Family Friendly Fall Festival Returns To Essex County (Free Admission)

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — A yearly fall festival is returning to the Essex County Environmental Center for 2024.

The day-long event will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 29 at the center, which is located at 621B Eagle Rock Avenue in Roseland.

Here’s what to expect, according to a news release from the county:

“Visitors to the Fall Family Festival can go on canoe trips on the Passaic River or nature walks in Essex County’s West Essex Park, weather permitting. There will be a petting zoo, gardening tips, a live beehive display, woodturning demonstrations, face painting, a pumpkin patch, an inflatable corn maze, Rizzo’s Reptiles Live Animal Show, What’s Out There Traveling Planetarium, display tables from a variety of eco-vendors and live music. Partnering with the Environmental Center are New Jersey Audubon, Essex County Master Gardeners, Essex County Beekeepers, 4-H Club, Essex County Rutgers Cooperative Extension, New Jersey Woodturners Association and the Essex County Environmental Commission.”

Admission throughout the day is free, but vendor items will be for sale. For more information, call 973-228-8776.

“The Fall Family Festival is a great opportunity to visit our state-of-the-art Environmental Center and meet our environmental partners,” Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo Jr. said, recommending that visitors “take a walk in our pumpkin patch, learn about a variety of grassroots groups that work to protect the environment and paddle down the Passaic River at a leisurely pace.”

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