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Ultimate Family Fall Fun Guide

Writer Michelle Johnson

Posted: September 18, 2023

Get out and enjoy the leaves, pumpkins, apples, and more while you can!

Not to alarm anyone, but have you noticed the subtle shift? The leaves have started to change colors. The morning air is crisp (and delightful!). Pumpkin-spice everything is back. And like it or not, the sun is setting sooner. Ah, fall. Welcome, and stay a while.

Along with the stunning changes in scenery we can expect over the next few weeks, there’s also a shift in our activities. We trade in our summer traditions and make way for apple picking, s’mores around the campfire, trips to the pumpkin patch, hayrides, haunted houses, football games, and fall hikes.

We know fall passes in a flash, so we’ve curated a list of family-friendly fall destinations to check out so you don’t miss a single thing. Revisit some of your favorites and make time to create new autumn traditions as well.

Spend a day at the pumpkin patch

This one is a classic. Pumpkin patches are the perfect, simple way to spend a fall day and offer a variety of activities. Enjoy a hay ride, explore the corn maze, visit the animals at the petting zoo and find the perfect pumpkin in the patch to decorate or carve for Halloween.

Brown Hill Farms

Tunkhannock, PA

Get out and enjoy the leaves, pumpkins, apples, and more while you can!

Spend a day at the pumpkin patch

Pumpkin Patches

Brown Hill Farms

Dymonds Farm Market

Klingel's Farm

Ritter’s Farm Market

Roba Family Farms

Rohrbach’s Farm Market, Bakery & Barn Loft

Walker’s Tree Farm and Pumpkin Patch

Whistle Pig Pumpkin Patch

Apple orchards are ripe with fall's sweetest fruit

Apple Orchards

Brace's Orchard

Heller Orchards

Klim's Orchard

Maylath Farm & Orchard

OHF Orchards

Ritter’s Cider Mill

Russell Farms

Ostrander’s Orchard

Heckman Orchards

Get lost in a maze of corn

Corn Mazes

Brown Hill Farms

Dymonds Farm Market

Maylath Farm & Orchard

Mazezilla

Retherford's Farm Market

Ritter’s Farm Market

Ritter’s Cider Mill

Roba Family Farms

Walker’s Tree Farm and Pumpkin Patch

Whistle Pig Pumpkin Patch

Haunted attractions: Enter if you dare

Spooky Attractions

Pardeesville Haunted Trail

Downtown Wilkes-Barre Ghost Walks

Scranton After Dark Haunted Walking Tours

Hellstead Manor

Waldorf Estate of Fear

Spooky Days on the Farm

Reaper's Revenge

Circle of Screams

Horror Hall

Gravestone Manor

Ghost Walks in Old Mauch Chunk

Hotel of Horror

It's what the season's all about: Tricks & treats

Trunk or Treat Events

4th Annual Ultimate Trunk or Treat and Halloween Marketplace

Johnson College Trunk or Treat

Creepy Crawly Trick-or-Treat Walk

Halloween on the Farm

Make the most of the season with festivals & events

Fall Festivals & Events

Carbondale Scarecrow Festival

Fall Wine Festival

Community FallFest 2023

Halloween Movie on the Mountain

Tails, Scales, and Ales Fall Festival

Harvest & Heritage Days

Tamaqua Heritage Festival

Edwardsville Fall Festival

Tunkhannock Rotary Harvest & Wine Festival

Fall Foliage & Halloween Train Rides

Heller Orchards 35th Annual Apple Festival

Pumpkin Harvest Festival

SPELLBOUND Halloween Pop Up Bar

Spooky Schuylkill 5k

Ritter’s Fall Festival

Apple Harvest Festival

Pumpkin Festival

Halloween Light Show

Knoebels’ Hallo-Fun Weekends

Fall Foliage Festival

HOCUS POCUS Wine + Cocktail Party

The Electrifying Jack O Lantern Experience

The Pumpkin Walk

Michelle Johnson