Fall can be the perfect time to fall in love especially with these 100+ fall date ideas!
Whether you are just dating or you are looking to ignite some warmth into your decades old relationship, fall can be a season of love for you and your partner! If you are looking for the best fall date ideas you are in the right spot.
This autumn you might have the best fall date ever!
If you’re ready to start heating things up just in time as the weather turns cold, pull out your planner and get ready to start penciling in some date nights because here come more than 100 (yep, you read that right!) exciting date ideas to make this fall one you and your special someone never forget!
100+ Of The Best Date Ideas For Falling More In Love This Fall!
#1 Fall Date Ideas: Create Fall Decor
Sure pumpkin carving can make your home look super cute, but also how about venturing out beyond the usual and making some DIY fall decor pumpkins that you can use every year! These pumpkins won’t become soggy or need to be thrown out and you can look back fondly and remember the fun you had making your little decor pieces!
#2 Fall Date Ideas: Corn Maze
Yep, if your area has a corn maze grab your partner and run around and around. What fun could be had trying to find the way out together or trying to find each other!
#3 Fall Date Ideas: Play Fall Trivia
Playing anything on a date is a sure way to increase the love so if you or your loved one are into trivia go ahead and put a fall twist on tricky questions that are bound to make you walk away knowing more fall facts than you ever knew possible!
#4 Fall Date Ideas: Haunted House
When fall comes around Halloween is sure to follow so check your local happenings and see if there is a haunted house you and your partner want to try out together. In case you and your date are super into scary, here’s a list of the most scream-worthy date locations in America for those who like the “trick” aspect of Halloween.
#5 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Scavenger Hunt
Bring some creativity and mystery into your dating life by creating a fall personalized scavenger hunt for your beloved to get lost in!
You can make one for your partner or you and your partner can work together making one for another couple and they, in turn, make one for you!
Or, if you are married with kids, have them conjure up a scavenger hunt for mom and dad; they will be so happy and thrilled to be a part of your fall date idea!
To make this scavenger hunt fall themed incorporate fall food, fall decor, fall scenic destinations, and fall memories you’ve made as a couple.
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#6 Fall Date Ideas: Restaurant Hop
For each course you want to eat, from appetizers and drinks to dessert and hot apple cider, pick a different restaurant and order their Fall Seasonal Special.
If your date is a foodie this is bound to be a date they will be thankful for long past the season of thankfulness.
#7 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Memory Lane
Intimacy between couples grows as each person reveals more details about themselves and fall can be a great time to get to know how your partner has spent all the last fall seasons of their life!
Spend the evening talking about each person’s best fall memories and what you hope future fall seasons will look like. Talking about the past can be a great bridge to talking about the future.
#8 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Bonfire
Maybe the water is too cold for swimming, but you can still head to the beach and build a romantic bonfire! S’mores are encouraged!
Make sure someone brings a blanket.
#9 Fall Date Ideas: Shopping For Fall Trinkets
Grab your loved one and head out to your favorite store to get a fall decor piece you can display in your home and look at year after year when the leaves turn.
#10 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Ice Cream Date
Ice cream is always a good date idea and with fall in full swing, you are sure to have a local ice cream parlor or yogurt shop selling seasonal fall flavors such as Pumpkin Ice Cream and/or Apple Cider Ice Cream.
You’ll want to check out this recipe if you happen to want some organic no churn chocolate peanut butter ice cream!
#11 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Fondue
Okay all you romantics looking for a budget-friendly date idea that will not only be full of fun, full of yum, and full of all things fall, but will also be 100% unforgettable. Fall-ize your fondue with some delicious fall tastes!
Here’s a fabulous pumpkin fondue recipe for you to try out!
Don’t stop at just the fall fondue though, yep we’re going to go a step further and take our fall fondue date outdoors!
To make the date extra special grab a blanket, head out under the stars, and surprise your cutie with pre-made pumpkin fondue and these cute little personal fondue mugs! Who doesn’t love fondue by candlelight and starlight!?!
Heck yeah, fondue just got even better.
