October Around the Valley

Apples and pumpkins

19 valley farms pick apples and 9 pick pumpkins. Every one is checked against the farm's own site rather than a listings directory, 12 of them this season. 5 publish no picking hours anywhere, and this page says so rather than printing a time nobody posted.

Every pick-your-own farm, including what is out of season

Halloween

Most Valley towns have not set trick-or-treat hours yet. They go up through the second half of October, most often on the town's own page or its police department's. We will list them here once they are published, and we will not guess.

What we are still chasing

Built through the month rather than published finished. These are the gaps we know about.

• The Paper City Food Festival and the Great Holyoke Brick Race

  Both ran on the holiday weekend last year. Neither has a 2026 date posted where we can read it.

• Halloween at the Springfield Museums

  Trick-or-treating in the galleries ran on October 25 last year. No 2026 date posted yet.

• The Great River Ride, Westfield, October 11

  Only a cycling-calendar listing has it. We could not find the ride's own page to read the date, start time and routes from.

• Halloween parties at bars and clubs

  Each one was posted on Facebook by the DJ, the band or a person, not the venue. Under our rule the venue has to confirm.

• Trick-or-treat hours by town

  Towns have not set them yet. They go up through the second half of October, and we will not print last year's.

• Greenfield's downtown trick-or-treat and Rag Shag, and Easthampton's Rag Shag

  Both towns still show last year's details. Easthampton lists this year's date as to be decided.

• The Deerfield police Halloween hayride

  No 2026 date anywhere yet.

• Amherst's Halloween Spooktacular, the Wilbraham Children's Museum trunk or treat, and the UMass Wicked sing-along

  The listings going around for all three are last year's. Amherst's rule of the last Sunday in October points to the 25th, but the town has not posted it. The museum's page is locked, and the Fine Arts Center page is from the 2025 season.

• The Florence Rag Shag, the Halloweenie trunk or treat in Whately, and Grimm Tales at the Inn on Boltwood

  Florence's schedule still carries last year's weekday. The Whately event page cannot be read without a login. The Inn says its murder mystery dinner moved to October with dates to come.

• Four Shutesbury library programs, Worthington's makerspace afternoon, Liston's Flannel Festival, a Davis Bates show in Rowe, and the psychic dinner at the Whately Inn

  Shutesbury's library site refuses every request we make. The others appear only on aggregators, on the performer's own site, or on a ticket page, never on the host's.

• Flashlight Night at Hicks Family Farm

  The farm's page says Saturday October 2. In 2026 that date is a Friday, so the day is wrong somewhere.

• The Apex Orchards Fall Festival, Barn Fest in Hadley, and Halloween at Lost Towns Brewing

  Each is posted only by a vendor, an aggregator or Facebook, not by the venue itself.

• Sinister Saw in Chester, trick-or-treat at the Children's Museum at Holyoke, and the Austin Brothers maze

  Each ran last year. None has posted a 2026 date or price yet.

• Five Halloween parties posted only on Facebook

  Smitty's in Greenfield (posted by the DJ), the Emotion dance party in Ludlow (posted by the band), El Cid's Halloween Havoc in Ludlow, a Longmeadow trunk or treat, and an Easthampton house party were each posted by a person or the act rather than the venue.

• The seance at the Wheeler Mansion, and the holiday weekend at Village Green in Brimfield

  The seance's date shows only in a medium's feed, with no price or end time on any organiser's page. Village Green lists the weekend's activities but no hours, and does not say it is open beyond campers and registered visitors.

• Foliage peak timing and where to drive

  Wanted this to be a measured claim rather than a vibe. Nothing verified yet.