October and the changing of the leaves means pumpkin picking season. And hay rides and corn mazes and apple cider and whatever other awesome goods and activities local farms have to offer. Here’s 30 different farms in Northeast Ohio offering some fun fall activities..
White House Fruit Farm Fall Celebration Weekends
9249 State Rt 62, Canfield
Visit the Pumpkin Pavilion for pumpkins and fall decorations, and shop for unique gifts and fall décor in the Gift Barn. Plus, enjoy horse-drawn wagon rides, a petting zoo, pony rides, a kids play area, delicious donuts and more. Open through October 24th.
Photo via White House Fruit Farm/FacebookRufener Hilltop Farms Fall Festival
1022 SR 43, Mogadore
Navigate this 8-acre corn maze, plus enjoy farm activities like pumpkin picking, hayrides, petting zoo, shelled corn pool, train rides, a pumpkin canon and more. The Fall Festival runs through October and is open weekdays from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and weekends from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Photo via Rufener Hilltop Farms/Facebook Credit:Scene ArchivesPumpkinville
9337 Chillicothe Rd., Kirtland
Pumpkinville is open in October from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. In Kirtland, Pumpkinville has pumpkins of all sizes, mums, apples, fresh cider, corn stalks and much more.
Photo via Pumpkinville/FacebookMa & Pa’s Horse Drawn Hay Rides and Fall Harvest
15161 Main Market Rd. (Rt 422), Burton
Come for a horse-drawn hay ride through the woods. Pick a favorite pumpkin and paint a pumpkin while you’re there. Ma & Pa’s grows all colors. Hay rides include cider and a maple cookie. Rides run every Saturday and Sunday weekend through October (12 p.m. to 4 p.m.).
Photo via Scene ArchivesHoney Haven Farm Fall Festival
1327 County Road 1475, Ashland, 419-289-3384
Explore this 8-acre family-friendly daytime corn maze. Activities include horse-drawn wagon rides to the field to pick pumpkins, pumpkin slingshots, air-powered corn cannons, an indoor straw maze (for kids age 10 and under), and a small barnyard zoo. Festival runs through. October 28th, Friday-Sunday.
Photo via itsianswetlic/InstagramDerthick’s Corn Maze and Farm Experience
5182 State Route 82, Mantua
Weave your way through the corn maze. In the Farm Experience, families can pet the animals, ride a pony, and ride the bucking cow train. Visit the u-pick pumpkin patch to choose your perfect pumpkin from the field. There’s also a zip-line! Open Friday (6 p.m. to 11 p.m), Saturday (1 p.m. to 11 p.m.) and Sunday (12 p.m. to 6 p.m.) through October.
Photo via Derthick’s Farm/FacebookRockin’-R-Ranch Old West Pumpkin Fest
19066 East River Rd., Columbia Station
Rockin’-R- Ranch is Cleveland’s largest Halloween attraction. For more than 20 years, the ranch located in Columbia Station, has been entertaining people of all ages, with two distinct events every October. The Old West Pumpkin Fest by day and Spooky Ranch by night. The ranch offers pony rides, pumpkin slide, animal petting, hay rides to a pumpkin patch, face painting, an Old West Town and much more. Runs every Saturday and Sunday through October from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Photo via Lake Rockin R’ Ranch/FacebookLuther’s Farm Market Fall Fest
5150 Alger Rd., Richfield
Fall Fest is held on Saturdays and Sundays in October (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.) and features plenty of family-friendly activities, including hayrides, corn and hay mazes, games, a petting farm, and food. The most famous attraction is the pumpkin cannon. The market also offers pumpkins, corn stalks, mums, and straw bales until October 31 for fall decorating.
Photo via Luther’s Farm and Market/FacebookDeb’s Pumpkin Patch
5144 State Route 46 NE., Cortland
At Deb’s Pumpkin Patch, there are more pumpkins than you can imagine. They have pumpkins, gourds, spaghetti squash, straw, corn stalks, honey, maple syrup, homemade soaps and crafts and are open daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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4563 Riverview Rd., Peninsula
Challenge yourself in this difficult corn maze and find all eight wooden pumpkins to find your way out at this ghosts and goblins and dinosaurs and pirates themed maze. PAslo enjoy pumpkin picking, local treats and snacks, a spinning barn and more. The corn maze is open daily through the end of October from 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. Admission is $6 for the maze and a trip through the Spinning Barn (Children ages 3 and under are FREE.)
