A Dunlawton Avenue church patch with one of the longest seasons and latest closing times in Volusia County — open daily until 9pm from September 26, though no closing date and no prices have been published.
No admission or pumpkin prices are published on the church site.
The reason to care about this patch is the calendar. Opening September 26 and running daily to 9pm puts it well outside the normal Florida church-patch pattern, which is three or four October weekends and a 6pm close. A month-plus season with late hours every single day removes almost all of the scheduling pressure that makes patch visits stressful — you are not choosing between two Saturdays, you are choosing between thirty-odd evenings.
That matters more in Florida than the hours alone suggest. Late September in Volusia County is still summer: high eighties, humid, with a serious chance of a storm rolling in mid-afternoon. A patch you can visit at half past seven in the dark is a fundamentally more pleasant patch than one that closes before the heat breaks.
What you get once you are there is modest. The published offering is a pumpkin patch and organised school field trips. No maze, no hayride, no inflatables. Judged as a place to buy a pumpkin and take a photograph, that is entirely appropriate; judged as a family outing, it is twenty minutes, not an afternoon.
The gap in the record is money. The church has published its opening date and its hours in detail and has said nothing about cost — not an admission price, not a pumpkin price, and no explicit statement that entry is free. Most church patches do not charge to walk in, but we are not going to tell you this one does not when nobody has said so. A short call before you go removes the uncertainty and would also get you the closing date, which is the other thing the church has not published. A local round-up put the end of the run at around the start of November, unconfirmed.
One last piece of context that applies statewide: the pumpkins here came in on a truck. Florida’s climate rules out a commercial fall pumpkin crop, so no patch in the state grew what it is selling. At a church fundraiser with a long season and late hours, the value proposition was never the vines anyway — it is convenience, and on that measure this one is unusually strong.
After 7pm on a weekday. Almost nothing else in Volusia County is open that late, and the last two hours of a 9pm close are the coolest, emptiest part of the day. If you need daylight, the weekend 11am opening is the earliest slot in the week; weekdays do not start until 1pm.
Twenty to forty-five minutes. The published offering is the patch and school field trips — there is no maze, no ride and no festival attached, so the visit is as long as picking a pumpkin and taking photographs takes.
A five-week-plus run with daily hours to 9pm spreads demand better than almost any patch in the region. Weekend afternoons and the last week of October will still be the crush; a Tuesday evening should be quiet.
A church lot on Dunlawton Avenue rather than a farm field, so a hard surface is the likely arrangement. Dunlawton is a busy corridor and the turn in and out at a weekend peak is the more realistic annoyance.
You want activities or a fixed price. Two things are listed here, the patch and field trips, and the church publishes neither an admission price nor pumpkin prices.
Cowart Ranch and Farms in Bunnell runs a paid weekend farm day with a maze, hayrides and pony rides. Pairing the two across a weekend gives you the activities at one and a cheap evening pumpkin at the other, though it is a real drive between them rather than a short hop.
The church has confirmed a September 26, 2026 opening at 11am. It has not published a closing date; an earlier local round-up suggested the patch runs to about November 1, but that is not confirmed for this year.
Not published. Neither admission nor pumpkin pricing appears on the church's page, and the listing does not confirm free entry. Phone ahead if you need to budget.
Yes, and that is its main advantage. The patch runs to 9pm every day, opening at 11am on Saturday and Sunday and 1pm Monday through Friday.
Opens September 26, 2026 (closing date not published). Daily. Hours: Sat-Sun 11am-9pm; Mon-Fri 1pm-9pm.
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. No admission or pumpkin prices are published on the church site.
405 Dunlawton Ave, Port Orange, FL 32127, in Volusia County. It is one of 14 patches we track in Central Florida.
We track 14 patches in Central Florida, 2 of which are free to walk into. The farm has not published a gate price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
There are 2 other patches we track in Volusia County. All Central Florida patches →
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Checked August 2026.