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Seattle-area fall festivals celebrate the local apple harvest and lots more. Photo: Meredith Charaba
It’s fall festival time around Seattle — let’s get the party going! Many fall festivals focus on pumpkins and harvest time. On top of picking your perfect pumpkin, this season has many more reasons to celebrate, from apples to maples and wurst to witches.
With that in mind, we’ve rounded up the best local fall festivals, many of which are free.
Bellewood Farms Harvest Festival
Date: Wednesdays–Sundays, Aug. 30–Oct. 31, 2025
Cost: Free; items for purchase
This orchard in Lynden is open for harvest! Take a tractor train ride out to pick apples, wander through a free corn maze or peruse artisan goods in the gift store. You’ll even catch views of Mount Baker on a clear day. Tip: If you go on a weekend, there are tasty apple cider doughnuts.
Harvest Home at Fort Nisqually
Date: Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025
Cost: $12.86–$15.24; ages 3 and younger are free
Apples from the orchard at Fort Nisqually Living History Museum are pressed into cider at this harvest festival. Families can decorate the hock cart, and see a teen Harvest King and Queen crowned. There will also be a jam and jelly competition, so bring your homemade jar of jam for judging.
The Great Wallingford Bratwurst Festival
Date: Friday–Saturday, Sept. 12–13, 2025
Cost: Free; food and activities for purchase
Organized by St. Benedict School in Wallingford, this long-running fest brings the whole community together. Families can enjoy two days of food, music, rides and community fun. Don’t forget to dine on bratwurst while you listen to live music.
Fishermen’s Fall Festival
Date: Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025
Cost: Free
This fab fest supports the Seattle community of fishermen. Kids will find tons to do here, including hands-on activities like wooden boat building and a kraken bouncy house. You can also expect to learn more about Seattle’s commercial seafood industry. Take a canal tour, explore the beer garden, bring your appetite to the salmon barbecue and enjoy the festivities as a family.
Seattle Fiesta Patrias
Date: Saturday–Sunday, Sept. 13–14, 2025
Cost: Free
This installment in Seattle Center’s fantastic Festál series celebrates the independence of many Latin American countries, as well as the enduring traditions and customs that enrich our community. Enjoy folk dances, cooking demos, live music and art exhibitions.
Kenmore Oktoberfest
Date: Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025; daily, Sept. 18–21, 2025
Cost: Free; some activities require a fee
Kenmore is back for its second Oktoberfest! The city will be transformed into a German wonderland for this Bavarian festival, with a ceremonial firkin tapping, live music from local bands and a seasonal market. Come for the games and activities, stay for the wiener dog races.
Harvest Festival at Swans Trail Farms
Date: Daily, Sept. 13–Oct. 31, 2025
Cost: $10–$23; ages 1 and younger free
There are bunches of unforgettable fall adventures to have at this Snohomish fest. Just before pumpkin season, Swans Trail Farms invites families to celebrate our state’s signature crop, the apple! Book your admission to the festival for access to the kids play area, corn mazes and food stands. (Tip: When you’re ready to warm up, enjoy one of their apple cider doughnuts or fresh-pressed cider.)
Fall Festival at Bob’s Corn and Pumpkin Farm
Date: Daily, Sept. 13–Oct. 31, 2025
Cost: $26.95 weekends, $17.95 weekdays, ages 2 and older; some activities have an extra fee
Bob’s Fall Festival in Snohomish features the farm’s best-known crops: pumpkins and corn! Kids can have fun on riding tractors, picking out their own pumpkins or finding their way through the corn maze. If you get hungry, snack on some doughnuts or try their roasted corn.
Mabon Festival
Date: Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025
Cost: Free; items for purchase
This unique festival and autumn market in Kirkland caters to witches and the metaphysically minded. Also known as Pagan Thanksgiving, Mabon is a time for reflection and renewal. The festival invites all to consider their accomplishments over the past year, let go of things that did not bear fruit and set intentions for the year to come. Keep an eye out for magical surprises! (Tip: This event is pet-friendly, too.)
