20+ Adorable Fall Festivals in Tampa Bay for Kids
Ahhh–it’s fall, y’all! Even if it doesn’t quite feel like it outside, our favorite fall festivals in Tampa Bay will help put you into the spirit of the season. Get ready to inhale as much pumpkin spice as you can get your hands on! But don’t wait – some of them are ending this weekend!
Our top picks list has festivals on the farm, fall festivals with pumpkin patches in Tampa Bay, and of course, plenty of fall festivals with Insta-worthy photo opportunities to capture those forever memories!
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Updated October 2024
Featured Event
Watermelon Swim’s Annual Fall Festival & Pumpkin Patch
- Pumpkin Patch: October 4 – 24, 2024
- Fall Festival: Saturday, October 19, from 4 pm-7 pm
- Location: 19509 N Dale Mabry Hwy and 3703 W McKay Ave
Get ready for pumpkin season in Tampa Bay! Watermelon Swim’s annual Pumpkin Patch opens on October 4, offering a variety of perfect pumpkins at four locations. Lutz and South Tampa have large outdoor patches, while Wesley Chapel and Riverview offer cozy indoor setups. Each location boasts charming fall photo spots for your family to capture the spirit. Admission is free, and they are open from 8 am to 8 pm throughout October. A portion of the proceeds benefits their swim programs including the swimmers with disabilities program. Join them on October 19 for their FREE Fall Festival at Lutz and South Tampa, featuring trunk-or-treating, games, food trucks, and more.
The Best Fall Festivals in Tampa Bay for Kids
Events are listed in order of event start date.
Harvest Holler Pumpkin Patch in Polk City
- September 20 – November 17, 2024
- Location: 950 Tavares Rd., Polk City, FL 33868 – about 30 min east of Tampa
- Cost: $17 for ages 13-64, $14 for ages 2-12, seniors 65+, and active-duty military
It’s an easy ride from Tampa – just about a half hour east on I-4 – and suddenly you’re at Farmer Jerry and his family’s Harvest Holler Farm. Come out for a fun fall tradition and stroll the fields of this year’s corn maze and pumpkin patch at Harvest Holler Farm, a working family farm! You can explore the pumpkin patch, go on a hayride, enjoy some country eats, meet live farm animals, and more! There’s also a cow train, corn hole, and many more activities.
Raprager Family Farm Fall Pumpkin Patch
- September 20 – November 3, 2024, Fridays: 4pm-9pm, Saturdays: 9am-10pm & Sundays: 9am-8pm
- Location: 16907 Boy Scout Rd, Odessa, FL, 33556
- Cost: $16.95 when purchased in advance for ages 3 and up, children 2 and under are free. Parking is free.
Raprager Family Farm’s Fall Festival is BACK for 2024 with even more fall fun on the farm! Attractions this year include axe throwing, pumpkin painting, a 900ft inflatable maze, a baby cow, and more. The haunted barn is back along with the hay rides, petting zoo, hay chute slide, and other favorites. The farm is kid-friendly all day but does get scarier after 6:00 p.m.
HarvestMoon Farm Pumpkin Patch
- September 28-November 3, 2024. Open Wednesday-Friday from 10 am-2 pm and then Sat-Sun: 10 am-5 pm. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
- Location: 15990 Stur St., Masaryktown, FL 34604
- Cost: $12.95 weekdays and $15.95 weekends, ages 3 and up
You’ll want to pre-purchase a ticket online to secure your spot to navigate the 5-acre corn maze, explore the many attractions like a cow train, pedal cars, jumping pillow, and barnyard games. There’s also a petting farm and tree house. Bring some extra cash in case the little ones decide they want to participate in gem mining or even pick out their own pumpkins in the pumpkin patch! They even host a Haunted Nights Nights event for $24.95 on select nights.
16th Annual Sweetfields Farm Fall Pumpkin Patch
- September 28 – November 3, 2024
- Location: 17250 Benes Roush Rd. Masaryktown, FL 34604
- Cost: $13.28 3 and up, 2 and under are free
Come out for corn maze fun at Sweetfields Farm in Masaryktown, but stay for the Pitcher Pump Duck Race, hayride, pumpkin patch, farm animals and free craft of the season. Buy your tickets ahead of time to secure your spot because this event often sells out. This year’s maze design is inspired by the new farm dog who you just might meet during your visit to Sweetfields! This event often sells out, so you will need to pre-purchase your tickets to secure your spot.
13th Annual Fox Squirrel Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch
- September 28 – October 27, 2024, Sat-Sun: 10 am-5 pm
- Location: 6151 Varn Road, Plant City, FL 33565 (NEW LOCATION this year!)
