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🎃UPDATED: Pumpkin Patches and other Fall Activities 🎃

Hayrides, Animal Farms, and Mazes too

By Jessica Kline, Publisher and Editor Macaroni Kid Clifton-Montclair September 21, 2024

PUMPKIN, APPLE PICKING, ANIMALS, & HAYRIDE FUN, OH MY!
*Also offers apple picking

Nearby Farms


Fairfield Farms
973-227-1011
Fairfield

  • Hayrides - Weekdays 1:30-5:30pm & Weekends 10:00-5:30pm
  • Pumpkin picking, maze, pumpkin slingshot, human hampster roll, and more.
  • Additional local produce is available.

Farms View Roadstand
Check Facebook for updates
973-839-1212
Wayne

  • Visit with animals.
  • The farm market/garden center is open.
  • Option to pick pumpkin from where they are grown with a hayride to field.

Richfield Farms
Check Facebook for updates
732-462-0756

Clifton

  • The best part about coming to Richfield Farms, we are close!! During Halloween, we also carry farm-fresh baked goods, including pies, bread, and cider donuts.
  • Did you know we survived the Depression, War, and now Pandemic? Check out the NY Times article here.

Farms > 1 hour away


Abma's Farm
Check Facebook for updates
201-891-0278
Wyckoff & Hillsborough

  • Closed on Sundays.
  • Hayride, Pumpkin Picking, and Petting Zoo event! 

Alstede Farms
Check Facebook for updates
908-879-7189
Chester

  • Find out what additional produce is available to pick here.

Demarest Farm
Check Facebook for updates
201-666-0472
Hillsdale

  • Pick your own pumpkins.
  • Apple picking.

Ort Farms
Check Facebook for updates
908-876-3351
Long Valley

  • 🌽 Corn Maze through Nov 3
    Hayrides to the Pumpkin Patch (Weekends 9:30-5:00 and Weekends 11:00-6:00).
  •  🎃 Pumpkin Picking through Nov 3.
  • Weekends 10-5 Only:
    Pony Rides, Face Painting, Live Music, Food Vendors, Cow Train Rides, Apple Cannon, & Monster Truck Rides.
  • Apple picking.

Sun High Orchards
Check Facebook for updates
(973) 584-4734
Randolph

  • Hayrides and more.
  • Apple picking.

Wightman Farms
Check Facebook for updates
(973) 425-9819
Morristown


More to check out:

Not sure what to do with all of those apples? Check out how to make apple pie in a paper bag here or applesauce here!

*Call and/or check each farm's local Facebook page to confirm they are open, weather and stock availability permitted.