Farms & Attractions for Classic Fall Fun in Greater Philadelphia for 2026

September 5 – November 15, 2026 (weekends only)

Fresh fruits and veggies fill the 200 acres at Highland Orchards, a working family farm in West Chester founded in 1941. During fall weekends, the farm comes alive to offer pick-your-own pumpkins and apples, leisurely private hayrides, a five-acre corn maze and apple cannons. 

Stick around for food trucks, local vendors and craft brews at the Levante Brewing Beer Garden. Don’t miss a stop at the on-site farmers market to snag some farm-fresh food, especially the farm’s famous apple-cider donuts. Yum.

Know before you go: Book your private hayride ahead of a visit, with seating for up to 30 adults or 35 children. 

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 47th annual Scarecrows in the Village event. 

For eight weeks, more than 100 creative and colorful locally handmade scarecrows (ranging from silly to scary) line the grounds’ brick pathways, part of an annual competition during which you can vote for your faves on the Peddler’s Village mobile app. 

Don’t miss: The Scarecrow Festival (September 19-20, 2026), with scarecrow-making workshops, pumpkin painting, live music and kids’ activities.

Known for its popular drive-thru holiday light display, Shady Brook Farm gets into the harvest fest-spooky season mashup, too, with this fall festival, featuring corn mazes, pumpkin picking, wagon rides, Halloween lights, live music and more.

Daytime means access to old-fashioned fun across more than 25 activities, like a playground, slides, gem mining and tons more. Evenings transform the farm into the Eerie Illuminations Halloween Light Show — a fright-free wagon ride through the lighted woods.

Know before you go: Tickets are required.

The team at Hellerick’s Adventure Farm showcases agricultural ingenuity when they repurpose farm equipment for family fun as the centerpiece of their annual Fall Festival. 

Visitors can enjoy 18 acres of old-fashioned adventures with more than 40 activities, including a five-acre corn maze, a 100-foot corn chute slide, human foosball, echo tubes, and plenty of goats, sheep and chickens to meet and pet. 

Guests can also wander the fields and pick out the perfect pumpkin to bring home to carve.

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 typically 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.

Don’t miss: The annual Arts & Craft Festival season kickoff, September 12 and 13, 2026

September 19 – October 25, 2026 (Saturdays & Sundays 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, pumpkin tic-tac-toe and a corn maze. Pony rides are an additional fee.

Know before you go: Visitors can purchase a daily ticket or a season pass.

September 19 – November 1, 2026 (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 typically 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.

Know before you go: Kids ages 3 and younger can explore the corn maze for free.

September 19 – November 1, 2026 (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 five-acre corn maze that changes themes each year.

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

Know before you go: Check the farm’s official site for info about pop-up petting zoos and face painting availability.

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 the on-site Chester Springs Creamery for 50-plus flavors of homemade ice cream, each named after a cow from the farm’s herd.

September 28 – November 1, 2026

The Fintastic Pumpkin Glow fall “sea-son” event returns to Adventure Aquarium on the Delaware River waterfront in Camden. Peruse the tanks of sea creatures and discover mesmerizing collections of glowing gourds shining above the surface or illuminating the depths among sharks and stingrays. 

Highlights include an underwater pumpkin patch, a giant glowing underwater octopus, a pumpkin-faced sea turtle and a gourd-geous frog perched on a lily pad. New for 2026, visitors can play the interactive “Bones or No Bones?” game.

Know before you go: All “Fintastic” fun comes with general admission, but for an extra add-on, visitors can pick out a pumpkin to paint and take home. 

The area around Morris Arboretum was once known as “Pumpkintown” — so where better to hold the annual, month-long, pumpkin-infused ArBOOretum festival? The event features the 19th annual Scarecrow Design Contest — with a nod to America’s 250th birthday, showcasing any “70s” theme (1770s-1970s) — 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. 

Know before you go: All ArBOOretum fun comes with general admission.

