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.
More than 7,000 hand-carved jack o'lanterns at Van Cortlandt Manor, running evenings through Nov 8. Advance tickets only.
Downtown Ithaca's 44th apple festival: growers, cider, baked goods, crafts and live music on the Commons.
A Friday-night concert at the Roxbury Arts Group's Vega Mountain Road arts center.
Three nights of blues guitar in the Woodstock barn that is home to the Midnight Ramble. Shows at 8pm Friday through Sunday.
