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10/10/2026

Only now, there’s a brewery stop, too! 🎃🍻Spend a weekend afternoon at Fowler Ranch, where October feels a little like it did when you were a kid. Here, you can find your porch pumpkin grown on the property (PlacerGROWN), snap a few photos by the old trucks, and then take a turn at the pumpkin launcher. Yes, a pumpkin launcher!

Let the little ones also explore the corn maze, and round out your afternoon with a stop at the brewery afterwards 🍂

📍 3111 Lincoln Newcastle Hwy, Lincoln, CA
🎃 Pumpkin patch open Saturdays & Sundays 9am-5pm

Visit Fowler Ranch Farm Brewery + Market for more info.

10/09/2026

🍂☕️Grab your walking shoes, we’re going shopping… with a scenic route and a coffee stop first!

Start your morning with a walk or bike ride along Miner’s Ravine Trail to take in the fall scenery. Then head into
Downtown Roseville to grab a coffee AND a pastry at Fig Tree, as well as see what catches your eye in the shops. Leave a little time for the murals and Tower Theatre along the way also. You’re exploring, after all!

🎥 Courtney Rosiak Quinto Courtney Rosiak-Quinto | Travel Coach | Group Trips & Retreats

10/07/2026

If you’ll travel for a good lunch, put Loomis on your list! At LBB Gastropub & Smokehouse, you could be digging into a pub style tri-tip or Cuban sandwich and sharing chimichurri fries… if you’re feeling generous 😉

Make an afternoon of it by exploring Loomis, and then settle in for lunch on the patio 🍗🍻

📍 LBB Gastropub & Smokehouse
3640 Taylor Rd Ste C, Loomis Ca

10/03/2026

The neighbors here are usually pretty quiet, but October 4th may be an exception 👀🍂The FREE Old Auburn Cemetery Tour returns and becomes a place to meet some of Placer County’s most memorable characters. Costumed reenactors share the true stories of an outlaw, a trick rider, and a pioneering businesswoman.

Grab a map, stroll the cemetery at your own pace, and make a fall afternoon of getting to know Auburn’s past and celebrating 175 years of Placer County!

📍🪦Old Auburn Cemetery
172 Fulweiler Ave, Auburn Ca

Swipe for the details, then send this to your spooky or history-loving friends to join you!

10/01/2026

It’s October and sweater weather is taking its sweet time, so we’re still out getting ice cream🍦🥵

Hidden inside the Loomis Ace Backyard among the BBQ gear is a vintage style ice cream parlor serving Sacramento’s Gunther’s ice cream. Yes, your next ice cream stop is inside a hardware store and those retro details make it even sweeter! Save this little Loomis find and go for a scoop!

📍 Ace Hardware (Backyard)
3690 Taylor Road, Loomis Ca

09/29/2026

😋 🍩 The storefront may be easy to pass by, but the donuts are a little harder to forget. Dunk ‘N’ Run in Auburn has a caramel apple donut that tastes like pie… it’s truly fall in a bite! 🍂 Grab one alongside your trusty maple bars and old fashioneds, and make this your first sweet stop on a fall day exploring Auburn!

📍 Dunk ‘N’ Run
1277 Grass Valley Highway, Auburn Ca

09/26/2026

Big pumpkin patch crowds aren’t really your thing? We’ve got you! 🎃💛 Placer County is full of smaller, local patches where you can hunt for THE perfect pumpkin while making a whole fall day out of it. Find yours and more fall fun at…

🎃 Little Field Farms in Loomis: Pumpkins, a corn maze, pumpkin launcher AND tractor rides (you could easily spend a few hours here!)

🌾 Flower Farm in Loomis: Pumpkin picking, plus Harvest Days with local vendors the first two weekends in October

👻 Dora Dain Farms at Dueling Dogs in Lincoln: Pick your pumpkin, then stick around for a b**r & their Haunted Hop Field

🎃 Fowler Ranch in Lincoln: A local spot for good old-fashioned pumpkin picking day and enjoying their brewery offerings

🌼 Horton Iris Garden in Loomis: Pumpkins & U-pick for a little extra farm fun

🚜 Rickey Ranch in Granite Bay: Pumpkins, hay rides & opening for the season October 1

You have plenty of places to find your pumpkins this year. Save this for your October adventures! Hours, addresses & everything else you need to plan your visit are waiting in our pumpkin patch guide at the link in our bio! 🍂

09/24/2026

09/24/2026

After a morning at one of the nearby pumpkin patches, take the back roads to Dono dal Cielo in Newcastle for a little w**e detour 🍂🍷You’ll be glad you took the long way home!

📍 Dono dal Cielo
Newcastle, Ca

09/12/2026

ALL ABOOOARD for a family day in Colfax! 📣🚂
Colfax Railroad Days brings the town’s history to life with model train displays, Old West characters, pioneer reenactments, Union Pacific equipment you can explore up close, and so much more!

Take the kids, grab something good to eat and make a day of it in Colfax!

🗓️ September 12 & 13– Can’t join the fun this weekend? Save this video for next year’s family adventures!