Start Checking Off the Fall Bucket List

Fall has finally arrived! This is the first week where we are finally feeling that cool crisp air. Make the most of this first true Fall weekend and start experiencing some fall activities. There are so many different activities during the Fall season, how do you pick which ones you should do?

Rebecca Shinners from Country Living posted a “Fall Bucket List” of the 35 Fall activities you should experience this season on http://www.countryliving.com/life/g2633/fall-bucket-list/:

You can complete all of these fall activities right here in Harrisonburg.

• A great local apple orchard AND perfect your apple pie recipe is Showalter’s Orchard and Greenhouse. They are hosting their 17th Annual Apple Harvest Celebration on Saturday, October 15 from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. where you can pick apples and enter into the Apple Pie Baking Contest. More information on Showalter’s Orchard and Greenhouse as well as the Apple Pie Baking Contest can be found at http://www.showaltersorchard.com/events/.

• Take a Fall foliage drive and take your family Christmas picture on Skyline Drive, which is a beautiful drive through the Appalachian Mountains. Learn more at http://visitskylinedrive.org/Home.aspx.

• Go pumpkin picking and get lost in a corn maze at Back Home on the Farm’s 7-acre pumpkin patch and original corn maze. Learn more at http://backhome-onthefarm.com/attractions/.

• Experience the haunts of Fear Forest. Here, you will take a haunted hay wagon ride to the entrance of the Fear Forest and Fear Crops. Learn more at http://www.fearforest.net/.

These are just a few ways you can check off your “Fall Bucket List,” share this on Facebook and tell us how you check off your list!