The 36th Kiwanis-run garlic harvest festival: a garlic marketplace, a food alley of garlic dishes, and a full weekend in Saugerties.
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.
An annual benefit concert on addiction and isolation, now at Bearsville, with Gail Ann Dorsey, Jim Weider and Mike Farris.
A Hudson River School talk by the Greene County Historian at the 1913 Haines Falls train station, then a visit into the landscapes the painters knew.
Stomp grapes, taste wine and stay for live music, wood-fired pizza and a bonfire at a New Paltz winery. Rain or shine.
A German buffet and beer hall with an oompah band and alpenhorn on the lake. The day pass includes Mohonk's trails.
The season's last open-studio afternoon on Woodstock's historic Byrdcliffe arts colony, followed by readings and performances.
The first Fest Saturday of Jägerberg's three-weekend Oktoberfest on Hunter's Main Street, with an accordion player on Sunday afternoon.
Opening reception for Richard Barlow's chalk-drawing installations at the Roxbury Arts Center.
