National Apple Harvest Festival, Biglerville, PA. Photo by Destination Gettysburg

Pennsylvania hosts a variety of fall festivals in 2025, celebrating autumn with vibrant foliage, local crafts, food, and a strong sense of community spirit. These festivals often align with peak foliage season. Many fall festivals are among the 107 county and local agricultural fairs that occur annually throughout Pennsylvania. Below is a list of 20 notable fall festivals across the state.

1. Farmers and Threshermen’s Jubilee

When: September 3–7
Where: New Centerville Rural Fire Co., 3054 Kingwood Rd, Rockwood

A celebration of vintage farming equipment and techniques.

2. 134th McClure Bean Soup Fair

When: September 7–13
Where: 10 E. Ohio Street, McClure

Celebrating rural traditions with agricultural exhibits, livestock shows, and the signature bean soup served in large kettles.

3. Hinkelfest Chicken Festival

When: September 12–14
Where: Firemen’s Park, 2652 S Pine Grove St, Fredericksburg

A quirky festival centered on poultry, with chicken-themed food and livestock exhibits.

4. Schaefferstown Harvest Fair & Early American Craft Show

When: September 13-14
Where: Alexander Schaeffer Farm, N. Carpenter St., Schaefferstown

Welcoming the harvest season with  baked goods, apple butter, cider-pressing, farm life, demonstrations of traditional artisans.

5. Penn Township Fall Festival

When: September 19–21
Where: Penn Township Park, 9313 Municipal Ct., Harrison City

A community-focused event with craft and food vendors, an apple pie contest and chili cook-off and more.

6. Tailgate Festival

When: September 19–20
Where: 3529 Old Philadelphia Pike, Intercourse

A celebration of fall and tailgating season with themed scarecrows, pumpkins, and corn shock and family fun.

7. Cider Donut Fall Festival

When: September 20
Where: Cherry Crest Adventure Farm, 150 Cherry Hill Rd, Ronks

A family-friendly festival with local produce, particularly cider donuts. Includes farm activities like corn mazes, hayrides, and pumpkin picking.

8. Mount Pleasant Glass & Ethnic Festival

When: September 26–28
Where: 1 S. Diamond St., Mount Pleasant

Celebrate the area’s glass-making heritage and enjoy ethnic foods, arts and crafts, contests, and more.

9. Harvest of the Arts

When: September 27
Where: West High St., Carlisle

Features 100 juried artists, live music, kids’ activities, and food vendors along High Street. Showcases Cumberland Valley’s fall charm. Free entry.

10. New Cumberland Apple Festival

When: September 27
Where: New Cumberland Borough Park, Front & Reno Streets, New Cumberland

Celebrates apples with crafts, fine arts, and apple pie and Lego contests. A family-friendly event.

11. Covered Bridge & Arts Festival

When: October 2–5
Where: Bloomsburg Fairgrounds 980 W. Main Street, Bloomsburg

One of the East Coast’s largest craft shows, featuring hundreds of vendors with glass prints, jewelry, photography, and seasonal decor.

12. 61st Annual Bedford Fall Foliage Festival

When: October 4–5 and 11–12
Where: Downtown Bedford

The festival features over 400 vendors with handmade crafts, apparel, jewelry, and seasonal treats. Includes live music, an antique car parade.

13. National Apple Harvest Festival

When: October 4–5 and 11–12
Where: 615 Narrows Rd., Biglerville

Celebrates Adams County’s apple heritage with local apple varieties, craft vendors, cooking demos, live music, and kids’ activities.

14. Jim Thorpe Fall Foliage Festival

When: October 4–5, 11–12, 18–19
Where: Downtown Jim Thorpe

Handmade crafts, food, live music, and train rides. Set among the scenic Lehigh River Gorge, it’s ideal for foliage viewing.

15. I-105 FALLFEST

When: October 5
Where: Overlook Community Campus, 605 Granite Run Dr, Lancaster

A country music festival featuring Dylan Scott, LOCASH, Cooper Allen, Drew Baldridge, and more.

16. Pennsylvania State Flaming Foliage Festival

When: October 10–12
Where: 1200 Huron Avenue, Renovo

In its 76th year, the festival celebrates vibrant foliage with a queen coronation, more than 150 crafters, a spectacular parade and much more.

17. East Pennsboro Pumpkin Fest

When: October 11–12
Where: Adams-Ricci Park, 100 E. Penn Dr., Enola

Features craft vendors, a custom and antique car show, live entertainment, kids’ activities, amusements, and pumpkin-themed foods.

18. OctoberFeast at Peddler’s Village

When: October 11–12
Where: Peddler’s Village, 2400 Street Road, New Hope

An autumn celebration with food trucks, a beer garden, live entertainment, and family-friendly activities.

19. 51st Annual Quiet Valley Harvest Festival

When: October 11–12
Where: Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm, 347 Quiet Valley Rd., Stroudsburg

Celebrate the harvest at this family-friendly festival with historical demonstrations, crafts, food, and fall activities.

20. Autumn Leaf Festival

When: October 18–26
Where: Downtown Clarion and Clarion University

Highlights include the “Tournament of Leaves Parade,” over 300 craft vendors, carnival rides, a cornhole tournament, the PA State Fiddlers’ competition, kids’ activities and more.