Pumpkin Patches and Fall Farm Days Near Baltimore (2026)

The farms below run every year. Their dates do not hold still. Our seasonal events hub is the current list, carrying fall festivals, pumpkin patches, harvest days and one-day town events across the Baltimore area as they get announced. Start here to see what is scheduled for the weekend you actually have free, then use the entries below to decide which one fits your kids.

A petting farm with the storybook figures rescued from the old Enchanted Forest park, plus pony rides, hayrides and a pumpkin patch open from the third week of September into early November. Everything is sized and paced for small kids, which makes it the gentlest option here and the one most likely to bore a fourth grader. Ticketed themed weekends run ahead of the patch, including a mid-September princess pumpkin party with pumpkin painting and full petting-farm access.

Weber's opens its fall season on the second weekend of September with the Johnny Appleseed Festival, now in its fifty-first year, then runs Fall Harvest Days into early November. It is a working farm and market first with the fall attractions layered on top, so a visit mixes cider and shopping with the kid activities. Parkville sits right on the northeast city line, the closest real farm on this list for a lot of Baltimore County and city families.

An orchard rather than a festival, and in the fall the apple picking is the activity. There is also a petting zoo, market, bakery and restaurant, so the day is slower than an attraction farm rather than shorter. Organized groups book fall picking dates, so an early-September weekend can be busier than the word orchard suggests. It sits up in Carroll County, outside the counties we usually cover, and earns the drive when apples rather than pumpkins are the point.

Gaver's Fall Fun Festival opens in the first week of September and runs to the start of November. A seven-acre corn maze, giant slides, a zipline, pedal karts and jumping pillows all sit inside the same admission, which makes it the one on this list for a car full of different ages. It sits out in Frederick County, past the counties we normally cover, so treat it as a destination day rather than a Saturday errand.

A one-day fall festival and fundraiser at the Baltimore Humane Society in mid-October, built around a play, walk, run and hike on the shelter's own grounds rather than around rides and a pumpkin field. The shelter is the host and every registration goes to animal care. A good option when the kids want a fall event and you would rather be moving around outside than standing in a parking line.

A studio workshop in the city where you make a glass pumpkin instead of picking one. Sessions run on set dates in October and again in early November, and it is a booked, ticketed workshop rather than a drop-in. This is the answer for a rainy October Saturday, or for a family that has done the farm circuit three years running and wants the season without the drive.

Not a pumpkin patch, and we are including it anyway. The city's nature center runs small outdoor programs across September and October, including family nature hikes, an evening bat walk and an outdoor nature storytime, and for a city family that wants the season without a highway, it is the closest thing to a fall morning outside. It is a walk in the woods with a job attached rather than a festival.