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#12 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Drive
Grab some blankets, snacks, and a full tank of gas before heading out to see some of the most beautiful sights of the season! Before driving around research the best area near you for looking at colorful fall leaves.
Bonus points if your partner is a photographer and you patiently wait for them to take all the fall foliage pictures they want. Here’s a great resource for finding all the best fall foliage drives in New England!
#13 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Cooking Class
Before approaching Thanksgiving, you and your loved one could have a super fun time learning some new culinary skills while preparing to impress the family for Thanksgiving! Double win!
#14 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Bike Ride
Fall is the perfect time to hop on your bike or rent a bike (those ones with two seats sure would be awesome!). You and your partner can take in the beautiful sights, breathe fresh air, and get some exercise all at the same time.
To make things easy, here are some fall foliage bike routes already mapped out for you departing from various cities throughout the United States.
#15 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Pizza
Instead of making a night of pepperoni pizza and Netflix, get your fall cozy on and have some fun in the kitchen while making some fall pizzas!
If you’re looking for some recipes I’ve got you covered: 20+ Outstanding Fall Pizza Recipes!
#16 Fall Date Ideas: Apple Picking
Apples are probably the second thing that comes to mind (following pumpkins) when people think of the fall foods.
Instead of getting your fall apples from the grocery store this year, make a date of grabbing your sweetie and heading to the nearest apple orchard for some juicy pickings!
#17 Fall Date Ideas: Candy Apple Making
Sometimes the best dates are spent together trying something new! Instead of buying candy apples, try your hand at making some candy apples. You and your partner could keep the candied apples for yourselves or you could give them as gifts to family and/or neighbors.
How cute would it be to wear an adorable Halloween apron while making these candied treats (and also use the apron again while passing out Halloween candy!)?!
#18 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Movies
Instead of just flipping on Netflix, intentionally watch some fall favorites! A fall movie instantly turns a typical date into a fall date!
Sure some people will be excited to share their favorite scary movies just before Halloween, but if you aren’t into scary there are other options such as It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
#19 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Festival
Fall is the perfect time to explore your local surroundings and take advantage of fun happenings. There’s a good chance your county will be having some special Fall Festival so find out about it and make it a date!
#20 Fall Date Ideas: Climb A Tree
If you and your date are okay with heights, make like an arborist and climb some fall foliage instead of just looking at it!
If you are ready to become part of the fall landscape, check out this outdoor recreational opportunity sure to take your fall dating life to new heights.
#21 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Foliage Ziplining
Ready for something exciting, breathtaking, and unforgettable?! Take your date on an autumn date to remember that includes not just looking at gorgeous foliage, but zipping through it! Up, down, in and out of those breathtaking trees may take your breath away in more ways than one!
That’s right, check out these thrilling New England Fall Foliage Zipline Tours!
#22 Fall Date Ideas: Harry Potter Marathon
In case you or your partner haven’t read Harry Potter or watched the movies (or if you want to read them or watch them again!), fall can be a splendid time for dedicating a few weeks to reading the books together or a few nights to watching all the movies.
#23 Fall Date Ideas: Pumpkin Bread Bowls
A super fun date for any foodie would be to spend the evening making some pumpkin bread bowls and then feasting on them together! Fall dates featuring eating as the main goal are sure to be fantastic!
#24 Fall Date Ideas: Pumpkin Carving
This year, make a date out of crafting your Jack-O-Lanterns! Here are over twenty traditional pumpkin carving ideas for you and your partner to choose from! Fall date ideas including creativity are wonderful for any age!
#25 Fall Date Ideas: Amusement Park
Amusement parks are always a fantastic date idea, but did you know that often parks will decorate specifically for fall?!
- Here’s a list of Halloween events at amusement parks throughout America
- Here’s a list of Mid-Atlantic theme parks that have fall themed celebrations
- Here’s a peek into Disney’s fall and Halloween decor (sure to be delightful and not scary)
- Here’s a great list of what to pack if you go to an amusement park during fall
A bonus of going to an amusement park all decked out for fall is that you and your date can get some great backgrounds for pictures of the two of you, so be sure to bring your camera.
