Fall is in the air! Campfires, pumpkin spice, apple bakery, pumpkin patches, colored landscapes, and oh, so much more. There’s no doubt that autumn is one of the most beautiful seasons in our beloved state. Don’t miss out on all of the festivities and fun! We’ve got over 65 Wisconsin fall festivals you will not want to miss this season!
Northeast Wisconsin
- Downtown Menasha Harvest Festival, Main Street, Menasha, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, September 21, 2024
- Enjoy a day filled with fun activities for the whole family, including an Arts & Crafts Fair, Pie Eating Contest, Children’s Games, Live Music, delicious food, and much more!
- Partoberfest, Lion’s Park, Greenville, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, September 21, 2024
- Enjoy a beer garden, delicious food, and fun kids activities like pumpkin painting.
- Grand Chute Fall Fest, Appleton, Wisconsin
- When: September 21, 2024
- Food, carnival games, and prizes.
- Fall Fest, Givens Farm
- When: Saturday, September 28, 2024
- Experience the season’s charm with local crafts, antiques, home décor, homegrown pumpkins, apples, gourds, and more. Activities include hayrides around the farm for all ages to enjoy, birds of prey, and more.
- Octoberfest, Appleton & License to Cruise, Appleton, Wisconsin
- When: Friday, September 27 – Saturday, September 28, 2024
- License to Cruise is a classic car show held on College Avenue on the Friday evening before Octoberfest, featuring over 400 vintage vehicles. Octoberfest, held the following Saturday, is a day-long festival with live music, food vendors, and family-friendly activities, drawing large crowds to celebrate fall in downtown Appleton.
- Oconto Chamber Harvest Festival, Oconto, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, September 28, 2024
- This FREE harvest festival features a variety of arts and crafts, seasonal produce, sidewalk sales, kids’ activities, food, refreshments, and live music.
- Fall Living History Festival, Waupun, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, September 27 – Sunday, September 29, 2024
- Admission: $3 per child, $5 per adult, members FREE
- *Includes access to Nature Center & trails for the day!
- Take an educational step back in time at this unique festival! Indoor/outdoor demonstrations of the War of 1812, candle making wood carving, butter churning, tents & tipis, black smithing, fibre arts, and much more!
- Golden Days Harvest Fest, Green Lake, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, September 28 – Sunday, September 29, 2024
- A wonderful, free hometown fall festival including a parade at 4 pm! Come experience games, wooden boat tours, face painting, balloons, pancake breakfast, car show, craft fair, farmer’s market, a kids pedal pull, and more.
- Cabbage Chuck, Shicton Lake, Shiocton, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 5, 2024
- The event features cabbage chucking, raffles, kids’ games, and live music
- Fall Fest on Broadway, Green Bay, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 5, 2024
- The event will feature a variety of activities, including face painting, balloon art, and horse-drawn hayrides. Guests can enjoy live music, a car show, a Trunk-or-Treat, a petting zoo, and a big vehicle experience. Additional attractions include a climbing wall, inflatables, food trucks, and a selection of ciders and beverages.
- Village of Wrightstown Fall Festival, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 5, 2024
- Located in the scenic Wrightstown River District, Wrightstown’s Fall Festival and Car Show is a FREE – fun – family event for all. Activities include a Color Blaze Run, Street Market, Kids Activities, Live Music, and more!
- Kimberly Fall & Craft Sale & Car Show, Kimberly, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 5, 2024
- Join the Kimberly Recreation Association for our third annual Fall Craft Fair in Treaty Park with over 70 vendors, food trucks, and classic car show.
- Greenville Craft Fair, Lions Park, Greenville, Wisconsin
- When: Sunday, October 6, 2024
- Menasha Sesquicentennial, Downtown Menasha, Wisconsin
- When: October 11 – 12, 2024
- Harvest Moon Festival, Mosquito Hill Nature Center, New London, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 12, 2024
- This is a non-scary event for families and children featuring wagon rides, campfires and s’mores, concessions, crafts, and a live animal program. No registration required! $10.00/carload the day of the event.
