a dark side, and this outfit walks it after dark. Pick from a family-friendly Ghosts of Liberty tour, a more graphic Death and Depravity tour for older guests, or a haunted pub crawl. Tours run every night of the year, rain or shine, from a meeting point near the waterfront.
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Windy Hill Orchard & Cidery Cider mill South Carolina
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 10 2026 forecast
An orchard and cider bar in the York County hills south of Charlotte, opening for its fall season in August with pick-your-own apples, cider donuts, and hard cider on tap. The farm stand also sells pre-picked apples and apple pies, with fire pits going on cool evenings.
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Legare Farms Farm South Carolina
Color nearby peaks November 24 2026 forecast
A 300-acre working farm on the Stono River outside Charleston, growing vegetables year-round and turning fully seasonal for its annual pumpkin patch and fall festival. Past the pumpkin field there is a small haunted house for older kids, plus the farm's usual CSA boxes and a rolling farmers market.
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South Carolina Apple Festival Fall festival South Carolina
Sep 10 – Sep 12 Color nearby peaks November 7 2026 forecast
Oconee County's harvest celebration takes over downtown Westminster for a weekend each September, with a parade and a rodeo, plus street vendors set against the orchards of nearby Long Creek. It sits at the foot of the Upstate mountains, close to Table Rock and Caesars Head as their color begins to turn.
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Bush-N-Vine Farm Farm South Carolina
Color nearby peaks November 10 2026 forecast
A working produce farm and market on the Filbert Highway in York County, with a pick-your-own pumpkin patch set up beside the store on fall Saturdays. The farm keeps regular grocery hours the rest of the week, so you can swing by for vegetables without waiting for the weekend crowd.
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Fall Artisan Market at Anne Springs Close Greenway Fall festival South Carolina
Oct 3 – Oct 4 Color nearby peaks November 14 2026 forecast
A one-day craft market at the Greenway Gateway in Fort Mill, just south of Charlotte, with local vendors selling home decor, candles, and holiday gifts among the trails of Anne Springs Close Greenway. The Greenway Canteen serves hot drinks and food on site, a good excuse to walk the trails while you shop.
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The Original Ghost Tour of Williamsburg Ghost tour Virginia
Color nearby peaks November 7 2026 forecast
Williamsburg's original ghost walk leaves from Merchants Square every night at eight, ninety minutes past the Capitol and the old Public Hospital while guides work through two centuries of local hauntings. It runs rain or shine, all year, so you do not need to time a trip around Halloween.
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Lilley Farms and Nursery Pumpkin patch Virginia
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 14 2026 forecast
A working farm and nursery on Chesapeake's Tyre Neck Road, where fall means picking your own pumpkin from the fields, working through a corn maze, and riding a hay wagon out to see the crop. It is a low-key alternative to the bigger Virginia Beach patches, with produce grown on site.
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Marker-Miller Orchards Donuts & cider Virginia
Color nearby peaks October 22 2026 forecast
This Winchester farm market fries apple cider donuts most mornings and keeps a full bakery case of pies and cakes next to its produce stand. Pick-your-own apples run from early August into November in the heart of Frederick County's orchard country, a short detour off Route 50.
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State Fair of Virginia Fall festival Virginia
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 1 2026 forecast
Virginia's state fair takes over Meadow Event Park in Doswell for about ten days each fall with livestock judging, a giant vegetable weigh-off, a carnival midway, and 4-H and FFA kids showing off a year of work. It is county fair energy scaled up to an entire state.
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Halloween Haunt at Kings Dominion Haunted attraction Virginia
Sep 18 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks November 1 2026 forecast
Kings Dominion swaps its usual coasters for scare mazes and roaming actors on select nights from mid-September through Halloween week, with the park's regular rides staying open after dark. It is a Richmond-area staple for anyone who wants a real haunt attached to a real theme park.
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Pocahontas State Park State park Virginia
Peak November 2 2026 forecast
Virginia's largest state park sits just southwest of Richmond, close to 8,000 acres of pine and hardwood forest laced with more than 90 miles of trail for hikers, mountain bikers, and horses. Fall thins the canopy enough to open up views over Swift Creek Lake that summer crowds miss.
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First Landing State Park State park Virginia
Peak November 16 2026 forecast
Where English colonists first came ashore in 1607, now a stretch of Virginia Beach with 20 miles of trail through bald cypress swamp, tidal lagoons, and maritime forest that runs right up to the Chesapeake Bay. The Cape Henry Trail is the easiest way to watch the color change over the water.
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Maymont Garden Virginia
Peak November 2 2026 forecast
A hundred-acre Richmond estate built around a Gilded Age mansion, with an Italian garden, a Japanese garden, and an arboretum of mature trees that turn hard in October. It is free to walk in, close enough to downtown that locals treat it as a regular after-work loop.
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Historic Downtown Fredericksburg Historic town Virginia
Color nearby peaks October 31 2026 forecast
Caroline Street runs through the middle of Fredericksburg's historic district, blocks of 18th and 19th century storefronts turned into galleries, antique shops, and restaurants between the courthouse and the Rappahannock River. Halfway between Richmond and Washington, it makes an easy fall day trip either direction.
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Great Country Farms Farm Virginia
Color nearby peaks October 27 2026 forecast
A Blue Ridge farm in Bluemont with pick-your-own apples and pumpkins, a corn maze that runs flashlight nights for teenagers, and a bakery and market open daily. It sits at the edge of Loudoun wine country, so a farm morning pairs easily with a winery stop on the way home.
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Mountain State Forest Festival Fall festival West Virginia
Sep 26 – Oct 4 Color nearby peaks October 13 2026 forecast
Elkins throws its biggest week of the year each fall: nine days of parades, a lumberjack contest, highland dancing, and a juried art show built around the theme Autumn in Color. It has run since the 1930s and still pulls more than 75,000 people into a town of about 7,000.
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Mothman Festival Fall festival West Virginia
Sep 19 – Sep 20 Color nearby peaks October 28 2026 forecast
Point Pleasant spends one weekend a year fully committed to its own cryptid legend, with Main Street closed for vendor booths, live bands, cosplay, and bus tours out to the old TNT area where the 1966 sightings began. The Mothman Museum anchors it all and stays open the rest of the year too.
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Hawk Knob Appalachian Hard Cider Cider mill West Virginia
Color nearby peaks October 14 2026 forecast
West Virginia's first hard cidery presses apples grown in the hills around Lewisburg into ciders you can taste through at a tasting room built into an old barn, with patio seating outside. It is open Thursday through Sunday all year, with bonfires on Friday nights once the weather turns.
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Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad Scenic railway West Virginia
Color nearby peaks October 17 2026 forecast
An open-air train follows the South Branch Potomac through the Trough, a gorge deep enough that bald eagles nest along its cliffs, departing from a restored depot outside Romney. The railroad runs a dedicated fall foliage trip each October with a sit-down meal on board.
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Kitchen's Orchard Farm Market Orchard West Virginia
Color nearby peaks October 26 2026 forecast
The only orchard and farm market based in Falling Waters, tucked into the Eastern Panhandle's apple country a few minutes off I-81. The market stays open most of the week for fruit and produce straight off the farm, without the crowds or the corn maze marketing of bigger operations nearby.
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Berkeley Springs Historic town West Virginia
Color nearby peaks October 21 2026 forecast
A spa town since George Washington's day, built around the same warm mineral springs that still fill the public bathhouse downtown. Its small grid of streets holds more restaurants and breweries than a town this size should, and it works as a home base for the Cacapon foliage drive nearby.
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Cacapon Resort State Park State park West Virginia
Peak October 20 2026 forecast
A 6,000-acre park in the Eastern Panhandle built around a golf course and a network of hiking trails that climb Cacapon Mountain for long views over the Potomac Highlands. The lodge sits right on the ridge, so the fall color show starts before you leave the parking lot.
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Canaan Valley Resort State Park State park West Virginia
Peak October 11 2026 forecast
The highest valley of its size east of the Mississippi, a boggy plateau in the Alleghenies where the birch and beech turn early and the drive in on Route 32 is reason enough to come. Locals plan the trip around the foliage every year, and the park's trails get you off the road and into it.
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Watoga State Park State park West Virginia
Peak October 13 2026 forecast
West Virginia's largest state park, more than 10,000 acres of Pocahontas County forest around a small lake, with trails built by the Civilian Conservation Corps still in use today. It sits close enough to Cass and Green Bank to fold into a longer weekend through the Potomac Highlands.
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West Virginia Pumpkin Festival Fall festival West Virginia
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 30 2026 forecast
Milton's Pumpkin Park spends early October on a full county-fair build-out: a grand parade, a pageant, a vendor marketplace, and contests that run out of the town's performing arts center. It is a Huntington-area tradition built specifically around the pumpkin, not folded into a general harvest theme.
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Hidden Rivers Farm Pumpkin patch Alabama
Sep 24 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks November 11 2026 forecast
A Morgan County farm halfway between Birmingham and Huntsville, open late September through Halloween for a pumpkin patch and corn maze. Kids launch pumpkins from an apple cannon, ride the zip line, dig for gems, and visit the animal pens, while parents claim a spot at the tailgate tent for Saturday football.
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Moundville Native American Festival Fall festival Alabama
Oct 1 – Oct 2 Color nearby peaks November 15 2026 forecast
Every October, Moundville Archaeological Park sets up between its earthen mounds south of Tuscaloosa for two days of Native American dance, music and storytelling. Artisans sell beadwork and pottery, and demonstrators show flintknapping and hide tanning against a backdrop the Mississippian people built a thousand years ago.
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Huntsville Ghost Walk Ghost tour Alabama
Sep 4 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks November 10 2026 forecast
Three historic Huntsville districts, three sets of ghost stories. Pick Twickenham, Old Town or downtown and your guide leads you past antebellum homes and courthouse-square storefronts on Friday and Saturday nights through September and October, adding Sunday tours once the calendar turns to October.
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Eufaula Historic town Alabama
Color nearby peaks November 22 2026 forecast
Eufaula holds one of Alabama's largest collections of homes on the National Register, antebellum mansions lined up along Broad Street and side streets shaded by live oaks. Walk it in October or November, once the humidity breaks and the porches and columns show up clean in the afternoon light.
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Insanitarium Haunted Attraction Haunted attraction Alabama
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 13 2026 forecast
A 10,000-square-foot walk-through haunt off Gadsden Highway northeast of Birmingham, built and run by the same crew year after year. Expect tight corridors and actors who never break character on Friday through Sunday nights each fall. Check the site before you drive out, since the exact fall dates land closer to the season.
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National Peanut Festival Fall festival Alabama
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 26 2026 forecast
Dothan's ten-day fair has run every fall since 1938, when the Wiregrass region first threw a party for its biggest crop. Expect a midway, livestock and pageant competitions, and a Shellabration weekend of music, timed to the peanut harvest around the fairgrounds.
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Mississippi State Fair Fall festival Mississippi
Oct 8 – Oct 18 Color nearby peaks November 20 2026 forecast
Eleven days every October, the Mississippi Fairgrounds in downtown Jackson fill with carnival rides, livestock barns and fair food, plus a concert lineup that changes every year. It is the state's biggest fall gathering, an easy walk from the Capitol for anyone staying downtown.