#26 Fall Date Ideas: Bake A Pie Together
Warm kitchen, sweet smelling spices, freshly baked pie on the counter, how much fun can a fall date get?! Here are some fantastic fall pie recipes to get your fall pie baking date in full swing.
#27 Fall Date Ideas: Costume Party
Is your work having a Halloween party, or someone in your neighborhood, or maybe even your city or town? Make a date of it!
Dressing up as a couple can be super fun too!
Here are more than 50 couple costume ideas for that oh-so-fun fall costume party date! If you happen to have a dog you want to dress up too, here are some great ideas! Everything is always better with a dog involved.
#28 Fall Date Ideas: Hot Air Balloon Ride
Have you ever thought about going on a hot air balloon ride? Imagine how tranquil and romantic a fall date in the air could be! Here’s a list of the top places to hop into a hot air balloon this fall! All fall date ideas including something exciting happening up in the air will always be a boost in your dating life!
#29 Fall Date Ideas: Make a Fort
Silly adult, forts aren’t just for kids! Forts can be more than cushions and pillows; go here to check out a legit fort making tutorial for your next adult-sized date.
Bonus points for including candles that smell like pumpkin because in case you didn’t know, men happen to be really fond of the smell of pumpkin.
#30 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Cookie Making
Oh come on, you know you want an excuse to make some cookies!?
You and your date can have fun in the kitchen and then give cookies away for Halloween treats or as Thanksgiving hostess gifts. How fun would it be if you presented your date with a little cooking baking surprise in the form of a fall apron they can wear throughout the entire season?!
#31 Fall Date Ideas: Candlelit Dinner at Home
Who says romantic dinners have to involve going out? Grab some candles (pumpkin smelling candles have added benefits for the guys) and make your fall dinner date into a DIY project at home.
Anyone who goes the extra mile and hangs up these awesome autumn wooden ball fairy lights is sure to get named The Most Romantic Person Ever.
#32 Fall Date Ideas: Pumpkin Meal
Pumpkin is the quintessential fall flavor. If your date is super into pumpkin (definitely don’t do this if they are allergic to pumpkin or have sworn off all things pumpkin spice) make a full meal out of pumpkin!
Serve everything pumpkin you can think of from pumpkin appetizers to your very own version of a pumpkin spice latte and for sure end with a pumpkin dessert.
If you want a fall Instant Pot cheesecake with pumpkin being the featured flavor, you’ll find some ideas on this list of fall Instant Pot cheesecakes!
#33 Fall Date Ideas: Fall In The Air Via Helicopter
Take your fall appreciation to a new height by booking a date that includes a helicopter tour of the fall foliage views. For such a thrilling adventure, and all other adventures you and your sweetie pie will have, you may want to start chronicling all your best memories in your own adventure book.
#34 Fall Date Ideas: Tailgate
If you’re dating a football fan, show up for the team and make the game more memorable than any game ever! Here is a great tailgate date tutorial to get you all ready for that game day date.
#35 Fall Date Ideas: Chili Cook-off
If your loved one is a foodie and also an extrovert, why not make an ordinary Friday night into a fall tradition and start a chili cook-off with a bunch of folks?
Invite a few other couples and one person from each couple can bring their special homemade chili and the other half from each couple can act as the chili cook-off judges! Just try to stay in the spirit of thankfulness for the season (too much competition might ruin the date lol).
#36 Fall Date Ideas: Hay Ride
Sure sleigh rides are a bucket list item for winter, but for fall see if you can find a local listing for some hay rides! Tip: You want to make sure your date isn’t allergic to hay.
#37 Fall Date Ideas: Halloween Shopping
Halloween can be stressful for some people who feel pressure to get the right decorations, the perfect candy, and that never-before-seen costume. If your sweetie is stressed about the upcoming pressures of Halloween make the preparations for it into a date.
Nothing says love more than sacrifice so if you hate shopping but your date needs some help with shopping, turn it into a few hours of Saturday shopping fun.
