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Fall is such a fun season! Especially when the weather has been so warm here in the Northeast! The kids are finally back to school and its not so terribly hot! Where I live here on Long Island, fall is such a great time for outdoor activities without the oppressive heat.
I also think fall is a great time for travel (in fact, in the travel industry it’s called the shoulder season – that transitional time between summer travel and winter getaways). In my experience you can get some great deals on trips, and everyone knows this is one of the best times to visit theme parks.
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I actually do enjoy this time of year, up until January when well, winter. But I do love the fall holidays – Halloween and Thanksgiving, and the coziness of fall food – think squash, apples, and of course pumpkin everything!
So today I am rounding up my best of fall – from my favorite activities, products, travel and links to some great fall posts that will hopefully inspire your best fall season!
Fall Travel Ideas & DIY Round Up
Fall Travel Destination Ideas
Fall is a great time to go leaf-spotting, or to take advantage of smaller crowds at beaches! Many areas of the US still have summer-like weather into the fall season!
A Visit to the Emerson Resort in upstate, New York
Go wine tasting, apple picking or farm hopping on the North Fork of Long Island
Travel Bloggers Favorite Fall Destinations
A visit to Kure Beach, North Carolina (my pick for a fall beach trip!)
The Best Family Beach Destinations (good any time of year!)
The Best Things to do in Fort Myers
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Fall at the Theme Parks
Fall is a great season for theme parks – the heat and crowds are at bay, and many decorate and do it up for the Halloween season! Even our local amusement park, Adventureland is a great place to head in October for pumpkin park!
Is Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party worth it?
7 Tips for Visiting Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party
Legoland Orlando Brick or Treat
FALL ACTIVITIES:
Fall is such a great time to get outdoors, and I love the fall specific things we do such as apple picking and a visit to the pumpkin farm. For fall activity inspiration check out these awesome posts:
Fall Activities Your Family Will Love
5 Family Traditions to Start this Fall (from Five for the Road)
DIY HALLOWEEN COSTUMES:
I have done some great DIY costumes when little man was small – so definitely wanted to share them with you!
FAVORITE FALL FOOD & DRINK:
Fall food and drink is its own category of amazing! Think apples, squash and all things pumpkin!
Caramel Apple Sangria (made this last fall and loved it, easy recipe from A Night Owl Blog)
Butternut Squash Soup (Delicious, easy and quintessentially fall from Mamma’s Cooking)
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Boozy Pumpkin Spice Milkshake by Food, Wine and Sunshine (Check out her site its got great cocktail and food recipes for all year long. I was so excited to meet Tracy last year at the Alden Blogger Bash!)
And with all your apples, and your sangria, you will, without a doubt need this:
OTHER AWESOME FALL STUFF I LOVE:
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So many ideas in here. I have to go through this again this evening with my daughter and pick few, we can manage to accomplish.
Love these round ups!! That railroad costume is so cute.
thank you! I really cant believe I made it, I am so not crafty
Wow, you have a lot of great information here for fall! Fall is probably my favorite season. I love to read about pumpkins and Halloween costumes. I also enjoy all the fall activities. This post certainly puts me in the fall spirit!
I love all these ideas 🙂 I need some caramel apple sangria in my life!
Love these ideas! Especially the apple cider sangria, YUM!
October is my favorite month, especially in New York where I’m from. Miss this time of year up there. Great ideas! Enjoyed the post. ?
Lots of great idea for fall here! I’m in Sydney so we’re about to coming up to summer but I’m bookmarking this for next autumn/fall.
that is true! this is def a N Hemisphere focused post!
I think the fall is the best time to travel, we always do our big family trip in November. I usually can find great deals on air travel and accommodations.
The Halloween costumes are adorable! My son also likes to pick things that can’t easily be found in a store.
Great round up! I love fall stuff!
Great round up! The best part of Fall (aside from cooler weather) is all the great Fall blog posts!
The Caramel Apple Sangria has to be one of my favorites of the round-up! Thanks for the recap!
its really good!
This a great roundup! I need to try that caramel apple sangria. Fall is such a fun time to travel, especially if you go someplace with foliage that’s turning colors!
Great round-up! I love travelling in fall too, it’s still warm (ish) but much less crowded and the colours are just beautiful! I might have to try your Sangria recipe this weekend too…
I love the fall, so the more ideas and activities I can find the better! Those costumes are adorable too!
I LOVED this post so much! Fall is my favorite, so I loved everything about it
So many great ideas here! My mouth is watering over that caramel apple sangria.
Great round up 🙂
Thanks for sharing at Welcome To The Weekend Blog Hop, have a lovely weekend. Hope to see you on Monday for our next blog hop.
This is a great post. Everything Fall’s ideas. I always wanted to go apple picking with my son but I think there’s only one apple farm about 1-1/2 hours from where we live. And normally the apples out during weekdays by the school field trips. 🙁
I would generally agree with you, normally fall or Autumn as we call it in the UK 😀 is a great time of year. Like you said the heat is of summer is gone but you can still do all the outdoor activities you want – However that being said, in England as we don’t really have a real summer, Autumn is just a warning that winter in knocking on the door (It already feels like winter this year) But when I’m traveling I love fall in other countries haha
I agree that fall is a great season, especially in the northeast. The weather is nice, there are fun activities like you outlined, and the bugs are gone.