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McRaven Tour Home Ghost tour Mississippi
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 22 2026 forecast
McRaven calls itself Mississippi's most haunted house, a claim built on three families' worth of history packed into one Vicksburg home raised in stages from 1797 to 1849. A costumed guide walks you room by room, working ghost stories into the architecture and the Civil War damage still visible on the walls.
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Columbus, Mississippi Historic town Mississippi
Color nearby peaks November 15 2026 forecast
Columbus was laid out in 1821 and never lost its antebellum core, blocks of columned homes that survived the Civil War because the town became a hospital city instead of a battlefield. Its spring pilgrimage gets the publicity, but the porches and gardens hold up just as well on a quiet fall afternoon.
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Mitchell Farms Farm Mississippi
Color nearby peaks November 23 2026 forecast
A family farm in the Piney Woods that has grown row crops since 1960 and now opens its fields each fall for a pumpkin patch and corn maze, plus a Peanut Festival every October that pulls vendors in from across the South. It is built around school tours, but weekend families are welcome to walk the same ground.
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Bull Bottom Farms Corn maze Mississippi
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 17 2026 forecast
A north Mississippi corn maze big enough to lose an afternoon in, with a pumpkin patch, a magic-carpet slide and a jumping pillow for kids who tire of walking. The old country store sells snacks and souvenirs, and hayrides run out to the animal park between maze attempts.
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Landrum's Homestead & Village Historic town Mississippi
Color nearby peaks November 24 2026 forecast
Eighty-five buildings under a pecan grove outside Laurel recreate an 1800s Mississippi village, a schoolhouse, chapel and blacksmith shop you can walk through most days of the week. Fall brings the Ole Tyme Fall Festival, with pony rides, gem mining and blacksmithing demonstrations layered onto the regular tour.
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Farmer Jim's Pumpkin Patch & Corn Maze Corn maze Mississippi
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 20 2026 forecast
A working Delta farm off Highway 16 outside Rolling Fork where school buses and family cars park side by side each fall. Past the pumpkin storefront sit a full corn maze, a smaller kiddie version, a haunted maze after dark, and corn-filled pools that work like a sandbox for younger kids.
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Louisiana Renaissance Festival Fall festival Louisiana
Nov 7 – Dec 13 Color nearby peaks November 28 2026 forecast
A sixteenth-century English village rebuilt in the pines outside Hammond, with jousting, hundreds of costumed performers and turkey legs sold from open-air stalls. It runs weekends only, from early November into December, about forty miles east of New Orleans on River Road.
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Historic New Orleans Tours (Garden District) Ghost tour Louisiana
Color nearby peaks November 28 2026 forecast
A two-hour walk through the Garden District with a guide who is usually a working historian, ending at the wrought-iron gates of Lafayette Cemetery No. 1. The company has run tours since 1995 and leans on real research over jump scares, tracing the mansions back to the cotton and sugar money that built them.
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Natchitoches Historic town Louisiana
Color nearby peaks November 24 2026 forecast
Founded in 1714, Natchitoches is older than New Orleans and looks it, brick streets and ironwork balconies along Front Street above the Cane River. Free walking tours leave from the visitor center, and the same blocks that photograph so well in December light look just as good under a lower fall sun.
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Liuzza Land Corn maze Louisiana
Oct 1 – Nov 21 Color nearby peaks November 28 2026 forecast
A Tangipahoa Parish farm that opens its biggest corn maze yet each October, alongside pumpkin picking, tractor rides and a honeybee exhibit built for school groups. Reservations run in blocks through the third week of November, but self-guided family visits are welcome too.
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New Orleans Nightmare Haunted attraction Louisiana
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 28 2026 forecast
Two haunts under one roof near the Fair Grounds: House of Flesh, an abandoned morgue that chases you through freezer corridors, and Harvest of Crowe's, a field where a dead woman named Lucille rises every fall. Mini escape rooms and a 21-and-up horror bar round out the night for anyone who wants to keep going.
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International Rice Festival Fall festival Louisiana
Oct 15 – Oct 18 Color nearby peaks November 28 2026 forecast
Crowley calls this rice-harvest celebration the oldest and largest agricultural festival in Louisiana, four days of carnival rides, cook-offs and a downtown parade built around the crop that put the town on the map. It lands in mid-October, right as the Acadiana rice fields finish their harvest.
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Stone Mountain Park Pumpkin Festival Fall festival Georgia
Sep 19 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks November 13 2026 forecast
Stone Mountain Park runs its Pumpkin Festival every Friday through Sunday from mid-September to early November, daytime character meet-and-greets giving way after dark to a giant glowing pumpkin tree and a drone light show over the mountain. It is included with a regular attractions ticket, twenty minutes from downtown Atlanta.
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Reece's Cider Company Cider mill Georgia
Color nearby peaks November 5 2026 forecast
Sixteen hard ciders on tap, made from apples grown on the family's own trees across the road in Ellijay's orchard country. The taproom runs music and food trucks most weekends year-round, but fall is when the crowd from the neighboring orchards spills over for a glass after a morning of picking.
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Southern Belle Farm Corn maze Georgia
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 15 2026 forecast
A 330-acre working farm south of Atlanta that turns its fields over to fall each year, a four-acre corn maze, a pumpkin patch and more than twenty other attractions strung across the property. It is the same farm that runs berry and peach picking all summer, just dressed for October by the time the corn comes down.
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Scottsdale Farms Farm Georgia
Color nearby peaks November 11 2026 forecast
A 65-acre garden center north of Atlanta that turns part of its grounds into a pumpkin patch each fall, set behind a timber-frame barn full of home goods and a cafe. Most of what is for sale here, plants included, is built for the yard rather than just the season.
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Dahlonega Historic town Georgia
Color nearby peaks November 4 2026 forecast
Georgia's first gold rush started here in 1828, two decades before California's, and the brick courthouse square still anchors a downtown listed on the National Historic Register. Walk it in fall for the mountain air, then head into the surrounding hills where the same roads lead to Ellijay's orchards and cider houses.
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Deering Estate Historic Ghost Tours Ghost tour Florida
Oct 1 – Oct 29 Color nearby peaks November 30 2026 forecast
The Deering Estate runs guided night walks through its grounds on select October evenings, pairing real history about the property's past residents with reports of paranormal activity near the boat basin and Richmond Cottage. Tours run 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., and bringing your own EMF meter is welcome.
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Jungle Island Horrorland Haunted attraction Florida
Sep 13 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks November 30 2026 forecast
Jungle Island turns its Watson Island park into Horrorland from September 13 to October 31, 2026, with five haunted houses on one ticket, outdoor scare zones, a coffin-themed bar, and a food village after dark. The park calls it Miami's largest Halloween event.
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Bedner's Farm Fresh Market Fall Festival Corn maze Florida
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks December 1 2026 forecast
Bedner's Farm Fresh Market runs its Fall Festival on a working farm west of Boynton Beach, with a corn maze and pumpkin patch as the main draws alongside tractor rides and a weekend petting zoo. U-pick sunflowers open in October too, on a farm that sells produce here year round.
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First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin patch Florida
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 30 2026 forecast
Each October this Hollywood church parking lot fills with thousands of pumpkins for a community patch that funds the church's Learning Centers. Pick a pumpkin, take photos among the hay bales, and catch the Fall Festival and movie night the church runs alongside it.
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The Little Farm Redland Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin patch Florida
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks December 1 2026 forecast
This working farm in the Redland pairs a pick-your-own pumpkin patch with a hay maze, pony rides, and a petting zoo, plus access to its butterfly garden. Admission covers the farm for the day, and pumpkins themselves are priced separately by size.
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Pumpkin Towne Wellington Pumpkin patch Florida
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks December 1 2026 forecast
Pumpkin Towne sets up on State Road 7 in Wellington each October, selling pie, carving, and heirloom pumpkins by the pound alongside games and photo spots for the kids. It is a seasonal pop-up lot, closed the rest of the year and reopening each fall.
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Southern Hill Farms Farm Florida
Color nearby peaks December 5 2026 forecast
A 120-acre family farm outside Clermont with u-pick blueberries, peaches, strawberries, and blackberries most of the year, plus a Fun Zone and pavilion rentals. Fall brings pumpkins, sunflowers, and a Fall Festival, though the farm closes for summer between u-pick seasons, so check hours first.
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Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens Garden Florida
Peak December 4 2026 forecast
This Sanford zoo threads themed plant collections, a butterfly garden, and a health and wellness herb garden around its animal habitats. Every October the grounds add Zoo Boo Bash on select weekends, with trick-or-treat stations set along the paths for costumed kids.
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Howl-O-Scream at SeaWorld Orlando Haunted attraction Florida
Sep 11 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks December 5 2026 forecast
SeaWorld Orlando turns into a nighttime scare park on select evenings from September 11 to October 31, 2026, with five haunted houses, six scare zones, and roaming hordes working the midway after the daytime rides shut down. Gates for the event open at 6:30 p.m.
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American Ghost Adventures Orlando Ghost tour Florida
Color nearby peaks December 5 2026 forecast
This locally run, investigation-style ghost tour walks downtown Orlando's older buildings using paranormal equipment instead of costumed actors. Tours start from Pine Street and run every day of the year, with options from a two-hour classic walk to a four-hour deep investigation.
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Mount Dora Craft Fair Fall festival Florida
Oct 24 – Oct 25 Color nearby peaks December 5 2026 forecast
Historic downtown Mount Dora fills with more than 350 fine art and craft exhibitors for a two-day fair on October 24 and 25, 2026, with food, music, and drinks along the lakefront streets. Sunshine Artist Magazine ranked it the top craft festival in the country in 2021.
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Club Lake Venue Fall Festival Corn maze Florida
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks December 5 2026 forecast
A wedding venue on a 43-acre ranch outside Apopka opens its fields each fall for a festival built around a corn maze, a toddler maze, and a pick-your-own pumpkin patch. Past seasons ran Thursday through Sunday from late September through Halloween, with hayrides, a country store, and a cow-themed car wash for kids.
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Hagerty Farms Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin patch Florida
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks December 4 2026 forecast
This seasonal pumpkin patch sets up on the grounds of Hagerty High School in Oviedo, with a spider web maze and fall photo backdrops rather than a working farm. There are no hayrides or animals here, just pumpkins to pick out and games to play with the kids.
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Mortem Manor Haunted attraction Florida
Color nearby peaks December 5 2026 forecast
Billed as Florida's only year-round haunted house, this two-story Victorian-themed attraction in Old Town Kissimmee runs live actors, animatronics, and special effects on select days all twelve months, not just around Halloween. Travel Channel has named it one of America's scariest haunted houses.
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Fox Squirrel Corn Maze Corn maze Florida
Sep 26 – Oct 25 Color nearby peaks December 5 2026 forecast
East of Plant City, this family farm cuts a new corn maze every year and opens weekends only, late September to late October. One ticket covers the maze, hayrides, duck races, a giant jump pad, and a pumpkin patch set up for photos.
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Harvest Holler Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin patch Florida
Sep 18 – Nov 15 Color nearby peaks December 5 2026 forecast
A working farm in Polk City runs its corn maze and pumpkin patch from mid-September to mid-November, with tractor-pulled hayrides through the fields, a cow train, live animal demonstrations, and a play fort built from an old tractor slide.
