32 Farms & Attractions for Classic Fall Fun in Greater Philadelphia in 2024

Through December 1, 2024

The team at Hellerick’s Family Farm showcases agricultural ingenuity when they repurpose farm equipment for family fun as the centerpiece of their annual Fall Festival. Before (or after) heading out to pick one of thousands of pumpkins and gourds, enjoy 18 acres of fun at Adventure Farm with over 40 activities, including a five-acre corn maze, a 100-foot corn chute slide, a corn box (loose corn instead of sand!), a wagon ride, an Amish scooter track, human foosball, echo tubes, and plenty of goats, sheep and chickens. Don’t miss the fresh baked goods and cider.

The name says it all when Linvilla Orchards’ annual Pumpkinland opens for the season. The gourd gala features a slew of daytime ticketed activities like harvest hayrides around the farm, corn and (slightly harder) haybale mazes, apple blaster target shooting, pick-your-own crops, fishing in Orchard Lake, and pony and train rides. Things get spooky after dark with moonlight hayrides around the farm or to the nearby Witch’s House, ending at a campfire with cider and marshmallows. Mark your calendars for the annual Arts & Craft Festival season kickoff, September 14 and 15, 2024.

While away the hours conferrin’ with the flowers and consultin’ with the rain as Bucks County play-shop-and-dine destination Peddler’s Village presents the 45th Scarecrows in the Village event. For eight weeks, more than 100 creative and colorful locally handmade scarecrows (ranging from silly to scary, and even some famous faces) line the grounds’ brick pathways, part of an annual competition during which you can vote for your faves. The free display’s apex is the annual Scarecrow Festival (September 14-15, 2024), with scarecrow-making workshops, pumpkin painting, live music and kids’ activities.

September 13 – October 30, 2024 (select dates)

Known for its drive-thru holiday light display, Bucks County’s Shady Brook Farm gets into spooky season, too, during the family-friendly FallFest. The annual event features hay rides, barnyard animals, kids’ games, pedal go-cars, the Barn of Horror and a Peanuts-themed corn maze, plus pick-your-own pumpkins, sunflowers and apples (sold separately). When the sun goes down, head to FallFest Fun After Dark (requires a separate ticket) with bonfires, the Moonlit Maze, the not-so-scary Eerie Illuminations Halloween Light Show Wagon Ride and live music during FallFest unWINEd weekends.

September 14 – November 2, 2024 (weekends only)

Fresh produce fills 200 acres at Highland Orchards, a working family farm in West Chester founded in 1941. During Fall Harvest Weekends, the farm comes alive with pick-your-own pumpkins and apples (with free shuttles to the fields), leisurely hayrides and wagon excursions to the five-acre corn maze and apple cannons (for a small fee benefiting Philabundance). Finish at the on-site farmers market overflowing with fruits and veggies and grab a stack of famous apple-cider donuts. Stick around for food trucks, local vendors and craft brews at the Levante Brewing Beer Garden.

The newly renamed Fintastic Pumpkin Glow fall “sea-son” event returns to Adventure Aquarium on the Delaware waterfront in Camden. Peruse the tanks of sea creatures and discover mesmerizing collections of glowing gourds in every shape and size shining above the surface or illuminating the depths among sharks, stingrays and more. New this year is a nine-foot underwater octopus shaped from pumpkins, a snorkeling scarecrow watching over the underwater pumpkin patch and sensory tables featuring pumpkin slime and more. All included with general admission, plus seasonal snacks and drinks at The Marketplace café.

September 21 – October 27, 2024 (weekends only)

Home to the super-spooky Bates Motel, Arasapha Farm in Delaware County is also home to family-friendly fun during the annual Harvest Hayride days. Hop on the wagon and head out to the four-acre pumpkin garden to pick your own from hundreds of choices, then get lost in the brand-new five-acre corn maze (which also includes a virtual scavenger hunt). The fun continues with a bevy of other farm fun activities and new games like an oversized bounce pillow, tractor-themed playground, mini-golf, pedal cars, a tire tower and barrel-mounted corn cannons.

September 21 – October 27, 2024 (weekends only)

You’re never too young to get into the fall spirit, and Fall Festival Weekends at Bucks County’s Charlann Farms are tailor-made for the little ones. Every ticketed child receives a sugar pumpkin to decorate at the pumpkin-painting table before a free hayride to the pick-your-own patch (priced per pound). Kids two and up can enjoy activities like a jump pad, an autumn obstacle course, a straw maze, a corn toss, a corn pit, pumpkin tic-tac-toe and more. Pony rides and a corn maze are available for an additional fee.

