Fall 2026 · September 1 to November 30
Fall bucket list: 80 cozy things to do this fall
Fall, or autumn, is the season the year slows down. The days get shorter, the leaves turn and drop, and orchards and fields bring in the last of the harvest. By October the evenings are cold enough for a sweater.
It's a season for doing things with your hands and spending time outside while it's still golden: picking what's ripe, cooking with it, and coming home to something warm.
Out in the fall air
Go apple pickinga half-day · outdoors · under $20
Pick a pumpkin at a pumpkin patcha half-day · outdoors · under $20
Do a corn mazean evening · outdoors · under $20
Go on a hayridean evening · outdoors · under $20
Press apple cidera half-day · outdoors · under $20
Eat apple cider donuts10 minutes · outdoors · under $20
Visit a cranberry bog at harvesta half-day · outdoors · under $20
Visit a vineyard at grape harvesta half-day · outdoors · a small treat
Do a photoshoot at a pumpkin patchan evening · outdoors · under $20
Go on a fall-foliage drivea half-day · outdoors · under $20
Hike at peak fall coloura half-day · outdoors · free
Take a fall-foliage train ridea half-day · outdoors · a small treat
Canoe or kayak through the fall coloursa half-day · outdoors · a small treat
Jump in a leaf pile10 minutes · outdoors · free
Go campinga half-day · outdoors · a small treat
Go stargazingan evening · outdoors · free
Watch the sunrise10 minutes · outdoors · free
Go birdwatching during migrationa half-day · outdoors · free
Watch salmon spawna half-day · outdoors · free
Photograph the same tree every week10 minutes · outdoors · free
Have a fall picnican evening · outdoors · under $20
Visit an arboretuma half-day · outdoors · under $20
Shoot a roll of filma half-day · outdoors · under $20
Go on a mushroom walka half-day · outdoors · free
Plant tulip bulbs for springan evening · outdoors · under $20
Go horseback ridinga half-day · outdoors · a small treat
Rent a cabin with friendsa half-day · outdoors · a small treat
Go to a haunted housean evening · outdoors · a small treat
Take a ghost touran evening · outdoors · under $20
See a jack-o'-lantern displayan evening · outdoors · under $20
Make s'mores over a bonfirean evening · outdoors · under $20
Go to a fall fair or harvest festivala half-day · outdoors · under $20
Go to a football gamean evening · outdoors · a small treat
Run a Turkey Trota half-day · outdoors · under $20
Decorate with pinecones and acorns10 minutes · outdoors · free
Thrift a sweateran evening · outdoors · under $20
Cozy fall days inside
Cook a meal from the farmers' marketa half-day · cozy inside · a small treat
Collect and press leavesan evening · cozy inside · free
Carve a pumpkinan evening · cozy inside · under $20
Paint a pumpkinan evening · cozy inside · under $20
Make your own Halloween costumean evening · cozy inside · under $20
Host a Halloween movie nightan evening · cozy inside · free
Go to or throw a Halloween partyan evening · cozy inside · under $20
Roast pumpkin seedsan evening · cozy inside · free
Read a ghost storyan evening · cozy inside · free
Learn to read tarot cardsan evening · cozy inside · under $20
Host a Friendsgivingan evening · cozy inside · a small treat
Cook a dish for Thanksgivingan evening · cozy inside · under $20
Write a thank-you note10 minutes · cozy inside · free
Send a friend a letter10 minutes · cozy inside · free
Start a book cluban evening · cozy inside · free
Host a craft nightan evening · cozy inside · under $20
Bake an apple piean evening · cozy inside · under $20
Bake pumpkin breadan evening · cozy inside · under $20
Make apple crispan evening · cozy inside · under $20
Make butternut squash soupan evening · cozy inside · under $20
Bake snickerdoodlesan evening · cozy inside · under $20
Make applesaucean evening · cozy inside · under $20
Make hot apple cider10 minutes · cozy inside · under $20
Make a pumpkin spice latte10 minutes · cozy inside · under $20
Make caramel applesan evening · cozy inside · under $20
Make jaman evening · cozy inside · under $20
Roast fall vegetablesan evening · cozy inside · under $20
Make a simmer pot10 minutes · cozy inside · under $20
Make your own coffee syrup10 minutes · cozy inside · under $20
Knit or crochet a scarfan evening · cozy inside · under $20
Make a dried-orange garlandan evening · cozy inside · under $20
Make a fall wreathan evening · cozy inside · under $20
Make candlesan evening · cozy inside · under $20
Arrange dried flowersan evening · cozy inside · under $20
Paint fall leaves in watercolouran evening · cozy inside · under $20
Take a pottery classan evening · cozy inside · a small treat
Make clay pumpkinsan evening · cozy inside · under $20
Mend a sweateran evening · cozy inside · free
Make a fall playlist10 minutes · cozy inside · free
Read a book in one daya half-day · cozy inside · free
Do a puzzlean evening · cozy inside · under $20
Switch your closet to fall clothesan evening · cozy inside · free
Decorate your room for fallan evening · cozy inside · under $20
Rewatch Gilmore Girlsan evening · cozy inside · free
When does fall start?
Fall starts on September 1 if you count by the weather, which is how Seasons counts. On the calendar it starts at the autumn equinox, on September 22 or 23, when day and night are about the same length. It ends on November 30, or at the winter solstice in late December.
Keep a stamp for every one you do.
Seasons is an app for living with the seasons. Save the ideas you like, do one, and it lands in your fall passport. It opens on mobile in November.
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