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Scream-A-Geddon Haunted attraction Florida
Aug 29 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks December 2 2026 forecast
This horror park spreads five haunted attractions across a wooded stretch of Pasco County, from a rebuilt circus maze to a pitch-dark bayou walk, plus a separate zombie paintball assault. The 2026 season opens August 29 and runs weekend nights into November.
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Pemberton Haunted Acres Haunted attraction Florida
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks December 4 2026 forecast
This Plant City haunted house sits on Rocking V Ranch and runs two mazes, Hillbilly Mayhem and Krow's Revenge, with a third attraction promised as a full re-theme this year. Parking is free, tickets are sold online, and a season pass covers repeat visits.
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UNDead in the Water Haunted attraction Florida
Sep 26 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks December 2 2026 forecast
This Tampa haunt sends you through the darkened decks of the WWII cargo ship American Victory, docked behind the Florida Aquarium downtown. The 2026 run covers select Friday and Saturday nights from late September through Halloween weekend.
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Ybor City Ghost Tour Ghost tour Florida
Color nearby peaks December 2 2026 forecast
A nightly walking tour through Ybor City's old cigar-factory streets, starting at King Corona Cigars and ending inside the Cuban Club, one of the neighborhood's oldest buildings. Guides mix real local history with the ghost stories that have grown up around it.
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Dakin Dairy Farms Farm Florida
Color nearby peaks December 4 2026 forecast
A working dairy farm in Myakka City east of Sarasota, milking its own herd and selling fresh milk, cheese, and ice cream from the farm store. Most falls the fields open for a corn maze, sunflower and pumpkin picking, calf visits, and lawn mower races, so it is worth calling ahead for the current schedule.
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Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Downtown Sarasota Campus Garden Florida
Peak November 30 2026 forecast
Selby Gardens' bayfront campus in downtown Sarasota holds an internationally known collection of orchids and other epiphytes. Each October the paths turn over to families for Spooktacular, a costumed Sunday morning of trick-or-treating, crafts, and mild scares for older kids.
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Six Flags Great Adventure Fright Fest Haunted attraction New Jersey
Sep 18 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks November 6 2026 forecast
Six Flags Great Adventure trades daytime crowds for fog-lit scare zones once Fright Fest starts, with live shows and pay-to-enter haunted mazes worked by costumed actors across the Jackson park. Regular coasters like Nitro keep running after dark, so a scare and a loop on a roller coaster fit into the same night.
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Wightman Farms Cider mill New Jersey
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 29 2026 forecast
A working orchard and cider mill on Route 202 outside Morristown, where the market bakes fresh donuts, pies, and cookies steps from where the cider gets pressed. The Wightman family has farmed this land since 1922, and fall brings an Autumn Harvest Festival with pick-your-own fruit alongside the everyday bakery counter.
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Eastmont Orchards Pumpkin patch New Jersey
Sep 18 – Oct 25 Color nearby peaks November 5 2026 forecast
A Colts Neck farm that has closed its peach orchard for 2026 and given the season over entirely to pumpkins, open Friday through Sunday from mid-September to late October. It is a small, low-key patch built around a wagon and a field of pumpkins, the sort of place Monmouth County families return to every fall.
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Black River & Western Railroad Pumpkin Train Scenic railway New Jersey
Color nearby peaks October 31 2026 forecast
Board a vintage train at the Ringoes station and ride out to Everitt Farms for pumpkin picking and a hayride before looping back through the Hunterdon County countryside. The Black River & Western has run this stretch of track for more than 50 years, and the fall Pumpkin Train sits alongside its year-round Black River Limited and holiday trains.
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Chester Fall Craft Show Fall festival New Jersey
Sep 12 – Sep 13 Color nearby peaks October 27 2026 forecast
Twice a year historic Chester lines Main Street with vendor tents for one of the Northeast's longest-running craft shows, and the 2026 fall edition lands September 12 and 13, ten to five both days. Handmade goods and antiques fill the sidewalks within walking distance of more than 80 shops and restaurants in this small Morris County village.
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Wemrock Orchards Orchard New Jersey
Color nearby peaks November 5 2026 forecast
A Freehold orchard that presses its own apples into cider, then fries some of that cider into cinnamon-sugar donuts made fresh at the farm market. Come for u-pick trees and stay for the pies, breads, and produce that this family orchard has been selling in Monmouth County for around 50 years.
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Lambertville Historic town New Jersey
Color nearby peaks October 31 2026 forecast
An old canal town on the Delaware River, facing New Hope across the water, where restored 18th and 19th century houses line streets that make up nearly the entire National Register historic district. The towpath along the old feeder canal gives walkers and cyclists river views in every season, and fall pulls in gallery hoppers and antique shoppers by the carload.
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Ramsey's Farm Farm Delaware
Color nearby peaks November 2 2026 forecast
Family-run outside Wilmington since 1860, Ramsey's Farm still centers on a pumpkin patch and corn maze each fall, alongside a produce stand and even a small herd of wagyu beef cattle. It is a working farm where the main draw shifts with the season, and autumn means hayrides, a maze to get lost in, and pumpkins by the wagonload.
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New Castle Historic town Delaware
Color nearby peaks November 3 2026 forecast
Six miles south of Wilmington on the Delaware River, New Castle packs around 500 buildings dating from 1700 to 1940 into a district about four blocks square, all of it a National Historic Landmark since 1967. Cobblestone streets, colonial rowhouses, and a central green make it an easy, walkable stop on a fall afternoon.
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Apple-Scrapple Festival Fall festival Delaware
Oct 9 – Oct 10 Color nearby peaks November 7 2026 forecast
Bridgeville's signature festival takes over downtown for a weekend built around scrapple, the pork-and-cornmeal loaf that is a Delmarva breakfast staple, alongside apples from the surrounding orchards. The 2026 dates are October 9 and 10, opening at 4 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. Saturday, with craft vendors, live music, and a food court filling the streets both days.
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Odessa Historic town Delaware
Color nearby peaks November 4 2026 forecast
Founded in 1721 as Cantwell's Bridge, this small Delaware port town once shipped wheat and corn down the creek to the bay, and its historic district still holds the brick homes and old tanneries built on that trade. It draws far fewer visitors than New Castle, with the same 18th century brick facades and quiet, narrow streets.
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Milburn Orchards Cider mill Maryland
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 2 2026 forecast
An Elkton orchard known around Cecil County for its apple cider donuts, made fresh daily at the farm market alongside pies, fruit breads, and fudge. The Fall Festival adds hayrides through the orchard, a straw bale maze, and a corn maze, though the 2026 festival dates were not posted yet, so it is worth checking the calendar before you drive out.
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Maryland Renaissance Festival Fall festival Maryland
Aug 29 – Oct 25 Color nearby peaks November 5 2026 forecast
A wooded fairground in Crownsville turns into a 16th century village every fall weekend, with jousting, jesters, and more than a hundred craft and food vendors under the trees. The 2026 run spans nineteen days between August 29 and October 25, weekends only, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., a short drive from both Annapolis and Baltimore.
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Summers Farm Farm Maryland
Color nearby peaks October 31 2026 forecast
For close to 30 years, this Frederick County farm has built its fall around a themed corn maze, past ones cut in the shape of local sports heroes, plus a pumpkin train, hayrides, and dozens of other activities bundled under one ticket. The farm also runs a flower festival in late summer, but by September the corn maze is the main event.
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Ellicott City Historic town Maryland
Color nearby peaks November 4 2026 forecast
Three Quaker brothers founded this mill town on the Patapsco River in 1771, and its steep Main Street still holds the granite storefronts that grew up around their mills. Filled today with antique shops and restaurants, the historic district anchors the oldest surviving train station in the country, a short drive from both Baltimore and Washington.
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Larriland Farm Farm Maryland
Color nearby peaks November 2 2026 forecast
Three generations deep in Woodbine, Larriland Farm has grown its own produce since 1973 rather than buying it in, and the pick-your-own season runs from late May clear through mid-November across more than 20 crops. By fall that means apples and pumpkins alongside the farm's own fields, with a field ticket needed to start picking.
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Clark's Elioak Farm Farm Maryland
Color nearby peaks November 3 2026 forecast
Once home to figures from Baltimore's old Enchanted Forest storybook park, Clark's Elioak Farm folds those fairy tale statues into a working petting farm outside Ellicott City. Its fall pumpkin patch runs alongside the usual barnyard animals and play areas, open most of the year from late March into November.
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Highland Orchards Orchard Pennsylvania
Color nearby peaks October 31 2026 forecast
West Chester's go-to orchard for pick-your-own fruit, with a corn maze, apple cannons, and hayrides filling out the fall lineup alongside a bakery known for apple cider donuts once named among the best in Philadelphia. The farm market and picking fields sit just outside town, an easy add-on to a Brandywine Valley day trip.
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Weaver's Orchard Orchard Pennsylvania
Color nearby peaks October 28 2026 forecast
Set where Berks, Chester, and Lancaster counties meet, Weaver's Orchard runs its pick-your-own season from Memorial Day strawberries through pumpkins in late October, pressing its own award-winning cider along the way. The farm market stays open all year, but fall is when the orchard rows fill with apple pickers working through dozens of varieties.
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Valley of Fear & Original Haunted Hayride Haunted attraction Pennsylvania
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 3 2026 forecast
Running for 36 years, Valley of Fear puts on three separate scares in Feasterville: a haunted hayride through the woods, a walk-through called Miles Manor, and an indoor maze themed around a shipwreck. It is one of Bucks County's longest-running haunts, with new sets built for the 2026 season, though exact dates were not yet posted.
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Peddler's Village Scarecrow Festival Fall festival Pennsylvania
Sep 19 – Sep 20 Color nearby peaks October 31 2026 forecast
Every September, more than 150 handmade scarecrows take over this Bucks County shopping village, staying on display from September 7 through October 26 while the festival weekend itself brings scarecrow-making workshops and pumpkin painting. The 2026 festival runs September 19 and 20, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., with free admission and parking.
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Linvilla Orchards Orchard Pennsylvania
Color nearby peaks November 2 2026 forecast
Halfway between Philadelphia and Wilmington, Linvilla Orchards turns part of its grounds into Pumpkinland each fall, with pick-your-own fields, hayrides, and a farm market known for cider and doughnuts. The rest of the orchard keeps going too, with a fishing pond, a beer garden, and produce fields beyond the pumpkin patch.
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Spooks and Spirits Haunted Tours Ghost tour Montana
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks September 28 2026 forecast
A two hour walking tour through Uptown Butte's mining era streets, stopping at sites tied to the city's documented hauntings, from old boarding houses to former saloons. Guides work in real local history about the copper kings and the hard lives of the miners who built the Mining City.
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Harvest Fest at Ravalli County Fairgrounds Fall festival Montana
Oct 17 – Oct 18 Color nearby peaks September 29 2026 forecast
Local makers fill heated vendor barns at the Ravalli County Fairgrounds for a fall craft market, with Halloween and holiday goods laid out side by side and a food truck parked outside. The main day runs one Saturday in mid October, with a bonus free admission day right after.
