There’s something about fall that gets me every year. The mornings turn crisp, everything smells like cinnamon and woodsmoke, and suddenly every weekend feels like it’s made for getting outside. The problem isn’t a lack of things to do around Cobb County. It’s that the season moves fast, and if you’re not paying attention, half of it slips by before you’ve made it to a single one.

So, here’s what I’ve got lined up. A few old favorites, a couple I’m excited to try myself. Take your pick.

Sleepy Hollow Farm Fall Fest

📍 Sleepy Hollow Farm, 628 Sleepy Hollow Road, Powder Springs, GA 30127

🗓️ Fall Fest runs September 19 through November 1, 2026. It’s closed Mondays and Tuesdays and again from November 2 through 20 before the farm switches over to Christmas trees.

🕛 Wednesday through Friday it’s noon to 6pm (you need to arrive by 5). Saturday and Sunday they open at 10am, still closing at 6 (arrive by 5), and once you get to mid-October the Friday and Saturday hours stretch later. Halloween itself they close early at 4pm.

🎫 It’s $12 a person Wednesday and Thursday, $15 Friday through Sunday, plus taxes and fees online (pay cash at the gate and you skip those fees). Kids two and under get in free with a paying adult. Pumpkins, the feed cups, the pumpkin slingshot, and the Corn Cannon all cost extra on top of admission.

Sleepy Hollow Farm is a real working farm with a corn maze, a pumpkin patch, tractor rides around the property, a playground, and a barnyard full of sheep, goats, a donkey, pigs, chickens, and rabbits. There’s a country store on site selling jams, jellies, honey, and cider, plus a 9-hole putt-putt course and a Nature Ninja course for the kids. It’s also the actual filming location for Hopper’s cabin from Stranger Things, and you can book a separate tour or escape room to see it. I always tell people this is the one where you can turn a pumpkin-picking trip into a half-day outing because there’s just that much going on.

Buy your tickets online ahead of time if you can, because gate tickets are cash only and they stop selling before 1pm on weekdays while school groups are on site. If you want to see Hopper’s cabin, that’s a separate reservation, not part of general admission, so call ahead if that’s the draw for your family. Between the animals, the maze, and the tractor rides, it’s an easy full afternoon and worth building your Saturday around.

HarvestFest and Scarecrows In The Square

📍 Glover Park, Marietta Square, 75 E Park Square, Marietta, GA 30060

🗓️ Saturday, October 17, 2026. It’s a one-day event.

🕛 The main festival runs 9am to 5pm. The farmers market that shares the morning only goes until noon, Touch-A-Truck runs 10am to 2pm, the pie eating contest is at 11am, Halloween Happenings for the kids runs 1 to 5pm, and the costume contest is 2 to 3pm.

🎫 Free to attend.

This is the old Harvest Square Arts and Crafts Festival under a new name, and it’s still built around a big handmade market with painters, potters, woodworkers, metalworkers, jewelers, glass artists, and floral vendors set up around Glover Park on the Square. Alongside the market you get Touch-A-Truck, a pie eating contest, and Halloween Happenings, which is games, candy, and prizes for kids 12 and under. There’s also a costume contest with a category just for pets, and the regular Marietta Square Farmers Market runs that same morning.

Fall-O-Ween Fest

📍 Swift-Cantrell Park, 3140 Old 41 Highway, Kennesaw, GA 30144

🗓️ Saturday, October 7, 2026. One evening only.

🕛 4pm to 9pm.

🎫 Free.

Kennesaw Parks and Rec turns Swift-Cantrell Park into what they call Spook-Central Park for the night, with a candy trail, costume contests, a scavenger hunt, crafts, field games, and music. There are local crafters and concessions set up for anyone who wants to shop or eat while the kids run around in costume. Once it gets dark they project a family movie on a giant inflatable screen. The costume contest is open to all ages, and dogs are allowed to compete too, which always gets a good crowd around the judging area.

Bring a blanket or a low-back chair for the movie part of the night, and skip the pop-up tent or canopy since those get you asked to move so you’re not blocking anyone’s view. Parking is inside the park and also at the neighboring elementary school if the main lot fills. It’s about as easy and free as a family Halloween night gets, dogs in costume included.

Chalktoberfest

📍 Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, 30 Atlanta Street, Marietta, GA 30060 (the chalk art and festival footprint runs along Atlanta Street and Anderson Street around the museum)

🗓️ Saturday and Sunday, October 10 and 11, 2026. The Craft Beer Festival is Saturday only.

🕛 Saturday the main festival runs 10am to 5pm, with the Craft Beer Festival tucked inside that from noon to 5pm. Sunday it’s 11am to 5pm.

🎫 The chalk festival itself is free, and museum admission is free that weekend too. The Craft Beer Festival needs a separate ticket, cheaper if you buy online ahead of time versus the $55 gate price.

Chalktoberfest is the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art’s combined chalk festival and beer festival, and it pulls in something like 80 professional chalk artists who turn the streets around the museum into giant pieces of art over the weekend. There’s a craft and art vendor market, food trucks, and live music both days, plus an amateur chalk competition on Sunday that anyone can enter. Saturday afternoon the Craft Beer Festival runs alongside it with unlimited samples from around 40 breweries, more than 120 beers, and 20-plus wines, and you get a souvenir tasting cup with your ticket. Every dollar from the beer fest and donations goes back to the museum.

Leave the dog at home for this one, they’re allowed around the general festival but not near the chalk artists or inside the beer fest, so it’s not really worth bringing them. The beer fest ticket sells out every year, so if that’s part of your plan, buy it online before the week of the event instead of counting on a gate ticket. Free parking decks sit near Waddell and Haynes and at Mill Street, but expect some road closures right around the Square.

Still Family Farm/Corn on the Cobb

📍 Still Family Farm / Corn on the Cobb, 5630 Macland Road, Powder Springs, GA 30127

🗓️ The farm itself has been around for generations, but the fall corn maze and pumpkin patch dates haven’t been confirmed for this year, so I’d call ahead before you plan a trip out.

🕛 Hours aren’t posted for this year, so check before you go.

🎫 Pricing for this year isn’t posted, so check before you go.

Still Family Farm has been in the same family for generations out in Powder Springs, and Corn on the Cobb is the fall attraction they’ve historically built on it: a corn maze, a pumpkin patch full of everything from minis to giants, hayrides, a kiddie zip line, and pump duck races. It’s been one of the go-to family farm attractions on the west side of the county for years. I’ll be honest though, I haven’t confirmed it’s running the same way this fall, so treat this as a name worth knowing rather than a lock for this season.

Call or check before you head out this year since the fall attractions haven’t been confirmed, that’s the one thing worth knowing before you load up the car. If it is running, it’s historically been a good fit for little kids thanks to the smaller kiddie maze and the duck races. Worth keeping on your radar for west Cobb even if you have to confirm the details first.

That’s the list I’d hand a friend if they asked what’s worth doing this fall around Cobb County. Some of these you’ve probably driven past a hundred times without stopping. This is the year you stop.

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