Things to Do in Buckingham PA This Fall, Weekend by Weekend

If you have lived off Durham Road or along Route 202 for any length of time, you already know the outline of fall here. Scarecrows go up at Peddler's Village on Labor Day. The vineyard lawns thin out. The Apple Festival caps everything before the holiday lights.

What is different this year is the middle of the map. A landmark tavern on the Wrightstown edge of Buckingham reopened last spring under new ownership and has now been running long enough to have regulars. A ninth winery is joining the Bucks County Wine Trail this fall. Together they turn a familiar September-through-November stretch into a season worth planning again, not just showing up for.

The tavern on Mill Creek is back, and it matters

For anyone who counted the Wycombe as a default weeknight dinner before it went dark, the news is worth catching up on. The Wycombe Tavern & Grille reopened its doors on Friday as Bucks County's newest dining destination, located on the border between Buckingham and Wrightstown, spotlighting American Italian tavern fare. That opening was May 30, 2025, after the building sat closed for more than a year.

The new operators are the Diaz-Albertini family, owners of the two Casa Toro Mexican Restaurants in Coopersburg and Doylestown, who have lavished the Wycombe Tavern with some modern rustic touches, classic woods, tin ceilings, and a sparkling new lounge on the second floor with an attractive new bar handcrafted by Dean himself. The kitchen is run by Chefs Pete Jones and Kurt Saracini, and the menu leans American Italian with a from-scratch bent. The chefs smoke their own ribs, wings and chicken thighs and make their own gelatos.

The address is 1073 Mill Creek Road in Wycombe, five minutes off Route 413 and worth knowing about because it fills a gap the eastern half of the township has felt for a while. If your usual rotation has been Baci in the old Bogart's Tavern building and whichever Peddler's Village room had a table, the Wycombe now gives you a third option that is genuinely closer to home for most of Buckingham.

What the Village calendar actually looks like this fall

Peddler's Village publishes a lot. Most residents only care about the weekends when the parking lot is passable and the ones when it is not. Here is the compressed version of the 2026 fall program, pulled from the organizer's own dates rather than last year's aggregators.

The two dates that reshape a weekend are Sept. 7 through Oct. 26, Scarecrows in the Village, Peddler's Village, Lahaska, goes up Labor Day and stays through late October, free to walk, and Nov. 7 and 8, Apple Festival, Peddler's Village, the last true harvest festival of the year. Everything else is midweek programming that most locals do not realize is there. Breakfast Bingo on Sept. 10, Oct. 8 and Nov. 12, Food Truck Thursdays on Sept. 10 and 24, and an Autumn Wedding Show on Sept. 13 are all on the Village grounds and, on a Thursday, still feel like the property belongs to the people who live nearby.

For food on the Village property itself, the useful shorthand is: sit-down at Cock 'n Bull, Earl's New American, Peddler's Pub and Buttonwood Grill, quick at Mama Hawk's Kitchen & Coffee, Moku Bowls, and FresCafe, and desserts at Nina's Waffles & Ice Cream and The Lucky Cupcake Co., or a drink at Free Will Brewing Taproom, Nissley Vineyards Wine Shop & Tasting Room, Chaddsford Winery or Hewn Spirits.

A short drive up Durham Road

The vineyard question in Buckingham has always been simple. Buckingham Valley Vineyards & Winery is a family-owned enterprise dedicated to growing and making the best possible Bucks County wines, founded in 1966, one of Pennsylvania's first farm wineries and one of the largest in the Commonwealth. The address is 1521 Durham Road, and the fall answer to what to bring to a Sunday dinner has been sitting there for sixty years.

Two things are worth knowing about how they run the place. First, you will find red, white, rose, fruit, and port wines, as well as several varieties of Methode Champenoise sparkling wine, and their award-winning sparkling wine, bottle fermented in the traditional way, was selected for a James Beard Foundation annual dinner. Second, and this is the part regulars use to their advantage, they do not host weddings, parties, or large groups, and on Spring and Summer weekends, weather permitting, they frequently have live music on the front lawn. They are mainly into wine, they grow grapes, make great wine, and sell it at very reasonable prices. Translation, no bachelorette bus is going to pull up behind you. Tastings run $10 per person for five wines, and you keep the tasting glass.

The genuinely new note this year is the arrival of a ninth stop on the county wine map. The Bucks County Wine Trail today is comprised of eight members, Aviator Vineyard & Winery, Bishop Estate Vineyard and Winery, Buckingham Valley Vineyards, Crossing Vineyards and Winery, Manoff Market Cidery, Rose Bank Winery and Blind Fox Vineyard opening fall 2026. For anyone who has been running the Buckingham Valley to Rose Bank loop the same way for a decade, that is a real change to how the day can be structured.

The township's own program, quietly

The events people talk about at the coffee counter are not always the ones on the Village marquee. Buckingham Township runs its own calendar out of the parks department, and this year it opened with National Night Out at Peddler's Village on Aug. 5 at 5:00 PM, and the Summer Concert Series with End Of Innocence on Aug. 6 at 7:00 PM. The parks department's Night Market has become the mid-summer thing residents actually clear a Wednesday for.

Two other Buckingham corners worth folding into a fall weekend. The Wycombe Tavern & Grille, founded in the 1870s, after roughly a year of renovations, has soared back to life, located in the center of the so-called "Bucks Triangle" of Doylestown, Newtown, and New Hope, which puts it about ten minutes from either the Village or the vineyard. And the older classic, if you are hosting people who want the low-beam, old-stone-walls version of Buckingham, is Baci in the building dating back to 1709, one of the oldest buildings in Buckingham, with old stone walls and wood beams lining the building.

If you only have one Saturday

• Late morning at Buckingham Valley Vineyards on Durham Road for a $10 tasting and a bottle to bring home
• A slow lap through Scarecrows in the Village before the two o'clock crowd, parking on the Cock 'n Bull side of the property
• Lunch at Earl's New American or a Moku Bowl on a bench, depending on how patient the group is
• The drive back east along Mill Creek Road, dinner at the Wycombe Tavern & Grille with a reservation, because the second-floor lounge fills first on a fall Saturday

Why any of this matters if you live here

Two things reset the map of a Buckingham fall this year. The Wycombe reopening puts a proper dinner room back on the eastern edge of the township, which had been quietly missing since late 2023. Blind Fox joining the wine trail gives the Durham Road corridor a new anchor to end an afternoon on. Neither of those was true last October. If your weekend routine has felt a little thin since the Village stopped being a novelty, this is the season it stops feeling thin.

For readers thinking further ahead, Buckingham sits between the walkable pull of Doylestown and the river villages of New Hope and Lambertville, which is part of why the fall calendar layers the way it does.

If you are curious how the character of a Buckingham home, a farmhouse off a back lane, a stone house on Durham, a village-adjacent parcel, translates into the way it lives day to day, Jacqueline Haut Evans is glad to talk. Schedule a free consultation and we can sit down over the fall.