- Dundee Fall Color Classic Car Cruise and Show, Dundee, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 12, 2024
- A FREE car show with food, beverages, crafts, and other vendors, too!
- Mishicot Pumpkinfest, Mishicot, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 19, 2024
- This FREE fall event starts with pancakes at the high school at 9 am followed by a parade at noon!
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Door County
- Bailey’s Harbor AutumnFest, Bailey’s Harbor, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, September 14, 2024
- Enjoy a variety of family-friendly activities including the Hey Hey 5K Run, a classic car & motorcycle show, live music, arts & crafts, and more!
- Harvest Fest & Street Art Auction, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
- When: Friday, September 21, 2024
- Come celebrate fall in downtown Sturgeon Bay! This FREE celebration includes a classic car parade on Friday evening, craft fair, food vendors, live music and in-store specials.
- Fall Lighthouse Festival Tour, Door County, Wisconsin
- When: Friday, October 4 – Sunday, October, 6, 2024
- Visit all 11 of Door County’s treasured lights houses (and even 3 lighthouses further south!) on this ultimate lighthouse tour! Note: Admission varies wildly, but you can find some cheaper child fares, around $5, at this event.
- Egg Harbor Pumpkin Patch Festival, Egg Harbor, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 12 – Sunday, October 13, 2024
- This is a fun-filled fall family weekend! Enjoy carnival rides, arts & crafts vendors, face painting, live music, pumpkin & scarecrow displays, magician, kids games & activities, raffle, and food all for FREE!
- Sister Bay Fall Festival, Sister Bay, Wisconsin
- When: Friday, October 18 – Sunday, October 20, 2024
- This FREE festival includes a HUGE arts & crafts fair, live music, great food, kid games, Fall Fest Parade Saturday at 11 am, and loads of family fun!
- Jack O’ Lantern Days, Fish Creek, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 26, 2024
- A hometown Halloween festival including a festive costume contest, town hall games, town-wide trick-or-treating, a costume parade, mask making and so much more!
- Thrills & Chills, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 26, 2024
- The spooky and FREE festivities begin with a costume parade at 10 am. You’ll also have a chance to make your own trick-or-treat bags, visit a haunted house, make slime, and trick-or-treat throughout downtown Sturgeon Bay from 10 am – 3 pm.
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Northern Wisconsin
- Crooked Lake Annual Oktoberfest, Lakewood, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 12, 2024
- Outdoor craft market, free pumpkin decorating for the kids, free hayrides, minnow races for young and old, beer garden, and music by local favorite, Whitey!
- Phelp Women’s Club Scarecrow Fest, Phelp, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, September 13, 2024
- A FREE family fall festival with lots of affordable fun activities! Some of the highlights include pumpkin chuckin’, free chili, fall mum & pumpkin sale, FREE kid & adult games, and much more.
- Cable Area Fall Fest, Cable, Wisconsin
- When: Friday, September 27 – Saturday, September 28, 2024
- This FREE community festival includes car & motorcycle show, food, live music, arts & craft vendors, and plenty of festive fall decorations.
- Warrens Cranberry Festival, Warrens, Wisconsin
- When: Friday, September 27 – Sunday, September 29, 2024
- A FREE family festival packed with cranberry marsh tours, a parade, flea market & arts/crafts vendors, food, and farm market.
- Hayward Fall Festival, Hayward, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, September 21, 2024
- A FREE family fun celebration including scarecrow contest, sidewalk sales, kids games, farmers market, arts & crafts, music, brats & beer, 3 on 3 basketball tournament, and more!
- Cranberry Festival, Stone Lake, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 5, 2024
- Arts, crafts, flea market, cranberry pancake breakfast, parade, a krate derby, and cranberry marsh tours all await you here in Stone Lake!
