Is Fall Camping Best? + Fall and Halloween Fun at Jellystone Parks Across the Country
The RV Atlas Podcast
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🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
For families, these weekends are a perfect way to extend the Halloween season. Kids get extra chances to wear their costumes, and parents can enjoy seasonal favorites like apple cider and pumpkin donuts. Compared to a single afternoon at a local farm, these Jellystone weekends often offer more activities for less money, all while giving you the comfort of your RV or cabin to return to between events.
Here are some of the standout Jellystone Parks hosting fall harvest and Halloween weekends in 2025.Â
Jellystone Park Big Prairie|Big Prairie, Ohio
In Ohio’s Amish country, Jellystone Park Big Prairie is celebrating fall with three themed weekends in October. From October 3–5, the park will host a Harvest Hoedown with cider tastings, fresh-made hot apple cider, and spiced donuts, along with tractor-pulled wagon rides, a magic pumpkin ride, costume contests, and trick-or-treating.Â
The following weekend, October 10–12, brings the Fall Flannel Festival, which includes a flannel fashion contest, lumberjack-inspired games, pine cone crafts, fall ceramics, and another round of pumpkin rides, costumes, and candy.Â
Finally, from October 17–19, the Fall Foliage Fiesta invites campers to enjoy scenic hikes, a nature photography contest, pumpkin painting, and a festive costume parade.
Jellystone Park Burleson |Burleson, Texas
Everything is bigger in Texas—including fall camping weekends at Jellystone Park Burleson. Beginning in late September, the park offers six consecutive weekends packed with family fun.Â
Guests can look forward to pumpkin decorating contests, a costume fashion show, campsite decorating competitions, trick-or-treat trails, and an annual haunt spectacle that transforms the campground into a festive destination.Â
Once Halloween winds down, the fun continues with three “Gobble ’Til You Wobble” weekends in November, featuring pumpkin pie eating contests, turkey scavenger hunts, turkey trot races, and even a pumpkin spice cooking competition with sweet and savory categories.
Jellystone Park Caledonia|Caledonia, WisconsinÂ
Just outside Milwaukee, Jellystone Park Caledonia offers six weekends of fall and Halloween fun. The festivities begin October 3–5 with a Wizards and Warlocks Weekend filled with magical crafts and potions sure to delight young campers.Â
Later in the month, from October 17–19, the campground will host a traditional Halloween celebration that includes a haunted trail, campsite decorating contests, and plenty of costumes and candy for the whole family.
Jellystone Park Cochran|Cochran, Georgia
In Cochran, Jellystone Park kicks off the season with a Chocolate Lovers Weekend during the last weekend of September. This sweet celebration features chocolate-themed crafts, delicious treats, and a unique chocolate slide.Â
The fun continues October 10–13 with Fall Frenzy Weekend, which offers hayrides, pumpkin painting, and other autumn crafts. To wrap up the month, the park will host two classic Halloween weekends with pumpkin carving, trick-or-treating, and spooky surprises.
Jellystone Park Endicott|Endicott, New York
Halloween starts early at Jellystone Park in Endicott, New York, where celebrations begin the last weekend of September and continue through October 26. Themed weekends include Mischief and Magic Wizards & Witches Weekend from October 3–5, when kids can make witch hats, wizard masks,
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| 0:00.0 | I will never forget what it felt like to just constantly be overwhelmed with three little kids trying to do fun things. |
| 0:05.7 | What you remember like from this morning? |
| 0:08.5 | I can't remember when. |
| 0:11.5 | Back in the day. |
| 0:16.6 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Stephanie. |
| 0:18.7 | And I'm Jeremy. |
| 0:19.9 | And we are the authors of the best selling where should we camp next series of guidebooks and camping journals. |
| 0:25.3 | End of the brand new children's books, Tara Babies on the Go, My First Book of Hiking, |
| 0:29.5 | and Tara Babies on the Go, my first book of camping. |
| 0:32.5 | Last year we celebrated season 10 of the RV Atlas, and now we're back for brand new RV and camping |
| 0:38.6 | adventures in 2025. |
| 0:40.8 | Join us now as we cover the best campgrounds, the best RVs, the best food, and the best |
| 0:45.6 | gear and gadgets to bring with you when you go. |
| 0:48.1 | So pull up a chair and join us around the digital campfire. |
| 0:51.3 | This is season 11 of the RV Atlas. |
| 0:58.6 | Hello everybody and welcome to today's episode of the RV Atlas. On today's episode, we are |
| 1:05.2 | talking all about fall camping and why fall is perhaps debatably the best season of all to get those RVs out |
| 1:14.1 | and do some fun camping weekends. Then we're also going to give you a sneak peek or a preview or an |
| 1:20.4 | overview of what is happening at Jellystone Parks across the country for their themed Halloween |
| 1:26.2 | weekends, which our family has loved so, so much. |
| 1:29.6 | We're going to give you some specific details for jellystones all over the United States. |
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