Free to enter, open daily until 9pm and sitting on a main road in St. Petersburg — the most convenient patch in Pinellas County, and the only one you can realistically visit after work in the cool of the evening.
Free entry; pumpkins ranged from $2 to $75 in the 2025 season. Some activities have been placed behind a paid ticket area in past years. Cash or card accepted.
Free to walk in. Your spend here is whatever you choose — pumpkins, food, and any paid activities. That makes it a low-risk stop if you are not sure how long the kids will last.
Gallagher’s is not competing with the big inland farms and does not appear to be trying to. It is a pumpkin patch on 4th Street North with photo zones, a few farm animals, an inflatable castle, food trucks and pies, free to walk into, open every day from 9am to 9pm. Judged against a ticketed agritourism park that is a thin offer. Judged against what most families actually need in October — a pumpkin, twenty good photos and a happy child — it is close to the most practical option in Pinellas County.
Almost every Florida patch is open weekends only, 10am to 5pm. That window overlaps precisely with the hottest, most crowded, most storm-prone part of a Florida autumn day. A patch open until 9pm every day breaks that pattern entirely. You can go after work on a Wednesday in the cool, get the photos in low evening light, and be home for dinner. For anyone with young children, that is worth more than a hayride.
Free entry means the pumpkin is the whole bill, and last season pumpkins ran from $2 up to $75. That top figure is not a typo — the large specimens at Florida patches are expensive, because they were freighted in from out of state along with everything else. Set the number in the car.
The other thing to watch is that in past seasons parts of the site have been fenced into a paid ticket area while the patch itself stayed free. It is not a bait-and-switch — free entry is genuinely free entry — but a child who spots an inflatable castle behind a ticket booth will not appreciate the distinction, so it is better to know the layout before they do.
No 2026 opening date had been published as of late August. Coverage points to mid-September, and last year the gates opened on September 22, but that is a pattern rather than a promise. If you are planning around a specific early-season date, check first — this is the one piece of information a daily-opening patch really ought to publish and had not yet.
Evening. A 9am-9pm daily window is close to unique among Florida patches, and it lets you sidestep the thing that ruins most September and October farm visits: heat. An hour before sunset gives you comfortable temperatures, better photographs than harsh midday light, and none of the weekend-morning crush. Early mornings are the second-best option.
Forty-five minutes to an hour. This is a pumpkin stop with photo zones and animals attached, not a festival, and it does not pretend otherwise. That is a strength — it fits into an ordinary evening rather than consuming a Saturday.
Twelve hours a day, seven days a week is a lot of capacity, which spreads demand better than a weekends-only farm can. The pressure points are weekend afternoons and the run-up to Halloween; a Tuesday evening should be close to empty.
Not documented. This is a roadside commercial site on a busy St. Petersburg thoroughfare rather than a rural field, so expect a paved or gravel lot and expect it to be tight at peak times — an inference from the location, not a published detail.
You want a corn maze, a hayride or a day's worth of activities. There is no hayride and no maze here, and the drive inland to a full festival farm is the honest answer if that is what your family is after.
Entry has been free, and pumpkins are priced individually — $2 to $75 in the 2025 season. In past years some activities have sat behind a separate paid ticket area, so confirm what is included when you arrive.
No exact 2026 opening date had been published as of late August. Regional coverage suggests a mid-September start, and the 2025 season opened on September 22, but treat both as indications rather than a date to plan a trip around.
Professional photo sessions are offered and require a reservation. The photo zones themselves are open to anyone visiting.
No, and obviously not on a city lot — but the same is true statewide. Florida's climate does not support a commercial fall pumpkin crop, so pumpkins at essentially every patch in Florida are trucked in and arranged for display.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Daily. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission is free. Free entry; pumpkins ranged from $2 to $75 in the 2025 season. Some activities have been placed behind a paid ticket area in past years. Cash or card accepted.
7401 4th St N, St. Petersburg, FL 33702, in Pinellas County. It is one of 11 patches we track in Tampa Bay.
We track 11 patches in Tampa Bay, 4 of which are free to walk into. Entry here costs nothing, which puts it in the minority even in a region with several free options.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 7 of the 11 patches we track in Tampa Bay had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There are 2 other patches we track in Pinellas County. All Tampa Bay patches →
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Checked August 2026.