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Attractions

• Yenser’s fall fest, open weekends through Oct. 20, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. free parking, hayrides, and access to pick your own pumpkin patch. Activity wristband required for corn maze, air cannon, reindeer train, and farm fun zone kids area. 1910 Mahoning Drive East, Lehighton.

• Old Homestead Tree Farm, every Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through October. Pumpkin patch, hayrides and paddle boats. 1165 Strohls Valley Road, Lehighton.

• The Electrifying Jack O’Lantern experience features thousands of hand-carved pumpkins, presented in a creative, artistic display. A walk-through event, 7 to 9 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays, 570 Fairground Road, Gilbert. Tickets: electrifyingjackolanterns.com

Events

• Cash Fall Kitty Bingo, Oct. 13 at the Orioles Community Center. Doors open at 10:30 a.m. Bingo begins at noon. Benefits the Carbon County Friends of Animals.

• Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church will hold its Annual Fall Basket Social and Bake Sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Oct. 12. There will be a theme basket raffle, baked goods, homemade soups, filling, chowchow and apple butter available.

Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church is located at 500 Church Drive, Palmerton (Trachsville). For questions, call 610-681-5200.

Festivals

• Jim Thorpe Fall Festival, Oct. 5-6, 12-13, and 19-20. The festival features craft and food vendors, along with four music locations to enjoy. https://www.poconomountains.com/jim-thorpe/fall-foliage/.

• Apple and Fall Festival, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Jerusalem Trachsville UCC Church, 545 Church Drive, Palmerton. Apples, pumpkins, apple dumplings and other baked goods for sale, fall-themed tricky-tray drawing, cash and gift card raffle ticket drawing. “Rikki & friends” to perform from noon to 3 p.m.

• People’s EC Church fall fest from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 11, free festival is for families to enjoy fall children’s festivities centered around fun Christian fellowship. There will be food, face painting, crafts, and more. The church is located at 216 Wagner St, Lehighton. For information or to help, call 717-460-3494.

• Harvest festival, 1 to 3 p.m., Oct. 26, Cornerstone Community Church, 388 Polk Township Road, Kresgeville. Harvest-themed trunks with treats, games, crafts, face painting, food and much more.

Halloween

• Jim Thorpe Rotary Club Ghost Walks on Fridays through Sundays through November. The one mile trip starts at the Inn at Jim Thorpe, past the Treasure Shop, Millionaires Row, Mauch Chunk Opera House, continues to the Old Jail Museum with stops at the Parsonage, St. Mark’s and finally down West Broadway to Race Street and ends at Josiah White Park where stories of the Asa Packer and Harry Packer mansion are told. Led by a costumed storyteller, the walk lasts about one hour. Tickets are available on the Ticket Leap link: jim-thorpe-rotary-club.ticketleap.com/ghost-walks-2024/ and on the Jim Thorpe Rotary website homepage.

• Monroe County Conservation District is hosting a “spook-tacular” Friday Night Fall Festival from 6 to 8 p.m. today.

Dive into the spirit of the event with creative crafts, exciting games and nighttime adventures, beginning with a hike to discover the secrets of nocturnal animals and their unique adaptations. Folks must preregister in advance. There is a cost.

Call 570-629-3061 for information.

• Northern Lehigh Recreation Trunk or Treat, from 5:15 to 7 p.m. on Oct. 18, at Eagles Nest Park. To set up a trunk register online.

• Boy Scout Troop 138 is holding a haunted maze fundraiser at Jim Thorpe Camping Resort, located at 129 Lentz Trail Road. This event will be on the weekends of Oct. 11 and 12, and then again on Oct. 18 and 19. Hours will be from 6 to 9 p.m. on all four dates, and this event is open to the public. It is a walk-through maze with live actors and props from mild to wild that will definitely scare.

• Fall Festival and Trunk or Treat, from noon to 5 p.m. Oct. 19, at West Penn Park, 698 Zions Stone Church Road, New Ringgold

Come out in Halloween costumes and Trick or Treat from 1 to 3 p.m. There will be pumpkin carving, games, food and more.

• Trunk-or-Treat, which will be hosted at the Nesquehoning Hose Company No. 1, will be held from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 19.

• Lansford Halloween Festival, from 2 to 7 p.m.on Oct. 27, Ashton park (Lansford Pool).

Costume contest, great food, hayrides, bounce house, basket raffle and more info.

Email: LHSEvents@yahoo.com for more info.

Parades

• Annual Andreas Halloween Parade-Andreas Sporting Club, 7 p.m. Oct. 16. The event hosted by West Penn Township Lions Club, sponsored by West Penn Lions, VFW#5069 and Andreas Sporting Club. Rain Date: 7 p.m. on Oct. 17. Please arrive before 6:45 p.m. to park. Register floats: Tina at 570-516-4573, tinadougherty99@yahoo.com, or Jackie at 570-778-2977, jvselitto@gmail.com.

Parade formation: 6 p.m. at Andreas Sporting Club. Registration deadline is Oct. 9.

• Lehighton Halloween Parade, 4 p.m. on Oct. 19. Raindate, Oct. 20.

• Palmerton Halloween Parade will be held at 4 p.m. on Oct. 20.

• Tamaqua Halloween Parade, 7 to 9 p.m. on Oct. 22, E. Broad St., Tamaqua. Join us for a night of fright and delight at the area’s largest Halloween parade. The parade will start at 7 p.m.

• Jim Thorpe Halloween parade, at 2 p.m. on Oct. 26. Lineup is at 1 p.m.

Rain date is Oct. 27, same times. Registration deadline is Oct. 22.

For more information, call 484-464-7746.

Parade route: Coming out of high school parking lot onto Olympian Way, left onto Center Street from Olympian Way to Ninth Street, right on Ninth Street. Ninth Street from Center Street to North Street, Cross North Street continuing on Ninth Street until Lehigh, left onto Lehigh Street until Fifth Street, left onto Fifth Street; crossing North Street continuing on Fifth Street, right onto Center Street. Follow Center street from Fifth Street to Third Street.

Trick or treat

• Bowmanstown: 6 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 26;

• Eldred: 6 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 31;

• Jim Thorpe: 5 to 7 p.m. on Oct. 30;

• Lehighton Borough: 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 31;

• Nesquehoning: 6 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 31;

• Palmerton Borough: 6 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 26;

• Rush Township: 5 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 26;

• Tamaqua: 6 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 26;

• Walnutport Borough: 6 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 30, and;

• Washington Township: 6 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 30.