USA: Best Rated Fall Festivals & Corn Mazes 2009 – Quick Family Roadtrip Getaways Across America.
Posted September 3, 2009 , trackback
Fun, quick, and easy is the magic phrase for families; pint-sized fun is better than no fun at all whether it’s a getaway for a day or an escape for a weekend, enjoying time together and making memories matters. The FamilyTravelFiles.com and Family.TripWiser.com have been collaborating on ways to make enjoying each season with family and friends more fun. Each season we will be identifying best rated places, activities, and events with unique memory making value for families.
Spanning seven distinct USA geographic regions - Northeast, Mid Atlantic, Southeast, Heartland, Southwest, Mountains West, and Western Edge - the collection of festivals and events runs the gamut from whale watching along the Atlantic Coast and attending Shakespeare under the stars to horse archery, living history, and most American of all corn mazes and harvest festivals. This year’s lists of Best Rated Fall Festivals & Corn Mazes for Families reveal a plethora of chances to have fun with kids. Review the best for 2008 and make plans to get away before the snow flies.
America’s Heartland – At Tweite’s Pumpkin Patch in Byron Minnesota enjoy wagon rides, and a six-acre corn maze with a tire dragon. Attend the Holly Michigan Renaissance Festival and be part of the US/Canadian Highland Games and Bagpipe Blowout or participate in “The International Talk Like a Pirate Day”.
America’s Southeast – Sip cider, paint a pumpkin and ride Tweetsie Railroad’s Ghost train in North Carolina. Build a scarecrow at Brookgreen Gardens in Myrtle Beach. Attend Tour of Southern Ghosts storytelling festival in Georgia or enjoy the energy of Dollywood’s Harvest Celebration & Southern Gospel Jubilee in Tennessee.
America’s Southwest – At Apple Annie’s Fall Pumpkin Celebration in Wilcox, AZ enjoy old-fashioned family fun picking your own pumpkins, fall vegetables and they have Arizona’s newest and largest corn maze. The annual Harvest Festival in Santa Fe includes grape stomping, dancing, grinding sorghum with burros.
America’s Northeast – Greene County, NY offers frightfully fun activities a dark maze and wolf hollow trail. The Cape Cod Cranberry Growers’ Association invites families to enjoy cranberry harvest tours, wagon and pony rides, games, and cooking demonstrations.
America’s Mid Atlantic – Ride the Ghost Train at Northwest River Park in Virginia Beach and listen to music along the boardwalk. Not far from Valley Forge Linvilla Farm pick your own pumpkins; meet costumed characters like Dora, Elmo and Shrek. Enjoy a hay ride under the moonlight and a cup of cider at the campfire.
America’s Mountains West – In Denver the 8.5 acre maze at the Denver Botanic Gardens has a 15-foot tall illuminated bridge, 9-foot tall stalks, and plenty of “A-maize-ing Scarecrows”. Lattin Farms in Fallon, NV celebrates the season with a Giant Pumpkin contest, Pumpkin Tower lighting, and moonlight mazes.
America’s Western Edge - French Prairie Gardens in Oregon’s tranquil Willamette Valley has a corn maze, pumpkin patch pumpkin sling shot, kids corral, pig barrel train rides, and two 20-foot hay slides. In California Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival celebrates with mighty pumpkin weigh-off, Great Pumpkin Parade, and a bone-chilling Haunted House.
To expand the list for the future, we encourage you to “Tell Mom” about your own family’s favorite festival or fall getaway and to browse our Festivals and Events folder for even more ideas.
At the Family.TripWiser Blog - http://blog.tripwiser.com/familytrip/- it is also possible to view the expanded list of Best Rated Fall Festivals & Corn Mazes. Parents are encouraged to add their own favorite seasonal festival; contribute photos; view comments from others, and plan great fall road trip getaways for their own families.
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Please tell mom!
We want to expand the list and need your help. If you have a favorite fall festivial or know of an awesome corn maze please “Tell Mom” and we will add it to the list. Make sure to include the name of the festival or event and its location on the planet as well as why you like it or what makes it worth the trip. Our next round up will inlcude family friendly winter holidays and celebrations. We are building the list right now and would love to have your feedback. So just “Tell Mom!”.
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