October 3-25, 2026 (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 during the farm’s annual Pumpkin Festival. 

Enjoy a rotating lineup of live music as you nibble on homemade, farm-fresh bites. Then, climb aboard a tractor hayride headed to patches of pumpkins ready for picking (and available for purchase).

Know before you go: The event offers free admission and parking.

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 typically includes kids’ activities, hayrides, food trucks, craft vendors at the Colonial Market, a pop-up tavern for the grown-ups offering locally made beer and wine, and a community corner with local businesses and organizations. 

Don’t miss: Family-friendly archaeological excavations

Held annually for 35 years, the Oxford Presbyterian Church Apple Festival was originally created as a fundraiser and community spirit-lifter after the church’s devastating 1989 fire. 2024 marked the church’s final festival, but the celebration lives on as the Oxford Harvest Festival.

The free Chester County event has become a beloved tradition, offering an abundance of apples and family-friendly fun, returning again this year to the Oxford Recreational Authority Park.

Know before you go: Check the official site closer to the event for more specific details. 

The annual Yardley Harvest Day — stretching from the Bucks County borough’s downtown along Canal Street to the Delaware River waterfront — celebrates its 57th year in 2026. 

This community-wide, family-friendly event has historically featured entertainment for the whole family, including magicians, pony rides, face painting, pumpkin painting, balloon twisting, a bounce house, farm animals, live music, the Bucks County Free Library bookmobile, dozens of artisans and craft vendors, and a lineup of food trucks and food stands.

Know before you go: The event’s rain date is Saturday, September 26, 2026.

Saturday, September 19, 2026 | 4 p.m.

If you hope to find the Great Pumpkin this fall, head to Merrymead Farm in Montgomery County for the farm’s annual lighting of Merry the Great Pumpkin, the fest’s ginormous illuminated talking pumpkin.

Enjoy live music, a cornstalk tunnel and a 5-acre maze. Advance ticket purchases are a must for the event, with a limited number available. Merrymead also offers party and campfire rental space throughout the harvest season, in case you miss the kick-off event. 

Know before you go: Infants 12 months and younger can attend the lighting for free.

Join thousands of festivalgoers 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 painting, cornhole competitions, kids’ inflatables, wagon rides through the park 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.

Know before you go: Both admission and parking are free for the fest.

This year marks the 53rd 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, and then sample some traditional from-the-farm treats like freshly made scrapple, homemade apple fritters, shoofly pies and much more. Plus, feel free to explore the center’s museum during the event.

Know before you go: The Frolic happens rain or shine.

For nearly half a century, 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 homesteaders and farmers bringing their freshly harvested crops, livestock and artisanal wares into town to sell. 

Today’s modern festival typically features fine arts and crafts, eats from local restaurants and food trucks, an expansive farmers market, two stages of live music, the popular annual puppet show, contests, and Colonial-era demonstrations and reenactments. 

Know before you go: The event’s rain date is Sunday, October 4, 2026.

October 3-25, 2026 (weekends only)

Celebrate fall with more than 100 animal friends at Elmwood Park Zoo’s annual Harvest Fest, running weekends in October. 

Expect carnival games, face painting and kids’ activities set up near the zoo’s Stony Creek Stage. While you’re there, be sure to say hello to resident bison, zebras, jaguars, red pandas and otters, plus zoo stars Noah and Reggie, bald eagles who serve as live mascots of the Philadelphia Eagles. 

Plus, grownups can grab a craft beer at the Zoo Brew Bar & Beer Garden.

Know before you go: Harvest Fest access comes with zoo admission, with pay-as-you-go games and activities.

October 3-25, 2026 (select dates)

Lower Bucks County’s Snipes Farm & Education Center offers a series of fun educational programs on Saturdays this October. 

