Minnesota Festivals Fall Celebrations

Enjoy Our Autumn Paradise!

Here are some of the best ways and places in Minnesota to see spectacular fall color.

• Autumn Hiking Adventures: with your family and friends. See birds gather for fall migration and forest animals as they prepare for the coming winter. Enjoy the fall colors as the foliage blazes yellow, red and orange in the autumn sun!
• Leaf Spectacular in Taylors Falls: Guided tours of the 1855 Folsom House & Museum, boat excursions and canoeing on the St. Croix River, walks through the village, hiking at Interstate State Park, Harvest Festival at First Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Participate in Minnesota festivals in fall that showcase Native American culture, Minnesota wildlife and autumn crafts.

• Big Island Rendezvous & Festival at Bancroft Bay Park in Albert Lea is the largest early America and fur trade "living history" reenactment. Includes colonial cuisine, live entertainment and colonial crafts for sale.
• Fall Foliage Fest in downtown Harmony. Fall decorations, a farmer’s market, church and organization dinners, wagon rides, information on great fall color drives, Amish tours, cave tours, artist demonstrations and classes, chainsaw carving, pumpkin decorating and games.
• Oktoberfest throughout downtown New Ulm. Features musical entertainment, including New Ulm’s Concord Singers and bands from Germany, as well as dancing, and lots of German merchandise, food and drink.
• Lanesboro Minnesota Fall Festival in the city of Lanesboro. Enjoy harvest activities, wagon rides, special promotions, a farmer’s market, cookie walk, used book sale, wine testing at Scenic Valley Winery, Lanesboro trolley tours, and live professional theatre performances. Also, go on to nearby Historic Forestville, an 1899 village, for Harvest Day Saturday, and participate in the corn harvest, quilting bee, seed threshing, cider pressing and more!
• Village of Yesteryear in Owatonna. Harvest Fest & Cemetery Walk This fall festival features horse-drawn wagon rides, cider pressing, corn shelling, children’s activities, pumpkin painting, food stands, and more. And, people from the past will come back to life during the cemetery walk!
• Oktoberfest Celebration will be held throughout the northern Minnesota town of Pelican Rapids. This old country Minnesota festival fall family event includes live music and dancing, the "Best of the Wurst" sausage & beer tasting, a Can Drive for the Humane Society, the crowning of Oktoberfest royalty, a wine tasting, silent auction, children’s bingo, karaoke, beer gardens, a bonfire, raffle drawing, a Volksmarch, old-fashioned Sunday afternoon polka party and contest, and a German dinner.

Apple Orchards, Pumpkin Patches and Farms

• Pumpkin Festival at Nelson Family Farm in Litchfield. Some highlights include tractor drawn wagon rides, make-your-own scarecrows, pony rides, a gift shop, a straw maze, farm animals, and home-grown pumpkins, squash, corn shocks, decorative corn and other fall decorations for your yard. Walks through a corn maze are also offered.
• Johnny Appleseed Days Festival Lake City will be the site of the annual celebration of the region’s spectacular fall foliage and the abundance of apples that are harvested in this area each fall. Activities will include an arts & crafts fair, book sale, farmer’s market, children’s games, an apple pie and bake sale, basket raffles, a chili cook-off, kids’ inflatable rides, and a scarecrow hunt.
• Lindig Farms Minnesota Festival Fall Family Fun Celebration will be held at Lindig Farms, just southwest of Fergus Falls. In addition to pumpkin-picking and fall produce, visitors will enjoy demonstrations, hayrides along the beautiful Otter Tail River, a farm animal petting zoo, the potato cannon, cow milking, a bone hut, children’s crafts, and a corn maze. And on October 4 & 5, also enjoy live music and information on brewing, distilling, and wine making.
• Minnesota Festival: Fall Apple Festival at Carlos Creek Winery in Alexandria. Highlights include performances by Tina & Lena, hay rides, face painting, pumpkin painting, bobbing for apples, a barn dance, food and craft vendors, contests for the best apple pie, heaviest pumpkin and largest green pepper, and lots of Carlos Creek apples and wines for sale.
• Pumpkin Fest in the city of Aurora with craft displays, a quilt show, children’s activities, stagecoach rides, great food, clowns, and plenty of pumpkins.

Minnesota festivals, fall celebrations of Halloween and more.

• Halloween Haunt At Valleyscare: A Minnesota fall festival at Valleyfair. Ghosts, goblins, and other strange creatures lurk in the fog. Check out horrifying mazes, shocking scare zones, and Fright Feasts.


• Floating Ghost Ship in Duluth. The William A. Irvin Ore Carrier will be transformed into a floating haunted celebration of Halloween.
• Boo At The Zoo at the Lake Superior Zoo in Duluth with trick-or-treating all throughout the zoo.
• Scarecrow Fall-ies will be held throughout the city of Cannon Falls. Highlights include a scarecrow contest, street arts & craft vendors, a farmer’s market, concessions, children’s activities, and a Harvest Dance.
• Haunted Corn Maze & Mill at Farmamerica in Waseca. Ghosts and goblins emerge from the darkness and lurk in the shadows. Adults must accompany any child under 10 years old.

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