2024 guide to fall fun in central Kentucky: Festivals, pumpkins, haunted houses

LEXINGTON, Ky. ( FOX 56 ) — Enjoy the last of the summer weather while it lasts because fall is just around the corner.

Flannel, apple cider, scary movies, and pumpkin spice will all make their heroic returns as people look for new ways to spend their evenings, ditching dips in Kentucky’s lakes for corn mazes, orchards, and football games.

FOX 56 has uncovered some of the places and events in central Kentucky where you can fully immerse yourself in the joys of autumn.

Festivals

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Festivals in September

• World Chicken Festival , London, Sept. 26-29
• Festival Latino de Lexington , Lexington, Sept. 27-28
• Anderson County Burgoo Festival , Lawrenceburg, Sept. 27-29
• Cynthiana Witches Day Out – Cythiana, Sept. 28
• Kirksville Day —Richmond, Sept. 28
• Shaker Village HarvestFest —Harrodsburg, Sept. 28-29

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Festivals in October

• Oktoberfest Harrodsburg —Harrodsburg, Oct. 4-6
• Bourbon on the Banks —Frankfort, Oct. 5
• Stanton Pumpkin Fest , Stanton, Oct. 5
• Richmond Millstone Festival , Richmond, Oct. 5
• Buffalo Daze , Stamping Ground, Oct. 5
• Mary Queen of the Holy Rosary Fall Festival , Lexington, Oct. 11-12
• Legends of Bourbon County Festival —Paris, Oct. 11-13
• Jessamine Fall Festival , Nicholasville, Oct. 18–19
• ScareFest , Lexington, Oct. 18-20
• Mt. Sterling October Court Days , Mt. Sterling, Oct. 18–21
• Halloween Festival and Thriller Parade , Lexington, Oct.

Orchards

1. Evans Orchard and Cider Mill , Georgetown
2. Eckert’s Orchard , Versailles
3. Reed Valley Orchard , Paris
4. Bi-Water Farm and Greenhouse , Georgetown
5. Happy Jack Pumpkin Farm , Frankfort

Corn mazes, pumpkin patches

1. Devine’s Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch , Harrodsburg
2. Buckmeadow Farms , Lawrenceburg
3. Baldwin Farms , Richmond
4. Two Sisters Pumpkin Patch , Mt. Sterling
5. Country Pumpkins , Dry Ridge

Haunted houses, tours

1. Wicked World Scaregrounds , Nicholasville
2. Haunted Trails of Whispering Woods , Georgetown
3. Terror on Scotts Ferry , Versailles
4. Black Orchard Haunted House , Shelbyville
5. Anderson Hotel , Lawrenceburg
6. The Waverly Hills Sanatorium , Louisville
7. Fright Nights Kentucky , Lexington
8. Haunted Hotel , Louisville

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