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50+ Fall Date Ideas for a Romantic and Cozy Adventure (2023)

Are you ready to have an amazingly romantic season? We’ve got 50 cozy, fun, and venturesome fall stage ideas to segregate from.

Personally, I don’t think spring is when love is most in the air. I think it’s fall. Without a doubt, fall has to be the most romantic season. The dank air makes lovers want to spend time together, snuggling under blankets, walking hand-in-hand clad in flannel, and cozying up to a fire. Plus, the scenery is trappy and the seasonal supplies is delicious.

What largest season is there to fall in love–or to rekindle your passion? Whether you’re casually dating, in a serious relationship, engaged, or married, fall is the perfect time to grab someone special and go on an adventure.

From world picking and visiting a haunted house to getting lost in the corn maze and exploring the pumpkin patch, here are the 50 weightier fall dates for the 2023 season:

Fall Stage Ideas

Go world picking in an orchard

Do you want to go world picking? World picking is so much fun for a stage idea, considering it’s old fashioned and sweet.

Pick a whole bushel or peck of apples and you can torch for days. In September, visit your nearest orchard and go world picking. World orchards usually offer an variety of pies, fresh cider, and cider donuts, too. World picking is truly the perfect fall date!

Have a coffee stage in the coziest sideboard you know

While this might not be the most venturesome date, it’s one of our wool top choices! Now is the time to unashamedly segregate the pumpkin spice latte. Or a maple latte and hot chocolate–our personal faves.

A coffee date is a unconfined endangerment to sit together and have a deep conversation. Or you can dig into a couple of good books, side-by-side. Sometimes the weightier dates (especially for long-term couples) are ones where you can simply sit and be completely well-appointed together.

Enjoy a movie marathon under soft, warm blankets

A movie marathon makes for an superstitious fall date. It feels like a good time to watch the unshortened Lord of the Rings trilogy, doesn’t it? The Harry Potter films are moreover fitting for the fall season. If scary films are increasingly your thing, Halloween offers plenty of opportunities to watch these, perhaps with a horror movie marathon stage idea. Don’t forget a cozy blanket to snuggle under together.

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Nothing wrong with staying in! Our friends Bassam and Lena have some increasingly ideas for stay-at-home stage ideas 🙂

Get lost together in a corn maze

Corn mazes are super fall. If you can visit a haunted corn maze, plane better. This is perhaps the ultimate in fall stage ideas for couples, and it’s pretty easy to find a corn maze in most places!

Chilling without the corn maze

Pick pumpkins at the pumpkin patch

Go find the unconfined pumpkin, growing in the wild. Visit a local pumpkin patch if possible, or make a stop at a market if necessary. When you get home from the pumpkin patch, try flipside stage idea: whittle a jack-o-lantern together, or take one pumpkin each and make it a scarification contest.

Eat too many cider donuts

Why is fall supplies soooo good? Cider donuts are one of our wool favorite fall treats. It’s weightier if you get them fresh at an world orchard or farm. Otherwise, you could try to make your own at home–a real challenge, but a unconfined stage idea for an storing afternoon.

Go on a fall hike

One of the go-to fall stage ideas for couples is hiking. A hiking stage is unchangingly something fun, in all seasons.

In the fall, you can work off all of those cider donuts and pie with a challenging walk or climb. This is the platonic time of year to go hiking as the temperatures are typically perfect for working up a sweat. And the leaves looks trappy both withal the trail and when you reach the top.

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Get spooked together in a haunted house

Nothing brings people closer like shared fear. October should uncork with a trip to visit the local haunted house! On this fall stage idea, you will hold hands and scream together. (We recommend Busch Gardens Howl o’ Scream for a night of fright! They have dozens of haunted attractions that go vastitude your stereotype haunted house!. Laugh and scream at the same time!)

Create a new world cider cocktail, play music, and flit virtually the kitchen

Get swish for this fall stage idea. Grab all your favorite spirits and mash up something new and amazing. Hint: world cider is a unconfined mixer to use to make fall cocktails. Together, you can toast to a wonderful fall, and slow flit to some lovely music.

