A York County orchard whose autumn is genuinely date-driven rather than a fixed season, with the main Bloom and Harvest Trail opening Friday September 18 - but the fall event is ticketed through an outside platform and the farm does not publish the price.
'Fall at Flinchbaugh's 2026' is a ticketed event sold through an external platform; the price is not printed on the farm's own pages. No source read states whether walking onto the property is free, so free_admission is set to false as a conservative default rather than as a verified fact.
Most fall farms run one season with one shape: open in late September, close after Halloween, same thing every weekend. Flinchbaugh’s does not work that way. Its autumn is a calendar of dated events, and what you get depends entirely on which day you drive out.
Look at the front end of the 2026 season. U-pick flowers run August 28 to September 5, from 9:00am to 6:00pm. The Budweiser Clydesdales are at the farm September 2 to 6. A Clydesdale-themed corn maze runs September 1 to 5. Fall Story Time was a single half-hour slot on September 1, and Yoga on the Farm an hour on September 3. Then the main Bloom and Harvest Trail opens on Friday September 18.
None of those is a season. Each is a window, and several of them are five days long. A family that decides in mid-October to go and see the Clydesdales will have missed them by six weeks. The practical instruction for this farm is simple and it is different from the instruction for every other farm in this batch: read the calendar first, then pick the date, then plan the trip. Checking on the morning you travel is not paranoia here.
Fall at Flinchbaugh’s is advertised on the homepage with a link out to an external ticketing platform. No price appears on the farm’s own pages. That has two consequences worth planning around.
The first is budgeting: you cannot compare this farm against a neighbour on cost without going through the checkout, so do that at home. The second is more practical - when a farm sells through an outside platform, it often means advance purchase rather than gate sales, and it can mean timed entry. Neither is stated, but arriving with a ticket already bought costs you nothing and arriving without one might.
For what it is worth, the market side of the business is separate. If what you want is produce, apples and a look around rather than the trail and the maze, that is a different visit at different hours and does not require the event ticket.
The market hours we could read run Monday to Friday 8:00am to 6:00pm and Saturday 8:00am to 4:00pm, closed Sunday, April through December. Those came from a directory rather than the farm’s own site, which did not render its hours for us, so treat them as indicative rather than gospel.
Still, a fall farm that closes on Sundays is genuinely unusual, and it is the opposite of what most families assume. Whether the ticketed fall programme also skips Sundays is not stated anywhere we could read. If Sunday is your only available day, that is the single question to settle by phone before doing anything else.
The published attraction list is orchard-shaped rather than midway-shaped: the Bloom and Harvest Trail, a corn maze, hayrides, pick-your-own pumpkins and flowers, plus the market. That suits families who want a walk, a wagon and something to take home more than it suits children who came for slides.
Two smaller notes. Some directories file this farm under a York mailing city while the farm signposts itself as Hellam; both mean 110 Ducktown Road, 17406, so do not go looking for a second site. And an October trail through a working York County orchard is muddy ground after rain, which by mid-month is most weeks.
The Bloom and Harvest Trail opens Friday September 18, 2026. The front end of the season is unusually busy this year: u-pick flowers run August 28 to September 5, the Budweiser Clydesdales visit September 2-6, and a Clydesdale-themed corn maze runs September 1-5. If any of those is the draw, the date is the whole decision. Market hours are listed as Monday to Friday 8:00am to 6:00pm and Saturday 8:00am to 4:00pm, closed Sunday. No closing date for the fall programme has been published.
Two to three hours for the trail, the maze and pumpkin picking. The one-off calendar events are shorter and fixed - Fall Story Time was a half-hour slot and Yoga on the Farm an hour.
The date-locked events are the crowd story. A Budweiser Clydesdales visit across five days in early September concentrates demand into those dates in a way an ordinary weekend does not, and a themed corn maze tied to the same visit does the same. Outside those windows, a working York County orchard in October runs at normal weekend pressure.
Not published. Expect orchard-side parking on Ducktown Road and soft ground after rain, which in a Pennsylvania October is a recurring condition rather than an unlucky one.
Not published. A trail through an orchard, a cut corn maze and a hayride all involve uneven ground and a step up. The market building will be the most manageable part. Ring 717-252-2540 for specifics.
Sunday is your only free day. The market is listed as closed Sundays for much of the year, which is unusual among fall farms and worth confirming against the event schedule. Skip it too if you need a published price before you commit, because Fall at Flinchbaugh's is sold through an external ticketing platform and no figure appears on the farm's own pages.
Hellam sits just east of York, so this is a short run for most of York County and an easy one from Lancaster. Because a market visit and a ticketed trail visit are two different things here, the market side works as a stop on a longer drive without committing to the event.
The farm does not publish a price on its own pages. The event is ticketed through an external platform reached from the homepage, so the figure appears at checkout. Open the ticket link before travelling rather than planning around an assumed price.
The Bloom and Harvest Trail opens Friday September 18, 2026. Earlier attractions run before that: u-pick flowers from August 28 to September 5, the Budweiser Clydesdales September 2-6, and a Clydesdale-themed corn maze September 1-5. No closing date is published.
The market hours we could read list it as closed Sunday, running Monday to Friday 8:00am to 6:00pm and Saturday 8:00am to 4:00pm from April to December. Whether the ticketed fall event runs on Sundays is not stated anywhere we could read, so confirm before planning a Sunday trip.
Both, in a sense. The farm signposts itself as Hellam and some directories list it under a York mailing address. The address is 110 Ducktown Road, ZIP 17406, either way.
Opens September 18, 2026 (closing date not published). Hours: Market hours listed by the pumpkinpatchesandmore.org directory as Monday-Friday 8:00am-6:00pm, Saturday 8:00am-4:00pm, closed Sunday, April-December; the farm's own site did not render its hours for automated reading..
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. 'Fall at Flinchbaugh's 2026' is a ticketed event sold through an external platform; the price is not printed on the farm's own pages. No source read states whether walking onto the property is free, so free_admission is set to false as a conservative default rather than as a verified fact.
110 Ducktown Road, Hellam, PA 17406, in York County. It is one of 4 patches we track in South Central PA.
We track 4 patches in South Central PA, 1 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.
What sets it apart locally: it has hayrides, a market, bakery or taproom, which most South Central PA patches on our list do not.
There are 8 other patches we track in York County. All South Central PA patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
flinchbaughsorchard.com · pumpkinpatchesandmore.org
Checked August 2026.