Fall in Flagstaff With Kids: Your 2026 Season Guide
Fall in Flagstaff means gold aspens, pumpkin patches, Oktoberfest, and a downtown Halloween trail. Here's how to plan the season with kids, from foliage drives to rainy-day backup plans.

Ice cream • Café • $
Super-premium small-batch ice cream made with organic and local ingredients by two Flagstaff brothers. It's the kind of ice cream that actually tastes like it was made with care. They offer catering for birthdays and can do custom ice cream cakes — handy if you're celebrating while in town. It's a $ ice cream counter at 2710 North Steves Boulevard, Suite 26, quick-service, with parking and wheelchair and stroller access, aimed at toddlers through tweens. Open Tuesday through Sunday, 2pm to 8pm — closed Mondays, and they don't open until afternoon, so this isn't a lunch-stop dessert or a Monday plan. Quick-service, so you're grabbing a cone rather than settling in for a meal — keep the outing moving.
Local tip
Bushmaster Park's playgrounds are about five minutes away. Gluten-free waffle cones are the real deal if you need them.
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2710 N Steves Blvd, Ste 26, Flagstaff, AZ 86004
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ticflagstaff.comFall in Flagstaff means gold aspens, pumpkin patches, Oktoberfest, and a downtown Halloween trail. Here's how to plan the season with kids, from foliage drives to rainy-day backup plans.
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