Photo via Szalay’s Farm/FacebookPickering Hill Farms Fall Festival
35669 Detroit Rd., Avon
Wander through Pickering Hill Farms’ 1-acre corn maze. Fall Festival activities also include wagon rides to the 2-acre pumpkin patch. Sip hot or cold cider and enjoy popcorn and fresh apple fritters and explore their produce market. The activities are open weekends in October, on Saturdays and Sundays (12pm-5pm).
Photo via spooky.dev/InstagramHeritage Farms Pumpkin Pandemonium
6050 Riverview Road, Peninsula
Explore a corn maze short enough for families with small children, yet challenging enough for maze enthusiasts. Activities include a pumpkin ball roll, ski ball, a bean bag toss, a scavenger hunt and harvest maze, a hayride, pumpkin picking and more. Open through Oct. 25th, hours are Monday to Friday, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The hayride and kidzone activities are only open on weekends.
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2200 Station Rd., Valley City
Explore this year’s cornfield maze. Then also check out the u-pick pumpkin patch, dress a Scarecrow game, hay pile, corn sandbox, additional mazes, animals to pet, concessions, and more. Open through October 31st. They’re open Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Photo via Beriswill Farms/Facebook Credit:Scene ArchivesDussel Farms Fall Pumpkin Festival
1109 Old Forge Rd., Brimfield
Wander through the 5-acre corn maze and a Haunted Bus through late October. On weekends, there will be face painting, caramel apples, and kettle corn as well. The entire yard is filled with thousands of pumpkins for all to pick.
Photo via Dussel Farm and Feed Store/FacebookKingsway Pumpkin Farm
1555 Andrews St. NE, Hartville
Enjoy a tractor-pulled wagon ride to the pumpkin patch, interactive corn maze, animals, many children’s activities and games, and more. Wagon rides run daily through October, Monday through Satuday from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Photo via Kingsway Pumpkin Farm/FacebookMapleside Farms Pumpkin Village
294 Pearl Rd., Brunswick
Get lost in a 7-acre corn maze (one of the biggest and best in the Midwest), take a tour of the orchard in cow and pig trains, enjoy a scenic hayride, rocket down the longest slide in America when you ride the 311 foot “Super Slide,” and bounce on Ohio’s largest “Jumping Pillow” in the jump park. Open weekends from through the end of October on Saturdays (10 a.m.-7 p.m.), and Sundays (10 a.m.-6 p.m.).
Photo via Mapleside Farms/FacebookRamseyer Farms
3488 Akron Rd., Wooster
Enjoy two giant corn mazes, straw maze, rope maze, pedal cart maze, and several other mazes, as well as hayrides through the farm, pedal carts, corn wagon, music garden, and many more family-friendly fun activities. The fun events run through October.
Photo via Ramseyer Farms/FacebookSirna’s Farm Fall Festival
19009 Ravenna Rd., Chagrin Falls
Fall harvest activities include educational hayrides, an animal farm, pony rides, fall harvest and decor, a pumpkin patch, free popcorn, seasonal produce, and more. Open October 2nd-3rd and 9th-10th from noon to 4 p.m.
Photo via Sirna’s Farm/FacebookMaize Valley
6193 Edison St., NE., Hartville
At this brewery, farm, vineyard and winery, they have a fun fall outing for all ages. Activities include food concessions, an animal train ride, a wagon ride, duck races, a pumpkin cannon, a pumpkin jump pad, a hoola hoop round up, a straw bale mountain and much more. There’s also a corn maze, pumpkin patch and gem mine. The 2021 theme is ‘Stayin Alive’. Starting Monday, October 4th, fall activities will be open Thursday through Monday from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. through October 30th.
Photo via Maize Valley/FacebookDonald A. Schuster’s Greenhouse
8638 Murray Ridge Rd., Elyria
At Schuster’s Greenhouse in Elyria, there’s a ton of family fun like a petting zoo, a children’s “spooky” maze, a pumpkin theater, Uncle Ed’s Mining Company, hayrides, pumpkins and much more. Open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. with pumpkin picking daily and hayrides and family fun on the weekends.
Photo via Donald A. Schuster’s Greenhouse/FacebookDetwiler Farm Fall Festival
4520 Renkenberger Rd., Columbiana
Take a 15-minute hayride to the 10-acre u-pick pumpkin patch. Weave your way through a 4-acre cornfield maze, explore the indoor straw maze, and get up close and personal with the animals in the petting zoo. Open Saturday and Sunday from 11a.m.-5p.m. through October.