Make a trip to a new shopping outlet, venture out to a new town, or stay home all cuddled up shopping online together! If you go the cuddle-up-shop-online route, sip some warm apple cider and use Ebates for extra savings that you can apply to more dates in the future!
#38 Fall Date Ideas: Indoor Rock Climbing
The cool autumn air might make outdoor dates harder to do, but fall is a great time to check out your local indoor rock climbing gym! This will take your fall dating life to entirely new heights!
#39 Fall Date Ideas: Make Apple Cider Floats
Sure root beer floats are awesome, but how about making things more in tune with fall by putting your chef’s hat on and making you and your date some apple cider floats that you can enjoy as you snuggle up together near the fire.
#40 Fall Date Ideas: Plan A Trip
Surprise the one who holds your heart with a trip planning date that will leave them excited for every day until you two run off together!
There are lots of feel-good emotions that happen when you plan for something exciting so get your feelings all happy and gooey and make a date of planning your next ultimate date.
Spend the evening making a list of what you’d both love to do and where you’d love to go. Research deals and options, then before the clock strikes midnight, purchase your tickets and toast with some apple cider!
The key is to agree that by the end of the date you will have your next ultimate date planned… the time crunch and deadline makes this daring and novel!
#41 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Festivals
A great way to spend a date is to attend a fall festival! Here’s a list of some of America’s best fall festivals you and your date will not want to miss!
#42 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Cruise
Yep, cruises aren’t just for summer! This fall take in the fall foliage of New England aboard a cruise ship! What a great time to see Canada for the first time too!
#43 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Bucket List
Lots of people have a bucket list for life in general, but what about a Fall Bucket List?! Spend the evening with your special someone creating a list of must-do activities for the fall. Your fall bucket list items might turn out to be the best fall date ideas ever!
#44 Fall Date Ideas: Whitewater Rafting
Sure, looking at fall leaves can be fun while on a leisurely stroll or even from the car, but some folks like to zoom by the trees while potentially getting soaked.
If you’ve been waiting for the right time to go on a whitewater adventure, fall could be the perfect date opportunity for you! Here’s a place to get your fall whitewater rafting adventure underway.
#45 Fall Date Ideas: Comedy Show
Sometimes fall can mean added stress for people as school starts up, holidays are here, and the weather gets darker. If your date could use a few laughs, head to the comedy club! Fall date ideas that make you feel better afterward are always a win!
Picture & Recipe by: Pickled Plum
#46 Fall Date Ideas: Pumpkin Dip Making
Popcorn is great, but making a new dip flavor could be a fun way to start a night of Netflix binge-watching. To add just a bit of fall into your autumn date, try making a few fall dips to try, one of which should definitely be pumpkin dip.
If you wanna lay a spread like the one pictured above, head over to Pickled Plum for the full fall recipe.
#47 Fall Date Ideas: Head Back To School
Fall can be the perfect time of year to take your date to see your old campus and maybe check out a special engagement that might be happening.
College campuses can be great for seeing a popular speaker or watching a concert.
#48 Fall Date Ideas: Decorate For Fall
Hanging the stockings with care for Christmas is totally a thing, but so can placing the pumpkins!
Instead of decorating all on your lonesome this year grab your significant other and make the fall festivities at your house a significant event.
Maybe one of you can decorate the indoors while the other takes care of the outdoors, or you both can work together putting out every skeleton and squirrel.
BTW fall lights as in Halloween lights and Thanksgiving lights are totally becoming a thing.
#49 Fall Date Ideas: Dog Sledding
Apparently, the dogs want to run through the fall leaves! If you are interested in supporting sled dogs in fall, check this out.
#50 Fall Date Ideas: Steamboat Cruise
If you have been wanting to get in touch with your inner Mark Twain or if your partner loves steamboats, this fall could be magical for you as you take in the fall leaves via a riverboat cruise.
Here’s how you can grab your seat.
#51 Fall Date Ideas: Volunteer Together
Thanksgiving is often a time of serving in soup kitchens, but there are always opportunities and reasons to help others and have fun with your date while doing so.
