Fall

Annual Autumn Festival in Sugar Hill (September 26-27, 2009) Main Street, Route 117, Sugar Hill, NH. This festival provides a grand array of outside vendors, demonstrations and entertainment throughout the festive weekend. Booths align both sides of the street, featuring home made goods, foods and creative gift ideas. Demonstrations in "lost" arts of homemade materials, wool spinning, weaving, pottery and such, vary year to year. Entertainment from local well known musicians and others specifically for children are timed throughout the weekend. Local specials at Harman's Cheese and Country Store, Polly's Pancake Parlor and others add to this great fall weekend festival at the height of foliage in a quintessential New England village with 360 degree vistas from its Main Street and side roads.

Sugar Hill Antiques Show (september 26-27, 2009) Sugar Hill Meetinghouse, Route 117, Sugar Hill, NH. This annual event combines the best of Northern NH-VT antique dealers offering unique collections and items from the days of early settlers through generations of lifestyles depicting centuries of utensils, household goods, luxuries, clothing and entertainment. Dealers also available for discussions and assessments within the expertise of their antique arenas. Held the same weekend as Sugar Hill's Annual Autumn Festival for a total Main Street event in historic Sugar Hill.

Reach the Beach Relay (September) Cannon Mt. to the Seacoast, Start: Franconia, NH. The longest distance running relay race in the United States. Consists of (a maximum of ) 12 person teams that rotates through 36 transition areas that covers approximately a 200 mile distance. Each relay team member runs 3 legs of varying lengths and difficulty and covers an average total distance of 16.6 miles. Ultra Distance division that will have a team limit of 6 members where the average distance covered per Ultra Distance Team runner is 33 miles. Runners rotate in a set order once the race begins and will be obligated to follow this rotation until the final runner Reaches the Beach!

The Rocks Estate's Annual Fall Festival Route 302, Bethlehem, NH. This event features guided horse-drawn wagon rides, Native American (Abenaki) dancing, interactive storytelling, New Hampshire crafters' fair, caramel apples, and the Rocks' newly expanded gift shop. Guided tours of the historic Mile Path will take visitors back to the 1880s when the Estate was established. The festival also features a basic bicycle safety and maintenance program by Littleton Bike and Fitness and the Littleton Land Sharks Cycling Team.

OktoberFest (October 10 & 11, 2009) Loon Mountain, Route 112, Lincoln, NH. Celebration of old German traditions of beer making and tasting and contests among the taverns and Inns in the Lincoln area among some of the best New Hampshire breweries in the Lincoln-Woodstock and Waterville Valley area.