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Missoula Fall Fest at Grass Valley Farms Corn maze Montana
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks September 25 2026 forecast
A brand new corn maze cut into the fields at Grass Valley Farms outside Missoula, with three difficulty levels and more than five miles of paths. Between maze runs you can ride the barrel train, climb the giant hay slide, pick a pumpkin, and let the kids loose in the petting zoo.
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Philipsburg Historic town Montana
Color nearby peaks September 29 2026 forecast
A silver mining town gone quiet, with a false front Broadway Street that still looks much like it did a century ago. Granite County's sapphire mines and a scatter of real ghost towns sit in the hills around it, and the Sweet Palace candy shop anchors the downtown block.
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Nightmare on 17th Street Haunted attraction Wyoming
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 15 2026 forecast
Downtown Cheyenne's haunted house has been scaring visitors for nearly three decades, opening Friday and Saturday nights through October plus Halloween itself. It is a straightforward walk through haunt: no theme park production, just actors working a dark historic building.
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Cheyenne Halloween Harvest Market Fall festival Wyoming
Oct 17 – Oct 18 Color nearby peaks October 17 2026 forecast
More than 200 vendors set up at the Event Center at Archer for this one day fall market, with trunk or treat stations, carnival games, and concessions spread across the grounds. Kids come in costume, and the whole thing wraps up by mid afternoon.
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South Pass City Historic town Wyoming
Color nearby peaks October 6 2026 forecast
A real gold rush ghost town in the Wind River foothills, with 23 original buildings, including the Carissa Saloon, still standing along its dirt main street. The townsite and trails stay open to walk through even after the staffed season winds down each fall.
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Windy Creek Farm Pumpkin patch Wyoming
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 16 2026 forecast
A small family farm south of Cheyenne growing Wyoming pumpkins and field to table produce, with a greenhouse and a herd of miniature Hereford cattle on the side. Come fall there is a pumpkin patch to walk and a scarecrow dressing contest for the kids to enter.
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Ten Mile Farms Corn maze Idaho
Sep 10 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks October 17 2026 forecast
A Meridian farm just outside Boise running a corn maze with both a quick family route and a full sized version for anyone who wants to get properly lost. The pumpkin patch, hayrides, barrel train, and straw bale slides run six days a week from mid September through Halloween.
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Fright Nights at the Old Idaho Penitentiary Haunted attraction Idaho
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 15 2026 forecast
The state's actual 19th century territorial prison turns into a haunted house for adults only nights each October, with actors working the old cell blocks and infirmary where inmates really lived and died. It bills itself as Idaho's only haunted cell house, and it is not exaggerating.
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Harvest Market & Apple Palooza Fall festival Idaho
Oct 17 – Oct 18 Color nearby peaks October 10 2026 forecast
Downtown Coeur d'Alene's farmers market turns into an apple tasting crawl for one October Saturday, with shops along 5th Street handing out samples of apple pie, mulled cider and caramel apples. Ticket holders vote for their favorite, and the winning shop takes home the Golden Apple.
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Rowley's Red Barn Corn maze Utah
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 6 2026 forecast
A Utah County fruit farm at the foot of the Wasatch running a fall festival built around a corn maze that gets a new design every year, plus a pumpkin patch reached by hayride through the orchard. Every ticket includes a train ride, and the farm store sells its own jams and salsa year round.
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Snowbird Oktoberfest Fall festival Utah
Aug 8 – Oct 11 Color nearby peaks October 5 2026 forecast
Snowbird resort claims the biggest Oktoberfest in North America, with more than 50 beers, Bavarian food, and live music running most weekends from early August into October. The mountainside setting means you can ride the tram over turning aspen color by the later weekends of the run.
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Etta Place Cidery & Taproom Cider mill Utah
Color nearby peaks October 11 2026 forecast
A farm to bottle cidery and taproom in Torrey, the closest full bar to Capitol Reef National Park. The lineup runs through dry and semi sweet ciders alongside meads, all made from Utah fruit, and the taproom keeps regular hours year round with a rotating events calendar.
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Park City Historic town Utah
Color nearby peaks October 4 2026 forecast
Park City's Main Street still runs through a row of 19th century mining buildings, now holding galleries, restaurants and ski shops, with the Wasatch Back turning gold and orange around it in October. It sits close enough to Salt Lake City for an easy fall day trip.
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Chatfield Farms Farm Colorado
Color nearby peaks October 8 2026 forecast
Denver Botanic Gardens' working farm south of the city spreads a pumpkin patch across ten acres and cuts a new corn maze into the fields every fall, with hayrides and an antique tractor display filling out the grounds. There is even pumpkin daycare, so you are not hauling one around all day.
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Denver Oktoberfest Fall festival Colorado
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 10 2026 forecast
Denver's Ballpark neighborhood shuts down Larimer Street for the longest running Oktoberfest in the country, now more than five decades old, with steins, brats, and a stein hoisting contest spread across two free weekends in September.
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Haunted Fort Haunted attraction North Dakota
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 6 2026 forecast
Fort Abraham Lincoln's reconstructed 1870s military buildings, the same ones George Custer once walked, get turned into a haunted house on select October weekends. Actors work the barracks and stables, and the state park setting means real frontier history sits under every scare.
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Ellendale AppleFest Fall festival North Dakota
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 9 2026 forecast
A small town celebration that takes over Ellendale's Main Street for a day, with a parade, a kids' pedal pull, a rib cook off, and an apple pie contest that is the actual reason for the season. The day runs from a morning fun run to late night teen bowling.
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Bonanzaville Historic town North Dakota
Color nearby peaks October 8 2026 forecast
More than 40 preserved buildings make up this pioneer village outside Fargo, among them a one-room schoolhouse and an old general store from the Red River Valley's settlement era. Fall hours run weekdays only, so a Saturday visit means the gates are closed.
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Nelson's Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin patch North Dakota
Sep 5 – Oct 25 Color nearby peaks October 5 2026 forecast
A Grand Forks area pumpkin patch with a corn cannon, a game called Pumpkin Pitch, a maze named after Spookley the Square Pumpkin, and a haunted house included in admission. It runs weekends and weekday afternoons from early September to late October.
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Terror 29 Haunted attraction South Dakota
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 14 2026 forecast
A Sioux Falls area haunted house built around a fictional murder in the Ravenwood family home, with a separate zombie themed corn maze a few minutes away and a nighttime trail through a YMCA camp across town. Three different scares run under one ticket brand each October.
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The Great Downtown Pumpkin Festival Fall festival South Dakota
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 15 2026 forecast
Downtown Rapid City's biggest fall event fills Main Street Square with a giant pumpkin weigh off, a pumpkin catapult, carving stations, and dozens of vendors, all free to attend. It has grown into the kind of tradition locals plan their October Saturday around.
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Deadwood Historic town South Dakota
Color nearby peaks October 11 2026 forecast
A National Historic Landmark gold rush town where the false front buildings on Main Street date to the 1870s and 1880s, now mixed in with casinos and saloons. It sits at the mouth of Spearfish Canyon, so a fall color drive and a walk through Deadwood pair naturally.
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Spearfish Valley Produce Corn maze South Dakota
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 14 2026 forecast
A family farm three miles northwest of Spearfish running its corn maze and pumpkin patch for over a decade, with hayrides on weekends and a straightforward patch where you pick your own pumpkin. It sits close enough to Spearfish Canyon for a two stop fall day.
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Reindeer Farm Fall Family Fun Event Pumpkin patch Alaska
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks August 23 2026 forecast
The Matanuska Valley's reindeer farm adds a self guided Fall Family Fun Event each October, with a pumpkin patch and hay maze alongside the usual reindeer feeding and tractor rides. Tickets sell out early most years, so this is not a same day walk up plan.
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Haunted Trails at Goose Lake Park Haunted attraction Alaska
Oct 16 – Oct 17 Color nearby peaks September 2 2026 forecast
Anchorage Parks and Recreation turns a stretch of Goose Lake Park into a scare route after dark for one October night, with a gentler Enchanted Trail version for younger kids the next afternoon. A shuttle runs from the University of Alaska Anchorage for both events.
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Moe's Cider Mill Cider mill Ohio
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 24 2026 forecast
A small family cider mill on the Vermilion River between Cleveland and Sandusky, pressing unpasteurized apple cider the old way and frying cider doughnuts to go with it. Stop in for caramel apples and cider vinegar too, then keep driving toward the Lake Erie shoreline for the rest of the color.
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Branstool Orchards & Farm Market Orchard Ohio
Color nearby peaks October 22 2026 forecast
A farm market east of Newark where you can pick your own apples and load up on pumpkins and gourds for the porch. The bakery turns out fresh doughnuts daily, and the orchard rows make a quiet stop on the way through Licking County's back roads in October.
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Patterson Fruit Farm Orchard Ohio
Color nearby peaks October 24 2026 forecast
Seven generations of the same family have worked this Chesterland orchard southeast of Cleveland, and the pick-your-own rows still fill up on crisp fall weekends. The Family Fun Fest adds pumpkins and kid-friendly play, with the market and bakery down the road for cider and baked goods to take home.
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Mapleside Farms Pumpkin patch Ohio
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
Mapleside has farmed this stretch of Medina County since 1927, and every fall the fields turn into Pumpkin Village, more than 100 acres of slides, mazes and pick-your-own pumpkins south of Cleveland. Save room for the cider and doughnuts on the way out, a house specialty since long before the rides showed up.
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Timbuk Farms Fall Fest Fall festival Ohio
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 22 2026 forecast
One of central Ohio's oldest tree farms turns its fields near Granville into a fall fest each year, with a corn maze cut through the rows, pick-your-own pumpkins, and thousands of mums in bloom around the barns. Food trucks and live music fill the weekends, an easy detour east of Columbus.
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Apple Hill Orchards Orchard Ohio
Color nearby peaks October 21 2026 forecast
A working orchard between Columbus and Cleveland where you pick your own apples starting with Paula Reds in August and running into fall. The cider press is self-serve, you bottle what you make, and the apple doughnuts are why regulars keep coming back through Mansfield's harvest season.
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Ohio Sauerkraut Festival Fall festival Ohio
Oct 10 – Oct 11 Color nearby peaks October 24 2026 forecast
Downtown Waynesville shuts down Main Street every second weekend of October for a sauerkraut-themed street fair that has grown to hundreds of craft booths and food stalls. The 2026 dates are October 10 and 11, with the small brick storefronts of this southwest Ohio village dressed for fall the whole weekend.
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Stuckey Farm Orchard and Cider Mill Cider mill Indiana
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 25 2026 forecast
North of Indianapolis in Hamilton County, Stuckey Farm presses its own cider and fries the doughnuts to match, the kind of stop locals build a whole Saturday around. The orchard rows and farm market fill in the rest of an afternoon before you head back into the city.
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Autumntidings Fall Fest Fall festival Indiana
Oct 17 – Oct 18 Color nearby peaks October 26 2026 forecast
The Indianapolis Art Center throws this one-day cider festival every October, pairing tastings from Ash and Elm Cider Co. with live music, vendor booths and games for kids and dogs on the lawn along the White River. It lands on October 17, 2026, a compact way to catch fall color and local cider in one afternoon.
