This is the Season You'll Fall for New Brunswick!
Envision the most brilliant colours imaginable and the bounty of the harvest amid the best whale-watching, birdwatching and activities galore, and you’ve found a wonder-full fall vacation!
Tour our Cities in the most colourful season of the year. Craft shops and farmers markets are open for business! Homemade soap and hand-knit sweaters! Blown glass and plenty of pottery! Plus quilts and all kinds of keepsakes! Not to mention local produce fresh from the land and sea!
Leaf-Peeping
New Brunswick is blessed with the greatest variety of trees on the east coast, which creates an amazing palate of colours in the fall. Make sure you combine a leaf-peeping tour with the numerous activities available.
Why is the fall foliage different in New Brunswick? The colours tend to be a vivacious red compared to other provinces. This is due to the higher number of red maple trees as well as other variety of tree types. The best time to see these “lipstick” and “pumpkin-like” colours is around the first two weeks of October during Canada’s Thanksgiving Weekend.
During your visit on the Acadian Coastal Drive, be sure to visit the gloriously vivid-red fall colours of the peat bogs on Miscou Island. They are a sight that’s incomparable… anywhere!
Fabulous Fall Festivals
What better time than the harvest season to be Indulged or let your spirits soar as you silently drift in a hot air balloon across an azure sky. Have a foot-stompin’ good time at the Miramichi Country Music Festival or move to the beat of the drums at an aboriginal powwow. Your family is sure to be amazed at the Giant Pumpkin Provincial Festival. And we think you’ll agree that “booing” is a good thing at Magnetic Hill Zoo’s haunted Halloween activities. Our calendar of events will give you everything you need to know about all our fabulous fall festivals.
Who said green isn’t a Fall colour?
Don’t pack away the golf clubs just yet! Sure the leaves are turning brilliant shades of red, gold and orange, but you can still play the province’s golf greens well into the season!