October is the month when New Brunswick comes alive with fall festivals, scary walks, farmer’s markets, and U-picks.
Credit: Hall’s Orchard
Get together with your family and friends and enjoy the fabulous fall colours while you check out some of the 25 fun fall activities in New Brunswick this October.
Kedgwick Fall Festival
The Kedgwick Fall Festival is a week of family fun from rallies, sports, dances, live music, and a parade. Be sure to meet ‘Wick the Partridge,’ who exemplifies the warm welcome of the locals. There is something for everyone at this fun festival.
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October 8-12, 2025
Kedgwick
Provincial Giant Pumpkin Festival
Provincial Giant Pumpkin Festival; Village de Neguac
Take the family out to see the largest pumpkins from New Brunswick at the Giant Pumpkin Provincial Festival in Neguac. This popular festival attracts competitors and spectators from all over the province. There will also be live musical entertainment that everyone will enjoy.
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Sunday, October 5, 2025
Neguac
Mactaquac Trail Race 2025
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October 5, 2025
Mactaquac Provincial Park
Thanksgiving Dinner at the King’s Head Inn
Enjoy Thanksgiving at Kings Landing with farm-fresh ingredients, time-honoured recipes, and a sense of history unique to New Brunswick. You can also join in on the Thanksgiving weekend activities here.
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October 4 – 5, 11 – 13, 2025
Kings Landing, Prince William
Great Autumn Rush
Great Autumn Rush
The 16th edition of the Great Autumn Rush will occur from October 2 to 5. There will be a Ferris wheel, live music, and many fun activities to enjoy.
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October 2 – 5, 2025
New Brunswick Botanical Garden, 15 Isidore-Boucher Blvd, Saint-Jacques
Poley Mountain Fall Festival
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October 11, 2025
Poley Mountain
International Slam/Poetry Festival
Attend the International Slam/Poetry Festival in Acadie, the first French-speaking festival of its kind in the Americas. Celebrate Francophone culture with performances and activities.
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October 4 – 18, 2025
Place de la cathédrale, Moncton
NBCS: Future Legends of Country Music
Join us as the New Brunswick country Showcase honours some of the Country stars of 1990s and the millennium featuring Zach Peters, Noel Nason, Ella Campbell, Kylie Watson, and Jacob Chevarie.
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October 25, 2025
Fredericton Playhouse, Fredericton
The Rocky Horror Show
Join Brad, Janet, and the scandalously fabulous Dr. Frank-N-Furter for a wild night of iconic music, bold performances, and over-the-top antics. With a live band and interactive mayhem, it’s the ultimate Halloween event. Whether you’re a die-hard fan or a Rocky virgin, come ready to sing, shout and celebrate the most decadent cult musical of them all.
October 30, 2025
Fredericton Playhouse, Fredericton
Boo at the Zoo
Zoo de Magnetic Hill Zoo
This is a family-friendly Halloween event that features decorations throughout the Zoo’s 40-acre park and mild, moderate, and scary Halloween venues.
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October 18, 19, 25, 26, 2025
125 Magic Mountain Rd., Moncton
Parlures d’icitte Storytelling Festival
Parlures d’icitte Storytelling Festival
The annual Festival of Tales and Legends is back again with a diverse lineup of exciting activities for the whole family to enjoy!
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Memramcook
October 18 – 25, 2025
Miramichi Food Truck Feastival
Miramichi Food Truck Feastival
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October 11, 2025
Miramichi Exhibition Grounds
A Spooky Event
Enjoy a day of family fun with pumpkins, costumes, treats, and more. There will be a costume parade, a candy-filled adventure, music, prizes & community spirit.
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October 24, 2025
Downtown Chatham
Carmen
Igor Dobrovolskiy takes a contemporary slant on the famous tale of the Gypsy in the contemporary ballet Carmen. The story of Carmen is one of passion, drama, love, tragedy all combined in such a way that one’s heart feels as though it might stop at any moment from sheer anticipation.
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October 8, 2025
Fredericton Playhouse, Fredericton
NBCF’s Choral Fest
Join the New Brunswick Choral Federation’s Choral Fest in St. Andrews, where singers from across Canada will rehearse and perform a major choral work under conductor Matthew Leese. Experience an unforgettable weekend of music in one of New Brunswick’s most scenic locations.
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October 24 – 26, 2025
All Saints Anglican Church, St. Andrews
Acadian Peninsula Book Fair
Find everything related to books and literature at the Acadian Peninsula Book Fair.
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October 2 – 5, 2025
Centre Rhéal-Cormier, Shippegan
Rising Tides Trails & Tunes Festival
Rising Tides Trails & Tunes Festival
The Rising Tides Trails & Tunes Festival celebrates Atlantic Canadian talent with Fundy National Park at its core, extending into the coastal communities of the UNESCO-designated Fundy Biosphere Reserve. This weeklong event showcases local music, art, trails, and cuisine, sharing the rich stories of the region and its people.
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September 26 – October 12, 2025
Hillsborough, Riverside-Albert, Alma, Sussex, St. Martins
Fall Foliage Festival
Get off the highway and enjoy some fun times at the first ever Fall Foliage Festival. There will be a vendor market, petting zoo, live entertainment and lots more! For one day only on October 4! Come and support local artisans and artists and most of all the beautiful orange and red hues of the scenery.
