Last updated: 2026 | Originally published: October 7, 2023

Fall in New York means finding your way to a pumpkin patch, and the good news is you rarely have to leave the five boroughs to do it. Every borough has at least one working patch, and if you are willing to drive an hour or two into New Jersey or Long Island, the options multiply into full farm days with hayrides, corn mazes, and cider donuts attached.

This is the full 2026 guide: 18 pumpkin patches organized by borough and by how far you are willing to drive, each verified for this season. A few things have changed since last year, most notably where you will find Greg’s Great Pumpkin Patch, so check the specifics even if you have been to a spot before.

Pumpkin Patches in Brooklyn

1. Green Meadows Farm

📍 Location: 3159 Flatbush Avenue — Marine Park, Brooklyn | 🌐 Website: Green Meadows Farm

Green Meadows Farm has run its pumpkin weekends inside Aviator Sports and Events Center for more than a decade, and the appeal has stayed consistent: hayrides, ten different tractors kids can climb on, a hay wagon slide, and a petting zoo stocked with alpacas, goats, pigs, and rabbits. A talking cow named Lola remains the unofficial mascot.

Admission runs $14 per person for ages two and up and includes a free pumpkin from the patch. Pumpkin picking runs from September 19 through November 8 + October 12, with reservation tables available for a more hands-on animal encounter.

2. Greg’s Great Pumpkin Patch at Greenwood Park

📍 Location: Greenwood Park Beer Garden, 555 7th Avenue — Park Slope/Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn | 🌐 Website: Greg’s Great Pumpkin Patch

This one has moved. Greg’s Great Pumpkin Patch spent 2023 at Pollyn in Williamsburg, but construction on the waterfront pushed the operation to Greenwood Park Beer Garden starting in 2024, where it has stayed since. Gregory Walsh, who has run holiday pop-ups across the city for more than three decades, brings in thousands of pumpkins in every shape and cultivar, from rare Porcelain Dolls to teeny Baby Boos, alongside gourds, mums, and Halloween decor.

The beer garden setting means there is a real adult side to this one too: a doggie costume contest, pumpkin painting, and a hay maze for small children round out the family activities. Free to browse; pumpkins priced individually. Starts October 1, 2026.

3. Halloween Harvest in Luna Park

📍 Location: 1000 Surf Avenue — Coney Island, Brooklyn | 🌐 Website: Halloween Harvest

Luna Park’s Halloween Harvest is less a pumpkin patch than a full amusement park leaning into the season, and it has run every fall for over a decade. Rides stay open through the celebration, joined by pumpkin decorating, tractor racing, trick-or-treating stations, and fall-flavored versions of the park’s usual funnel cakes and cotton candy.

The season runs from September 18 through November 1 on weekends, holidays, and select weekdays. Prices: Luna Boardwalk Day Pass for 48 inches & above is $89.99; Luna Boardwalk Day Pass for below 48 inches is $59.99. Luna Midway Day Pass for 48 inches & above is $54.99; Luna Midway Day Pass for below 48 inches is $49.99.

Pumpkin Patches in Manhattan

4. Pumpkin Point in Nolan Park

📍 Location: Nolan Park — Governors Island, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: Pumpkin Point

Governors Island’s Pumpkin Point brings thousands of pumpkins to the historic houses of Nolan Park, free with a suggested donation, alongside trick-or-treating at the park’s historic homes, live folk music, and fall-themed food from the island’s regular vendors. It is one of the more atmospheric pumpkin patches on this list simply because of the setting.

Worth noting: the event has run on two full weekends in past years but narrowed to a single weekend in 2025 [October 25–26]. Plan around one visit rather than two this year, and check the ferry schedule since special event boats often run from Red Hook and Brooklyn Bridge Park in addition to the regular route. This year, the event runs on October 24 & 25, 2026.

5. Harvest Festival at Carl Schurz Park

📍 Location: East End Avenue & East 88th Street — Upper East Side, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: Harvest Festival

This is a smaller, neighborhood-scale event rather than a full patch: a single afternoon where visitors can pick and decorate a gourd while supplies last, wander a short spooky trail, and get a face painted at the park playground, with a live musical set closing things out.

It is a good option if you want something low-commitment and close to the Upper East Side rather than a farm trip. Supplies are limited, so an early arrival matters more here than almost anywhere else on this list. The annual Harvest Festival is on October 18, 2026, 1 PM–3 PM.