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Waterman's Family Farm Pumpkin patch Indiana
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 26 2026 forecast
A family farm on the east side of Indianapolis that has run its pumpkin patch since 1978, now with a walk-through dinosaur exhibit alongside the usual petting zoo, rides and hayrides. It sits close enough to downtown that you can fit it into a half day without driving out to the countryside.
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Exploration Acres Corn maze Indiana
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 26 2026 forecast
Billed as northwest Indiana's largest corn maze, Exploration Acres cuts 22 acres into four separate mazes with ten miles of trails to get lost in, plus a u-pick pumpkin patch for the walk back out. It sits outside Lafayette, an hour northwest of Indianapolis, an easy add-on for a Purdue football weekend.
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Headless Horseman at Conner Prairie Fall festival Indiana
Oct 1 – Oct 25 Color nearby peaks October 25 2026 forecast
Conner Prairie's living-history grounds north of Indianapolis turn over to the Headless Horseman after dark, with hayrides and lantern-lit trails through the same fields costumed interpreters work by day. The 2026 run is Thursdays through Sundays, October 1 through 25, five to ten at night.
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Kentucky Bourbon Festival Fall festival Kentucky
Sep 10 – Sep 13 Color nearby peaks October 29 2026 forecast
Bardstown calls itself the Bourbon Capital of the World, and this four-day festival each September proves the point with tastings from the surrounding distilleries, a barrel relay in the street, and food booths around historic Spalding Hall. The 2026 dates are September 10 through 13, 21 and over only.
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Evans Orchard & Cider Mill Cider mill Kentucky
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 26 2026 forecast
Just outside Lexington, Evans Orchard presses its own cider and fries apple pies and doughnuts to go with it, then lets you walk off the sugar with pick-your-own fruit and a fall corn maze. It is a working farm first, so expect real orchard rows rather than a paved parking-lot version of the season.
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Devine's Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch Corn maze Kentucky
Sep 11 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks October 28 2026 forecast
A corn maze and pumpkin patch outside Harrodsburg that adds a zip line, a tube slide and an after-dark field of horror once the sun goes down on Fridays. The 2026 season runs September 11 through November 1, with Saturday hours long enough to make a full day of it in Kentucky's bluegrass country.
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Bourbon & Beyond Fall festival Kentucky
Sep 24 – Sep 27 Color nearby peaks October 30 2026 forecast
Louisville's Highland Festival Grounds fill up for four days each fall with a lineup that mixes headline rock and country acts with bourbon tastings and food stalls run by local chefs. The 2026 dates are September 24 through 27, right as the grounds along the Ohio River start to catch their first color.
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Kelly Farms Corn Maze Corn maze Kentucky
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 27 2026 forecast
Central Kentucky's original corn maze, cut fresh into 10 acres outside Lexington every year, makes an easy stop between horse farms and bourbon distilleries on a fall day trip. Bring the kids for the maze and stay for the hayrides while the Bluegrass region's rolling pastures turn gold around you.
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Nashville Nightmare Haunted attraction Tennessee
Sep 6 – Nov 9 Color nearby peaks November 8 2026 forecast
Nashville's biggest haunted house packs four separate walk-through scares under one roof in Madison, from a twisted fairy-tale maze to a slasher-movie set piece, plus an escape room and laser maze if you need a break between screams. The 2026 run is select nights from September 6 through November 9.
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Nashville Fall Festival Fall festival Tennessee
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 9 2026 forecast
A working farm on the west side of Nashville turns into a full fall carnival each year, with a corn maze, a sunflower field left over from summer, hayrides and a pumpkin patch all on one property. Some weekends even bring helicopter rides over the farm if you want the color from the air.
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Morning Glory Orchard Orchard Tennessee
Color nearby peaks November 9 2026 forecast
A second-generation family orchard south of Nashville that presses its own award-winning hard cider and runs tastings and orchard tours through the fall. On Saturdays the farm also turns out apple cider doughnuts, worth timing your visit around if you are driving down from Brentwood or Franklin.
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Priddy Farms Pumpkin patch Tennessee
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 11 2026 forecast
Priddy Farms expanded onto 50 new acres north of Memphis, big enough for a genuinely challenging corn maze alongside the pumpkin patch, barrel train and hayrides the family has run for years. A haunted house takes over the grounds on October weekends for anyone who wants to end the day with a scare.
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Haunted Web Scream Park Haunted attraction Tennessee
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 12 2026 forecast
Billed as Memphis's largest Halloween event, this scream park packs four separate haunted houses onto one lot along with live entertainment and a horror boutique. There is not much scenery between haunts, just four scares stacked back to back so you are not driving across town four separate times.
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Fall Fest Memphis Fall festival Tennessee
Oct 16 – Oct 17 Color nearby peaks November 13 2026 forecast
A church-run community festival in Collierville, southeast of Memphis, has grown into a genuine block party with a barbecue competition, a car show, carnival rides and live music. The 2026 main festival runs Friday, October 16 through Saturday, October 17, with the vendor fair and rides open both days.
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The Mid-South Maze Corn maze Tennessee
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 12 2026 forecast
The Mid-South Maze has cut a new corn maze into this East Memphis field for 25 seasons now, with a haunted version after dark, a jumping pillow and a corn cannon for the kids to fire off between laps. It is the closest real corn maze to downtown Memphis, so you do not have to drive into the countryside for one.
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Boo at the Zoo (Nashville Zoo) Fall festival Tennessee
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 8 2026 forecast
Nashville Zoo strings its paths with pumpkins and fall scenery for Boo at the Zoo, a trick-or-treat and costume event built for younger kids, with the regular animal exhibits open late into the evening. It has run every October for years on Nolensville Pike, just south of downtown Nashville.
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Topaz Farm Farm Oregon
Color nearby peaks October 22 2026 forecast
Twenty minutes from downtown Portland, this 130-acre farm on Sauvie Island opened as Kruger's Farm in 1999 and now runs cow train rides, u-cut flowers, and farm-animal visits through summer before its pumpkin patch and corn maze take over the fields in October.
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Bella Organic Farm Corn maze Oregon
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 22 2026 forecast
A hundred-acre certified organic farm on Sauvie Island, twenty five minutes from Portland, where summer u-pick berries give way to a fall corn maze, a pumpkin patch, and a haunted version of the maze after dark. Free hayrides out to the pumpkin fields start in late September, and the farm's small winery stays open through the season.
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The Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin patch Oregon
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 22 2026 forecast
Farming the same stretch of Sauvie Island since 1967, this fifteen-hundred-acre, third-generation farm grows fifty five crops and harvests close to a million pounds of pumpkins each fall. Work through the corn maze, say hello to the animals in the barn, then grab coffee or cider at the on-site cafe before you load up the car.
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Draper Girls Cider Company Cider mill Oregon
Color nearby peaks October 16 2026 forecast
Part of a Hood River Valley farm with more than a hundred years of history, this is the only non-pasteurized cidery on the Fruit Loop, pouring sixteen ciders on tap alongside hard cider slushies. Pick your own fruit in the orchard rows outside, then warm up in the tasting room with Mount Hood filling the window.
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Fox-Tail Cider & Distillery Cider mill Oregon
Color nearby peaks October 14 2026 forecast
This Fruit Loop tasting room traces its orchard back to August Paasch, a German immigrant who planted the first apple trees here in the late 1800s. The current owners distill vodka and brandy alongside more than ten ciders on tap, and the patio looks out over the same rows he planted.
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Shanghai Tunnels Underground Tour Ghost tour Oregon
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 24 2026 forecast
A guide leads you through more than 14,000 square feet of tunnels under Portland's Old Town, telling the darker side of the city's shanghaiing history and introducing Nina, the tour's resident ghost. It starts in the basement of Old Town Pizza and ends back upstairs with beer tasters included in the ticket.
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Spirit of Halloweentown Fall festival Oregon
Sep 26 – Nov 1 Color nearby peaks October 18 2026 forecast
St. Helens leans hard into its role as a filming location for Disney's Halloweentown, turning its riverfront Courthouse Plaza into a haunted house and costume-contest stage, with actors from the movie making appearances throughout. Circus acts and magic shows round out select weekends from late September through Halloween.
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Fear PDX Haunted attraction Oregon
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
Billed as Portland's largest Halloween event, Fear PDX packs five separate haunted houses, five outdoor scare zones, and a couple of bonus mini-haunts onto one property in east Portland. Plan on a couple of hours to get through everything before the actors let you leave.
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Shock13 Haunted House Haunted attraction Oregon
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 28 2026 forecast
This haunted house occupies a storefront in downtown Oregon City and is built around Dr. Shock and his collection of experiments gone wrong, ending in The Darkness, a maze you walk through in total blackout. It is smaller and stranger than the big commercial haunts closer to Portland.
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Snowdrift Cider Co. Cider mill Washington
Color nearby peaks October 5 2026 forecast
A family-owned craft cidery on its own orchard in East Wenatchee, pouring ciders that have picked up awards well outside the Northwest. The tasting room keeps it simple, Friday and Saturday afternoons, with private tastings by appointment the rest of the week for anyone driving through apple country.
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US Ghost Adventures: Seattle Ghost Tour Ghost tour Washington
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 13 2026 forecast
A lantern-carrying guide walks you about a mile through Seattle's oldest, most haunted blocks in ninety minutes, starting and ending outside the Four Seasons downtown. Look for the guide in the black US Ghost Adventures shirt fifteen minutes before the posted start time.
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Remlinger Farms Pumpkin patch Washington
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 11 2026 forecast
East of Seattle in the Snoqualmie Valley, Remlinger Farms turns its u-pick fields over to a Fall Harvest Pumpkin Festival each autumn. A farm market, a small brewery and cafe, and a kids' fun park with rides run alongside the pumpkin patch, so plan for a full day here rather than a quick stop.
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Craven Farm Corn maze Washington
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 10 2026 forecast
Craven Farm has been running fall harvest days in the Snohomish River valley since 1983. Past the pumpkin patch and corn maze there are apple cannons, axe throwing, and jump pads for the kids, and you can rent a fire pit to stretch the visit past dark, from September into October.
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The Stutzman Ranch Orchard Washington
Color nearby peaks September 30 2026 forecast
This working u-pick orchard on the edge of Wenatchee moves through the harvest with the calendar: cherries first, then peaches and nectarines, and by late August the apples, pears, and grapes that carry it into September. Bring your own containers and pick by the row; the fruit stand weighs and charges you on the way out.
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Mortimer Farms Pumpkin patch Arizona
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 6 2026 forecast
Mortimer Farms sits in the high country between Prescott and Prescott Valley, where its Pumpkin Fest and Corn Maze take over the fields each fall. Wander the corn maze, pick a pumpkin from the patch, ride the barrel train, and stop by the Apple Barn for cider and baked goods before the market closes.
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Vertuccio Farms Fall Festival Pumpkin patch Arizona
Oct 2 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks November 23 2026 forecast
Vertuccio Farms runs its fall festival from October 2 through 31, 2026, turning this working farm east of Phoenix into a pumpkin patch with hayrides, farm animals, and food trucks. It is a straightforward, kid-friendly stop in Mesa for an afternoon outdoors once the desert heat finally breaks.