- Phillips Fall Harvest Festival, Phillips, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 5, 2024
- A celebration of all things fall including pumpkins, cranberries, food, and activities for all ages!
- Eagle River Cranberry Fest, Eagle River, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 5 – Sunday, October 6, 2024
- Enjoy all things cranberry at this FREE family-friendly festival! You can also take a cranberry marsh tour while you’re here (at cost).
- Apple Festival, Bayfield, Wisconsin
- When: Friday, October 4 – Sunday, October 6, 2024
- This is a well-loved, FREE fall festival! Come enjoy a grand parade, apple peeling contest, fireman’s fish fry, farmer’s market, an apple pie & dessert contest, and live music.
- Madeline Island Fall Fest, La Pointe, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 19, 2024
- Reservations: Call 715-747-2801
- Enjoy the last good weather on the island before winter! This FREE weekend includes pumpkin decorating, birdhouse building, face painting, clowns, music, food vendors, wapples (waffles filled with apple cheesecake and caramel sauce), rock polishing, cider pressing, and local artisans.
West Central Wisconsin
- Amery Fall Festival, Amery, Wisconsin
- When: Thursday, September 12 – Sunday, September 15, 2024
- A whole weekend of fall fun! Activities include a car show, carnival rides, food, live music, grand parade, run/walk, and MUCH more!
- Wo-Zha-Wah Days Fall Festival, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
- When: Friday, September 13 – Sunday, September 15, 2024
- Come join in the arts & crafts, antique flea market, Maxwell street days, carnival rides, and parade in this FREE, family fall event.
- Maple Fall Fest, Marshfield, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, September 14 – Sunday, September 15, 2024
- FREE family event including a potato pancake breakfast, kids area, Amish goods, inflatables, food court, art & craft vendors, and more!
- Dozynki Harvest Festival, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
- When: September 14, 2024
- All things Polish including a Polka bank, Polish food, and beer.
- River Prairie Ginormous Pumpkin Festival, Altoona, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, September 28, 2024
- If you love giant pumpkins, this one’s for you. The day included a giant pumpkin weigh off, races, pumpkin dessert contest, rubber ducky races, kid pumpkin decorating, and a ginormous pumpkin drop!
- Apple Affair, Galesville, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 5, 2024
- You won’t want to miss this festival in ‘the Garden of Eden’ or the Galesville, WI area. The day begins with a bicycle tour of area apple orchards, then a chili cook off, plenty of apple baked goods, and their famous 10-foot apple pie!
- Thorp PumpkinFest, Thorp, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 5, 2024
- Pumpkin contest, pumpkin painting, petting zoo, bouncy house, and music are all available at this FREE family event.
- Nekoosa Giant Pumpkin Fest, Nekoosa, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 5 – Sunday, October 6, 2024
- A community celebration that includes a pumpkin drop, car show, craft show, flea & farmer’s market, tractor show, and a carnaval.
- AutumnFest, St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin
- When: Sunday, October 7, 2024
- The FREE day of festivities includes a pie eating contest, a pie & coffee social, art & craft vendors, food trucks, live music, farmers market, and free self-guided trail hikes.
- Baraboo Fall Fair on the Square, Baraboo, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 5, 2024
- A FREE family event including a farmers market, kids activities, live music, art & craft vendors, and numerous food trucks.
- Harvest Fest, Wausau, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 5, 2024
- This year’s event will include FREE pumpkins for kids 12 & under, 20+ kid’s activities & crafts, a full petting zoo, business Trick-or Treating and more!
- Autumn Harvest Celebration, Neillsville, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 12, 2024
- This is a FREE and family-oriented community festival that includes a children’s parade, BBQ cook off, craft fair, live music, exotic petting zoo, bouncy houses, and great food!
- PumpkinFest, Milltown, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 12, 2024
- A FREE community festival including scarecrows, bed racing, music, food, and FREE pumpkins for children!