- Cost: $12. Ages 3 and under are FREE
Take part in exciting, family-friendly fall games and activities during the annual Fox Squirrel Corn Maze! Navigate the corn maze and see how quickly and you can find your way through and then go check out the duck races, challenge your kids to a game of corn hole, go on a hayride, and select the perfect pumpkin for your front porch in Tampa!
Dade City Farms at Lake Iola Fall Festival
- September 28 – November 2, 2024, Saturdays 10 am-5 pm and Sundays 10 am-4 pm
- Location: 17187 Lake Iola Road, Dade City
- Cost: Adults are $12, Kids ages 3-12 are $9 and kids 0-2 are free
Dade City Farms at Lake Iola’s Fall Festival features so many awesome family-friendly activities including a corn maze, jump pad, pumpkin patch, hamster wheel racers, petting zoo, u-pick sunflowers, and so much more. You can also add on experiences like gem mining and face painting.
Kerby’s Nursery Pumpkin Patch in Seffner
- Open daily from September 28 – October 31, 2024
- Location: 2311 S. Parsons Avenue, Seffner
Kerby’s Nursery has a variety of beautiful pumpkins to select from including Cinderella, gladiator, jack-be-little, and more! Enjoy a scarecrow treasure hunt and free decorating seminars. While you’re there, be sure to snap a photo in front of the pumpkin wall!
DK Festival Farm Pumpkin Patch and Festival
- Daily from October 1 – October 27, 2024
- Location: 1750 Lake Ave SE, Largo, FL 33771
- Cost: $10 weekdays/$15 weekend
Explore and pick up a pumpkin at their patch, take a hayride, and enjoy the great fall decorations or hang with some new friends at the petting zoo. There’s a ton more to do and lots of fun for the whole family.
Shimmering Lights Fall Festival
- Select nights October 3 – 27, 2024
- Location: 2302 N. Dover Rd, Dover, FL 33527
- Cost: $9 for Thursday and Sunday and $9.50 for Friday and Saturday, ages 4 and up
This is a unique way to celebrate the fall season on the farm! Sun Kisses Acres is teaming up with Nights of Shimmering Lights to create a 1/3 mile walk-through trail featuring beautiful lights, music, games, hay rides, pumpkin patches, a foam play area on select nights, and more! The light trail is not-so-scary and suitable for kids of all ages! *The walking trail is not suitable or accessible for wheelchairs or strollers.
22nd Annual Brooksville Pumpkin Patch and Fall Festival
- Weekends from October 4 – October 27, 2024
- Location: 475 North Avenue West, Brooksville, FL 34601
- Cost: entry is free
The Brooksville farm has hundreds, if not thousands of pumpkins–to choose from! The farm says most of their pumpkin deliveries are a few days off the vine, so they should last you through the holiday…and maybe even grab some cute ones for decor for Thanksgiving. They also have food vendors, produce, a petting zoo, a bounce house, games, and more.
Fruitville Grove Pumpkin Patch Festival
- Every weekend from October 5 – October 27, 2024 Sat-Sun: 10 am-5 pm
- Location: 7410 Fruitville Road, Sarasota, 34240
- Cost: $5 parking, admission is free. Activities range from $1-$10
A quick hop down to Sarasota to check out Fruitville Grove’s 35th Annual Pumpkin Patch Festival might be just the change of pace and scenery you and your bunch of little pumpkins need! Held every weekend throughout October, it includes fun family-friendly activities, a butterfly garden, pony rides, a family circus, and of course, a Pumpkin Patch! There will be a children’s costume contest every Saturday at 2 pm.
Lum’s Fall Festival
- October 5-6, 12-13, 19-20, 26-27, 2024
- Location: 4898 James Redman Pkwy., Plant City
- Cost: $8 per person
During the weekend of October 19-20, there will no charge. The event will be donation-based only.
Enjoy fun for the whole family like a petting zoo, inflatables, vendors, hay rides, food and desserts, games, and more! All activities included in the purchase of a wristband. While you’re there, you can also pick up some goods from their seasonal farmer’s market.
Corky’s Pumpkin Patch at Keel Farms
- Every Saturday and Sunday in October
- Location: 1603 Hawks Griffin Road, Plant City, FL 33565
- Cost: Free
Keel Farms in Plant City is hosting this second annual pumpkin patch event in Tampa Bay that will feature a four-acre corn maze for you and the kids to navigate as you find hidden clues and solve a riddle with the rooster mascot, Corky and pals. There is also a pumpkin patch, hayrides, kids zone, camel rides, and more! Taking place in conjunction with Keel Farms Harvest Days.
The weekend of October 26-27 will be dedicated to supporting and uplifting Plant City. Keel Farms will be collecting non-perishable food items and donating proceeds from pumpkin sales to the Plant City Food Bank.