Pumpkin Patches in Queens

6. Queens Botanical Garden

📍 Location: 43-50 Main Street — Flushing, Queens | 🌐 Website: Queens Botanical Garden

The Botanical Garden’s farm fields turn over to a harvest theme on fall weekends, with sugar pumpkins and gourds spread through the grounds, seed-planting activities, and a costumed-character meet-and-greet for younger kids. There is also a cash bar for anyone 21 and up, pouring seasonal beer and cider, which is not something every pumpkin patch on this list can say.

The garden’s regular admission applies. Bring your own pumpkin and join Pumpkin Smash for free on November 1, 11 AM–3 PM. RSVP is recommended.

7. Queens County Farm Museum

📍 Location: 73-50 Little Neck Parkway — Queens | 🌐 Website: Queens County Farm Museum

Queens Farm has worked this same 47-acre plot continuously since 1697, making it one of the oldest working farms in the state, and October remains its busiest month: a corn maze cut fresh each year in a new design, tractor-drawn hayrides, and a donut and cider booth that regulars build the whole visit around.

Admission to the farm itself is free; pumpkins are priced by size, and the corn maze and hayride each carry their own small fee. Cash is preferred for most on-site purchases.

The Pumpkin Patch runs the full month of October. Weekdays: 1 PM–5 PM; weekends: 10 AM–5 PM. It is open exclusively on October 3 & 4 for Agriculture Fair ticket holders, and October 31 to Halloween on the Farm ticket holders.

Pumpkin Patches in Staten Island

8. Decker Farm

📍 Location: 435 Richmond Hill Road — Historic Richmond Town, Staten Island | 🌐 Website: Decker Farm

Decker Farm has operated continuously since 1810, making it the oldest continuously worked family farm on this list. Set inside Historic Richmond Town, the October weekends bring a tractor-drawn hayride, a pumpkin-chucking bungee throw, and a gourd-painting station, all against a backdrop of the neighborhood’s colonial-era buildings.

October weekend hours, including the second Monday: Pumpkin Picking at Decker Farm runs from October 3 through October 25, 12 PM–5 PM.

9. Greenside Up Garden Center

📍 Location: 3334 Amboy Road — Staten Island | 🌐 Website: Greenside Up Garden Center

Greenside Up runs its pumpkin patch daily through October 31, with face painting and a bounce house added on weekends, and one of the more well-regarded corn mazes on Staten Island. After dark on Fridays and Saturdays, the garden center runs a separate haunted attraction and corn maze aimed at older kids and teens, ticketed apart from the daytime pumpkin patch.

Daytime pumpkin picking is free to browse; the nighttime haunted attraction has separate admission. Open daily from noon to 6 PM on weekdays and 10 AM to 5 PM on weekends.

Pumpkin Farms Within Two Hours of NYC

These trade a subway ride for a car, but each one turns pumpkin picking into a full-day trip—apple orchards, corn mazes, and farm stands included.

10. Harvest Moon Farm and Orchard

📍 Location: 130 Hardscrabble Road — North Salem, New York [about 90 minutes by car] | 🌐 Website: Harvest Moon Farm and Orchard

Harvest Moon pairs its pumpkin patch with apple picking, live music, and vintage-style al fresco dining built around farm-fresh eggs and locally sourced meat. It leans into the full-day-out format more than most on this list, so plan on breakfast on arrival and a barbecue lunch if you are staying past noon.

Reachable by Metro-North with a short cab from Croton Falls station if you would rather skip the drive. The Harvest Moon’s Fall Festival runs through November 1, 2026, 9 AM–5 PM.

11. Outhouse Orchards 

📍 Location: 139 Hardscrabble Road — North Salem, New York [about 90 minutes by car] | 🌐 Website: Outhouse Orchards

Outhouse Orchards’ pumpkin patch comes with a decoration kit for building a proper jack-o’-lantern on-site, plus a corn maze that hands out a route map with clues rather than leaving you to wander blind. Apple picking runs alongside it for as long as the season allows, with Macintosh, peaches, and pears also available.

Weekdays are walk-in; weekend visits benefit from a reservation. Like Harvest Moon, it is reachable by Metro-North with a short cab from Croton Falls. Fall Festival runs through November 1, 2026. Weekdays: 10 AM–6 PM; weekends: 9 AM–5 PM.