Edmonds Oktoberfest and Family Festival
Date: Friday–Saturday, Sept. 19–20, 2025
Cost: Free; some activities require a fee
There’s a beer garden for grown-ups (it’s Oktoberfest, after all), but this Edmonds fest features all-ages fun. Both days, you’ll find live music and tasty food from vendors. Saturday, there will be extra fun, including a kids activity area from noon–4 p.m. and a pet parade at 2 p.m.
Stocker Farms Fall Festival
Date: Select dates, Sept. 20–Oct. 31, 2025
Cost: 2025 tickets on sale starting Monday, Sept. 8
If you’re on the hunt for a perfect fall photo, Stocker Farms has you covered. From a pumpkin barn to an antique phone booth to the Cascade Mountains in the distance, this scenic Snohomish farm is the place to go. While you’re there, choose a pumpkin from the patch, navigate the corn maze and romp around on more than 30 other attractions.
Fall City Apple Festival
Date: Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025
Cost: Free; some activities require a fee
Kids have so much to look forward to at this fall celebration! Take a guided horse ride, jump in a bouncy castle, learn to rope a cow, play corn hole, make art or press fresh apple cider. If you love to bake, enter your best apple pie into their contest! Proceeds from this Fall City family fest support camp scholarships for local kids.
Nisqually Watershed Festival
Date: Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025
Cost: Free
Celebrate the changing of the seasons outside at the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge in Olympia. It’s the season for salmon spawning, leaves changing colors and cooler weather. Bring your future scientists and biologists to this festival and watch as they learn more about local wildlife. Creative kiddos will want to bring a T-shirt to turn into a fun souvenir through fish printing!
ChuSeok Korean Festival
Date: Saturdays, Sept. 27 and Oct. 4, 2025
Cost: Free
Mark the harvest season during this celebration of Korean culture. Try making a lotus lantern, watch traditional performances and taste delicious food. This festival takes place on two dates, in two locations (Gig Harbor in September, and Tacoma in October), for double the fun.
Lattin’s Fall Festival
Date: Saturdays and Sundays, Sept. 27–Oct. 26, 2025
Cost: Free entry; food and activities for purchase
This cider mill and farm in Olympia has all the quintessential fall activities: wagon rides, pumpkins, apple fritters and a petting zoo. Kids can also play games and take a ride on the animal train. Don’t forget to try their award-winning apple cider.
Oktoberfest Northwest
Date: Friday–Sunday, Oct. 3–5, 2025
Cost: $7.50–$18.50; ages 12 and younger are free; free general admission on Friday, Oct. 3 from noon–3 p.m. (no re-entry stamps allowed during this time)
Here is another chance to catch wiener dog races and enjoy German traditions. Puyallup’s Oktoberfest Northwest is a family-friendly daytime event with traditional food and a variety of activities. Take the kids to the root beer garden for a root beer float, free face painting and — my family’s favorite tradition — Hammerschlagen. Plus, free pumpkin decorating all weekend long!
West Seattle Oktoberfest
Date: Friday–Sunday, Oct. 3–5, 2025
Cost: Free entry; food and beverage for purchase
Keep your lederhosen out — Oktoberfest in West Seattle has a costume contest and more friendly competitions planned. Grown-ups can indulge in Washington-brewed beer, while the whole family can share a giant Bavarian pretzel. Pus, there will be live music!
Harvest Festival With Kirkland Parks
Date: Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025
Cost: Free
Kirkland’s fourth annual Harvest Festival will have music, competitions and apple cider pressing demonstrations. Shop the vendor marketplace and grab lunch from a food truck. Don’t miss the “Kids Korral,” which will have different activities for children to enjoy, such as faux cow milking, ring toss, horseshoes, pumpkin bowling, crafts and pony rides!
Harvest Fest at Suncadia
Date: Saturday–Sunday, Oct. 4–5 and 12–13, 2025
Cost: Free
Family-favorite destination Suncadia invites both resort guests and visitors to celebrate the season with fall fun such as wagon rides, harvest crafts and pumpkins. There will also be face painting, live music, archery, axe throwing and a fall market.
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published in 2023 and was updated on Sept. 3, 2025, by ParentMap’s editorial team to include a thorough fact-check and updated information for 2025 fall festivals.