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South Eastern Wisconsin
- Audubon Days Fall Family Festival, Mayville, Wisconsin
- When: Friday, September 13 – Sunday, September 15, 2024
- A community festival including bed races, live music, food, car & UTV show, run/walk, pictures with Mickey & Minnie, craft & antique fair, FREE kids activities (including face painting, crafts, & bouncy house), parade, chicken & pig roast, and duck races!
- Scarecrow Fest, Delavan, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, September 15, 2024
- FREE admission and parking for this fun-packed fall festival! Come enjoy a petting zoo, free pumpkins, children’s activities, food, live music, crafters & vendors, walldog mural tours, $10 scarecrow kits, and more.
- Twin Lakes Harvest Fest And Car Show, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, August 24, 2024
- This festival includes most of the regular festival activities (kids activities, food, car show, music, etc) but also a yodeling contest and a beer stein holding contest, hayride, and pumpkin painting!
- Thresheree and Harvest Festival at Richfield Historical Society, Richfield, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, September 21 – Sunday, September 22, 2024
- Admission:
- 12 years and under: FREE
- Adults: $6
- ‘This will be the 23rd year for Richfield Historical Society’s largest event, featuring field demonstrations including steam engine threshing, log sawing, plowing, and draft horses. See a steam-powered sawmill, antique engines, trucks, and tractors. There are plenty of children’s activities as well.’
- Wine and Harvest Festival, Cedarburg, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, September 21 – Sunday, September 22, 2024
- So much to enjoy! Live music & dance, food, beer & wine for the grown ups, 600-lb pumpkin boat regatta, grape stomp contests, goods for sale, giant pumpkin weigh-off, juggling, and a petting zoo/bouncy houses (at cost).
- Harvest Fair, West Allis, Wisconsin
- When: Friday, September 27 – Sunday, September 29, 2024
- This event at the Wisconsin State Fair grounds includes FREE live music & entertainment, lumberjack shows, pumpkin bowling, make your own scarecrow, farmers market, and food, including many State Fair vendors!
- Fall Festival of Color, Lake Mills, Wisconsin
- When: Sunday, October 6, 2024
- A community event with food, music, fall flowers, arts & crafts, seasonal & home decor, and local produce.
- Thiensville-Mequon Lions Applefest, Thiensville, Wisconsin
- When: Sunday, October 6, 2024
- There are some fun activities for the kids at this one: big wheel racing, barrel train rides, face painting, hay rides, polka contests, apple pie baking contest, live music, and food & drink!
- Port Washington Fall Street Festival, Port Washington, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 5, 2024
- Enjoy live music, a car and motorcycle show, artisan vendors, and tasty food and drinks. Family fun activities include pumpkin decorating, face painting, games, and more, all near the beautiful Lake Michigan shoreline.
- Three Lakes Pumpkin Fest, Three Lakes, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 12, 2024
- Craftors and more at this fall community festival!
- Milwaukee Public Market Harvest Festival, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 12, 2024
- This FREE festival includes fun fall activities like apple cider pressing, wood burning, caramel apples, live music, pumpkin bowling, pumpkin beer tasting, and more!
- Enchanted Forest and Hollywood Hayride, Janesville, Wisconsin
- When: Wednesday, October 9 – Saturday, October 12, 2024
- Admission: $3
- ‘The Enchanted Forest is a self-guided candlelit walk featuring 7 beautifully constructed scene sets from famous fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Costumed characters from each tale will be passing out treats/trinkets…The Hollywood Hayride is a star-studded narrated adventure hayride to 6 scenes from popular movies and TV shows. Characters will come to life and act out a short skit while handing out trinkets at each scene. There will also be tickets to play simple carnival-styled Halloween games to play inside the Goblin Games area.’
- Union Grove Fall Fest, Union Grove, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 5, 2024
- Enjoy scarecrow displays, kid’s crafts, vendor booths, specials, entertainment and more.
