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.
Four hundred artists, sixty open doors, three Kingston neighborhoods. Grab a paper map uptown and buy one small thing you'll have to explain at home.
The cider house turns ten with live music, food trucks, a mini vendor market (12–5 PM), cider donuts, apple picking, tours and apple pie eating contests at 2 and 4 PM.
Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards' harvest celebration on Seneca Lake: live music, food trucks, craft vendors, lawn games and wine specials, with an optional winemaker tasting ($10) and helicopter rides.
174 acts on 109 porches in Fall Creek and Northside. Free, noon to six, rain or shine. Five hours is a long way to go for a porch. These are good porches.
Craft beer, five bands and a raffle on Beacon's Main Street. Free to get in. Every pour helps Mid Hudson Animal Aid's cats.