Head over to VolunteerMatch.org to find the perfect service match for you and your match.
#52 Fall Date Ideas: Run
Fall is a great time for running races of all lengths. If your partner has been talking about doing a 5K or dreaming of running a marathon, now is the time! Make a whole slew of dates together by training together and then running the actual race together.
#53 Fall Date Ideas: Take The Train
Riding a train is a fantasy for kids and adults alike. Amtrak makes fall scenery into a legit vacation with its Great Dome Car.
If this isn’t on your bucket list, quickly add it now!
#54 Fall Date Ideas: Hang Gliding and/or Paragliding
Oh, just go ahead and be like a bird in the trees, but the fall gorgeously colored trees! Hang out with your sweetie pie in the air and glide around like you own the air.
Here’s a place to get you up, up, up in the wild blue yonder.
#55 Fall Date Ideas: Cable Car Ride & Wine
If you are looking for a fall date idea that includes wine, adventure, and beautiful sights, here you go! Oh, come now, who doesn’t love a trolley?!
Mr. Rogers would be proud.
#56 Fall Date Ideas: Oktoberfest
The best way to spend Oktoberfest is to go to Munich, but if that can’t be arranged (although major points in the dating department if it could!) here’s a list of great Oktoberfest options in the United States.
#57 Fall Date Ideas: Drive-In Movie
Forgo the crowded theaters with uncomfortable seats. Stay in your car, with your snacks of choice, with your blankets, with your sweetie pie and watch a movie in full on fall snuggle fashion.
#58 Fall Date Ideas: Stargazing
The stars show up every night ready to put on free entertainment for those ready to take in the view. Go to a dark secluded area, bring some binoculars (your date will be super impressed you thought of every detail) and look up at the sky like a pro.
In case you want some help with what to look at, here’s a how-to stargaze guide letting you know all the sparkly details.
#59 Fall Date Ideas: PSL Hunt
For the uninformed, PSL stands for pumpkin spice latte, in other words, the hot chocolate of fall (or maybe hot cocoa is the pumpkin spice latte of winter?).
If you wanna have some fun that’s not too pricey, but totally foodie heaven, go to as many cafes as you can, order up their version of pumpkin spice latte, sip and share this special fall delight with your significant other, and by the end of this date if anyone asks where the best PSL is you will now be able to tell them.
Plus, your date will think you’re totally fun.
#60 Fall Date Ideas: ATV Through The Leaves
This is going to be a favorite fall date idea for so many folks!
Okay, who wants to ride an ATV, travel on the Hatfield and McCoy Trails, and see the fall scenery of the Appalachian Mountains?!?! This is going to be epic. Be honest, you’re already picturing yourself on that ATV, right!?
Just go here. You read that this means you can travel on Hatfield and McCoy Trails, while on an ATV, plus looking at fall foliage, right? Just double checking.
#61 Fall Date Ideas: Surprise Trip
Make your date smile with awe all the way home when you book a surprise weekend away in the woods surrounded by serene fall foliage.
Here are some top destinations for fall colors if you’re looking to stay in a hotel and here are some cabins and cottages to inspire your weekend fall adventure among the colors. Just make sure your date is free the weekend you book the trip.
#62 Fall Date Ideas: Candy, You Guess
With Halloween being a star in fall there is always tons of candy around. Grab some candy, your favorites or just leftovers from trick-or-treat day and play a candy guessing game!
One partner gets blindfolded while the other feeds them a candy piece at a time and sees how many they guess correctly! The winner should get a sweet treat for sure. If you want to be extra tricky, you can get some retro candy or candy from when they were a kid in the 80’s!
Who knew fall dates could be so sweet!?
#63 Fall Date Ideas: Halloween Party and/or Trick-Or-Treating
Sure, attending a Halloween party might be an obvious fall date option, but what about throwing a Halloween party as a couple!?
It could be your first time hosting together which can teach you all sorts of fun facts about each other’s character qualities. You could also literally dress up and go trick-or-treating!