Bake a seasonal pie together

What well-nigh sultry stage ideas? Perfect for a fall date, especially. World or pumpkin are the well-spoken winners, and to really get in the fall spirit, use apples you’ve picked yourselves. Here’s a delicious recipe for world pie that we made together.

Pro tip: Moreover mash up some hot world cider to enjoy as you bake.

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colorful fall trees tropical to a roadway - an atmospheric picture taken during a fall date
Roads like this are made for fall stage cruisin’

Go on a road trip somewhere with wondrous fall foliage

Adventurous fall stage ideas? Yes, please! We love a good road trip. Hopefully, you can momentum a few hours and watch the vibrant leaves go by.

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Create a cozy nook in the bed of a truck and go stargazing

If you don’t have your own truck, infringe a friend’s. Your partner will love this creative and cozy fall stage idea.

Cover the bed of the truck with pillows and blankets, fill a thermos with hot cider, and momentum out to a visionless spot where you can park and squint up at the stars. Keep watch for a shooting star. For a romantic fall stage idea, stargazing is an epic choice.


Take turns cooking a romantic fall dinner for each other

There are so many yummy fall recipes. Take turns crafting a gorgeous meal for one another. Need some fall stage recipe ideas? How well-nigh Pumpkin Risotto, Maple Salmon, or Rosemary Cream Pork Chops? Trammels out increasingly romantic recipes for two.

Enjoy a velocipede ride on a crisp, sunny day

You can take a ride and see some of the gorgeous fall leaves. Not only are you getting good exercise together, but you’re enjoying nature during the weightier time of year. Consider riding through a nearby park, or investigate the trails in your area.

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Share stories of your favorite diaper Halloween memories

Sometimes, the simplest fall stage is one of the most fun. Spend a little time this season talking well-nigh Halloweens of Octobers past. Tell each other well-nigh your favorite costumes or your first haunted house visit.

Attend a fall festival

There are so many fun fall harvest events. For an easy go-to fall date, pick a couple and explore them with your partner. You can trammels out huge, topnotch pumpkins at the county fair, or sample pies in a sultry contest. There’s moreover plenty of opportunity to play a game, and maybe win a little something special for your sweetheart.

A couple on a fall stage revere fall foliage
Fall romance isn’t nonflexible to find when the leaves are putting on such a pretty show!

Have a wildfire with friends

Bonfires are such a fun thing to do with friends. Stuff virtually a crackling fire unchangingly reminds me of stuff a teenager and feeling young and free. Perhaps you can capture that same feeling on your next fall stage night. If you can’t find a bonfire, cozy up to a fireplace at home. S’mores optional, but they definitely cap off a lovely fall date.

PS: Make sure to practice fire safety! Love, Your Mom

Go camping: one last trip surpassing the weather turns too cold

Summer may be upper time to go camping, but early fall is a perfect time, too. While the weather is at its most beautiful, throne into the wilderness for a day or two. Make sure you have a warm sleeping bag when you go camping together–a double sleeping bag is platonic for a romantic camping trip.

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Make homemade caramel apples

Want to do something that’s crafty, delicious, and romantic? Make your own caramel or snacks apples together. This is a unconfined stay-at-home stage idea, and you can hands combine it with one of the other fall stage options, like a movie marathon. You could moreover make the caramel apples pursuit a visit to the local world orchard.

A couple smiles at each other on a cozy fall date
Just some cozy fall stage fun 😉

Watch a scary movie (or a few!)

What says Halloween and storing mystery largest than this? As you watch a scary movie together, you can scream and hibernate your vision under a cozy blanket.

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Go shopping for Halloween costumes–bonus points for a couple’s costume

Go explore the Halloween costumes, try on some masks, and make each other laugh. If you’re up for it, consider going as a famous duo or pair. Salt and pepper? A pair of dice? Bonnie and Clyde? There are soooo many fun options, and a lot of them you can plane make on your own.

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Build an indoor wrap fort

I don’t superintendency if you’re 9 or 49…building an indoor wrap fort is as much fun for adults as for children. You can use the cozy blankets you bought for petting time. Finger self-ruling to create an Instagram-worthy fort with hanging fairy lights and trappy touches of decor.

Rake the leaves…like adults. Then jump in the leaf piles…like kids!