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October 4, 2025
Plaster Rock
Cosmic Adventure
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October 20, 2025 | Capitol Theatre, Moncton
October 21, 2025 | Fredericton Playhouse, Fredericton
October 22, 2025 | Imperial Theatre, Saint John
Various locations
The Nightmare Project
The Nightmare Project
Open annually in October, the Nightmare Project is sure to scare everyone who passes through. You never know what is around each dark corner this year.
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October 17 – 19, 24 – 26, 30 – 31, 2025
51 Howard Road, Upper Blackville
Pokeshaw Cranberry Festival
Cranberries and more. Taking place on October 18,the Pokeshaw Cranberry Festival includes tours of the Canwick Cranberry bogs, live music, entertainment, demos, food, and a local market.
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October 18, 2025
Pokeshaw
Maisonnette Oyster Festival
Held over the Thanksgiving weekend in October, this vibrant festival features live music, oyster shucking contests, delicious oyster-themed dinners, and entertainment for the whole family. Don’t miss this unique event at the peak of oyster fishing season!
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October 8 – 13, 2025
Maisonnette, NB
Hall’s Orchard
Just outside of Fredericton, Hall’s Apple Orchard is a great place to spend a day picking apples. The u-pick is open on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. They make their own jellies and jams. If you stop by on cider-making days, you may get the chance to throw some juicy apples into the chopper, see how apple cider is made, or even taste fresh cider.
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Fredericton Junction
Hazen Cameron and Son Farm
Pick up everything that you need for fall at the Hazen Cameron and Son Farm. They offer many varieties of apples in their u-pick, including Cortland, Spartan, and Honey Crisp. During a visit to the farm, you can pick up the perfect pumpkin for your family because they have every size from super small to absolutely huge pumpkins for sale. They also sell apple cider, apple pie, squash, corn and more.
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Gagetown
Knowlesville Country Fair
Knowlesville Country Fair
The Knowlesville Country Fair celebrates harvest and rural life in New Brunswick with old-fashioned games, contests, live music, local food, workshops, farm animals, and woods competitions. The event kicks off with a Friday night Jamboree and country dance, followed by Saturday’s artisan market, live musical performances, competitions and games, workshops and demonstrations!
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October 10 – 11, 2025
Knowlesville
Plaines Rouges Fall Festival
The Plaines Rouges Fall Festival is a festive, cozy, and 100% local day at the Miscou Lighthouse with a mini-Farm, inflatable games and kids’ activities, fall crafts, community market and yard sale, ‘Search & Find’ rallye, live music, and canteen.
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October 11, 2025
Lighthouse of Miscou
Rockwood Park Haunted Campground
From 5:30–6:30pm, the horrors keep their distance—watching, waiting. But once the clock strikes 7pm , the true horrors crawl out from the earth. The air thickens, shadows twist into shapes that shouldn’t exist, and screams echo through the blackened trails. Every step pulls you deeper, where the only way out is through.
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October 15–19 & 22–26, 2025
Rockwood Park Campground, Saint John
Semaine Music·Musique NB Week
Semaine Music·Musique NB Week
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October 23 to 25, 2025
Moncton
Thanksgiving & Halloween
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Fletcher’s Farm
When you head to Fletcher’s Farm, be ready to explore their five-acre corn maze. They offer an authentic outdoor learning experience and a fun scavenger hunt. If you want to do more maze solving, make sure to check out their hay bale maze.
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Miramichi
Festival Folk Racines
Join us at the Folk Racines Festival in Rogersville, a celebration of farming, rural Acadie, and harvest time! This family-friendly event offers something for everyone, including cultural activities, kids’ workshops, tastings, farm tours, and delicious local food. Come together to celebrate the land, community, and rural traditions at this vibrant festival!
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October 20 – 26, 2025
Rogersville
Indulge Food & Wine Festival
Indulge Food & Wine Festival
Join us for the Indulge Food & Wine Festival in Saint Andrews by the Sea, a weekend packed with markets, dinners, tastings, and lively performances celebrating local flavors and good cheer. Events kick off with the St. Andrews Wine Mixer featuring New York’s Favourite Duelling Pianos and continue through the weekend with highlights like the Taste of St. Andrews, farmers’ markets, live music, and gourmet tasting menus. The festival wraps up with a hike supporting the food bank at Rossmount Inn.
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October 15 – 19, 2025
Saint Andrews, NB
FearFest in Grand Falls
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October 22 – 26, 2025
Grand Falls
Green Pig Market
The Green Pig Country Market is a popular location for families in the Moncton area. Their Corn Mazes, both the full size one and the mini one, are fun for all ages and they also have interactive activities for kids that enhance the experience. During their ‘Haunted Corn Maze’ evenings, there are ghosts who enter the maze to scare the visitors.
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Salisbury
Johnny Appleseed U-Pick Orchard
Open since the 1950s, the Johnny Appleseed U-Pick Orchard is one of the oldest apple orchards near Fredericton. Drop on in and pick your own apples, or you can check out their farmstand to buy fresh apples, vegetables, pumpkins, cider, and jellies and jams.
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Keswick Ridge
River View Orchard
Open daily, River View Orchards does not only offer U-pick fruits, but it is also packed with family fun. There is a farm, a duck pond, wagon rides, and a corn maze that you and your loved ones can explore and experience.
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Keswick