Photo viaKuchta Farms Pumpkin Patch
1555 Andrews St. NE, Hartville
This family-owned farm is offering white pumpkins, blue pumpkins, large and swan gourds for your fall decorating. Enjoy a corn maze plus the new and improved Adventure Zone with a hay mountain, two corn pits, hop balls, rail rollers, human foosball, Goatville, tug-of-war, straw stackers, corn hole, hay stackers, plastic duck races and more. Pick-your-own pumpkins are available daily and hayrides to the pumpkin patch are available on Saturdays (10 a.m.-7 p.m.) and Sundays (1 p.m.-6 p.m.). Daily hours are Monday-Friday (3:30 p.m.-7p.m.). Open through the end of October.
Photo via Scene Archives Credit: Scene ArchivesRed Wagon Farm Pumpkin Festival
16801 East River Rd. (Route 252), Columbia Station
Red Wagon Farm is a family-owned and operated farm located in Lorain County. Throughout the year you can purchase a wide variety of local fruits and vegetables at their farm market. During the fall season, everyone is invited out to their annual Pumpkin Festival to enjoy the wonderful fall activities through the end of October. The festival takes place on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and includes a 5-acre corn maze, a sunflower field, pumpkin patch, wagon rides, a kids play area, family games and much more.
Photo viaBoyert’s Greenhouse & Farm Fall Family Hayrides
4557 Paradise Rd., Seville
Pumpkin picking is back at Boyert’s Farm in Seville after taking 2020 off. Enjoy the gift shop and garden center after picking your own pumpkins.
Photo via Boyert’s Greenhouse and Farm/FacebookBrasee’s Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch
18421 State Route 58, Wellington
Search the 8-acre corn maze to find hidden stamps for a candy prize. Visit the u-pick pumpkin patch, and enjoy hayrides, kids mazes, pitch black straw maze, petting zoo, bounce house, straw slide, and corn pit. Open through Oct. 31st on Fridays (4 to 10 p.m.), Saturdays (11 a.m. to 10 p.m.), and Sundays (11 a.m. to 6 p.m.). Flashlights are mandatory at dusk.
Photo via Brasee’s Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch/FacebookSunrise Farms Fall Festival
13115 Kinsman Rd., Burton
Pick-your-own pumpkins right from the patch. Enjoy freshly made hot apple fritters, caramel apples and pure apple cider from the Sunrise Farms kitchen. Open every weekend in October.
Photo via Sunrise Farm/FacebookLake Metroparks Farmpark Corn and Pumpkin Festival
8800 Euclid Chardon Rd., Kirtland
“Stalk” through this 3-acre corn maze daily through October 17th from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. In addition to the daily corn maze, two Corn and Pumpkin weekends are taking place on October 9th-10th and 16th-17th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. You can help husk, shell and grind the corn plus make homemade corn husk dolls and paint pumpkins.
Photo via Lake Metroparks Farm/FacebookGuyette Farms Fall Fun
10833 Chamberlain Rd., Mantua
Explore a corn maze short enough for families with small children, yet challenging enough for maze enthusiasts. Activities include round bale obstacle course, small bale maze, a corn box slide, animals, hayride, a launching pad, 40 and 80 feet slides and gourd golf. Open through October 31st on Saturdays (noon-7 p.m.) and Sundays (noon-5 p.m.).
Photo via Guyette Farms Credit: Scene ArchivesPatterson Fruit Farm
8765 Mulberry Road Farm, Chesterland, (440) 729-9809
Located in Geauga County, Patterson Fruit Farm has something for everyone and fall is an especially fun time on the farm. Guests are invited to pick apples, enjoy farm-themed fun, navigate the corn maze, take a horse drawn wagon ride and more. Family Fun Fest is open through November 1st.
Photo via Scene Archives Credit: Scene ArchivesRegal Vineyards Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch
2678 Countyline Rd., Madison
The 8-acre corn maze is back with a Welcome Back theme after closing for 2020. Guests that complete the maze have the opportunity to win a prize. Corn Maze/Family Fun Days feature hay rides, pick-your-own pumpkins, an 8-acre corn maze, farm animals and more than 27 activities for all ages to enjoy. Plus, there is a Haunted Winery & Haunted Corn Maze. Open on Saturdays (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.) and Sundays (noon to 6 p.m.), from through Oct. 27th.
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