There’s a lot happening, so check out our list of 2023 Columbus Day Weekend Events and Festivals in the Finger Lakes. The leaves are changing and the air is crisp. Have fun at a festival, enjoy some local apples, grapes and pumpkins, all while taking in the beautiful scenery of autumn in the hills of the Finger Lakes.
Montour Falls Harvest Festival
- October 7, 2023 (noon-7:30pm)
- Montour Falls, NY
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- Montour Falls Harvest Festival features live entertainment, craft and food vendors, a community bonfire and a spectacular fireworks display cascading over the 156-foot Shequaga Falls located in the center of the Village of Montour Falls.
The Great Cortland Pumpkinfest
- October 7-8, 2023
- Courthouse Park, Church Street, Cortland NY
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- Enjoy arts and crafts vendors, children’s games and activities, live music, food and drink, beer tent, antique tractors, hay rides, pumpkins, exhibits and displays at The Great Cortland Pumpkinfest.
Cohocton Fall Foliage Festival
- October 6-8, 2023
- Town and Village Greens, Cohocton, NY
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- The Cohocton Fall Foliage Festival is always held the first full weekend in October on the Cohocton Town and Village Greens and features many Arts, Crafts, Flea Market, Antique and Food Vendors, as well as a petting zoo, car show and free horse drawn wagon rides and more fun things to do. The Cohocton Fall Foliage Festival has entertainment in the gazebo all weekend long. Saturday highlights the Cohocton Fall Festival’s big parade, with many local high school bands participating.
Letchworth Arts & Crafts Show and Sale
- October 7-9, 2023 – Columbus Day Weekend
- Perry Village Park
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- Letchworth Arts & Crafts Show and Sale features over 300 artisans displaying their wares along with many food vendors, live entertainment, and other fun activities for the entire family. The Letchworth Arts & Crafts Show on Columbus Day Weekend features some of the country’s finest visual and performing artists, artisans, and crafts people, and some of the best pottery, paintings, quilts, fiber arts, handcrafted jewelry, photography, furniture, decorative painting, dried floral arrangements, packaged specialty foods, and so much more. Letchworth Arts and Crafts Show is held at the Perry Village Park (3 miles from the Perry Entrance to Letchworth State Park and 1 mile from Silver Lake.)
Lafayette Apple Festival
- October 7-8, 2023
- 5330 Rowland Rd. Lafayette, NY
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- The Lafayette Apple Festival features free entertainment, family fun, rides, food vendors, shops, Petting Zoo, and much more.
Bristol Mountain Fall Festival
- October 7-8, 2023
- Bristol Mountain, Bristol, NY
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- Come to the Bristol Mountain Fall Festival event and enjoy the fall foliage of the Finger Lakes along with food, wine, beer and crafts vendors, and live music. While you are at the Bristol Mountain Fall Festival you should take a skyride on the chair lift to the summit of Bristol Mountain to view the spectacular fall colors around Canandaigua Lake.