Autumn adventures are fastly approaching! Celebrate Fall in and around Philadelphia with these spook-tacular events. We have your guide for festivities, attractions, haunted houses, and beyond in and around Philadelphia.
FALL EVENTS, FESTIVALS, AND FUN PLACES TO BE
PAST EVENTS
With over 100 participating restaurants, enjoy $40 to $45 three-course dinners ($60 at select restaurants) and $20 two-course lunches at dozens of participating spots with Center City District Restaurant Week this fall. Click here for the full list of participating locations.
Don't miss the annual Linvilla Orchards Arts & Craft Festival! Check out local artists and crafts while live musical performances take place this weekend. Bring the family for a fun-filled day that everyone will enjoy.
The 39th annual Fall for the Arts Festival returns to Chestnut Hill on September 15, transforming Germantown Avenue into an outdoor arts and craft marketplace.
Experience the Arts in Delaware County! Delco Arts Week is a 9 day celebration including live performances, gallery exhibitions, kid-friendly events, and more. Click here to check out all of the festivities taking place!
The annual Delaware River Festival offers something fun for the whole family. From ferry rides, face painting, crafts, and more, check out all the activities you can do along the Camden and Philadelphia waterfronts.
Fishtown's popular bock party, the Fishtown Feastivale kicks off the first weekend of fall on Saturday, September 29 from 12PM-8PM. The free-to-attend, pay-as-you-go event features local eats, plus over 50 art, craft and retail vendors and DJs.
Head to The Navy Yard for a festive evening of food trucks, live music, local vendors, and more for the second annual Night Festival on September 12 from 4PM-8PM.
Go birds! The Eagles are back for the 2024 season, a. Don't miss the home opener against the Atlanta Falcons on September 16 at 8:15 PM.
The Savannah Bananas are taking over Citizens Bank Park this fall on September 21 at 7 PM. Head down to South Philly for nine innings of trick pitches, choreographed dances, and epic entrances.
The biannual Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Show is the oldest outdoor fine arts show in the country! This free outdoor gallery showcases nearly 150 professional artists offering works in paint, sketch, glass, printmaking, sculpture, and more.
Kick-off the 2024-2025 theater season with the Kimmel Center's one-day extravaganza, the Philadelphia Fall Arts Fest! This free event showcases diverse live performances, exciting activities, ticket deals and giveaways, plus more on September 21 at 11 am.
The seventh annual Upper Darby International Festival celebrates the diverse Delco community, the sixth largest in Pennsylvania. Celebrate the township's signature event and their theme "The World In One Place" with international cuisine food vendors, community resources, a Kids zone, the traditional Parade of Flags, plus more on September 28 from 1PM-6PM.
Spruce Street Harbor Park feature the same floating hammocks, tasty grub, and music you know and love. Stop by to experience all it has to offer before the season comes to a close.
Don't miss this season's final month of Parks on Tap! Experience brews-and-bites parties across the city's urban parks and green spaces below:
- Schuylkill Banks (September 4 to September 8)
- Spring Gardens (September 11 to September 15)
- Clark Park (September 18 to September 22)
- Strawberry Mansion Bridge (September 25 to September 29)
Manayunk is excited to be bringing back Out & About in MNYK to Main Street! In honor of National Coming Out Day in October, Out & About in MNYK will host LGBTQ+ organizations and entertainment to promote Manayunk as a safe place that welcomes everyone.
Enjoy a weekend featuring food trucks, beer garden, live entertainment, and family activities at Octoberfeast at Peddler's Village! The event will take place from 11AM-6PM.
Enjoy a day of cider pressing, apple butter making, hayrides, seasonal games, pumpkin painting, music and more during Applefest at Fox Chase Farm on October 19 from 12PM-4PM. Pumpkins, apples, apple butter and cider for sale.
On Saturday, October 19 from 11AM-1PM, pick a pumpkin out of the Pumpkin Patch at Franklin Square and decorate it to take home! Free for children 10 and under.
ONGOING + UPCOMING EVENTS
The Philadelphia Zoo's annual Halloween extravaganza, Boo at the Zoo, is back for three fun-filled weekends of costumes, festive fall treats, and ghoulish fun! Stop by on October 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, and 27 from 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM, put on your favorite costume, bring a bag, and trick-or-treat throughout the Zoo.
Fall Harvest At Johnson's Corner Farm will be every day from Sept. 7 to Oct. 31 and Columbus Day TOO!!! Wagon rides to the fields and orchards will run from 10-5 weekdays and 10-5 on weekends. Harvest Festivals every weekend through October with will feature Hayrides to Pick Pumpkins, Gourds & Apples, live music, festival food tends, gem mining and duck races, Discovery Barnyard and Animal farm, and a weekend only corn maze.