12. Demarest Farms

📍 Location: 244 Werimus Road — Hillsdale, New Jersey [about an hour by car] | 🌐 Website: Demarest Farms

Demarest Farms’ 2026 Pick Your Own Pumpkins season opens September 26, with online reservations required in advance; no tickets are sold at the gate. Beyond the patch, the farm runs a petting zoo, a 10,000-square-foot farm market, and, after dark, a guided vehicle tour through 32 acres lit for a Halloween light show.

General admission is a single price covering parking, patch access, and playground time; hayrides run on select days. Book online before you go.

13. F&W Schmitt’s Family Farm

📍 Location: 26 Pinelawn Road — Melville, New York [about an hour by car] | 🌐 Website: F&W Schmitt’s Family Farm

Schmitt’s runs pumpkin picking and hayrides alongside pony rides, a playground, and mini-golf on weekends through Columbus Day, with a haunted house and corn trail lighting up after dark on Fridays through Sundays for anyone chasing an actual scare. A gentler daytime version without actors runs on weekends for younger kids.

The farm stand sells carving kits and decorations alongside produce. The Annual Fall Festival runs through October 31, 2026.

14. Soons Orchards

📍 Location: 23 Soons Circle — New Hampton, New York [about 90 minutes by car] | 🌐 Website: Soons Orchards

Soons keeps things simple: no reservations, no parking fee, no admission cost. You pay only for the pumpkins you pick, priced by weight and size, with a wagon hayride included for the views. The farm store rounds things out with baked goods and snacks if you skip packing lunch.

U-Pick Pumpkins fall weekends start from September 19 through the last weekend of October, including Columbus Day.

15. Secor Farms

📍 Location: 85 Airmont Avenue — Mahwah, New Jersey [about 90 minutes by car] | 🌐 Website: Secor Farms

Secor’s hayride runs through willow trees and flower beds on the way to the pumpkin patch and corn maze; visitors can pick pumpkins and snap photos at the farm’s picture-perfect spots. Please note: pumpkins are not included with admission; they cost $0.75 per pound. The petting zoo and front pumpkin patch are open to the public for free on weekdays except holidays.

The season runs from September 12 through November 1; weekday visits are the better bet for avoiding crowds on the public hayride, 3 PM–4:30 PM.

16. Alstede Farms

📍 Location: 1 Alstede Farms Lane — Chester, New Jersey [about 90 minutes by car] | 🌐 Website: Alstede Farms

Alstede’s 600 acres run a full pick-your-own program from mid-September into November, with the pumpkin patch joined by a themed corn maze [accessible by day with every ticket, or after dark as part of the farm’s Harvest Moon Nights hayride on weekends]. A sunflower trail and an in-house winery and cider mill for the 21-and-up crowd round things out.

Buy tickets online ahead of a weekend visit; the farm’s own calendar has the most current pricing and hours.

17. Elwood Pumpkin Farm

📍 Location: 1500 East Jericho Turnpike — Huntington, New York [about an hour by car] | 🌐 Website: Elwood Pumpkin Farm

Elwood is a smaller, family-run operation on the western end of Long Island, with a vegetable garden, a kid-sized corn maze, and a wagon ride to the pumpkin patch itself. It sits on the same grounds as a working Christmas tree farm, which becomes obvious the moment the trees start appearing in the background of your pumpkin photos.

Weekday hours run from 3 PM to 5 PM; weekends 10 AM to 5 PM, starting in early October. Cash only—no credit cards accepted.

18. Hank’s Pumpkintown

📍 Location: 240 Montauk Highway — Water Mill, New York [about two hours by car] | 🌐 Website: Hank’s Pumpkintown

Hank’s Pumpkintown is open for its 2026 season through November 1, spread across more than 16 acres on the way into the Hamptons. Three separate corn mazes, gem mining, and a lineup of hand-dipped caramel apples and cider donuts make this one worth the longer drive if you are planning a full day rather than a quick stop.

Pumpkin and apple picking are charged per pound; the maze park and pumpkin picking run seven days a week, with apple picking limited to weekends and school holidays. No pets allowed on the property.

Planning Your Pumpkin Patch Day

Twenty patches, five boroughs, and a stretch into New Jersey and Long Island for anyone willing to make a day of it. Whichever one you pick, call ahead or check the farm’s own site before you go—hours and availability shift with the weather and the stock on hand, especially closer to Halloween weekend.