- Oak Creek Fall Festival and Harvest Market, Oak Creek, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 19, 2024
- This FREE family event includes the season’s final farmer’s market, face painting, craft vendors, caricatures, a giant inflatable corn maze, petting zoo, costume parade, pumpkin decorating contest, and hay rides through the Emerald Preserve!
- Dia de Los Muertos Festival, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- When: Friday, October 26, 2024
- The Dia de los Muertos Festival is a FREE, family-friendly event that celebrates the traditions of Dia de los Muertos within the beautiful setting of Forest Home Cemetery & Arboretum. The event will kick off in the morning with a 5k Run/Walk through the cemetery grounds. After the run, the festival opens to the public at 10 am, featuring local vendors, arts and crafts for kids and families, food trucks, traditional music and dance, altars to the dead in our chapel, face painting, community resource booths, and so much more.
South Central Wisconsin
- Fall Fun Fest at Pringle Nature Center, Bristol, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, September 21, 2024
- Fall Fun Fest is Pringle Nature Center’s largest annual fundraiser, co-sponsored by the Hoy Audubon Society, Kenosha County Parks, Kenosha County, and Access Ability Wisconsin. Visitors of all ages will celebrate the beginning of fall with nature activities, green exhibitors, food, music, and much more, all while supporting Pringle Nature Center.
- Ferryville Fall Fest, Ferryville, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, September 21, 2024
- Come enjoy the bounty of fall with a farmers market and craft event here in Ferryville. Expect to find local seasonal produce, bakery, Amish quilts, baskets, furniture, antiques, arts & crafts, music, a brat fry, and a corn roast.
- Gays Mills Apple Festival, Gays Mills, Wisconsin
- When: Friday, September 27 – Sunday, September 29, 2024
- ‘Celebrating the apple harvest with parades, carnivals, arts and crafts, flea markets, music, dancing, fun run/walk, food and festivities.’
- Deerfield Apple Festival, Deerfield, Wisconsin
- When: Sunday, September, 15, 2024
- This event is held at Bittersweet Blessings Farm. Come enjoy over 200 vendors, live music, a magician, ax throwing, a blacksmith, face paintings, all things apples, and much more!
- Verona Fall Fest, Verona, Wisconsin
- When: Friday, September 27, 2024
- A FREE family event including hay rides, train rides, fall games & crafts, pumpkin painting, food & drink, petting zoo, inflatable obstacle course, and ‘The Goonies’ in their outdoor theater!
- Farley Center Fall Festival, Verona, Wisconsin
- When: Sunday, October 6, 2024
- Come join in the apple cider-making process from picking to pressing! You can tour the bees and Natural Path Sanctuary while here, along with food and live music.
- Mount Horeb Fall Village Market, Mount Horeb, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 5 – Sunday, October 6, 2024
- Come enjoy the bounty of fall here in charming Mount Horeb! There will be live music, food trucks, crafters, and all the quaint little shops to explore while you’re here.
- AutumnFest, Brodhead, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 5, 2024
- A community festival including a chili contest, pumpkin decorating, business trick or treating, vendor market, food & drink, costume parade, horse wagon rides, and live music!
- Cambridge Fall Festival, Cambridge, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 12, 2024
- Annual Harvest Festival featuring an array of engaging activities, including games, a spooky theater, hay rides, a pumpkin patch, food trucks, a petting zoo, and vendor fair!
- Monona Fall Festival, Monona, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 12, 2024
- The day begins with the Hoot Hoot Hustle, then onto a pie baking & tasting competition, arts & crafts sale, bake sale, family fun activities (at cost $1/ticket), and concessions. There are also a handful of FREE family activities including bouncy pony hop races, a cow milking contest, hay bale mound, etc!
- Sun Prairie Fun Fall Event, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
- When: Saturday, October 12, 2024
- Fall activities, sales, and entertainment all in downtown Sun Prairie.
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