Buck County's friendly-family Fallfest returns on September 14. The annual event features hay rides, barnyard animals, kids' games, pedal go-cars, the Barn of Horror, a Peanuts-themed corn maze and lots more! Plus pick-your-own pumpkins, sunflowers and apples
When the sun goes down, head to FallFest Fun After Dark with FallFest UnWINEd weekend live music, bonfires, the Moonlit Maze, and the not-so-scary Eerie Illuminations Halloween Light Show Wagon Ride.
Bring the whole family - pets, too - to Manayunk for a spooky Halloween In Manayunk celebration all month long. Fridays & Saturdays in October, visitors can get around Main Street on the FREE Trick-or-Trolley! he Trick-or-Trolley will stop at several spots including the Manayunk's spookiest attraction, Lincoln Mill Haunted House. Manayunk's annual Halloween celebration and trick-or-treating will resume as well!
Experience family fun, magical memories, and holiday traditions at Harbaugh Village. From the pumpkin play yard and corn maze at day, to the night-only, illuminated, magic pumpkin patch, take a trip to New Jersey for their endless entertainment and events!
Linvilla Orchards' annual Pumpkinland opens for the season on September 7! Check out harvest hayrides around the farm, haybale mazes, plus more. Things get spooky after dark with moonlight hayrides around the farm or to the nearby Witch's House, ending at a campfire with cider and marshmallows.
Peddler's Village presents the 45th free Scarecrows in The Village event! For 8 weeks, more than 100 creative and colorful locally handmade scarecrows line the grounds' brick pathways as part of an annual competition, which you can vote for your faves! The display's apex is the annual Scarecrow Festival on September 14 and 15 - with scarecrow-making worships, pumpkin painting, live music, and kids activities.
Spooky Mini Golf at Franklin Square features fun for the season with fog, lights, music, and surprises! Add some fright to your night as you putt your way through Philadelphia's famous landmarks!
While Center City Sips comes to a close, get ready for spooktacular sips at Uptown Beer Garden for the fall! More details to come on what to expect through Halloween.
HAUNTED HOUSES IN AND AROUND PHILADELPHIA
The Bates Motel in Delco is named one of the 10 Best Haunted House Attractions in America by CNN! Last year, the American Haunts Group named the Bates motel and Haunted Hayride to Legendary Status, one of only five in America! From the Bates Motel Haunted House, the 25-minute Haunted Hayride, Revenge of the Scarecrows Haunted Corn Trail, and Double edge Axe Throwing, experience all the thrills they have to offer.
Fright Factory is a dark and cavernous basement of a 120-year-old abandoned factory in South Philly. This 25,000-square-foot space is split into three themed areas, an Industrial Nightmare, South Side Sanatorium, and Fright Factor Unholy. Visit their website to find out more.
On select dates each fall, Eastern State Penitentiary opens its cell blocks after dark for Halloween Nights. Experience 15 different attractions of terror behind the walls including 5 haunted houses, prison tours, spooky-themed bards, a beer garden, plus more.
Lincoln Mill Haunted House is a fully immersive horror experience featuring live scare-actors, special effects, and more. The ghastly history tells a spine-chilling story of bodies "discovered" in a secret basement chamber after flooding from Hurricane Ida in 2021, uncovering the mill's dark and gruesome past. Explore the 160-year-old abandoned mill as you avoid the lingering spirits of workers who were subject to torment from their disturbed boss, featuring scare actors, high-quality sets, special effects and animatronics
Pennhurst Asylum is a terrifying haunted attraction in Chester County featuring 3 chilling venues: Pennhurst Asylum haunted house, The Morgue and The Tunnels. Plus, check out less-scary daytime and paranormal investigation tours
Located in Bucks County: Newtown, Pennsylvania, Sleepy Hollow Haunted Acres features 3 ghoulish attractions on the 230-acre working Gunser Farm family farm. Experience themile-and-a-quarter Sleepy Hollow Hayride,
Located at 12th and Samson Street, the Nightmare Before Tinsel is a spooktacular Philly Bar for ghouls 21+. More information to come on opening dates and times!
Located at the Phoenix Sport Club in Feasterville-Trevose, The Valley of Fear featured 3 attractions including the disorienting Original Haunted Hayride through "America's Most Horrifying Woods," a terrifying hunt for One Eye'd Willie's lost treasure at Escape Shipwreck Cove, and the dreaded mansion of evil at the risen-from-the-ashes Miles Manor Haunted House. Visit their website for more information!
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