Sixty hot air balloons over Glens Falls and Queensbury, with a 6:30 AM mass launch Saturday and Sunday. Set the alarm. It's worth it.
A two-day fiber arts and farm festival with 100+ vendors of wool, yarn, pottery and crafts.
Fifty farm and artisan vendors along Main Street, a beer garden, and live music all weekend in Chalybeate Park. Free, with a shuttle from the school lot.
A Friday-night concert at the Roxbury Arts Group's Vega Mountain Road arts center.
A two-day fall antique show at the historic Schoharie Valley Railroad complex.
A guided 6-mile round trip to a Catskills fire tower, focused on Leave No Trace wildlife ethics. Free, registration required.
Delhi's chamber-run harvest festival: local farmers, vendors and artisans around Courthouse Square, with live music.
Blacksmithing demonstrations at Cooperstown's living-history farm, the same weekend its first fall scarecrow trail opens.
Opening reception for Richard Barlow's chalk-drawing installations at the Roxbury Arts Center.
