Autumn is unique for the sights and tastes it offers every year. As the weather gets crisp and comfy sweaters reappear, be sure to get out and enjoy the myriad of ways you can indulge in the season’s splendor.

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• Pumpkins Aplenty
  Nothing says October like the season’s most popular gourd, pumpkin—and you can find plenty of festivals that go all-out celebrating this gourd.
  
  Take, for example, the New Hampshire Pumpkin Festival, which includes a tower of 20,000 lit pumpkins as part of its festivities. Or head south to Dallas’s Autumn at the Arboretum, which has as its centerpiece a pumpkin village made up of more than 90,000 pumpkins, squash, and other gourds.
  
  Finally, there’s Ohio’s century-old Circleville Pumpkin Show. Dubbed “the greatest free show on Earth,” this event features giant pumpkin pies, a pumpkin parade, and pumpkin pageants; it attracts hundreds of thousands every year, making it one of the largest pumpkin-related events in the country.

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• Tastes of the Season
  Plenty of other flavors are just as associated with autumn, of course, and you can also find festivals dedicated to these delicacies.
  
  If fruit is the apple of your eye, try celebrations like central Pennsylvania’s National Apple Harvest Festival and Wisconsin’s Bayfield Apple Festival. For a “berry” good time, cranberry festivals abound in the Northeast, including New Jersey’s Chatsworth Cranberry Festival and Massachusetts’s Cranberry Harvest Celebration.
  
  If your pick is pecans, head to the North Carolina Pecan Harvest Festival or the Louisiana Pecan Festival, the latter of which is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary during the first weekend of November. And what’s an autumn feast without yams? Join the 100,000 people who visit the East Texas Yamboree each year for a yammin’ good time.

Photo By: Trailing of the Sheep Festival

• Ewe Will Love This
  One of the most unique fall festival traditions happens in Idaho with the Trailing of the Sheep Festival, the highlight of which is the Big Sheep Parade—where 1,500 sheep migrate down Main Street in Ketchum toward their winter pastures.

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