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Plan corn mazes, pumpkin patches, orchards, hayrides, and night mazes around Chicagoland and northern Illinois.
Hays Pumpkin Farm is a self-serve, pick-your-own pumpkin patch on Route 4 just south of Auburn, associated with Auburn United Methodist Church's annual fall event. The related festival adds a child-sized hay-bale corn maze, tractor-pulled hayrides, a petting zoo, and face painting on weekends in September and October.
Goebbert's Farm Pingree Grove in Pingree Grove, Illinois offers pumpkin patch, apple orchard, and wagon ride.
Schaer Farms' Hilly Lane Pumpkins is a family pumpkin farm west of Sparland growing about 25 pumpkin varieties on roughly 5 acres alongside sunflowers, sweet corn, and other produce. Fall features include a pick-your-own pumpkin patch, a corn maze, hayrack rides, and a petting zoo, plus honey and fresh eggs. The Schaer family started the business in 2005.
Okaw Valley Orchard is a family-run apple and peach orchard near Sullivan, Illinois offering pick-your-own apples and a fall pumpkin patch, along with hayrides around the orchard and a small petting pen with goats. Admission is free, with a shaded playground, picnic areas, and an on-site bakery selling cider and cider doughnuts. The orchard also holds an annual apple festival over Columbus Day weekend.
Zaiser Pumpkin Farm is a pick-your-own and pre-picked pumpkin patch near Deer Creek offering hayrack rides, a pumpkin bounce house, and school tours. The farm sells decorative, edible, mini, and jack-o-lantern pumpkins along with corn stalks for fall decorating. It typically opens mid-September and runs daily through Halloween.