Jonamac Orchard is a seasonal attraction in Malta, Illinois featuring apple picking, corn maze, and pumpkin patch.
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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.
Organ Farms, established in 1945, runs a seasonal 'Fall Country Fun' program on its McLeansboro farm each September and October. The program includes a corn maze, hayrides, bonfires, a straw fort, farm animals, and children's play areas, with weekday and evening time slots reservable for groups and weekends open to the general public. The farm also sells pumpkins, gourds, mums, and other fall decor from its retail store.
Bomke's Patch is a roughly 10-acre seasonal pumpkin farm outside Springfield with more than 50 pumpkin and gourd varieties available pre-cut or cut fresh from the vine. The farm features a corn and bean maze, wagon rides, a petting zoo, playground equipment, and an after-dark Rockin Nite Maze. Weekend special events run through the fall season.
Bengtson's Farm is a long-running fall theme park in Homer Glen, Illinois, operating since 1981. It combines a pick-your-own pumpkin patch with more than 25 rides and attractions, including mechanical rides, a petting zoo, pony rides, pig races, a haunted barn walkthrough, and multiple playgrounds.
Broom Orchard in Carlinville offers pick-your-own apples starting around Labor Day and hosts an annual Apple Festival and Pumpkin Festival with local vendors, crafts, and fall activities. The farm market sells fresh-pressed cider, jams, and honey.
Happy Times Pumpkin Fest is a fall festival at Didier Farms in Lincolnshire, Illinois, running annually from mid-September through Halloween. It features a corn maze, an animal zoo, pony and camel rides, mechanical amusement rides, and a straw maze, priced through an a-la-carte ticket system with free grounds admission and parking. A donut shop on site opens ahead of the main festival.
Goebbert's Farm Pingree Grove in Pingree Grove, Illinois offers pumpkin patch, apple orchard, and wagon ride.
Country Kids Farm Market is a farm market and pumpkin patch in Peru, Illinois, open May through October. Its fall offerings, per the operator's own site, include a roughly three-acre pumpkin and gourd patch, mums, apple cider donuts, and weekend kids' activities such as a bouncy house and a train ride.
Jones Country Gardens is a family-owned garden business near Pontiac, Illinois, that converts a wooded area each fall into 'Pumpkinland,' a walk-through of storybook character scenes. Additional farm attractions include pick-your-own pumpkins, hayrides, a straw maze, a corn maze, farm animals, and a playground area.
Von Bergen's Country Market in Hebron, Illinois, is a farm market that runs two seasonal festivals: a Sunflower Festival across 30+ acres from mid-July through fall, including two sunflower mazes, and a Pumpkin Festival from late September through Halloween with a corn maze, straw-bale maze, u-pick pumpkin area, barnyard animals, and a play area.
Fall Fest is Lincoln Park Zoo's free seasonal autumn event featuring a ticketed corn maze and hay mountain, pumpkin-patch pop-ups where visitors can pick a pumpkin, live pumpkin-carving demonstrations, a Ferris wheel, and other fall-themed activities. General zoo admission is free; the corn maze, pumpkin patch, and rides are separately ticketed. The event has run in past years from late September through early November.