Pumpkin Patches near Springfield, MO

Brookline

Barnhouse Pumpkin Patch opens on West Sunshine in Brookline, just west of Springfield, with free admission to the patch each fall. It runs mid-September through October 31, daily, and sells $10 wristbands for kids' activities like hay mazes and pumpkin painting. This is a straightforward pick-a-pumpkin stop rather than a large festival. Check the farm's Facebook page for the current season's opening dates.

Ozark

Prairie Hollow Pumpkin Patch, also listed as Ozark Pumpkin Patch, sets up on State Highway W just outside Ozark, south of Springfield. Visitors pick pumpkins in the field or grab ones already gathered, then work through a fall festival with train rides, straw-bale mazes, tractor-pulled hayrides, pony rides, and a petting zoo. A snack stand and face painting keep younger kids busy.

Clever

Campbell's Maze Daze runs two corn mazes near Clever, southwest of Springfield: a daytime scavenger-hunt maze and a haunted maze after dark. The farm adds train rides, hayrides, bounce houses, and a u-pick pumpkin patch with pumpkin painting. Weekends bring karaoke, magic shows, and bonfires. It operates seasonally through September and October at 177 Carob Road.

Marshfield

Hampton's is a greenhouse and garden center on Highway 38 east of Marshfield, selling bedding plants, flowers, and filled pots that regulars use for cemetery memorials. Come fall, the same grounds open as a pumpkin patch with a cut corn maze. It sits in the Ozark highlands of Webster County, northeast of Springfield.

Conway

Gunter Farms is a family dairy farm near Conway that opens for fall on State Highway WW. The pumpkin season centers on an eight-to-twelve-acre corn maze, plus a pick-your-own patch, straw-bale and big-bale mazes, hayrides, a zip line, a barrel swing, and a corn pool for kids. The farm also sells gourds, Indian corn, cornstalk bundles, and mums, and hosts weekend bonfires.