Farms & Attractions for Classic Fall Fun in Greater Philadelphia in 2025

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) hay-bale 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 13 and 14, 2025.

September 6 – October 26, 2025

Fresh produce fills 200 acres at Highland Orchards, a working family farm in West Chester founded in 1941. During fall 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.

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.

Nothing says autumn has arrived like the appearance of the scarecrows at Bucks County play-shop-and-dine destination Peddler’s Village. This year marks the 46th annual 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 arrives at the annual Scarecrow Festival (September 13-14, 2025), with scarecrow-making workshops, pumpkin painting, live music and kids’ activities.

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 hayrides, barnyard animals, kids’ games, pedal go-cars, the Barn of Horror and a Sesame Street-themed corn maze, plus pick-your-own pumpkins, sunflowers and apples (sold separately).

When the sun goes down, the fun keeps going with bonfires, the Moonlit Maze, the not-so-scary Eerie Illuminations Halloween Light Show wagon ride, and live music on select weekends and evenings.

September 12 through November 2025

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/Adventure Farm.

Before (or after) heading out to pick one of thousands of pumpkins and gourds, guests can 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.

September 20 – October 26, 2025 (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 ages 2 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 corn maze. Pony rides are an additional fee.

September 20 – November 1, 2025 (select dates)

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 includes 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 21 – October 27, 2025 (weekends only)

Home to the super-spooky Bates Motel, Arasapha Farm in Delaware County also offers 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 with a “camping” theme for 2025 (which also includes a virtual scavenger hunt).

The fun continues with a bevy of other farm fun activities and games like an oversized bounce pillow, tractor-themed playground, mini-golf, pedal cars, a tire tower and barrel-mounted corn cannons.

September 27 – October 26, 2025 (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. Finish your visit with cider and donuts in the Cider Barn. If you are looking for a scare, check out the haunted drive-in during the month of October.

The area around Morris Arboretum was once known as “Pumpkintown” — so where better to hold the annual, month-long ArBOOretum festival? The event features the 18th annual Scarecrow Design Contest — with “Cartoon Characters” as the theme for 2025 — where visitors can vote for their faves along the scarecrow walk (with prizes!).

Don’t miss the 100-square-foot Morris Pumpkin Cottage covered in hundreds of pumpkins at the end of the gourd-and-scarecrow-lined Pumpkin Promenade.

The free Fall Festival set at the 18th-century Newlin Grist Mill in Delaware County features 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.

Don’t miss the family-friendly 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 56th year in 2025.

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 more than 30 food trucks and food stands.

Held annually for 35 years, the OPC Apple Festival was originally created as a fundraiser and community spirit-lifter after the Oxford Presbyterian Church’s devastating 1989 Memorial Day weekend fire. 2024 marked the church’s final festival, but the celebration has been revived and renamed the Oxford Harvest Festival.

For 2025, the festival has moved from Oxford Memorial Park to the larger Oxford Recreational Authority Park. The free Chester County event has become a beloved tradition that will live on — and still offer an abundance of apples. Check the official site closer to the event for more specific details.

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, and Bubbletopia with thousands of shimmering bubbles. Be sure to check out all the craft vendor booths from local artisans and pay-as-you-go food trucks.

This year marks the 52nd 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. Feel free to explore the center’s museum during the event, featuring exhibits on Mennonite faith, life in the Central Perkiomen Valley and the Fraktur gallery.

For 49 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.

Not one but two locations in the quaint Bucks County borough are sites 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.

Enjoy fall fun on the Main Line at the 13th 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 33rd annual Radnor Fall Festival just up the road in downtown Wayne a few weeks prior on September 21, 2025, from noon to 4 p.m.

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.

What better way to celebrate the pumpkin harvest than to invite artists to carve 70 giant pumpkins as festival-goers watch? The three-day, beloved Chadds Ford tradition kicks off on Thursday, October 16, 2025, when the artists get to work and the pumpkin guts fly. All pumpkins are then lit and displayed Friday, October 17, 2025, and Saturday, October 18, 2025.

The native pumpkins come from a local farm, SIW Vegetables, and weigh in at a whopping 150 to 400 pounds. There’s also a Haunted Trail, raffle prizes, live music and local vendors with pay-as-you-go food and drinks.

Pumpkinfest — a fall festival showcasing the young adults who volunteer as musical acts, artists, performers, leaders and hosts — returns to the historic TileWorks in Doylestown. 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 52nd 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.

For a Colonial-style harvest festival, head over to Montgomery County’s Peter Wentz Farmstead for the 3rd annual Harvest Festival. The farm features an 18th-century homestead showcasing Pennsylvania German culture.

For the festival, history comes alive to highlight how the fall harvest was once the most important time of the year. Meet farm animals and participate in hands-on demos about old-fashioned fall farm chores like apple cider pressing, open-hearth cooking, candle-dipping and corn shelling.

Although the event is free, the farmstead asks for donations.

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.

Back by popular demand, South Philly’s Harvest Jawn returns for year No. 2 with even more family-friendly fall fun.

Hosted by the South Philly Co-op, this block party shuts down Juniper Street between Snyder Avenue & McKean Street with food trucks, a craft fair with double the number of vendors as last year, a pie-eating contest, live music, a DJ and more.

Reading Terminal Market’s Scrapple & Apple festival returns again this year to celebrate the intersection of a Philly favorite food and a beloved fall staple. The Scrapple & Apple Festival happens 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.

Feeling competitive? Why not try your hand at scrapple sculpting?! Join other meat sculptors on Friday, October 10, 2025, from 10 a.m. to noon to design the best work of art. Two winners will walk away with a Scrapple trophy, a gift card and Reading Terminal swag. A local sculptor will choose one winner on Friday, but the public gets to vote for their favorite during Saturday’s festival.

Maze Days return again this October to Dilworth Park as City Hall’s “front yard” transforms into a Hay Maze, a fun-for-all-ages experience. Center City District presents this fall celebration that includes kids’ storytime sessions, themed happy hours in the seasonal Air Grille Beer Garden, and pumpkin carving.

On-site activities change regularly throughout the two-week harvest celebration, which kicks into full gear on Saturday, October 18, 2025, with live music, apple-cider making, and an outdoor movie screening.

Bring your little ones to Franklin Square to see it transformed into a pumpkin patch for the day. Each child can pick their very own pumpkin, decorate it, and then bring it home for Halloween and harvest season.

The event is free for children 10 and under, though space is limited. You can sign up on the website for guaranteed pumpkin picking, but there will also be a small number of walk-up tickets available until they run out.

No need to leave the city for farm fun at the annual Awbury Harvest Fest, held at the 56-acre historic property and urban farm in Germantown. The festival happens on the farm side of the property and features live music, games and activities and pay-as-you-go food and drink.

Awbury Arboretum also serves as the home base for the Philly Goat Project, and all of your favorite goats will be ready to mingle. While the event runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., the goats will make their appearance between noon and 3 p.m.