Walk into Somers General Store this month and you'll find three different flyers pinned to the community board, none of them mentioning the other two. One is for a car show at the Towne Center. One is for a trail race at a county-owned farm. One is a hand-lettered notice about a weekly nature walk that starts at a garden most people only associate with the holiday train display. They're all happening within a few weeks of each other, all inside Somers town lines, and none of the three organizations running them appears to know, or at least advertise, that the others exist.
That's not a coincidence. It's how fall actually works here. Somers doesn't have one events calendar. It has three, run by three completely separate organizations that don't cross-post, don't share a newsletter, and don't seem to coordinate dates. If you only follow one, which is what most residents do by default, you're getting a third of what the town is actually doing this season.
The Three Calendars Nobody Merged
Here's the split, laid out plainly:
| Runs the calendar | Where it happens | What's on it this fall | How you'd actually hear about it | |---|---|---| | Westchester County / Friends of Muscoot | Muscoot Farm, Route 100 | Fall Run the Farm race, Sunday farmers market through November | The farm's own event calendar or the race's own site | | Somers Chamber of Commerce | Somers Towne Center | Celebrate Somers car show and vendor day | Chamber mailing list, flyers at member businesses | | Friends of Lasdon Park & Arboretum | Lasdon Park, Route 35 | Weekly autumn walks, Veterans Museum, Chinese Friendship Pavilion grounds | The Friends group's own site, separate from the county parks page |
Three different institutions, three different audiences, and three different definitions of what counts as a Somers fall weekend. None of them owe the others a mention. That's just how a town this size ends up organized when its farm is county property, its downtown fair is chamber-run, and its arboretum is programmed by an all-volunteer friends group instead of a parks department calendar.
The Farm Keeps County Time
Muscoot Farm has been agricultural land since the Hopkins family ran it as a working dairy farm starting in 1880, and they kept milking cows there well into the twentieth century before Westchester County took over the property in the late 1960s. It was renamed in 2016 to honor Alfred B. DelBello, the county executive who helped preserve it as an interactive farm rather than letting it get sold off for development.
That history matters this fall because of two dates. The first is ongoing: the farm's Sunday farmers market, which opened for the 2026 season on May 10 and keeps running every Sunday through November, typically from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. That gives residents a solid run of fall Sundays left to catch it, not just one or two closing weekends.
The second is October 25, when Muscoot hosts the fall running of Run the Farm, a 5-mile trail race with two age-bracketed kids' races starting at 8:30 and 8:45 a.m., followed by the main run at 9:30. This will be the 15th time the fall race has run, and the 18th Run the Farm event overall counting the spring races. One detail that trips up newcomers every year: no dogs are allowed on the course, not even friendly ones, because the farm's livestock spook easily around unfamiliar animals. Service dogs trained to a task are the only exception. Finishers earn "Farm Bucks" they can spend at the market that same morning, and whatever's left after covering race costs goes to Friends of Muscoot, the Art in the Parks program, and the Somers Volunteer Fire Department.
None of this shows up on the Chamber's radar or the Friends of Lasdon calendar. It's Westchester County's show, running on Westchester County's schedule.
The Towne Center Keeps Chamber Time
A few miles away, the Somers Chamber of Commerce runs its own fall centerpiece: Celebrate Somers, a Saturday car show and community fair at Somers Towne Center. This year's date on the Chamber's calendar is September 26, later this month. In past years the format has been consistent: a 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. window with a car show, food trucks, live music, dance performances, and a stretch of the main road through the center closed for the day so vendor booths can line the street.
What makes this one worth tracking isn't the car show itself, it's who shows up as a vendor. Past years' sponsor lists read like a cross-section of the town's actual working businesses: Somers General Store, Mamma Rosa Ristorante, Triple C Bakery, Sweetie Pies, Fade Factory Barbershop, Penny Lane Dance Academy, Progressive Animal Hospital, the Somers Lions Club, and the Somers Volunteer Fire Department, alongside civic groups like Keep Somers Beautiful and Friends of Lasdon Park. It's less a festival than a once-a-year census of who's actually running storefronts in this town, which is a different kind of useful than a farm calendar or a nature walk schedule.
Lasdon Keeps Its Own Time Entirely
Then there's Lasdon Park and Arboretum, 234 acres on Route 35 that most residents know as the place with the holiday train display in December, which means they miss what it's doing every other season. The park is open daily, but closes at 4 p.m. year-round, a detail that catches visitors off guard when they show up at 3:45 expecting an evening stroll through the Chinese Friendship Pavilion or past the Veterans Museum.
The Friends of Lasdon Park, the all-volunteer nonprofit that actually programs the grounds, run their own recurring fall series: a weekly guided walk built around noticing the season change, plus rotating workshops on gardening, painting, and nature observation through the property's woodlands and formal gardens. None of it appears on the county parks system's general listings. You have to go to the Friends group's own site to see what week's walk is coming up, which is exactly the kind of thing that gets missed if your fall planning starts and ends with the Chamber's flyer or the farm's race registration page.
What the Three Calendars Add Up To This Fall
Put together, a resident who wants to actually use Somers this season, rather than half of it, ends up with a short, specific list rather than one big date to circle:
- September 26: Celebrate Somers at the Towne Center, the one Saturday a year you'll see this many local businesses in one place
- Sundays through November: the Muscoot Farm market, with plenty of weekends still ahead this fall
- October 25: Fall Run the Farm, leave the dog at home
- Ongoing: the Friends of Lasdon's weekly autumn walks, worth checking their own site directly since the county page won't tell you
None of these four things talk to each other on paper. All four are happening within roughly six weeks, run by a county parks department, a volunteer chamber, and a garden-focused nonprofit that each built their own small piece of the season without much reason to coordinate with the others.
That's the actual shape of a Somers fall. Not one calendar, three of them, each doing its own thing at its own pace, and most residents only ever plug into the one that happens to cross their path first.
If any of this has you thinking about what your own Somers property is worth heading into the fall market, or what it would take to find the right next home in a town that clearly doesn't run on one simple schedule, Christine Ryan at Hudson Valley Real Estate knows this area well enough to help you make sense of it. Schedule your free consultation whenever you're ready to talk specifics.