Meet local farmers and taste fresh-from-the-field samplings during the Harvest Tour (October 3, 2026), with the following week turning the focus to honey bees and beekeeping. Try your hand at archery on October 17, 2026, and wrap up the month with all-you-can-eat pie-tasting plus pumpkin painting and farm animal visits. 

Tickets are required. 

Don’t miss: The scarecrow scavenger hunt after the activity

Enjoy fall fun on the Main Line at the 14th 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 typically 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.

Don’t miss: Checking out the 34th annual Radnor Fall Festival in nearby Wayne a few weeks prior, on Sunday, September 20, 2026 

Not one but two locations in the quaint Bucks County borough are sites of the free annual Perkasie Fall Festival. The Town Center District typically offers live music, craft vendors, cornhole, pumpkin decorating, a fire truck, an inflatable maze, food trucks and more. 

A mile away, Menlo Park has historically offered a petting zoo, balloon twisting, face painting, pony rides, sand art, and two pavilions filled with fun activities like a build-your-own scarecrow contest, plus the historic Perkasie Carousel.

Know before you go: The borough provides free shuttles between the two sites.

During the annual two-day Harvest Celebration the wineries and vineyards along the Bucks County Wine Trail hold festive samplings of their award-winning wines alongside fun activities (like grape stomping!). 

Taste fresh-pressed grape juices that have not yet fermented into wine, take a hayride through the fields and see how to press apples to make cider. Seven wineries participate: Aviator Vineyard and Winery, Bishop Estate Vineyard and Winery, Blind Fox Vineyard, Buckingham Valley Vineyards, Crossing Vineyards and Winery, Manoff Market Cidery and Rose Bank Winery.

Know before you go: Each location sets its own schedule and offerings.

Celebrate the season by watching pumpkin-carving artists shape over 70 giant pumpkins into autumnal masterpieces. The three-day, beloved Chadds Ford tradition kicks off with carving on Thursday, October 15, 2026, with all pumpkins lit and displayed Friday and Saturday.

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

Know before you go: Park for free next to the Chadds Ford Historical Society. 

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. 

Know before you go: Check the official site for more information.

For a Colonial-style harvest festival, head over to Montgomery County’s Peter Wentz Farmstead for the site’s 4th 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 and candle-dipping.

Know before you go: Although the event is free, the farmstead requests a $2 donation per person.

Fall isn’t just for plump pumpkins and twisty gourds. Celebrate the original fall fruit and the end of apple harvest season at Apple Festival, one of the most popular annual events at Peddler’s Village.

Now in its 53rd 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. 

Know before you go: 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 Germantown’s historic Wyck House. 

Finish summer sweetly at this buzzy event featuring honey tastings, extraction demonstrations, a live bee-bearding exhibition (!), “hive talk” presentations from the Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild, honey extraction workshops and hands-on kids’ activities, plus a beer and mead tasting tent for the grown-ups.

Don’t miss: Taking a free tour of the Wyck House — a National Historic Landmark

Back by popular demand, South Philly’s Harvest Jawn returns for year No. 3 with even more family-friendly fall fun. 

Hosted by the South Philly Co-op, this block party shuts down Juniper Street — between Snyder Avenue and McKean Street — with nearly 30 local vendors, a variety of food trucks, a craft fair, a pie-eating contest, live music, a DJ and more. 

Expect plenty of kid-friendly activities, too, like a bounce house, pumpkin decorating, face painting and a visit from the Philly Goat Project. 

Know before you go: Harvest Jawn is free to attend, with pay-as-you-go concessions.

The Frankford Fall Festival returns this year for an afternoon of free community fun with tons of kid-approved activities like a Ferris wheel, pumpkin painting, face painting, a moon bounce, stiltwalkers and more. 

The carnival-like event pops up at the pocket Frankford Pause Park, featuring live music, vendors and family fun.

Good for: An afternoon outing with the family

Reading Terminal Market’s Scrapple & Apple fest 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 of 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.

Don’t miss: An opportunity to try your hand at scrapple sculpting