🍁 Fall festivals have arrived in New Jersey 🍎 There is plenty to do in September in the Garden State 🍁 Harvest fests, beer fests, and Italian feasts are just a few It’s time to welcome the “er” months. September is a great month for festivals and events in New Jersey. The weather is perfect too.

It’s not too hot. It’s not too cold. Apples, pumpkins, hay rides, flannel, and bonfires are beginning to explode onto the scene.

Here are 12 of the best and most unique September festivals in the Garden State Rock of Ages Tattoo Convention and Punk Rock Flea Market Fri. Sept. 6 – Sun Sept.

8 NJ Expo and Convention Center, 97 Sunfield Avenue, Edison Featuring more than 400 small businesses, artists, crafters, and makers as well as over 100 tattoo shops from across the country. Experience the brand new scavenger hunt. It will be open to 100 people each day.

Sign up is the day of the event. Solve fun clues for prizes including free entry to the convention for life, and two lucky winners each day will win $25 gift certificates to the gift shop. Parking is free.

NJ Taco Festival Saturday, Sept. 7 The Sussex County Fairgrounds, 37 Plains Road, Augusta Time: 10 a.m.

to 8 p.m. Immerse yourself in a day jam-packed with entertainment, competitions, live music, and of course, tacos.

There will be a burrito challenge, a spicy taco eating challenge, a pepper-eating showdown, a chihuahua beauty pageant, food vendors, bounce houses, and a margarita mix-down. Who will be crowned .