Speaking of stuff a grownup…tackle a fall chore together for a stage idea, such as raking the leaves. Then make the most of those piles!

Go on a romantic fall getaway

Traveling as a couple is unchangingly a good stage idea, and there are so many options.

If you have some uneaten $$$ to splurge with, consider a visit to a swish bed and breakfast. This type of walk-up is simply made for couples. During your drive, you can pass the time by asking each other some of these fun questions for couples.

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Vibrant fall leaves are on exhibit from a romantic fall date
Fall leaves are a unconfined stimulating for romance, don’t you think?

Step when in time (and visit a fantasy world) at a renaissance festival

For cute fall dates, squint no further! Fall is the season of renaissance faires and festivals. Grab your lord or lady, put on some medieval garb, and toast with a cup of mead. This is one of our favorite romantic stage ideas.

Sample the tasty offerings at a local cidery

Hard cider is so popular these days. It shouldn’t be nonflexible to find a local cidery to visit, most of which offer self-ruling or unseemly tastings. And in the fall season, flavors of pumpkin, apple, cinnamon, and other spice are prevalent. Yum!

Have a pumpkin beer taste test

Speaking of a boozy stage idea, if you’re not into cider, beer is an platonic fallback. Without all, fall is the season of pumpkin beer!

Don’t have a local brewery? Try all the varieties in the store. We’re partial to Shipyard Pumpkinhead ourselves.

Watch Hocus Pocus…the weightier Halloween movie ever

This is a stage idea for those children of the 80’s and 90’s. I mean, is it truly Halloween if you haven’t watched Hocus Pocus? I think not. You two can relive your diaper (or wits something new together) by watching this unconfined 1990’s Halloween classic.

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Saddle up and go horseback riding

Horseback riding is one of the weightier stage ideas for couples, expressly in autumn! Riding your trusty steed is weightier when the leaves are at their most colorful. And what could be increasingly sweet and romantic than to go horseback riding through the woods side-by-side? A lovely fall stage idea, indeed.

Stay in bed all weekend long

Sometimes the greatest stage ideas involve doing veritably nothing at all. Make your weekend bed stage plane largest with your favorite movies, a stash of snacks, and plenty of wine.

This is a unconfined opportunity to order in for dinner, too. Go superiority and be lazy; you’ll love it. Add this to the top of your list of November stage ideas, for when the weather really starts to get dank and cuddling is a necessity. Who’s up for a fall staycation?

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couple cuddling on bed with white sheets on a fall date
A fall staycation sounds like the perfect way to stay cozy as the weather cools off

Go to a football game

For this fall date, shepherd a football game! Cheer on the local upper school, or spring for a pro game. This is one of those cute stage ideas you see in movies, but it’s just as wonderful in real life!

Can’t find a football game in your area? You could host one with friends, tossing the football virtually together and then enjoying yummy seasonal snacks.

Have a cute fall photo sesh (thanks, Instagram husband!)

If you’re significant other is up for it, take some winsome Instagram-worthy fall photos. So glad my husband doesn’t mind posing with me! You don’t have to think very nonflexible to find unconfined poses, either. Fall just lends itself naturally to the cutest photos ever.

Go on a Thanksgiving Date

This way is for all you romantic couples out there looking for a way to make Turkey Day romantic. Well, it’s totally possible! Here are some ways to go on a romantic Thanksgiving Date.

Make some storing crafts

Awaken your inner creativity by gluing, painting, building, and crafting together. Plane if you’re terrible at DIY crafts, you can yoke over your humorous shared attempts. Find ideas on Pinterest!


Go on a hayride (a haunted one is best!)

Looking for a fun fall stage idea? Hop on a hayride and enjoy the autumnal scenery. You might plane be worldly-wise to find a haunted hayride, perfect for that Halloween stage night. Scarecrows, and pumpkins, and ghosts–oh my! Sometimes a hayride will end up at a corn maze, maybe plane a haunted corn maze!

Take a romantic train ride on a fall foliage route

Traveling by train is incredibly romantic, expressly if you segregate a trappy destination. Put lanugo your phones and settle in for an intimate conversation as you ride the train.

