Festivals, haunted houses and very good dogs come out for sweater weather this weekend

Hayrides, festivals and haunted houses. It's all happening this weekend, just in time for sweater weather.

Here are some of your options:

FESTIVALS

APPLE SCRAPPLE / Friday, Oct. 12-Saturday, Oct. 13 / Bridgeville

We challenge you to find another festival in which politicians fling breakfast meat, plus there's a carnival, a skillet toss, a pageant and a car show.

We'll wait. 

Yes, it's time again for Bridgeville's main event, the Apple-Scrapple Festival. 

The festival starts at 4 p.m. Friday, with the food court, entertainment stage, carnival, dance with Kathie and the Hot Rods and more. 

Saturday starts at 9 a.m. and runs until 10:30 p.m., and includes everything from the mayoral scrapple sling to live music to crafters, a carnival and a lot of apples. And scrapple.

Streets in downtown Bridgeville will be open for parking on Friday, but Saturday parking will be in two fields on Main Street.

PUP-TOBERFEST / Saturday, Oct. 13, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. / Milford Crossroads

Delaware Pet Rescue's annual Pup-toberfest is for families and their very good doggos.

The 1-mile dog walk starts at 11 a.m. at Paper Mill Park (Route 72 and Polly Drummond Road). Registration for the walk is $20-$25.

But the rest of the day's events are free, so if you want to hang with other dog lovers and do some kids crafts, or play dog games and enter your pooch in a Halloween costume contest, feel free.

For more information, visit www.delawarepuppyrescue.org.

DELAWARE BEER, WINE & SPIRITS FESTIVAL / Saturday, Oct. 13, 12:30-4 p.m.

So. Many. Drinks.

The abundance of Delaware drinkmakers will be on full display Saturday when they get together for the Delaware Beer, Wine and Spirits Festival in Dover. The festival runs from 12:30 to 4 p.m. at the Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village (866 N. DuPont Highway, Dover).

This year’s event includes drinks (obviously), but also a mechanical bull, games, live music, food trucks, demonstrations and more.

Back to the beer. There are a lot of Delaware brews on tap and some from the region, too, including 2SP, 3rd Wave, Big Oyster, Blue Earl, Crooked Hammock, Dogfish Head, Evil Genius, Evolution, Flying Dog, Flying Fish, Fordham & Dominion, Heavy Seas, Midnight Oil, Mispillion River, Neshaminy Creek, RAR, Revelation, Stitch House, Stoudts, Troegs, Twin Lakes, Victory, Weyerbacher and Yards. Wine drinkers will have their choice of Harvest Ridge and Nassau Valley, and a growing number of spirits makers will be represented, including Brandywine Branch Distillers, Dogfish Head, Painted Stave, Stateside Urbancraft Vodka, Beach Time Distilling and Bluebird Distilling.

Admission is $50 (unlimited tastings), $15 for designated drivers and kids 16 and older. Children younger than 16 are free.

HAYRIDES

If you want to grab the family and jump on a wagon, you can do that this weekend.

This weekend you can take a hayride at Brandywine Creek State Park (41 Adams Dam Road, Wilmington) at 1 p.m. Saturday or Sunday. Bring a blanket and snacks (nothing alcoholic) for a 45-minute ride and then a campfire. Call 302-655-5740 for reservations by noon the day before the hayride. Admission is $7. The park offers hayrides most weekends through early November.

It’s also Harvest Weekend at the Nature Center at Lums Pond (1068 Howell School Road, Bear), where from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, there are hayrides and crafts for kids. It’s $5, and free for 2 and younger.

Below the canal you can hop on a hayride at 6 or 7 p.m. Saturday at Killens Pond State Park (5025 Killens Pond Road, Felton); call 302-284-4299 to register. Admission is $4, and park entrance fees are $4-$8 per vehicle.

Check destateparks.com for more info on hayrides, boat tours, lantern-lit hikes, stroller walks and more for fall.

Hayrides at Hagley start for the season on Saturday. They run regularly on the grounds (200 Hagley Creek Road, Wilmington) from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 28.

Admission to Hagley is $6-$15, free for children 5 and younger and members. hagley.org

HALLOWEEN / HAUNTED EVENTS

KIDS

Read & Treat 6:30-8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12. Lewes Public Library, 111 Adams Ave. Free. Ghost stories from Lewes Historical Society, fire pit, s’mores. Costumes welcome.

Science of Sorcery 6-9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12. Delaware Museum of Natural History, 4840 Kennett Pike, Wilmington. Witches and wizards are welcome to learn about potions, herbology, test their skills at magic-themed games and more. Wizard attire encouraged. $7-$12. dmnh.org

ADULTS

Shakespeare, Poe & Fiends $18. Gothic tales from Delaware Shakespeare. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, at Stone Stable, 201 Main St., Odessa; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, at Old Town Hall, 504 N. Market St., Wilmington; and 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14, at Old State House, 25 The Green, Dover.

Cirque Nevermore 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, at Ascend Flow Arts, 10 Meco Circle, Wilmington. $12. Poe stories brought to life through aerial, ground performances. With music by Liquid Assets.

Ghosts in the Graveyard Old Swedes Church, 606 Church St., Wilmington. $6-$10. Reservations required at oldswedes.org/events. Tours at 6:30, 7, 7:30 and 8 p.m. Saturdays Oct. 13 and 20.

Haunted Milford 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, Lifecycle, 10 S.E. Front St., Milford. Bike tour benefits Milford Milford Historical Society, party at Parson Thorne Mansion.

HAUNTED ATTRACTIONS (ages vary)

Cemetery House Laurel Volunteer Fire Department, 205 W. 10th St., Laurel. $10, $9 with canned good. www.cemeteryhouse.com. 7 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays through Oct. 27.

Fright Night Brecknock County Park, 80 Old Camden Road, Camden. $8. 7-10 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays through Oct. 27.

Frightland 309 Port Penn Road, St. Georges. $30-$60. frightland.com. Eight themed areas, four indoor haunted houses, 2-mile haunted hayride (involving a helicopter), the Attic, Idalia Manor, Haunted Barn, Haunted Hayride, Fear, Ghost Town, Zombie Prison and Ravenwood Cemetery. Through Nov. 3.

Nightmare’s Haunted House 10912 County Seat Road, Laurel. $13. nightmareshauntedhouse.info. Fridays, Saturdays in October, plus Halloween.

Pea Patch Paranormal Adventure Fort Delaware State Park, ferry from 45 Clinton St., Delaware City. destateparks.com/History/FortDelaware. $50. Through Oct. 27.

Slaughter House Farm 7 p.m., 32076 Gordy Road, Laurel. www.slaughterhousefarm.org. $13. Fridays, Saturdays through Oct. 27. Benefits Operation We Care and Laurel Fire Department.

Wicked Woods 2621 Sandy Bend Road, Wyoming. $15. www.facebook.com/Wicked-R-Western-Productions-Inc-256317854410065. Haunted trail 7-11 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays through Oct. 27.