Dates, prices and ages from each venue's own site. Check there before you go: weather closes these.
An early turkey trot: a chip-timed 5K and a 1-mile fun run around the school where every finisher gets a medal, for a local Girl Scout troop's projects.
A flat, chip-timed 5K run/walk finishing in Veterans Park, with a medal for every finisher 7 and under; it funds Bordentown's community events.
A Camden City School District 5K run/walk on the waterfront, open to everyone, paying for the seniors' Project Graduation celebration.
The Home and School Association's 17th annual trot, with a 5K, a walk and a kids' mile, raising money for the Jeffrey Clark and Samuel Mickle schools.
The schools' first Unified Turkey Trot, raising money for the district's Unified program, which brings students with and without disabilities together.
A neighborhood 5K capped at 200 runners, with a Toys for Tots collection; it pays for children's activities in Kings Grant.
A 5-mile run along Forbidden Drive and a 1-mile walk, for Face to Face's meals and services in Germantown; park at Chestnut Hill College, a 10-minute walk away.
A chip-timed 5K and a free 1-mile fun run in Crows Woods, with turkeys and pies for winners and cider, cocoa and muffins at the field house.
A chip-timed Thanksgiving 5K with a long-sleeve shirt for everyone; runners can add a donation to the Evesham Township Police Foundation.
The 53rd annual 5K run/walk through Medford Lakes; it pays for accessible borough buildings and beaches, and the Lions collect food for their food bank.
A low-key, untimed 5K and fun run on the high school's cross-country trails, with free snacks and a collection of breakfast foods for local students.
A family 5K in Chestnut Branch Park raising money for a local 12-and-under girls' team.
A chip-timed 5K and a 2-mile walk from the RiverWinds Community Center, with a food drive for the Greater Woodbury Cooperative Ministries food bank.
A trail 5K over dirt, grass and sand at Autumn Lake Winery, with part of the profit going to All Mutts Matter Rescue.
A timed 5K that starts and finishes at the park's gazebo, with free parking at the park.
The Greater Philadelphia YMCA's Thanksgiving race on its Navy Yard course: a chip-timed riverfront 5K and an untimed family walk, for Y financial aid.
A new 5K and 1-mile walk on Locke Ave Park's paved paths, raising money for the Walter Hill School program that rewards students' effort.
A chip-timed 5K on Wenonah's tree-lined streets and an untimed fun run, for the Children's Home Society of New Jersey; bring a canned good for the pantry.
A chip-timed 5K and 1-mile fun run in Westmont, with finisher medals and a Thanksgiving costume contest.
A chip-timed 5K through historic downtown Mount Holly, plus a family mile and a kids' mile, raising money for the town's youth recreation programs.
Philadelphia's 107th Thanksgiving parade, the country's oldest: giant balloons, floats and marching bands through Center City, live on 6abc.
A Bucks County farm festival with a wagon ride, a five-acre corn maze, farm animals, slides and a pumpkin patch.
The closing stretch of Linvilla's fall pumpkin grounds, with weekend corn and straw-bale mazes and a closing weekend of food trucks.
A hayride out to the fields to dig your own sweet potatoes and pick popcorn.
An extra closing weekend of the farm's fall festival, with corn and hay-bale mazes, pumpkin painting, barnyard animals and wagon rides.
Take a turn on the farm's hand-cranked cider press and apple peeler, and get fresh cider for helping.
Thanksgiving weekend on a working 1900-style farm: pick corn by hand and earn a hay-wagon ride with food for the donation wagon.
Longwood's fall flower show: conservatories full of chrysanthemums trained into shapes, cascades and thousand-bloom plants.
Gallery talks, artifact highlights and hands-on activities on Native American history, including a weekend workshop making a Wampanoag-style corn-husk doll.
Living history for the fort's 1777 siege: Revolutionary War soldiers and civilians, musket and cannon demonstrations, and 18th-century toys for kids to try.
A session for young children on Native dance traditions, built around the picture book Jingle Dancer, with a gallery walk and music and movement.
An evening of Lenape culture, drumming and storytelling from the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania, at Woodmere in Chestnut Hill.
A drop-in family session over Thanksgiving break: design and test your own marble run.
Free drop-in art-making: a box modeled on the museum's birch-bark boxes on Friday, a painted cardboard owl on Saturday.
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