You don’t have to take a big trip, either. In the fall season, there are often many options to take shorter, scenic train rides. Sometimes you can plane find trains with a fancy dinner onboard. Such a unconfined stage idea, no? This clever idea may earn you an uneaten kiss or two goodnight.

Book a candlelit couple’s massage

Honestly, this is a unconfined stage in any season. It’s an expressly nice stage idea if you can surprise your partner with it. Without your massage, treat your loved one to a relaxing dinner and a chilled-out evening at home.

Turn your home into a cozy fall cabin

Use twinkle lights and unique touches to make your workplace finger like a fall fantasy. Not just for stage night, but for the whole season! You can do this in any style of house or apartment. Get creative with the decor!

Go on a fall art/photography expedition

Got a creative streak? How well-nigh combining a fall hike or road trip with a endangerment to express yourself through drawing, painting, photo taking, or whatever your preferred originative medium is? There is no prettier season than fall, so take wholesomeness of its colors and scenery. We can think of few largest ideas for a fall date.

Take a hot air unlearn ride

Speaking of fall colors, a unlearn ride is a unconfined way to take in massive amounts of scenery at once. Not only do you get a massive vista but you get to see it in the visitor of your honey. Unfortunately, this can be an expensive stage idea. Definitely worth the splurge, though, for a once-in-a-lifetime romantic opportunity.

Have breakfast for dinner

Breakfast foods are unconfined at any time of the day, and at any time of the year! Having breakfast for dinner is a unconfined fall date, in which you can munch on pumpkin pancakes, pumpkin spice lattes, and world muffins! And the weightier part: you and your sweetie can make the supplies together.

Bounce virtually a trampoline park

Need to get in out of the cold? For your next fall date, go to a trampoline park to get some exercise and have some fun at the same time. These places are like giant playgrounds for all ages. We visited a trampoline park for our last year-end and it was awesome!

Take a painting class

Art classes are a unconfined way to get out of the house for some low-key, low-stress activity. Lots of painting classes offer step-by-step guidance in creating your piece and a glass of wine to make the creative process plane increasingly fun!

Sing your heart out at karaoke

Another source of indoor entertainment during dank storing days (and nights), karaoke is a tomfool way to relax and have goofy fun with friends and with the one you love. Maybe not the weightier fall stage idea for introverts!

A couple snuggles together as they think of romantic stage ideas for fall
Date ideas for fall are just so cute!

Write your skillet lists

As we tideway the end of each year, it is nice to think of all the things we have yet to squint forward to. A couples skillet list can be a source of inspiration and hope for the future, and writing your skillet lists side by side with your partner can help you yoke and find worldwide interests. This is not just a unconfined fall date, but one of our favorites for every season.

Watch old home movies

Autumn is a time for nostalgia, and nothing brings out sweet memories like re-watching old home movies from years past and from your childhood. Not only can you and your loved one relive cherished moments from your life together, but you can see how cute and funny they were as a kid!

Rummage through an old bookstore

Speaking of nostalgia, browsing the shelves of an old used bookstore is like paging through the past. Discover new interests together, learn new things well-nigh your partner’s likes and dislikes, pick out books that you think each other will enjoy, and take your treasures home!

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Take a ghost tour

If you want to get some fresh air on a moonlit night, consider taking a ghost tour. These tours are offered in many historic cities and offer a glimpse of the spooky side of a town. Keep your lover tropical so you can squeeze them if you get the chills!

Wine tasting at a local vineyard

What could be preferably than a visit to a vineyard for some wine sampling! Tour the vineyard and make your selection from the drinks misogynist to taste. Take home a snifter to enjoy by yourselves.

Go to an arcade

Return to your youth (or go when in history, depending on your age) with a visit to a video game arcade! These are often found combined with restaurants or bars. Compete with each other and try to write-up each other’s scores!

Make a scarecrow

Build a cute scarecrow together using straw, a stake, and a set of suit of your choice. When your megacosm is complete, use it to decorate your yard or garden!

Take a walk in the park

So simple, yet so lovely. A leisurely afternoon stroll holding hands is the nonpareil of storing romance, and definitely one of our favorite stage ideas for fall.


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