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Tolmachoff Farms Pumpkin Days Pumpkin patch Arizona
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 22 2026 forecast
West of downtown Phoenix, Tolmachoff Farms has stayed in the same family for four generations, and every fall it opens Pumpkin Days and a corn maze across its Glendale fields. Bring the kids for the maze and pumpkin picking, or come back after dark for AZ Field of Screams, the farm's separate haunted attraction.
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Rex Allen Days Fall festival Arizona
Oct 1 – Oct 4 Color nearby peaks November 7 2026 forecast
Willcox throws its whole downtown open for Rex Allen Days, a western heritage weekend named for the town's singing-cowboy son, running October 1 to 4, 2026. Expect a Saturday morning parade down Railroad Avenue, a rodeo, a car show, and wine tasting from the vineyards that ring this apple and wine country corner of southeastern Arizona.
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Ghosts & Legends Tour of Tombstone Ghost tour Arizona
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 15 2026 forecast
The Ghosts & Legends Tour walks you through Tombstone after dark, from the Campbell and Hatch Saloon to an old undertaker's parlor and out to Boothill Cemetery. The stories trace the gunfights and grudges that built this Old West town's reputation, a good way to see Tombstone once the daytime shootout reenactments wind down.
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Jerome Historic town Arizona
Color nearby peaks October 31 2026 forecast
Jerome clings to the side of Cleopatra Hill above the copper mines that once supported more than 10,000 people, its steep streets now lined with galleries, wine-tasting rooms, and the tilted walls of the old Sliding Jail. Fall brings cooler air at 4,600 feet and thinner crowds than the summer weekends between Sedona and Prescott.
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Nightfall at Old Tucson Haunted attraction Arizona
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 22 2026 forecast
Old Tucson, the Western movie set turned theme park west of town, trades its stunt shows for Nightfall once the sun goes down in October, threading haunted mazes through the same streets where dozens of classic westerns were filmed. Season pass holders get it included, and the Tucson Mountains backdrop adds a genuinely eerie edge after dark.
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Bisbee Historic town Arizona
Color nearby peaks November 19 2026 forecast
Bisbee stacks its Victorian houses up the hillsides of a former copper camp in the Mule Mountains, an hour south of Tombstone near the Mexican border. What was once Arizona's third-largest town in the 1910s is now a walkable warren of galleries and cafes, with the Queen Mine Tour still running underground below Main Street.
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Tucson Meet Yourself Fall festival Arizona
Oct 16 – Oct 18 Color nearby peaks November 22 2026 forecast
Tucson Meet Yourself takes over downtown for a free weekend of food, music, and craft demonstrations from the dozens of cultures that call the city home, running October 16 to 18, 2026. It has been going since the 1970s, one of the longest-running folklife festivals in the country, and fall's mild evenings make the outdoor stages comfortable after dark.
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ABQ Tours Ghost Walk Ghost tour New Mexico
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
ABQ Tours has led ghost walks through Old Town Albuquerque since 2001. The guides work four centuries of local history into stories about the adobe buildings, courtyards, and cemeteries around the plaza. The regular walk runs nightly at 8 p.m., with a separate R-rated version on Friday and Saturday nights.
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Hatch Chile Festival Fall festival New Mexico
Sep 5 – Sep 6 Color nearby peaks November 4 2026 forecast
Every Labor Day weekend, the small farming town of Hatch fills with the smell of roasting green chile for its Chile Festival, September 5 and 6, 2026. Between chile-roasting stands, a parade, and live music, it is a loud way to mark the start of New Mexico's fall harvest, right along the Rio Grande's chile fields.
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Madrid Historic town New Mexico
Color nearby peaks October 21 2026 forecast
Madrid stretches along a half-mile of the Turquoise Trail highway, its old miners' cabins turned into galleries and shops after the coal company that built the town shut down in the late 1940s. Fall traffic on Highway 14 between Santa Fe and Albuquerque picks up as day-trippers stop for the Mine Shaft Tavern and the Old Coal Mine Museum.
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Galloping Goat Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin patch New Mexico
Sep 26 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks October 22 2026 forecast
The Galloping Goat sets up its pumpkin patch on Rio Rancho's civic plaza from late September through Halloween, with a giant corn pit standing in for a maze, duck races, mini golf, and even axe throwing between rounds of pumpkin picking. It is the closest full pumpkin-patch outing to Albuquerque, ten minutes over the river from the city.
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Heirloom Acres Corn Maze Corn maze New Mexico
Oct 3 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks November 7 2026 forecast
Heirloom Acres grows New Mexico True Certified pumpkins on its farm in Artesia, in the state's southeastern oil country, and opens an eight-acre corn maze alongside the patch from October 3 through 31, 2026. Pumpkins sell by the pound rather than a flat price, so you pick exactly the one you want without overpaying for a giant.
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Cloudcroft Historic town New Mexico
Color nearby peaks October 27 2026 forecast
Cloudcroft sits at 8,600 feet in the Sacramento Mountains above Alamogordo, a former logging-railroad resort town where the aspens and Gambel oaks actually turn color, unlike most of the desert Southwest. The Lodge at Cloudcroft, once managed by Conrad Hilton, sits at the center of a small downtown of shops and a rail-history museum built for cooler mountain air.
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The Washoe Club Ghost tour Nevada
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 13 2026 forecast
The Washoe Club has stood on C Street since Virginia City's silver-boom days, and it now runs daily ghost tours through the saloon and upstairs club rooms where Comstock-era miners once gambled. Overnight paranormal investigations are also available for anyone who wants more than a walkthrough of Nevada's oldest surviving saloon.
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Virginia City Historic town Nevada
Color nearby peaks October 12 2026 forecast
Virginia City grew up almost overnight on the Comstock Lode silver strike of 1859 and still keeps its wooden boardwalks, saloons, and mine shafts open above the old diggings. Fall thins out the summer motorcycle traffic on C Street, so there is more room to duck into the Fourth Ward School museum or ride the short line down to Gold Hill.
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Genoa Candy Dance Faire Fall festival Nevada
Sep 26 – Sep 27 Color nearby peaks October 7 2026 forecast
Genoa, Nevada's oldest town, closes its Main Street for the Candy Dance Faire every September, a two-day craft fair that traces back to a 1919 fundraiser dinner and dance for streetlights. The 2026 faire runs September 26 and 27, with more than 400 vendors set against the Sierra foothills west of Carson City.
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The Final Hour Haunted attraction Nevada
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 17 2026 forecast
The Final Hour packs more than 10,000 square feet of haunted house into a Sparks warehouse just east of Reno, staffed by live actors and open Thursday through Saturday nights every October. It is one of the only dedicated haunted attractions in the Reno-Sparks area, drawing crowds from across northern Nevada once the nights turn cold.
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Moapa Valley Cornmaze Corn maze Nevada
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 19 2026 forecast
An hour northeast of Las Vegas in the farm country around Logandale, the Moapa Valley Cornmaze turns into a haunted corn maze after dark and a plain day maze for younger kids in daylight. Between mazes there is a pumpkin patch, a corn cannon, pig races, and a cow train, enough to fill a whole desert-valley afternoon.
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Boulder City Historic town Nevada
Color nearby peaks November 12 2026 forecast
Boulder City was built from scratch in 1931 to house the workers who raised Hoover Dam, and it remains one of only two towns in Nevada with no casinos. The Boulder Dam Hotel sits at the heart of a walkable historic downtown that now houses a small museum on the dam's construction, twenty-some miles from the Las Vegas Strip.
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Halloween Town Pumpkin Patch (Silverado Ranch) Pumpkin patch Nevada
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 8 2026 forecast
Halloween Town sets up several pumpkin patches around the Las Vegas valley every October, this one off Silverado Ranch Boulevard on the south side, with carnival games, a pumpkin-themed mini golf course, and rides sized for both toddlers and teenagers. It closes for the rest of the year, so the whole lot exists just for the six or so weeks around Halloween.
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Village hanté (Village Québécois d'Antan) Haunted attraction Québec — Laurentians & Eastern Townships
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 11 2026 forecast
Each fall, the nineteenth-century streets of Village Québécois d'Antan turn into a scare trail after dark, with costumed creatures stalking the period houses and barns of this living-history museum near Drummondville. The haunted nights typically run through late October, though the venue had not yet posted its 2026 dates when we checked in July.
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Fête des Vendanges Fall festival Québec — Laurentians & Eastern Townships
Sep 5 – Sep 13 Color nearby peaks October 10 2026 forecast
Every September, more than seventy-five Quebec wineries, cideries, distilleries, microbreweries and cheese makers set up tasting booths along Lake Memphremagog at Pointe Merry beach in Magog. Buy a glass and sampling coupons, then wander the lakeside grounds with live music playing while the Eastern Townships hills begin turning color across the water.
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Cidrerie Verger Léo Boutin Orchard Québec — Laurentians & Eastern Townships
Color nearby peaks October 13 2026 forecast
A family cider house at the foot of Mont-Saint-Grégoire, picking apples here since the orchard was planted around 1950 and run by the Boutin family since 1980. Pick your own among Lobo, McIntosh, Cortland and other varieties, then stop at the shop for cider, vinegar, juice, jelly and syrup, or sit down for Breton crepes.
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Nightmares Fear Factory Haunted attraction Ontario — Algonquin & Muskoka
Color nearby peaks October 20 2026 forecast
Tucked among the arcades of Clifton Hill near the falls, this walk-through haunted house has scared visitors for decades with animatronics, strobe-lit corridors and live actors who know exactly when to jump out. It runs daily, year round, with longer hours and extra scares added for the weeks around Halloween.
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The Big Apple Donuts & cider Ontario — Algonquin & Muskoka
Color nearby peaks October 17 2026 forecast
You cannot miss the giant roadside apple rising over the Highway 401 exit at Colborne, home to a bakery known for apple pie, apple fritters and mini apple-pie donuts made fresh daily. The shop stays open all year with maple syrup, cheesecake and gift baskets alongside its fall lineup, and a staircase climbs up inside the big apple itself.
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Meaford Apple Harvest Craft Show Fall festival Ontario — Algonquin & Muskoka
Oct 3 – Oct 4 Color nearby peaks October 14 2026 forecast
For one weekend each October, the Meaford Community Centre and curling club fill with close to two hundred potters, woodworkers, quilters and jewelers for one of southern Georgian Bay's biggest craft fairs, timed to the local apple harvest. It runs Saturday 10 to 6 and Sunday 10 to 4, with food vendors on site.
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Verger Belliveau Orchard Orchard New Brunswick
Color nearby peaks October 12 2026 forecast
This Memramcook orchard runs its u-pick by tractor: buy a pre-sized bag at the cabin, then ride out to whichever block is ripe that day and pick your fill of apples before riding back to the start. The season typically opens the first weekend after Labour Day and runs into late October, weather permitting, with a corn maze and cafe on site.
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Provincial Giant Pumpkin Festival Fall festival New Brunswick
Oct 4 – Oct 5 Color nearby peaks October 11 2026 forecast
Growers from across the Maritimes bring their biggest field pumpkins to Neguac each October to be weighed in front of a crowd, with past winners topping fourteen hundred pounds. The one-day festival on the Acadian Peninsula has run since the 1990s and draws visitors from around the province for the weigh-off and the fall fair atmosphere around it.