September 21 – November 2, 2024 (Thursdays to Sundays)

Fall fun abounds at family-owned Lytle’s Farm, (close to the Maryland and Delaware borders in Chester County) during the Corn Maze, Pumpkin Patch and More celebration. The kid-friendly four-acre corn maze is Scooby Doo mystery-themed for 2024, complete with a maze scavenger hunt (for more fun, guess the secret word the maze is shaped as!). Then enjoy a festive hayride to the pick-your-own pumpkin patch at the 40-acre farm which dates back to the 1740s and was once owned by the family of William Penn.

September 28 – October 27, 2024 (Fridays to Sundays)

Choose your adventure at Milky Way Farm during Pumpkin Harvest. Weekends offer general admission visits with farm animals, a family-friendly cornfield maze and four acres of pickable pumpkins for purchase with a wagon hayride between patches (for an additional charge). Friday afternoons offer pumpkin patch strolls and animal visits for free, with a small fee for the corn maze. Stop by on-site Chester Springs Creamery for 48 flavors of homemade ice cream, each named after a cow from the farm’s herd.

September 28 – October 27, 2024 (select days)

It’s full-day fun on Merrymead Farm during the 41st Harvest Days in Montgomery County. Weekend afternoons encompass tractor hayrides, a 900-foot cornstalk tunnel, a pumpkin jump pad, a corn bin, kids’ trains and a five-acre butterfly corn maze (with admission), plus add-ons like paintball, gem mining, and apple blasters and slingers. Friday afternoons offer a smaller experience which also include farm animal visits, and Thursday to Saturday evenings showcase a moonlight maze and after-dark hayrides. Opening night presents “The Lighting of the Great Pumpkin” featuring the fest’s centerpiece Merry the Pumpkin, a large illuminated talking pumpkin.

September 28 – October 27, 2024 (weekends only)

Lower Bucks County’s Snipes Farm promises an authentic experience at the annual Fall Festival with seasonal fun and adorable animals. Take a gentle Belgian horse wagon ride to visit all the farm animals; explore the pick-your-own pumpkin patch and flower field; or discover the Land of the Scarecrows, the giant hay pyramid and the straw bale maze. Walk the path to the bird blind, explore the nature trail or tour the Ol’ Time Farm Museum. New for 2024: a field of “scary” animatronic monsters from the adjacent haunted drive-in. Finish with cider and donuts in the Cider Barn.

The area around Morris Arboretum was once known as “Pumpkintown” — so where better to hold the yearly ArBOOretum festival? The event features the 17th annual Scarecrow Design Contest — with “Villains” as the theme for 2024 — where visitors can vote for their faves along the scarecrow walk (with prizes up to $300), plus the 100-square-foot Morris Pumpkin Cottage covered in hundreds of pumpkins at the end of the gourd-and-scarecrow lined Pumpkin Promenade. The festival’s highlight is the Scavenger Hunt & Costume Dance Party on Thursday, October 17th, 2024, the same day design winners are announced.

October 5–27, 2024 (weekends only)

Century-old Trauger’s Farm, a 60-acre site in Bucks County, grows bushels of fresh produce every season for sale in their Farm Market. And each fall, the farm opens up for (a beer-free) Oktoberfest with horse-drawn wagon rides, kettle corn, pick-your-own flowers and a kid-friendly haunted greenhouse every October weekend, with balloon animals, farm animals, face painting, local volunteer fire trucks, caricature drawing and the beloved Chippy the Clown on select weekends (see website for details). The event is free, with pay-as-you-go food trucks and a small fee for wagon rides.

October 5–27, 2024 (weekends only)

The comically named None Such Farm Market in Buckingham, Bucks County, offers a bounty of fantastic fruits and vegetables each season. During October, visitors can come pick their own from the massive yield at Fall Festival Pumpkin Picking & Hayrides. Hit the fields aboard a tractor hayride to patches of pumpkins ready for picking (available for purchase) along with a slew of festive fall items like cornstalks, strawbales, gourds, ornamental corn and winter squash. The event is free, with a small fee for hayrides (no charge for kids two and under).

