Cox Farms is the best fall festival in a hundred-mile radius of Washington, D.C. It’s the Inn at Little Washington of fall fests.

Not unlike its analogous restaurant, the allure of Cox Farms is not its majesty or opulence but its delightful humor. Little touches here and there of well-placed whimsy justify this “farm” that sits on about a trillion dollars’ worth of suburban terrain. If the choices are farm, condos, and a corn maze… I’ll take the corn maze.

And hayrides and apple cider donuts.

Not exactly the Inn at Little Washington, but you get the idea.