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.
Upstate Weekends
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Historic Hudson Valley's nighttime walk through 7,000+ hand-carved, illuminated jack o'lanterns, from dinosaurs to a working carousel. |
11 events,A two-day fiber arts and farm festival with 100+ vendors of wool, yarn, pottery and crafts.
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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.
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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.
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A day of Irish culture on the Peekskill riverfront: live music from Shilelagh Law, The Amadans and Phineas and the Lonely Leaves, Irish food and drink, a beer garden, Celtic craft vendors, Gaelic football and hurling demonstrations, step dancers and kids' activities.
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Forty-plus local acts on porches and lawns across the village. Free. Rain or shine. Bring a folding chair and no plan. |
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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4 events,More than 7,000 hand-carved jack o'lanterns at Van Cortlandt Manor, running evenings through Nov 8. Advance tickets only.
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Downtown Ithaca's 44th apple festival: growers, cider, baked goods, crafts and live music on the Commons.
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Three nights of blues guitar in the Woodstock barn that is home to the Midnight Ramble. Shows at 8pm Friday through Sunday. A Friday-night concert at the Roxbury Arts Group's Vega Mountain Road arts center.
$12 – $28
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20 events,A two-day fall antique show at the historic Schoharie Valley Railroad complex.
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Hunter's lead-in to winter: a ski swap, food truck and Tap Bar, and SkyRide lift rides over early fall color.
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The 36th Kiwanis-run garlic harvest festival: a garlic marketplace, a food alley of garlic dishes, and a full weekend in Saugerties.
$8 – $15
Apple and pumpkin picking, wagon rides and a corn maze, with live music beside the Treasury Cider Bar. Blacksmithing demonstrations at Cooperstown's living-history farm, the same weekend its first fall scarecrow trail opens. The Finger Lakes' long-running grape harvest festival: a beverage garden, music tent, crafts and the famous grape pie contest. A two-day Bavarian festival at Whiteface, with oompah bands, alphorns, dancers, craft vendors and gondola rides into the fall color.
$12 – $45
Stomp grapes, taste wine and stay for live music, wood-fired pizza and a bonfire at a New Paltz winery. Rain or shine.
$12 – $40
A German buffet and beer hall with an oompah band and alpenhorn on the lake. The day pass includes Mohonk's trails.
Day pass $ + tax113.25
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Windham's Saturday market on Main Street: local growers and makers, with live music each week.
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A guided 6-mile round trip to a Catskills fire tower, focused on Leave No Trace wildlife ethics. Free, registration required.
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Delhi's chamber-run harvest festival: local farmers, vendors and artisans around Courthouse Square, with live music. |
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Hot rods, classics and motorcycles line Tannersville's Main Street, with live music and a pop-up market. Free to wander.
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A Sunday farm-and-maker market on the Woodstock festival grounds, with a corn maze, hayrides and live music.
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An afternoon of folk and roots music in Saratoga's High Rock Park, with crafts, vendors and a pie auction.
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1 event,Four days of authors and panels across downtown Saratoga, nearly all of it free.
Nearly all sessions free
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7 events,Warrensburg turns its whole town into one sprawling sale for three days, sunup to sundown.
Free admission; rain or shine
New England's largest fair closes a 17-day run: state buildings, concerts and fair food worth the drive.
$12 – $20
World-level cross-country at Mt Van Hoevenberg and downhill at Whiteface, three days in peak color.
$10 – $20
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Three days of makers and antique dealers at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds, with two music stages and parking included.
$28
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More than 7,000 hand-carved pumpkins on a longer path than past years, every night in October. Advance tickets only.
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A haunted hayride plus six walk-through attractions, in its 36th season. Saturday is the kid-friendly day.
$15 – $64.95
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14 events,The 29th Pumpkinfest fills Courthouse Park with pumpkin everything, a craft show, hayrides and the Pumpkin Pub. The 30th Showcase opens new homes across Saratoga County — this weekend and again October 10–11.
$25
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Free admission and free parking on the mountain, with a stein holding contest at 1 and pie eating at 1:30.
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Pig races, magic shows, a petting zoo, live music and the orchard's own craft hard cider, both days 10 to 6.
$22 – $37
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Hunter's fall festival opens with the Scenic Skyride over the first color, live music both days and a VIP tasting option.
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Oxen demonstrations, a farmers' market, wagon rides and a six-acre corn maze at Fort Ticonderoga.
Included with daily admission (buy one day, get the next free)
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Montour Falls' 19th harvest festival on Main Street, with She-Qua-Ga Falls behind it.
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Warwick closes the village for the day: 150+ craft vendors, 75+ food stands and an apple pie baking contest.
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The museum on Blue Mountain Lake closes the weekend with a fall festival, 10 to 5.
Included with admission; Adirondack Park residents free with ID
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