Make your costumes so spectacular that nobody will be able to identify you, except your date of course (don’t want to lose your date on Halloween night!).
Here are some fabulous Halloween costume ideas for dogs that are all cute and not scary!
#64 Fall Date Ideas: Christmas Shopping
Sure it’s fall, but quickly following fall is Christmas and you and your partner could have a blast conquering your Christmas shopping together early and in full date style.
Make a full day event of coming up with unique gift ideas, budgeting them out together, and seeing who can find the best deals and inventions. Toss in some fall food and drinks and you will find yourself having the best Christmas shopping experience ever. Remember to use Ebates if you shop online (if your date doesn’t know about Ebates prepare to be the hero of the day).
#65 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Brunch
Get together with a few other hungry couples and make a group foodie date with a fall theme! Make sure someone is in charge of bringing the apple fritters!
#66 Fall Date Ideas: Field Of Dreams
Have you seen those awesome pictures of couples walking through fields of flowers and sunsets?
If you live out in the country or if there is a field near year, grab a blanket, a picnic basket, and spend an evening this fall dreaming of your future together while laying in a wide open field.
Just make sure you are lawfully allowed to be on the field and bring a camera for those sunset selfies.
If you want some sandwiches to bring along on your outing, you’re going to love this epic list of 150+ sandwich ideas!
#67 Fall Date Idea: Fireside Snuggle
Sometimes dates don’t have to be lavish to be amazing. Start a fire both literally and figuratively by building a fire in the fireplace and let the sparks ignite as you get all warm and cozy together.
No fireplace in your place? Good news, you can get a fireplace that is warm, super safe, and includes the glowing logs and all!
#68 Fall Date Ideas: Shoot Some Hoops
For some, fall means football, for others it means basketball. If you and your partner are of the baller type, spend your date out on the court and instead of “HORSE” play “PUMPKIN” or “AUTUMN”.
#69 Fall Date Ideas: Trader Joe’s Fall Foods
If you are a foodie and/or dating a foodie, not much more needs explaining. Grab your date by the hand, head into your nearest Trader Joe’s (if one isn’t near and you have to drive far to this date it will make it all the more magical).
Go with the clear rule that only fall foods can be purchased and they must all be consumed before the date ends. Enjoy.
#70 Fall Date Ideas: Finish New Year’s Resolutions
A great way to show your date you support them and got their best interest in mind is to help them finish the year off strong. Fall is a last chance opportunity to fulfill the resolutions you made for the year before the new year begins and you can spend all of fall filling up your date calendar making sure both you and your significant other end the year feeling like you made significant accomplishments.
#71 Fall Date Ideas: Bird Watching
If you’re dating an animal lover this will be sure to make the list of top dates ever. Here’s a great list of the best places in America to watch fall bird migrations.
#72 Fall Date Ideas: Complete a Bucket List Item
To complete goals we have to be intentional and combining a fall date with a bucket list item your special someone has been wanting to cross off their list, is the perfect way to spend a date day. This date will require some planning ahead so the week or so before have a discussion of each others’ bucket lists, and if you don’t have one, make one.
#73 Fall Date Ideas: Box Date
In case you didn’t know, subscription boxes are incredibly popular and you and your partner could have a fabulous date by ordering a box for one date or a few. Here’s a subscription box service you might want to check out.
#74 Fall Date Ideas: Plant It
While fall is often a celebration of the beautiful plants around us changing their appearance, a unique date idea that includes giving back to the environment is choosing a plant to improve the indoors or outdoors and add beauty for future fall seasons to come.
You and your partner can spend the evening researching what type of plant you want to get and then spend the next day getting your plant and planting it in its new home.
#75 Fall Date Ideas: Hit Up Groupon
Groupon has more than gifts and salon discounts, there are tons of ideas for excursions that range from adventurous to relaxing. If you aren’t sure what fall delights your location offers, a good place to hunt for them is Groupon where you can find deals for dinner and an event after.
