Fall means pumpkin everything. Beyond the basic PSLs, there's pumpkin beer, pumpkin pie, pumpkin salsa — because the only steadfast rule of fall food is that anything that can be pumpkin-ized will be. Maybe you love it, or maybe you're part of the anti-pumpkin-spice brigade (we're big fans of pumpkin everything over here). Either way, the pumpkins are unavoidable, so you might as well embrace them.

So we rounded up the biggest, most noteworthy pumpkin festivals across the US, where you can celebrate the season's most famous gourd this fall.

The northern stretch of Fjord Norway, along the country's upper west coast, pairs some of its most dramatic fjords and mountains with fishing villages and sun-drenched inland farmland.

It's a food scene best explored by car, with the UNESCO-listed Geirangerfjord and the famous Atlantic Road between meals.

Cape May is best known as America's oldest seashore resort, but come fall, travelers show up for the ghosts, not the beach.

Writer Lauren Breedlove took a private tour of the Emlen Physick Estate, reportedly New Jersey's most haunted building, and left with chills, a few unanswered questions, and a phantom voice on her recording she still can't explain.

Waterfall hikes, downtime on a mountain ranch, legendary pancakes, and cocktails made with wild-foraged ingredients: Haywood County, North Carolina, packs all of it into its corner of the Smokies.

Here's how to build a fall trip around it.

The Catskills and Hudson Valley have long been New Yorkers' remedy for city living, just two and a half hours north of Manhattan. The region is in the middle of a hospitality revival, with new B&Bs and lodges opening in the mountains and the river towns below, and right now the forests are going wine-red, marigold, and burnt orange.

These five hotels are among the best for foliage viewing.

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