MazeScoutYour guide to outdoor fun
Corn mazes, pumpkin patches, orchards, hayrides, and fall festivals in California.
Swank Farms is a Hollister farm operating since 1928 that hosts an October Fall Festival built around a large corn maze, drawing an estimated 30,000-plus annual visitors. The farm also runs a nighttime haunted attraction called Terror in the Corn during the season and supplies produce to Bay Area farmers markets and restaurants year-round.
Visalia pumpkin patch and corn maze with daytime and evening hours, hayrides, rides, vendors and selected Field of Screams nights.
Half Moon Bay working farm and fall pumpkin destination with hay, pony and train rides, a petting zoo, children's play areas, a haunted house and seasonal food.
High Hill Ranch is a large, long-running Apple Hill farm near Placerville known for apple picking, a bakery, and family fall activities including pumpkins. It is described by the Apple Hill Growers Association as the region's largest and most-visited ranch.
Forneris Farms is a San Fernando Valley farm market in Mission Hills that adds an autumn-themed corn maze, a pumpkin patch, and a train ride each October. The market operates on a cash-only basis and does not allow pets; produce is sold at the market counter rather than self-harvested.
Anderson working farm's fall festival with pumpkins, daytime and haunted corn mazes, flower fields, farm animals, rides, trains, food and live entertainment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Free-admission city pumpkin station in the Plaza Bonita parking lot with individually priced pumpkins, mechanical rides for young children, slides, inflatables, a petting zoo and play center.
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.