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The Halifax Ghost Walk Ghost tour Nova Scotia — Cape Breton
May 1 – Nov 15 Color nearby peaks October 20 2026 forecast
This 100-minute evening walk starts at the Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill and winds down to the waterfront near the Maritime Museum, with stories of forerunners, spirits and devils pulled from Nova Scotia folklore. Public tours run May through mid-November; reservations are by email only.
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Fear Farm at RiverBreeze Farm Haunted attraction Nova Scotia — Cape Breton
Oct 3 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks October 13 2026 forecast
Riverbreeze Farm turns its fields near Truro into five haunted houses and two mazes each October, including the Carn-EVIL barn and a Zombie Maze. It runs Friday and Saturday nights only, rain or shine, with actors who never touch guests and a no mask or costume rule for visitors.
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Prairie Pathways, Little Maze on the Prairie Corn maze Saskatchewan & Manitoba
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 8 2026 forecast
South of downtown Saskatoon along the river valley, this reworked strawberry farm turns into a ten-acre corn maze each fall, with trivia checkpoints tied to a new theme every year and a u-pick pumpkin patch called Harvest Hollow, stocked with roughly 21,000 pumpkins and squash.
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Deer Meadow Farms Pumpkin patch Saskatchewan & Manitoba
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 10 2026 forecast
Just north of Winnipeg's Perimeter Highway toward Bird's Hill Park, this hobby farm runs a corn maze and pumpkin patch through fall, plus a wagon-train ride through its small deer preserve. Late October adds Storybook Lane and the Forbidden Forest haunted hayride for a milder scare.
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Bowden SunMaze Corn maze Alberta — Canadian Rockies
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 4 2026 forecast
An hour north of Calgary at Eagle Creek Farms, Bowden SunMaze pairs a corn maze with 100,000 sunflowers that bloom through late summer. By fall the flowers fade and the maze keeps running, with a U-pick pumpkin patch and wagon rides rounding out the day.
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Butterfield Acres Farm Alberta — Canadian Rockies
Color nearby peaks September 30 2026 forecast
This working petting farm on Calgary's northwest edge turns part of its fields into Scarecrow Alley and a pumpkin patch every October for the Harvest Pumpkin Fest. Come for weekend hayrides, pony rides and farm animals, then pick a pumpkin to take home.
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Granary Road Harvest Fair & Pumpkin Hunt Fall festival Alberta — Canadian Rockies
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks September 30 2026 forecast
Granary Road, the farm park and market south of Calgary, spends four fall weekends on its Harvest Fair and Pumpkin Hunt. Admission includes a tractor ride to the pumpkin patch and a pumpkin to take home, plus a farmers market, pony rides and mini golf.
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Chilliwack Corn Maze at Greendale Acres Corn maze British Columbia
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 12 2026 forecast
Greendale Acres opens its corn maze on farmland east of Chilliwack from August into October, alongside a giant Pumpkin Pyramid, duck races and a jumping pillow. It is one of the Fraser Valley's longest-running fall farms, with an indoor haybale maze for rainy days.
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Cidrerie Verger Bilodeau Orchard Québec — Laurentians & Eastern Townships
Color nearby peaks October 10 2026 forecast
This Ile d'Orleans orchard and cidery grows ten apple varieties across six hectares of dwarf and semi-dwarf trees, fifteen minutes from Quebec City. Pick your own from Paulared in late August through Honeycrisp in early October, then taste your way through the shop before the u-pick season ends on Thanksgiving Monday.
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AEppelTreow Winery & Distillery Cider mill Wisconsin
Color nearby peaks October 21 2026 forecast
A farmhouse cidery working out of a barn on Brightonwoods Orchard south of Burlington, pressing hard cider, perry and spirits from its own trees. Sit down for a flight in the tasting room, then walk the mowed orchard paths or picnic under trees that are turning color by late September.
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Cedarburg Wine & Harvest Festival Fall festival Wisconsin
Sep 19 – Sep 20 Color nearby peaks October 17 2026 forecast
Cedarburg closes Washington Avenue for its annual wine and harvest weekend, pouring local wines and ciders alongside grape stomping, live music and a marketplace of seasonal produce and artisan goods. The Family Area sets up in Cedar Creek Park, a few blocks from the town's limestone mill buildings, twenty miles north of Milwaukee.
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Osceola & St. Croix Valley Railway Scenic railway Wisconsin
Color nearby peaks October 12 2026 forecast
A vintage train run by the Minnesota Transportation Museum out of Osceola's restored 1916 SOO Line depot, following the St. Croix River bluffs on a twenty mile round trip that crosses briefly into Minnesota. The railway adds special Leaf Viewing and Pumpkin trains once the valley turns color, on top of its regular weekend runs.
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Barthel Fruit Farm Orchard Wisconsin
Color nearby peaks October 17 2026 forecast
The Barthel family has been growing fruit in Mequon since 1840, and the farm still runs on that scale: u-pick rows of peaches through August and apples from September on, a bakery that changes its menu with the season, and a greenhouse out front. It is a working farm first, with none of the theme park additions some orchards have picked up.
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Treinen Farm Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch Corn maze Wisconsin
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 16 2026 forecast
Billed as the best corn maze in Wisconsin, a fifteen acre cut design near Lodi with enough twists to keep a group busy for a while. Beyond the maze there is a giant corn pit, slides and a cave built into Molehill Mountain, duck races and a pumpkin patch, all a short drive north of Madison.
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Peck & Bushel Orchard Orchard Wisconsin
Color nearby peaks October 17 2026 forecast
A certified organic orchard in Colgate growing more than thirty five apple varieties, open for u-pick most weekends from mid-August through mid-October. The farm presses its own cider and bakes pies with nothing but its own apples, and the whole operation runs without synthetic sprays.
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Covered Bridge Park Covered bridge Wisconsin
Color nearby peaks October 17 2026 forecast
Wisconsin's last surviving covered bridge, built in 1876 from pine logs hauled in from near Baraboo and held together with hardwood pins instead of nails. It carried traffic for 85 years before a new bridge went in alongside it, and the county kept it standing as a small park a few miles north of Cedarburg, an easy stop for fall color photos on the drive up from Milwaukee.
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Milwaukee Haunted History City Tour Ghost tour Wisconsin
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 19 2026 forecast
A two hour walking tour out of Walker's Point that mixes ghost stories with real Milwaukee history, handing guests ghost meters and divining rods to use at reputedly haunted stops along the way. Bookings run in groups of four or more, adults 21 and up can bring drinks in plastic cups, and tours tend to sell out as Halloween gets closer.
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Mineral Point Historic District Historic town Wisconsin
Color nearby peaks October 20 2026 forecast
A lead mining town in the Driftless hills where Cornish immigrants built stone cottages by hand in the 1830s and 40s, many of which still stand along the downtown streets. Pendarvis preserves a cluster of the original miners' homes, and Shake Rag Alley runs an arts center out of seven more, both a short walk from the storefronts on High Street.
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Long Grove Apple Fest Fall festival Illinois
Sep 25 – Sep 27 Color nearby peaks October 24 2026 forecast
Long Grove's antique shopping village turns over to apple everything for a weekend: pies, doughnuts, candied and caramel apples, apple wine and sangria, alongside live music and rows of local artisans. The historic downtown is small enough to cover on foot in an afternoon, northwest of Chicago.
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Illinois Railway Museum Scenic railway Illinois
Color nearby peaks October 22 2026 forecast
A railway museum in Union that runs steam, diesel and electric trains together with vintage streetcars on the same grounds. Its fall centerpiece is Steam into Fall, a single Saturday when a coal fired steam engine pulls riders through the turning woods of McHenry County before the steam trains park for the winter.
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Downtown Geneva Historic District Historic town Illinois
Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
A Fox River town of boutiques, wineries and restaurants along Third Street, with the Herrington Inn overlooking the water and a Metra stop that makes it an easy train ride from downtown Chicago. Fall brings cooler river walks and the last of the Sunday French Market before it closes for the season in November.
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Sycamore Pumpkin Festival Fall festival Illinois
Oct 21 – Oct 25 Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
DeKalb County's courthouse lawn disappears under a Lions Club pumpkin display every October, with a midway carnival running Friday through Sunday and a parade closing out the weekend. It is a not-for-profit community event, run by volunteers, in a town square built for it.
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Erebus Haunted Attraction Haunted attraction Michigan
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 17 2026 forecast
A four story haunted house in downtown Pontiac with a reputation as one of the most intense in the country. Sets change from year to year, so returning visitors do not walk the same rooms twice, and lines can run long on October weekends.
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Charlevoix Apple Fest Fall festival Michigan
Oct 9 – Oct 11 Color nearby peaks October 16 2026 forecast
Now in its 47th year, this small town fair takes over downtown Charlevoix every second weekend of October to support the region's orchards and nonprofits. It lands in the middle of northern Michigan's fall color season, with Lake Michigan a few blocks away in either direction.
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Coopersville & Marne Railway Pumpkin Train Scenic railway Michigan
Color nearby peaks October 17 2026 forecast
A nonprofit run vintage train out of Coopersville that trades its usual excursions for a Pumpkin Train on October weekends, with entertainment and small gifts for kids. Premium seats add local cider and themed doughnuts for the ride through the West Michigan farm country.
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Grand Rapids Ghost Tour Ghost tour Michigan
Color nearby peaks October 16 2026 forecast
A two mile walk through downtown Grand Rapids covering the paranormal stories and stranger history behind buildings most people pass without a second look. It runs daily, year round, departing from Lyon Square where the street meets the Grand River behind the Amway Grand Plaza.
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Fallasburg Covered Bridge Covered bridge Michigan
Color nearby peaks October 16 2026 forecast
Built in 1871, this hundred foot Brown truss bridge still carries cars over the Flat River, one of only four Michigan covered bridges that do. Fallasburg Park surrounds it with trails and picnic tables, and the bridge has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1972.
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Sweetland Orchard Cider mill Minnesota
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 9 2026 forecast
A hard cider producer south of the Twin Cities that sells its apples pre-picked rather than running a full u-pick field, pairing reserved tasting kits with cider doughnuts. Weekend orchard tours let you fill a bag yourself if you want the picking experience, but the cider is the real draw.
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Stillwater Harvest Fest Fall festival Minnesota
Oct 10 – Oct 11 Color nearby peaks October 10 2026 forecast
A free weekend on the St. Croix River built entirely around pumpkins: a giant pumpkin weigh off, a pumpkin dropped from a hundred foot crane, and a regatta of hollowed out pumpkin boats racing on the river. A beer and wine garden and a chili cook off round out downtown Stillwater's riverfront park.
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Ferguson's Minnesota Harvest Orchard Minnesota
Color nearby peaks October 10 2026 forecast
A big orchard southwest of the Twin Cities that leans into the goofier side of fall: apple cannons, duck races, gem mining and a corn pit alongside a genuine u-pick apple orchard and pumpkin patch. Wagon rides carry visitors out to the trees, and a farm market with a cider bar and bistro anchors the whole place.
