🍂 Your Ultimate Guide to Fall Family Fun in Central PA 🍁
Let’s be honest—fall isn’t just a season, it’s a personality. Around here, we don’t just sip cider, we chug it with dignity. If your bucket list includes flannel, foliage, and feeding goats while pretending you’re outdoorsy, welcome home. This guide is your cozy, corn-maze-covered roadmap to everything autumnal in the Harrisburg, Carlisle, and West Shore area. Grab your boots, pack your tissues (because leaf-peeping can be emotional), and let’s get this fall party started.
🍁 Top 10 Spots to Experience Fall Foliage in the Cumberland Valley
There’s nothing like the smell of damp leaves and the sound of kids pretending they’re not cold yet. From mountaintop lookouts to tree-lined trails, these ten scenic gems are basically nature’s way of showing off.
🍏 Apple Picking: Your Guide to Local Orchards
Is it even fall if you haven’t schlepped a half-bushel of apples back to the car while dodging bees and bribing your toddler with cider doughnuts? This guide rounds up the best spots to pick, sip, and snap photos that scream "autumn parent of the year."
🎃 Harrisburg and West Shore Area Fall Festival Guide 2025
This is your always-updating guide to pumpkin patches, hayrides, fairs, foodie fests, and photo-ops worth the cider donut bribe. Bookmark it and check back for fresh dates and new spotlights.
👨🌾 Ultimate Guide to Fall Places to Play in Our Area
Not to be dramatic, but this guide is what dreams are made of. Whether you want to lose your children in a corn maze or just find a place where someone else does the cooking (hello, apple fritters!), this guide has you covered.
We will continue to update our Macaroni KID Fall Fun Guide with events as they are posted, so check back often!
Do you know of a 2025 family-friendly fall event or attraction in Dauphin or Cumberland County that isn't listed here? Please submit your event here and we will add it to our Macaroni KID Fall Fun Guide!
👻 Harrisburg & West Shore: The Spooky Trail Halloween Display Guide (2024)
This fan-favorite returns! Use this placeholder now and swap in your 2025 guide (which will include Carlisle → Shippensburg) when it’s ready.