HorsePower for Kids and Animal Sanctuary 15th Annual Fall Festival Fundraiser
- October 19 – 27, and November 2 – 3, 2024 on Saturdays and Sundays from 11am – 5pm
- Location: 8005 Racetrack Rd., Tampa, FL 33635
- Cost: $15 admission, $1 parking
Bring the family out for a day of fun, while supporting a non-profit animal sanctuary right outside the Westchase area. The festival includes pony, train and hayrides, as well as farm animals. Fall games and bon fire, which includes marshmallows. Proceeds go to the animal rescue and sanctuary.
Springtime Agventure Farm Fall Pumpkin Patch and Haunted Walk
Through October 12 – 27, 2024 on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 am-4 pm
Location: 18150 Commonwealth Ave N., Polk City, FL
Cost: $14 per person ages 3 and older.
OVER 20 ACTIVITIES INCLUDED WITH THE ALL DAY PASS, 200 animals that you can hold touch, and feed (Food to feed animals included) Pumpkin Patch, 1 FREE Pumpkin per Family (While Supplies Last), Petting Farm, a 70-foot jumping Pillows, Inflatable Slides, Bounce House, Haunted Trail, Bird Aviary, a Scavenger Hunt and more. Lots of New Activities. FREE PARKING.
Fall Festival at Funville Farm
- Dates: October 19-November 3, 2024
- Location: 13725 Hudson Ave, Hudson
- Cost: $12 per person
Enjoy activities like a mountain slide, barrel train, jumping pillow, animal feeding, pirate playground, a hay ride and more! There will also be a pumpkin patch to pick the perfect pumpkin.
33rd Annual Hunsader Farms Pumpkin Patch Festival
Dates: October 19 – 27, 2024 on Saturdays and Sundays from 9 am-5 pm
Location: 5500 C.R. 675, Bradenton, FL 34211
Cost: $15 for ages 11 and up, children under 10 are free. $5 for parking (cash only)
Make the drive south of Tampa Bay to experience the 32nd annual Pumpkin Patch Festival on select weekends in October. There will be hayrides, a petting zoo, games, a pumpkin patch, and more! The main attraction is the corn maze which is an additional $2 per person. Make sure to bring cash for other cool activities like a children’s train ride, Butterfly Experience, zip line, and more!
Pumpkin Patch Express (Florida Railroad Museum)
- October 19 – 20, 26 – 27, 2024 at various times | Tickets are on sale now
- 12210 83rd St East Parrish, FL 34219
- Cost: Tickets start at $16.99
The Florida Railroad Museum is calling “all aboard” for young and old train enthusiasts as you embark on the Pumpkin Patch Express to a field full of pumpkins to pick, as well as kid-friendly activities on your 2.5-hour journey. Children are invited to pick their own pumpkin to take home. Everyone is also invited to participate in other crafts and activities.
- Friday, October 25 from 5:30-9:30 pm
- Location: 11901 146th St., Largo, FL 33774
- Cost: $5 for ages 3 and up
For a spooky good time, bring the family out to McGough Nature Park for a night to explore a spooky nature trail, candy scavenger hunt, animal shows, and more! Tickets are $5 per person. Kids three and younger are free. You can learn more and book your tickets by visiting playlargo.com.
Annual Heights Fall Festival Pumpkin Patch at Armature Works
- October 26, 2024 from 12 pm-5 pm
- Location: Armature Works, Tampa
- Cost: Free to attend
The Heights Fall Festival will feature a pumpkin patch, petting zoo, face painters, activities for the whole family, and live music. There will also be a food drive benefiting Metropolitan Ministries.
Wesley Chapel Fall Festival
- Saturday and Sunday, October 26 – 27, 2024
- Location: Tampa Premium Outlets
- Cost: $2.50-$5
Get ready for the 20th anniversary Wesley Chapel Fall Festival & Carnival! There will be carnival rides and games, food trucks, a kid’s zone, costume contest for kids and pets, trunk or treat on Sunday the 27th, local vendors, and more!
Fall Festivals we’re hoping will return for 2025:
4th Annual Charity Pumpkin Patch and Autumn Festival at The Shops at Wiregrass
- October 17-20, 2024 from 5 pm-9 pm
- Location: 28234 Paseo Drive, Wesley Chapel
- Cost: Free to attend, but pumpkin purchase encouraged
The Annual Charity Pumpkin Patch and Autumn Festival at The Shops at Wiregrass is opening for a select few days in support of Turner Bartels K-8 PTSA. Hours vary. Check the Facebook event page for more info.
Boo Barn Bash at Old McMicky’s Farm
- Date: October 19, 2024 from 9 am- 1 pm
- Location: 9612 Crescent Dr., Odessa
- Cost: $15 per person
Old McMicky’s is hosting its annual Halloween event with a petting zoo, pumpkin patch, bounce house, face painters, food, games, music, and more!