The free Fall Festival set at the 18th-century Newlin Grist Mill in Delaware County is highlighted by demonstrations of historic trade skills like candle making, woodworking and milling. But that’s far from all the fun, which also includes kids’ activities, hayrides, food trucks, craft vendors at the Colonial Market, a pop-up Tavern offering locally-made beer and wine, and a Community Corner with local businesses and organizations. New for 2024, the mill’s annual archaeology festival has been incorporated into the festival with archaeological excavations and activities and displays from local historical organizations.

The annual Yardley Harvest Day — stretching from the Bucks County borough’s downtown along Canal Street to the Delaware River waterfront— celebrates its 55th year in 2024. This community-wide, family-friendly event features kids and adult entertainment including magicians, pony rides, face painting, pumpkin painting, balloon twisting, a bounce house, friendly farm animals, live music, the Bucks County Free Library bookmobile, nearly 150 artisans and craft vendors, and over 30 food trucks and food stands.

Held annually for 35 years, the OPC Apple Festival was created as a fundraiser and community spirit-lifter after the Oxford Presbyterian Church’s devastating 1989 Memorial Day Weekend fire. The free Chester County event has blossomed into a joyous tradition where dozens and dozens of apple pies and gallons of homemade kettle-cooked apple butter for sale fill the air with that sweet autumn aroma as attendees enjoy apple-related demonstrations, live entertainment, artisan and crafter vendors, barrel train rides and pay-as-you-go food trucks.

Join over 3,000 fellow attendees for a day of joy, laughter, and togetherness at the annual free Warwick Fall Festival in Pottstown, hosted by Chester County Parks & Recreation. Celebrate the vibrant colors of fall with live music, pumpkin picking and painting, cornhole competitions, apple slingshot games, kids inflatables, wagon rides through the park, face painting, sparkling fantasy-inspired fairy hair designing and Bubbletopia with thousands of shimmering bubbles. Also check out over 35 craft vendor booths from local artisans and pay-as-you-go food trucks.

This year marks the 51st edition of the Mennonite Heritage Center’s annual Apple Butter Frolic — a fall staple in Harleysville, Montgomery County — celebrating Anabaptist/Mennonite heritage, Pennsylvania Dutch culture, and farming, food and fun. Enjoy demonstrations on how the Mennonite community lived and worked a century ago before sampling some traditional from-the-farm treats like fresh made scrapple, homemade apple fritters, shoofly pies and much more. During the event, the center’s museum is open for exploring exhibits on Mennonite faith, life in the Central Perkiomen Valley and the Fraktur gallery.

For 48 years, the borough of Newtown in Bucks County has held the free Newtown Market Day craft show and colonial fair celebrating the traditions of early American farmers and homesteaders bringing their crops, livestock and wares into town to vend. Today’s modern festival features fine artists, crafters and an expansive farmers market, plus two stages of live music, the popular annual puppet show, contests, and colonial-era demonstrations and reenactments. A full food tent features eats from local restaurants, food trucks and artisan food purveyors.

Enjoy fall fun on the Main Line at the 12th annual Fall Harvest & Great Pumpkin Patch in the Villanova section of Radnor Township, Delaware County. The Pennsylvania Recreation & Parks Society Excellence in Programming Award-winning event features fall-themed tractor rides, gem mining, mechanical bull riding, balloon twisters, music and entertainment, food trucks and refreshments and, of course, pumpkin picking and painting. And don’t miss the 32nd annual Radnor Fall Festival just up the road in downtown Wayne a few weeks prior on September 15, 2024 from noon to 4 p.m.

Not one but two locations in the quaint Bucks County borough are site of the free annual Perkasie Fall Festival. The Town Center District offers live music, craft vendors, cornhole, pumpkin decorating, a fire truck, an inflatable maze, food trucks and a pie-eating contest. A mile away, Menlo Park hosts a petting zoo, balloon twisting, face painting, pony rides, sand art, and two pavilions of fun: one with fall-themed crafts and the other a build-your-own scarecrow contest (with prizes!), plus the historic Perkasie Carousel. Free shuttles run between the two sites.

