Pumpkin Patches near Kansas City, KS

Overland Park

Holy Cross Pumpkin Patch runs each fall on West 95th Street in Overland Park, with a corn maze, hayride, and yard games alongside the pumpkins. Pumpkins are priced by weight rather than an admission fee at the gate, so the cost scales with what you carry out.

Kansas City

Great Pumpkin Fest is the daytime fall family event at Worlds of Fun, the amusement park at 4545 Worlds of Fun Avenue in Kansas City. Geared toward younger kids, it adds a trick-or-treat trail, pumpkin displays, and harvest-themed activities to the park on select autumn weekends. It's the non-scary, kid-friendly counterpart to the park's evening Halloween event and is included with regular admission.

Platte City

Pumpkins Etc. keeps admission free at its you-pick patch outside Platte City, north of Kansas City. Beyond the pumpkins, the farm grows thousands of mums and stocks Indian corn, gourds, and bittersweet for fall decorating. Kids climb on dump trucks and an excavator, run a hay maze and corn maze, and play in a playhouse. It's open Friday through Sunday during the season.

Kansas City

Faulkner's Pumpkin Farm is the fall side of Faulkner's Ranch, a longtime event venue on Raytown Road in south Kansas City. Through October the ranch runs a pumpkin festival with more than 30 activities: hayrides, a petting farm, a field maze, pony rides, a corn cannon, a zip line, and a mechanical bull, plus locally grown pumpkins. The rest of the year it hosts weddings, corporate picnics, and birthday parties.

Belton

Johnson Farms lets visitors pick pumpkins straight from the field or grab pre-gathered ones, backed by a corn maze, picnic grounds, and concessions. Weekend wagon rides pass the farm animals. The operation runs on South Route D at Holmes Road in Belton, Cass County, south of Kansas City. It's a popular fall stop for families across the metro.

Spring Hill

Hickory Creek Ranch runs a pumpkin patch and fall festival in Spring Hill, on the Johnson County line southwest of Kansas City. It's one of several fall agritourism stops that have grown up along that corridor. Details on specific attractions, hours, and pricing aren't published; contact the ranch directly for current-season plans.

Lees Summit

Rising Star Ranch is a 60-acre horse boarding facility on NW Chipman Road in Lee's Summit, established in 1992, with indoor and outdoor arenas, paddocks, and stall boarding. It also opens seasonally as Pumpkin Valley with fall activities on the grounds. The ranch offers both full-care and self-care boarding just southeast of Kansas City.

Gardner

KC Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze started when the Berggren family began the patch outside Gardner in 2003, two years after settling in the Kansas City area. The corn maze is cut each year into a new design — past years have included the KU Jayhawk — and the grounds add a jumping pillow, a rock-climbing wall, a petting zoo with piglets, and the Yellow Brick Road train ride on weekends.

Liberty

Carolyn's Country Cousins is a fall pumpkin patch on NE 52nd Street in Liberty, north of Kansas City in Clay County. Patches like this open in autumn with pick-your-own pumpkins plus family activities such as hayrides, mazes, and farm play areas. Its spot in the northland keeps it within easy reach of the Kansas City metro.

Liberty

Crazy Craig's A-Hwy ran a u-pick pumpkin and mum patch on Highway A near Liberty for 24 years, but the family has since shut down that side of the business. The property now operates as A-Hwy Fireworks, and the pumpkins and mums are no longer sold. Anyone with this listing on a fall route should plan on the seasonal patch being closed.

Spring Hill

Pickings & Pumpkins has been a registered Kansas farm business since 2002, growing pesticide-free vegetables and small fruit a couple of miles east of Spring Hill. Their own description keeps it simple: farm-fresh food, homegrown the old-fashioned way. Find current picking availability and hours through their Facebook page rather than by dropping in unannounced.

Lawrence

Schaake's grows its pumpkin patch on 28 acres carved out of a working 1,400-acre family farm, an operation that started as a 4-H project and just marked its 50th season. Admission and parking are free, and so is the hayride out to the patch — you pay only for the pumpkins you pick. There's a hay maze and playground for kids who'd rather not do the picking themselves.