Illinois seasonal attraction guide

Plan corn mazes, pumpkin patches, orchards, hayrides, and night mazes around Chicagoland and northern Illinois.

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Jonamac Orchard

Malta, Illinois · Friday daytime activity wristband 5 USD (Includes Friday daytime corn-maze access, 12:00-17:30.)

Jonamac Orchard is a seasonal attraction in Malta, Illinois featuring apple picking, corn maze, and pumpkin patch.

Opens Sep 5Apple pickingCorn mazePumpkin patch
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Aurora, Illinois

Abbey Farms is a family-run agritourism farm in Aurora operated in connection with Marmion Abbey, offering an 8-acre corn maze billed as Kane County's largest, a pumpkin patch, zip lines, a tractor tire hill, a petting zoo, and food and drink at the Nagel Farmstead Emporium. The seasonal Pumpkin Daze event has run since the farm first opened to the public in 1949. This listing's operator website could not be fetched directly during research; details are corroborated via official Aurora and Illinois tourism listings.

Corn mazePick your own pumpkinsPetting zoo
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Patch 22

Wadsworth, Illinois · Vehicle entry (incl. petting farm); Pony rides; Animal feed

Patch 22 is a small, family-run working farm in Wadsworth, Illinois, offering pony rides, hayrides, and a petting farm with goats, sheep, bunnies, and other animals. In fall the farm sells thousands of farm-grown pumpkins in a variety of sizes and types. It operates on a limited schedule, mainly Sundays in warmer months and weekends in October.

Pony ridesPetting zooHayrides
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Grafton, Illinois · Pick-your-own pumpkins

Eckert's Grafton Farm is a pick-your-own fruit farm on the Mississippi River bluffs near Grafton, Illinois, part of the regional Eckert's family farm chain. Fall offerings include a pumpkin patch sold by the pound plus a field access pass, pick-your-own apples, a Kids' Corral petting area, and festival weekends with wagon rides and live music. The farm and country store are open Tuesday through Sunday, 9am-5pm.

Pick your own pumpkinsPick your own applesPick your own peaches
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Beecher, Illinois

Settlers Pond is a fall pumpkin patch and family fun park in Beecher operated by Settlers Pond Hooved Animal Shelter & Rescue as a fundraiser for its animal rescue work. Attractions include pick-your-own pumpkins, an indoor petting zoo, straw and corn mazes, mini golf, carnival rides, a haunted house, and wildlife exhibits featuring tortoises and reptiles. Proceeds support the shelter's ongoing rescue operations.

Pick your own pumpkinsPetting zooHayrides
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Speer, Illinois · U-Pick apples admission 5 USD; Corn maze admission 8 USD; Season pass 45 USD

Tanner's Orchard is a fourth-generation family apple orchard near Speer with over 11,000 trees. Beyond u-pick apples and pumpkins, the farm offers a seasonal sunflower field, a corn maze, wagon rides to the orchard, and the Back 40 Fun Acres area with farm animals. A farm market and bakery sell cider donuts and other baked goods, and leashed dogs are welcome for a $10 fee.

Apple pickingPick your own pumpkinsCorn maze
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Elmwood, Illinois

Christ Orchard is a family-run apple orchard and pumpkin patch north of Elmwood that has operated since the 1970s. Visitors can pick their own apples and pumpkins and enjoy a corn maze, rope maze, petting zoo, playground, mini golf, and pony rides. The farm also sells fresh apple cider, honey, mums, and other fall produce, open daily except Sundays from August through the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Apple pickingPick your own pumpkinsCorn maze
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Huntley, Illinois · Pumpkins (any size); Hayrides; Admission & parking

Dave's Pumpkins is a seasonal pumpkin patch in rural Huntley, Illinois, offering flat-rate $9 pumpkins of any size along with free hayrides, pumpkin bowling, pumpkin checkers, pedal tractors, a mini sunflower maze, and cider donuts. Admission and parking are free, and the farm is open only during the fall season.

Pick your own pumpkinsHayridesPlayground
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Quincy, Illinois

Mill Creek Farm is a family farm east of Quincy, Illinois that has grown produce since 1995 using high-tunnel methods. In fall it opens a corn maze built as a family scavenger hunt, a pumpkin patch, and complimentary hayrides on weekends from late September through October, with free admission.

Corn mazePumpkin patchHayrides
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Rock Falls, Illinois

Selmi's Greenhouse & Family Farm in Rock Falls offers a fall experience with a corn maze, pumpkin picking, a petting zoo, hayrides, a haunted house, and apple cider donuts. The family-owned farm operates through September and October.

Corn mazePumpkin patchPetting zoo
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Benton, Illinois · Admission (ages 13 and under) 8 USD; Admission (ages 14 and over) 1 USD

Breezy Hill Farm is a family-oriented farm near Benton offering pumpkins, mums, and a General Store alongside fall attractions. On-site activities include hayrides, a petting zoo, corn and straw mazes, a gemstone mining sluice, and duck races. The farm operates seasonally each fall, generally through the end of October.

Corn mazeHayridesPetting zoo
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Belleville, Illinois

Eckert's Belleville Farm is the flagship of the long-running Eckert's agritourism family, offering pumpkin picking, hayrides, a sunflower trail, and 'Jack's Lighted Trail' during the fall season. Orchard and sunflower loop trails operate through much of the year.

Pick your own pumpkinsSunflower fieldHayrides