Get out your sweaters and bundle up the kids for orchard hayrides, apple cider, pumpkin carving, and more this autumn! Click through our Interactive Orchard Map or scroll to get to know each location and plan your autumn adventure.

Barnard’s Orchard

1079 Wawaset Road, Kennett Square

If you are looking for a big old orchard with well-known, and heirloom varieties of apples for picking, this is the place for you! This fourth-generation, family orchard also runs a great fall farm stand with ample amounts of produce, flowers, fresh cider, apples, and pumpkins. Fall hours are typically Monday through Saturday 9 am–6 pm and Sundays, 9:30 am–5:30 pm. Be sure to check out their Facebook page for the most up-to-date hours.

Highland Orchards

1000 Marshalton Thorndale Road, West Chester

Highland Orchards has all of your fall fun cravings. You’ll find everything from apple and pumpkin picking, to hayrides, farm animals, and even beer gardens! Keep an eye out for family fun like the corn maze and food trucks on weekends. Check their pick-your-own schedule for apples and pumpkins in September and October. While you’re there, make sure to check out their market and bakery, featuring fresh baked goods, a unique selection of local produce, dairy, bakery items, and other local goods.

Indian Orchards Farm

29 Copes Lane, Media

Indian Orchards has all of your fall produce needs, which are sustainably-grown, non-GMO, and chemical and pesticide-free. Pick your own is open 10 am–6 pm daily, beginning in September for apples, and in October for pumpkins. See their schedule for a full list of their organic crops that are in season. You can also come back in December for Christmas trees! There is a $3.50 per person admission fee (plus pay for what you pick). The farm stand is also open if you want to buy more fresh produce, plus honey and sustainably-harvested firewood.

Johnson’s Corner Farm

133 Church Road, Medford, NJ

Johnson’s Corner is a place for planting seeds and harvesting memories! Their Fall Harvest begins in early September and runs until the end of October. Every weekend, Johnson’s Corner will host Harvest Festivals, featuring live music, food tents, gem mining, and duck racing, plus the discovery barnyard and animal farm. Wagon rides to their fields and orchards for apples and pumpkins will run from 10–5 pm daily. On the weekends you can go through the corn maze and take a sunflower stroll. There are so many opportunities for fun memories! Fall Harvest Hayride and Pick Your Own require advance ticket purchase. Starting in November, their sweet potatoes, popping corn, broccoli and cauliflower hayrides will begin. As for the timing, it will be Monday through Friday 10–1 pm, and Saturday and Sunday 10–3 pm.

Linvilla Orchards

137 West Knowlton Road, Media

Welcome to Pumpkinland — open September through early November. The iconic autumn experience for local natives, Linvilla Orchards has it all for fall: 20 varieties of apples to pick, Pumpkin Harvest Weekends, a hay bale maze, three-acre cornfield maze, train rides during the week, pony rides, an incredible playground, a beer garden, barnyard animals, and so much more. Don’t miss the pies, cider, and many goodies in the apple mart! Put the Apple Festival on your calendar for September 28, 2024. If you’re planning on picking your own crops at Linvilla Orchards, remember to register in advance!

Milky Way Farm

521 Uwchlan Avenue, Chester Springs

This year at Milky Way Farm, Pumpkin Harvest Season will run weekends September 28–October 27, 2024, from 10 am–5 pm (make sure to buy your $5 general admission tickets in advance). With each person’s $5 ticket, you may wander through the corn maze, take family photos, visit the farm animals, and stroll the pumpkin patches. You may also purchase an additional $4 hayride ticket per person and hop on a hayrides to a different pumpkin patch. While at the farm, be sure to try their farm-fresh ice cream and hit the market for pumpkins, gourds, Indian corn, and other fall harvest themed goods. To carry all of your goodies, you are encouraged to bring your own wagon! On Fridays, during Pumpkin Harvest Season, visitors are invited to visit from 3–5pm to purchase pumpkins, walk to the patch, and visit farm animals. Families can also purchase tickets to go through a corn maze as well.

Solebury Orchards

3325 Creamery Road, New Hope

Set in the picturesque countryside of Bucks County, Solebury Orchards invites you for apple picking during weekends in September, October, and the first weekend of November. Reservations are required for apple picking on weekends in September and October; fee is $2.50 per person. No reservations are needed for picking on Thursday and Friday. There are so many varieties, like Empire and Crimson Crisp, and much more in the farm market, plus apple and fruit butters and more! Open to visitors Thursdays through Sundays from 9 am–6 pm. Pick-your-own is open rain or shine.

Styer Orchard

97 Styers Lane, Langhorne

Looking to pick farm fresh apples and pumpkins? This is your place! There are so many options to chose from, with apples being their specialty. They provide hayrides to and from the pumpkin patch and the orchards. In their barn, they have mums, cornstalks, straw, and amazing items for the fall season! They are open Tuesdays though Sundays, 9–6 pm. Keep an eye on their Facebook page to find out when their market opens!

Sugartown Strawberries

650 Sugartown Road, Malvern

Come visit the pumpkin patch at Sugartown Strawberries! In 2024, pumpkin picking runs late September through October 29. You will ride a tractor-drawn wagon out to the pumpkin patch, which run continuously every weekend in October from 11 am to 4:45 pm. Hayrides also run throughout the month of October on weekends. Get lost for a while in the hay bale maze and when you emerge, visit the Country Store for mini pumpkins, Sugartown Strawberries, honey, and more!

Weaver’s Orchard

40 Fruit Lane, Morgantown

Weaver’s Orchard, established in 1932, is a pick-your-own farm, market, and events destination. Weaver’s boasts so many varieties of apples and pumpkins, plus many other fruits you may never heard of! Fall Festival Days take place on Saturdays, mid-September to the end of October, plus Columbus Day and occasional Friday afternoons (see schedule). Festival Days feature food, hay rides, pick-your-own fruit, live music, and activities like a corn maze, obstacle courses, face painting, and lots more! There is no general admission or parking fee; rather each activity can be purchased with tickets. Weaver’s Orchard is open Monday to Friday 8 am–6 pm, Saturday 8 am–5 pm.

Sarah Heyman contributed to this article. Lead photo courtesy of Johnson’s Corner Farm.

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