#76 Fall Date Ideas: Book It
Reading doesn’t have to be a solo affair. One of the best ways to get to know someone is to get inside their head while reading a book. You can both read a book together, one reading out loud and the other listening or both listen to the audio version of a book, or both read a favorite book of the other. No matter how you do it, reading might turn out to be a fantastic boost in your overall communication.
#77 Fall Date Ideas: Film Festival
Sure, movies are fun, but how about an entire festival of them? Plus, if you happen to be dating a film lover or someone who secretly would love to pen a screenplay, this date is going to blow them away. Here’s a list of film festivals the experts say are totally worth it.
#78 Fall Date Ideas: Head To The Spa
While fall can be beautiful, it can also be stressful. For some, fall means starting school, or rushing to meet end of the year deadlines, or facing a holiday season that brings more sadness than joy.
If for whatever reason you or yours needs a break this fall, think about making a fall date out of a trip to the spa or a session on the massage table.
#79 Fall Date Ideas: Play In The Rain, Leaves, or Snow
Fall dates don’t have to be dictated by budgets or novelty. Perhaps what you and your someone special need is a good old-fashioned play-date with mother nature. Depending on the weather where you are, make a fall date out of the elements you are facing. Splash in some puddles, hide among the leaves, build your dream house in the snow.
#80 Fall Date Ideas: Brew It Up
Fall is a great time to visit your local brewery, check out pubs you haven’t been to yet, or try making beer yourselves for the first time! Here’s a list of fantastic fall beers to get your beer ideas brewing.
#81 Fall Date Ideas: Visit A Shelter
Having a dog is a serious commitment so before you and your special person are ready to fully commit to a special dog, spend some time at a local shelter taking care of dogs who could use some love and will demonstrate the greatest way to love in return. Before jumping into getting a pet of your own, time at the shelter will let you know which dogs you click with and what types of personalities you seem met for.
If you are dating an animal lover, there are few other acts as touching as spending your date nights not just cuddled up together, but cuddling up with those who need it most.
#82 Fall Date Ideas: Hike
Hiking is great for your mind, body, and spirit, and might just be the best thing for your relationship!
Before heading out, see what hikes in your area will offer the greatest views of fall colors and also think about places that might be dog-friendly and/or offer great photo opportunities! Here’s a list of the best fall hiking trails in the U.S. in case you want to really make your date spectacular! And here’s a top 100 list of best hikes for backpackers no matter the season.
#83 Fall Date Ideas: Farmers Market
A totally fun fall date idea can be to head out to a new-to-you-and-yours farmers market! You can pick up some seasonal produce with which you can prepare a date night feast, or you can go from booth to booth snagging up some delights to turn into an impromptu picnic!
#84 Fall Date Ideas: Look At Fall Decor
Certainly Christmas time ushers in ideas of strolling through neighborhoods checking out Christmas lights, but why not fall? You can head out early in the evening and look at neighborhood fall foliage and/or your neighbors’ outdoor decor.
#85 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Feast
Yes, Thanksgiving is coming and you might want to be ready. Plan an early fall date that involves you and yours making Thanksgiving foods that you can practice on and gobble up and not worry about pleasing the Thanksgiving crowd without having a pre-testing.
#86 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Workout
Some people get excited at any chance to workout and if you’re dating such a person, arranging a fall date of yoga among the leaves might be just the perfect way to start a day-long date. All you need is a yoga mat, your partner, and the perfect spot in the woods.
#87 Fall Date Ideas: Indoor Picnic
Yes, picnics are awesome, but sometimes they can be cold. Start up your fireplace and make a nice little indoor picnic full of fall favorites like pumpkin spice and everything nice. Bonus points for board games if you’re both into them.
#88 Fall Date Ideas: Pie Tasting
Don’t worry, no baking involved here, just eating. Go to nearby restaurants and grocery stores and farmer’s markets for extra fun, and buy up as many pies as you can carry. You and your date are allowed to dive in spoon first to any and all pies and decide which is the best.
Ice cream might be appreciated perhaps even applauded.
