Adirondack Experience’s annual FallFest, in Blue Mountain Lake, happens October 6.
1. Get Festive!
Celebrate the harvest or lift a stein to the season at colorful gatherings throughout the park—find a bushel of fall fun at our events calendar.
2. Learn Your Leaves
Once the days shorten and temperatures drop, trees break out their fall coats—the costume change is a result of chlorophyll production slowing and stopping, allowing other pigments a turn in the spotlight. For a primer of the Adirondacks’ autumn colors, read "Legend of the Fall," by Mary Thill, from our October 2008 issue.
3. Visit an Apple Orchard
Fresh-from-the-tree apples, tangy cider and still-warm donuts—North Country orchards are the sweet spots of autumn. Make a day of it by picking your own peck at Rulf’s Orchard, in Peru (531 Bear Swamp Road), or Gunnison Orchards, in Crown Point (3208 Route 9N).
4. Crack a Corn Maze
Rulf’s Orchard has one—with Flashlight Nights in October—but for a heroic challenge, follow history-based clues through the six-acre labyrinth at Fort Ticonderoga (102 Fort Ti Road) or search for hidden mailboxes in the eight-acre Great Adirondack Corn Maze, at Tucker Farms (64 Hobart Road, Gabriels), which stays open after dark on Fridays and Saturdays.
5. Break Out the Picnic Basket
Eat up the view at picture-perfect picnic spots such as Newcomb’s easy-access Overlook Park, with its gazebo and necklace of High Peaks; Elizabeth Point, on Thirteenth Lake, a relaxed two-mile round-trip walk to a picnic table and sandy beach; Peggy’s Point (lglc.org), in Hague, a lakeside setting with a community flower garden and ADA-accessible path and picnic table; or Sacandaga River Park/Pathway, in Speculator, offering a riverside picnic area and 1.5-mile ADA-accessible nature trail.
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