Festivals & Events
Uprise Festival: September 13 & 14, 2024
This outdoor music festival returns to the Shippensburg Fairgrounds for another year of family fun and Christian music with 30 on three stages, along with food, merchandise, and family-friendly activities, including a petting zoo.
Harvest of the Arts: September 28, 2024
Harvest of the Arts in Downtown Carlisle hosts 100 juried artists exhibiting works in all mediums, including pottery, photography, paintings, wood, glass, jewelry, and metal. Plan to experience the art, live music, a large food court, and a Kids' Alley with non-stop children's fun. The festival also features the Meeting of the Marques, a display of automobiles as mobile art.
New Cumberland Apple Festival: September 28, 2024
Welcome apple season with homemade crafts, food vendors, an apple pie contest, and entertainment in New Cumberland Borough Park.
Sunflower Festival: September 28 & 29, 2024
The annual Sunflower Festival at Meadowbrooke Gourds' farm in Carlisle features craft vendors, food trucks, an Oops sale, musical entertainment, and 50 acres of sunflowers free for the picking.
Pennsboro Pumpkin Fest: October 12 & 13, 2024
This is a two-day community event in Adams-Ricci Park, Enola, featuring 250 vendors, food, games, contests, kids' activities, and entertainment.
Fall Furnace Fest: October 19 & 20, 2024
This two-day family-friendly festival at Pine Grove Furnace State Park features food and craft vendors, live musical entertainment, historical demonstrations, hayrides, pumpkin carving, scarecrow making, and the famous Legend of the Hairy Hand and Pumpkin Float on Fuller Lake
View the online calendar for more upcoming events.
U-Pick Farms & Markets
Paulus Farm Market in Mechanicsburg
Fun at the farm includes tubes, tires, and tunnels. Kids can explore the Construction Zone, Dirt Diner, or the Wooden Tractor and let their imagination run wild. You can also visit the animals, shop for produce, or pick your own flowers and pumpkins. In October, Paulus offers daily hayrides, and the Pumpkin' Chunkin' cannon is open the last two weekends of the month.
Mt. Airy Orchards in Dillsburg
Visit in September and October with the entire family for the themed five-acre corn maze, wagon rides, and a children's play area that includes a mega slide, straw bale mountain, little log houses, pedal karts, a corn shed, and more. You can also pick apples and pumpkins.
Ashcombe Farm & Greenhouses in Mechanicsburg
Ashcombe Fall Harvest Days during October offer a daily hay playground, corn crib, fall-inspired games, a corn maze, and scarecrow-making. Ashcombe also offers a variety of classes, a large garden center, and a gift shop.