#89 Fall Date Ideas: Get Crafty
Instead of just collecting a bunch of cute DIY ideas on Pinterest, make some! Move those DIY someday ambitions into tonight’s date night agenda.
Choose a few favorite craft ideas and with your partner, get started early on Christmas gifts or just use the crafts as decor around your house. Fall dates can be fun, crafty, and totally great for marking things off of that DIY to-do list.
#90 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Photos
In case you haven’t noticed, pictures of couples sent out for Christmas cards is totally a thing. Get all ready for the photo card season during fall when the photo opportunities are endless. Here are some cute ideas for fall couple pictures in case you want some inspiration.
#91 Fall Date Ideas: Fall Scrabble and/or Bananagrams
Got a gamer for a better half? Play some games but change up the rules to make it more fall-friendly. Scrabble just got a little more interesting with words like “gobble” and “wishbone” and Bananagrams might turn out to be your best date idea ever.
#92 Fall Date Ideas: Sunset
Fall is more than leaves and pumpkins. There can be beautiful sunsets that aren’t too hot and aren’t too rushed, but perfect for a date to have the most romantic of evenings. Your fall date ideas spent in nature always are guaranteed to win the heart of the one you’re with.
#93 Fall Date Ideas: Sporting Event
Stadiums are packed in the fall for a reason: Sports are fun! Grab your loved one and go cheer on your favorite team together (and totally try to get on the Kiss Cam!)
#94 Fall Date Ideas: Scary Tales
Date night can become scary story night if you and your date are artsy types who can come up with a made-up scary story on the spot.
Or, for those of you story-lovers who have a hard time with spur of the moment creation, and if you’re looking for some laughs instead of some screams, play some Mad Libs with a spooky twist.
#95 Fall Date Ideas: Fair
Fall is a wonderful time to head to the fair with the one you consider oh so fair (aw!). Check out your local happenings to find out when the fair comes to your area.
#96 Fall Date Ideas: Soup & Stews
Spend one Saturday being a couple of chefs in the kitchen preparing a bunch of soups and stews and then freeze them. Instantly you have a month’s worth of dates that can be spent watching a fall movie on the couch and eating the soup and stews you made giving you that warm feeling all over.
Here are some great fall soup recipes to try and here are some stews that will make any fall more stupendous (get it… “stu…” ha!).
#97 Fall Date Ideas: Apple Cider & Donuts
Some people are meant for each other and some foods are meant to go together. No matter where you go and what you do, if you bring some apple cider and donuts the day just turned up a heck of a lot of notches.
#98 Fall Date Ideas: Camp Out
Make a commitment to spend at least one weekend this fall camping, or if you aren’t the outdoorsy type, camp in your own backyard! It’s totally a thing! You never know, your partner might say this is one of the best fall date ideas you’ve ever had!
#99 Fall Date Ideas: Walk Somewhere New
Sure HGTV is awesome, but sometimes you can house hunt in your own local area. Walk with your loved one hand-in-hand checking out a new neighborhood that has cute houses to look at and tree-lined streets showing off their colorful fall leaves in all their glory.
#100 Fall Date Ideas: Hot Tub
Has your hot tub been neglected? Or have you been looking for a reason to buy one of those awesome inflatable hot tubs?
Spend your fall nights having a date night in the tub. Aside from the obvious hot tub activities, you could play a game of truth or dare, three truths and a lie, put up a laptop nearby and watch a show at the same time, or add bubbles and rubber ducks and splish splash around.
#101 Fall Date Ideas: Letter For Thanksgiving
Sometimes you need to write down your love in words.
This year, whether you’re with your someone special for Thanksgiving or not, and while that person is in the same room as you on date night, both of you can spend your date night writing a letter to each other letting your significant other know how much you care, what it means to have them in your life, and just pour out your love for the person.
At the end of the night seal the letters and agree to both open them on the morning of Thanksgiving (like opening Christmas presents on Christmas morning). This just might be the most meaningful date you’ve ever had.
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Want another idea? For some fun food to bring on your fall date, how about making some apple fritters!?
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