So much to do at the annual Summer Sky Fireside at beautiful Tyler Arboretum! Grab a bite and a beverage and set a spell at new outdoor picnic tables (or BYO blanket) or head inside the air conditioned Barn Loft. Check out lawn games, storytime and crafts for kids, an ice cream truck, a butterfly wing selfie stop, and tisane tea and herbal lemonade tasting stations. Or enjoy the full arboretum experience with a special 80th-anniversary history walk, a self-guided hike and education stations at Pollinator Preserve. Note: The event is free for members, with admission required otherwise.

During the annual two-day Harvest Celebration, the wineries and vineyards along the Bucks County Wine Trail not only hold festive samplings of their award-winning wines but they also host special events showcasing the wine grape growing and harvesting process. On the docket: tastings of fresh-pressed grape juices that have not yet fermented into wine. The event is celebrated at all eight member locations, including locations in Bedminster, Perkasie, Washington Crossing, Buckingham, New Hope, Newtown, Jamison and Erwinna. Inquire at individual wineries for time, pricing and tasting information.

Pumpkinfest returns to historic TileWorks in Doylestown, a fall festival showcasing the young adults who volunteer as musical acts, artists, performers, leaders and hosts. Expect craft vendors, live music and performances, food trucks, lighted jack-o’-lanterns and a trunk-or-treat event outside the former tile factory. But the showcase attraction is the pumpkin-carving contest. Take a crack at your own creation (registration required) or watch as professional carvers produce gourds of art scored by professional judges. Free tours of the TileWorks museum are also available.

Fall isn’t just for bulging pumpkins and twisty gourds. Celebrate the original fall fruit and the start of apple harvest season at Apple Festival, one of the most popular annual events at Peddler’s Village. Now in its 49th year, the event invites visitors to sip on warm apple cider, catch some live entertainment, enjoy apple-themed eats and treats, and pick up freshly picked apples by the bushel. Admission to the rain-or-shine event is free with pay-as-you-go food and drink.

Behold fall’s most important insect: the honey bee! Celebrate the significance of bees and their honey at the annual Philadelphia Honey Festival at historic Wyck House. Finish summer sweetly at this buzzy event featuring honey tastings, extraction demonstrations, Hive Talk presentations from the Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild, honey workshops, storytime, scavenger hunts, hands-on cider pressing, a beer and mead tasting tent, and a live bee-bearding exhibition. Free tours of the Wyck House — a National Historic Landmark mansion, museum, garden and urban farm which once functioned as one of America’s first breweries — are also available.

The 130-year-old Reading Terminal Market public food hall celebrates the intersection of a Philly favorite food and a beloved fall staple with the brand-new Scrapple & Apple Festival, held inside the 1.7-acre Center City landmark. Attendees to the free-to-attend, pay-as-you-go feast enjoy small bites, entrees and sweet treats — crafted by Reading Terminal Market merchants — themed around the flavors of scrapple, apples … or both! The family-friendly event also features live music and fun kids’ crafts.

Harvest weekends look a little different this year at Dilworth Park as City Hall’s “front yard” is transformed into the brand-new Maze Days. For 10 days, Center City District presents a fall celebration highlighting Greenfield Lawn’s popular annual Hay Maze, including kids’ storytime sessions, themed happy hours in the seasonal Air Grille Beer Garden, pumpkin carving and special appearances from Philly Goat Project. The festival’s two Saturday afternoons feature live music, apple cider making, a stein-hoisting contest (hosted by Broad Street Brewing), films from Not-So Silent-Cinema and bingo with prizes.

You don’t have to travel outside Center City to pick the perfect pumpkin. Bring the kids to iconic Franklin Square for the pick-your-own Pumpkin Patch, complete with event-provided pumpkins and decorating supplies to get you Halloween ready. The best part: It’s free for kids 10 and under. Come back Saturday, October 26 from 12 to 2 p.m. as the square turns into the free Trick-or-Treat Street event for the kids … with a free companion event for good doggos and puppers along Bark-or-Treat Trail, Sunday, October 27 from 12 to 2 p.m. (Capacity is limited, so advance tickets are recommended.)

Dating back to 1762, historic Fox Chase Farm was purchased by the city of Philadelphia in 1975 to serve as a demonstration farm and agricultural education center. One of just two working farms within city limits, the site celebrates the fruit of the season at the annual Applefest each October. Over 3,200 attendees gather for a day of cider pressing, apple butter making, seasonal food, games, hayrides, pumpkin painting, live music, candle dipping, potato sack races, a petting zoo and fall-themed crafts, plus plenty of pumpkins and apple cider for sale.