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Pine Tree Apple Orchard Orchard Minnesota
Color nearby peaks October 9 2026 forecast
A White Bear Lake orchard close enough to the Twin Cities for an after work trip, with a corn maze, u-pick pumpkins and wagon rides out into the trees. The farm store sells its own fresh pressed cider, caramel apples and baked goods alongside whatever variety is ready that week.
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Excelsior Apple Days Fall festival Minnesota
Sep 18 – Sep 20 Color nearby peaks October 8 2026 forecast
Excelsior's Water Street closes down for a weekend of craft booths, an apple pie contest, history tours and a beer and wine garden, a few blocks from the Lake Minnetonka docks. It is a smaller, more neighborhood scale fall festival than the big Twin Cities pumpkin farms.
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Best of Missouri Market Fall festival Missouri
Oct 9 – Oct 11 Color nearby peaks October 31 2026 forecast
Missouri Botanical Garden's fall marketplace fills the grounds with food, crafts, and farm goods from small Missouri producers for one October weekend. The Japanese Garden and the turning trees are a good reason to walk the grounds on the way to the jam and cider stalls.
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Brookdale Farms Corn maze Missouri
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 31 2026 forecast
West of St. Louis in Eureka, Brookdale Farms opens a corn maze, a pumpkin patch, and a sunflower maze for the fall season, with a petting zoo and hayrides that make it an easy half-day trip from the city. 2026 dates were not yet posted when we checked.
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Bloomsdale Fun Farm Corn maze Missouri
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 1 2026 forecast
South of St. Louis toward Ste. Genevieve, this family farm runs a corn maze, a u-pick pumpkin patch, and flower fields alongside a trackless train, a jumping pillow, and apple cannons. The 2026 Fall Fest opens September 26, with the closing date not yet confirmed.
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Ste. Genevieve Historic town Missouri
Color nearby peaks November 2 2026 forecast
Missouri's oldest town keeps its French colonial houses standing along Market and Main streets, an hour south of St. Louis. Fall brings cooler air for walking the historic district, tasting wine on the Route du Vin trail, and browsing shops set inside 18th-century buildings.
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Weston Historic town Missouri
Color nearby peaks October 29 2026 forecast
Thirty minutes north of Kansas City, all 22 blocks of Weston's downtown sit on the National Register of Historic Places. Antique shops and a working distillery fill the brick storefronts, and the town leans into fall with Applefest and a Fall Heritage Festival each October.
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Linn's Haunted House Haunted attraction Iowa
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks October 22 2026 forecast
Tucked in the basement of Linn's Supermarket on Des Moines' east side, this haunted house packs a 20-minute walk-through into a converted grocery store, an odd setting that adds to the disorientation. 2026 dates were not yet posted when we checked; the 2025 run charged 25 dollars a person.
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Clear Lake Harvest Festival Fall festival Iowa
Oct 3 – Oct 4 Color nearby peaks October 18 2026 forecast
Main Avenue in Clear Lake closes to traffic for one October Saturday of wine and beer samples, a farmers market, hayrides, and a grape stomp, with the lake itself a short walk away once the crowds thin out. The 2026 festival runs October 3, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Amana Colonies Historic town Iowa
Color nearby peaks October 21 2026 forecast
Seven historic villages founded by a 19th-century German communal society sit close together in east-central Iowa, their brick and stone buildings now home to woodworking shops, wineries, and family-style restaurants. Fall is a good season to walk between villages before the weather turns.
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Deal's Orchard Orchard Iowa
Color nearby peaks October 21 2026 forecast
A working apple orchard outside Jefferson in west-central Iowa, with pick-your-own trees, a bakery turning out cider apple donuts, and pumpkins once the apple crop winds down. A straightforward stop for a fall drive through Greene County farmland.
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13 Sinister Souls Haunted House Haunted attraction Kansas
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 3 2026 forecast
A Wichita haunted house built inside a converted building on East Harry Street, running one walk-through attraction rather than a sprawling multi-maze complex. 2026 operating dates were not yet posted when we checked; the 2025 season had already wrapped by the time of research.
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Rose Hill Fall Festival Fall festival Kansas
Oct 9 – Oct 11 Color nearby peaks November 4 2026 forecast
This small town east of Wichita shuts down Rose Hill Road for a weekend of a parade, a car show, a fishing derby, and a morning run, October 9 to 11, 2026. The draw here is community turnout more than any single attraction.
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Cider Hill Family Orchard Orchard Kansas
Color nearby peaks October 29 2026 forecast
A working orchard in Kansas City, Kansas, with apple season running from August into November, plus hayrides, a fire pit, and cider donuts baked fresh through the fall. It sits close enough to downtown Kansas City to fit into an afternoon.
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Meadowlark Farm Orchard Kansas
Color nearby peaks November 4 2026 forecast
East of Wichita, this peach and apple orchard doubles as a hard cidery, with a pumpkin patch, picnic shelters, and disc golf rounding out a visit. The taproom pours hard cider for adults alongside homemade root beer for the kids.
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Applejack Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin patch Kansas
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 3 2026 forecast
A few miles east of Wichita near Andover, Applejack runs a fall pumpkin patch and corn maze that gives way to a Christmas tree farm once the season turns. 2026 fall hours were not yet posted when we checked, though the grounds stay open for events year-round.
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AppleJack Festival Fall festival Nebraska
Sep 18 – Sep 27 Color nearby peaks October 25 2026 forecast
Nebraska City's biggest event of the year fills two weekends, September 18 to 20 and 26 to 27, 2026, with a carnival on Sixth and Central, a parade down Central Avenue, and a pancake feed at the fire station. Apple-country pride runs through the whole celebration.
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Kimmel Orchard & Vineyard Orchard Nebraska
Color nearby peaks October 25 2026 forecast
On the edge of Nebraska City, Kimmel Orchard grows apples and grapes across its hillside acreage, with a farm market and kitchen turning out seasonal baked goods. The orchard is quieter than the AppleJack crowds downtown, better suited to an actual picking trip.
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Brownville Historic town Nebraska
Color nearby peaks October 27 2026 forecast
Nebraska's oldest incorporated town sits on a bend of the Missouri River south of Nebraska City, its 19th-century buildings now filled with galleries, boutiques, and an old-fashioned trading post. Fall brings cooler weather for walking the small riverside streets.
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Picnic Hill Orchard Orchard Nebraska
Color nearby peaks October 25 2026 forecast
Southeast of Lincoln, Picnic Hill grows more than 25 apple varieties for picking or pre-bagged buying, with the season starting in late July and running into late October. There is no entrance fee, so it is easy to stop by without planning a whole day around it.
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Pumpkinville Pumpkin patch Oklahoma
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 9 2026 forecast
Myriad Botanical Gardens fills its downtown Oklahoma City grounds with pumpkins, gourds, cornstalks, and mum displays each October, plus carousel rides and pumpkin decorating for kids. It opens in October 2026, with exact dates not yet confirmed.
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Red Earth FallFest Fall festival Oklahoma
Oct 17 – Oct 18 Color nearby peaks November 9 2026 forecast
Scissortail Park hosts this free Native art market and community celebration on October 17, 2026, with a youth powwow, food trucks, and the park's farmers market running alongside it. Downtown Oklahoma City does not get a bigger one-day fall gathering.
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Oklahoma City Ghost Tour Ghost tour Oklahoma
Color nearby peaks November 9 2026 forecast
A self-guided, app-based walk through downtown Oklahoma City covers six stops tied to local hauntings, from the Overholser Mansion to the Myriad Botanical Gardens. It runs year-round, so there is no need to time a visit around Halloween.
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Fright Fest at Frontier City Haunted attraction Oklahoma
Sep 26 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks November 9 2026 forecast
Six Flags' Oklahoma City park turns into a haunted maze and scare-zone gauntlet on select nights from September 26 to October 31, 2026, with rides still running after dark for anyone who wants a break between scares.
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Haunt the Zoo Fall festival Oklahoma
Dates TBA Color nearby peaks November 9 2026 forecast
The Oklahoma City Zoo trades scares for trick-or-treating, with candy stations and themed booths set along the paths on October weekends, plus a Halloween evening finale. This one is built for younger kids rather than teenagers chasing a jump scare.
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Horror in the Hollow Haunted attraction Arkansas
Sep 19 – Oct 31 Color nearby peaks November 7 2026 forecast
Pumpkin Hollow's daytime pumpkin patch in far northeast Arkansas turns into a haunted attraction on weekend evenings from September 19 through October 31, 2026, with ticket sales starting at 6:30 p.m. and the haunting beginning around 7.
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King Biscuit Blues Festival Fall festival Arkansas
Oct 8 – Oct 10 Color nearby peaks November 13 2026 forecast
Helena's riverfront festival brings blues musicians to stages along the Mississippi each October, a tradition tracing back to the King Biscuit Time radio show first broadcast from this stretch of downtown. The 2026 festival runs October 8 to 10.
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Village Creek State Park State park Arkansas
Peak November 10 2026 forecast
Nearly 7,000 acres of hardwood forest cover Crowley's Ridge at this park near Wynne, with 33 miles of trails that include a stretch of the Trail of Tears. Fall color settles into the oak and hickory canopy, with two lakes for a paddle between hikes.
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Île d'Orléans, Apple Orchards Orchard Québec — Laurentians & Eastern Townships
Color nearby peaks October 10 2026 forecast
Just downriver from Quebec City, Île d'Orléans has grown apples since the 17th century. Cidrerie Verger Bilodeau's rows run toward the St. Lawrence, with u-pick and cider tastings, while the island's Chemin Royal turns color through late September and October.
Annapolis Valley, Noggins Corner Farm Farm Nova Scotia — Cape Breton
Color nearby peaks October 15 2026 forecast
The Annapolis Valley is Nova Scotia's orchard belt, and Noggins Corner Farm in Greenwich is its harvest-season hub: apple picking, a corn maze, and a pumpkin patch spread beneath the North Mountain's turning hardwoods, about 30 minutes from Wolfville.
Fishkill Farms Orchard New York
Color nearby peaks October 23 2026 forecast
Founded in 1913 by Henry Morgenthau Jr. and still family-run, this 270-acre Hudson Valley farm (now partly organic) offers pick-your-own apples across 40 orchard acres, a fall corn maze, wagon rides, and an on-site cider bar most weekends September through October.
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How the color forecast works
How does the foliage color prediction work? Every colored cell blends three signals. Daily temperatures from the ERA5 weather reanalysis (via Open-Meteo) drive a phenology model of when leaves turn: shortening day length plus accumulated autumn cooling. 30-meter terrain data shifts timing locally, since high slopes turn about a day earlier per 300 m of elevation. Finally, each region is calibrated against published peak dates, because temperature alone cannot tell a maritime autumn from a continental one. Forecast seasons use recent-year climate normals; archive seasons use that year's actual observations.
How accurate is the peak timing? Weather truth is roughly 9 km resolution, so the fine cells are weather plus terrain interpolation — not 1-mile weather stations. Held-out testing against published peak dates puts the model within about five days on average, but mountains and coastlines are harder and a week or more of error happens. Treat the peak window as a planning estimate, and check a local report before you travel.
Why does the southern half of the map turn in April? Autumn happens in March–June south of the equator. Scrub the date slider through the whole year to watch color sweep Patagonia, New Zealand, and Australia in April, then the northern hemisphere in September–November.