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Find corn mazes, pumpkin patches, and farm days out near you.
Brookshire Farms is billed as home to the largest corn maze on the Central Coast, a roughly 7-acre design with about four miles of trail, alongside a smaller kids' maze and a child-sized hay-bale maze. The fall festival also includes a pumpkin patch, corn cannon, tractor-pulled hayrides, and farm animals.
Harris Family Farm is a Sierra foothills farm in Pollock Pines, part of the Apple Hill growers network, offering u-pick apples and berries, farm-fresh baked goods, and a picnic area. Regional tourism guides list it among Apple Hill's pumpkin-picking farms, though this was not independently confirmed on the farm's own site.
Summers Past Farms is a herb and flower farm in the Flinn Springs area (between El Cajon and Alpine) that adds a fall pumpkin patch and children's corn maze to its year-round gardens, shops, and cafe. It also runs a spring sweet-pea maze.
Corralitos Hills Farm is a small family-owned farm in Santa Cruz County offering a weekend pumpkin patch with locally grown pumpkins and gourds, games, and a picnic area.
Tanaka Farms is an Irvine farm running a fall pumpkin patch with a corn maze designed to be approachable for young children, wagon rides past pumpkin fields, a petting zoo, and u-pick produce. The 2026 season runs September 20 through November 2, with expanded weekend Fall Harvest Festival activities including ATV rides and a pumpkin cannon.
Joan's Farm & Pumpkin Patch is a Livermore farm attraction featuring a corn maze, a themed Fort Maze play area, hayrides, a train ride, and farm animals. Pumpkins and admission are free; individual activities are ticketed separately or covered by an all-activities wristband.
Clancy's is a family-run pumpkin patch and Christmas tree lot operating within San Francisco city limits, offering pumpkins, gourds, cornstalks, a small corn/hay maze, and a hay ride each October. Admission and parking are free.
Simonian Farms is a long-running Fresno farm market that adds a small children's corn maze and pumpkin patch each fall, along with a goat-feeding area as part of its Fall Festival.
Petaluma Pumpkin Patch & A'Mazing Corn Maze is a fourth-generation family farm in Sonoma County growing about 50 varieties of pumpkins, squash, and gourds. Its centerpiece is an annually redesigned corn maze with a daytime and evening (flashlight) version, plus a smaller maze for young children, pony rides, and a petting zoo.
Spina Farms Pumpkin Patch is a South Bay farm attraction in Morgan Hill offering a corn maze, hayrides, a train ride, pumpkin blasters, and food vendors from mid-September through early November. Pumpkin patch entry is free; ride and attraction tickets are sold on-site only (no online sales). The 2026 season runs September 17 through November 2.
Live Oak Canyon markets itself as the largest pumpkin patch in Southern California, operating for 45 years with over 70 rides and attractions, a corn maze, and a petting zoo of more than 400 animals. The 2026 Fall Harvest Festival opens September 17.
Little Field Farms is a sixth-generation family farm in Placer County dating to 1857, running a Loomis pumpkin patch with a corn maze, photo opportunities, and a mini-pumpkin slingshot. The farm markets water-conservation practices, stating it preserves over 75% of the water it uses.
Lathrop's large October farm event with a giant corn maze, pumpkin patch, haunted house, hayrides, train, mini golf, slides, races, animals and pumpkin blasters.
Irvine Park Railroad operates a pumpkin patch within Irvine Regional Park in Orange, running daily throughout October with a hay maze and its signature miniature train ride through the park.
Bates Nut Farm has run a family pumpkin patch in Valley Center since 1963, with tractor hayrides, a straw maze, pony rides, a petting corral, a corn pit, and a year-round farm zoo. The confirmed 2026 season runs September 17 through October 31, and leashed dogs are welcome.
Bonita Pumpkin Farm, operated by Pumpkin Station, is a San Diego family fall attraction dating to 1999 with a pumpkin patch, sunflower fields, an 8-foot corn maze, hayrides, and a train ride. The 2026 season opens September 25 with free admission and parking.
Raisin Hell Ranch is a haunted corn-field walkthrough attraction near Madera, running as an evening Halloween-season event rather than a daytime family pumpkin patch. It operates seasonally in October with live scare actors through the cornfield.
Big Horse Corn Maze & Harvest Festival is an 11-plus-acre corn maze in Temecula run by Big Horse Feed & Mercantile each October, with a pumpkin patch, wagon rides, farm animals, and a pumpkin launcher as added attractions.
The Haunted Corn Maze at Carlsbad Strawberry Company is a Halloween-season evening walkthrough with more than 30 live scare actors and themed rooms, produced in partnership with the Agua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation. It runs Friday and Saturday nights in the fall and is recommended for ages 12 and up.
G&M Farms is an East Bay family farm in Livermore offering a seasonal corn maze alongside its pumpkin patch each fall. Visitors can also take hayrides, ride pedal carts, and visit farm animals. It has drawn regional attention over the years, including two appearances on the David Letterman Show.
Cal Poly Pomona's PumpkinFest at Kellogg Ranch is a university-run pumpkin patch billed as one of the largest in California, growing more than 70,000 pumpkins across a 10-acre field. The 2026 festival runs October 10-31, open Thursdays and Fridays afternoons and full days on weekends, with organized field trips available.
Dave's Pumpkin Patch at Vierra Farms is a working family farm in West Sacramento offering a corn maze, hayrides, a hay maze and hay pyramid, jumping pillow, and pig races each fall. Entrance to the patch is free; on-site payment for extras is cash or check only, though online ticketing and an ATM are available.
Underwood Family Farms runs its 29th Annual Fall Harvest Festival at its Moorpark location from September 26 through October 31, 2026. The event includes a two-acre corn maze, a pumpkin patch, tractor-drawn wagon rides, hay pyramids, and an animal center, with different themed activities on different weekends.
Granny's Gardens at San Marcos Ranch is a family farm north of Paso Robles offering a corn maze, pumpkin patch, pony rides, and farm animals each fall. Group reservations of 12 or more can be arranged in advance.