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Corn mazes, pumpkin patches, orchards, hayrides, and fall festivals in New Jersey.
Secor Farms in Mahwah offers a weekend corn maze, hayrides to the pumpkin patch, and a petting zoo that opens mid-September. The farm market also sells fresh produce, baked pies, and apple cider donuts daily. Online ticketing for fall field trips opens August 1.
Lentini Farms in Newton hosts a 10-acre corn maze with a new design each year, a sunflower field, and pumpkin patch during its Harvest and Fall Festivals, plus separate Friday/Saturday night haunted hayrides in October. The farm also offers food trucks and live music on event weekends.
Emery's Farm in New Egypt offers a 2-acre Treasure Hunt corn maze with a gold/silver/bronze scavenger element, a straw-bale maze for younger kids, and weekend hayrides. The farm market and bakery sell home-baked goods daily. Pets are not permitted on the property.
R and J Farm in Galloway Township offers a corn maze with in-maze 'corn cop' helpers, a hayride that includes a pumpkin, a rope maze, and a hay pit. The operator's own website could not be reached during research, so details here come from local press coverage and should be re-confirmed before publishing.
Snyder's Farm, an 80-acre preserved farm in Somerset, hosts an annual October Fall Festival with hayrides, a corn maze, a sunflower trail, and kids' activities like a pumpkin slingshot. The operator's dedicated fall-festival page could not be directly loaded during research (returned a 404), so dates should be re-verified before publishing.
A. Casola Farms in Holmdel runs a weekends-only fall festival with a corn maze, pick-your-own pumpkins, hayrides, and a petting zoo, plus a separate evening haunted hayride and haunted sunflower maze. The farm has been run by the Casola family in Holmdel for generations.
Doyle's Farm, a sixth-generation family farm in Flemington, offers guided farm tours, animal encounters, and a country store, with fall activities reported to include a corn maze, a smaller 'kinder maze,' and pumpkin picking. Corn-maze specifics were not directly confirmed on the operator's own pages during research and should be re-verified before publishing.
Argos Farm Fall Festival is a seasonal attraction in Forked River, New Jersey featuring corn maze, pumpkin picking, and pumpkin photo ops.
Happy Day Farm in Manalapan operates a 10-plus-acre corn maze with two route options, an in-maze Maize-O-Poly game, and a lookout bridge. It has been recognized as one of America's top corn mazes. The 2026 opening date and maze theme had not yet been announced by the operator at time of research.
McCann's Farm in Monroeville offers a corn maze and hayride combined with pick-your-own pumpkins, run as a small family farm operation. The operator's own website could not be fully loaded during research, so address, hours, and pricing here are drawn from a third-party farm directory and should be re-confirmed before publishing.
Bullock Farms in Cream Ridge features a 6-acre corn maze with a lookout tower, a hayride to a pick-your-own pumpkin field, and barnyard animals. The farm is closed outside its fall season and had not yet posted 2026 opening dates at time of research; dogs are not permitted.
Schaefer Farms in Flemington offers weekend hayrides to its pumpkin fields along with a corn maze and hay maze, plus a midweek corn-maze-only option in September and October. The same property also hosts the separately branded Farm of Horrors haunted attraction in the evenings.