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Heritage United Methodist Church Pumpkin Patch

📍 2680 Landmark Drive, Clearwater, FL 33761🗓 Season dates not yet published for 2026🏷 Free admission

A free, open-daily church patch with unusually long evening hours — the right choice for buying a pumpkin and taking a photo after work, and not a destination outing.

Heritage United Methodist Church Pumpkin Patch in Clearwater, FL

What you get for the price

Included with admission

Pumpkin patchPhoto backdrop

Free admission; pumpkins available for purchase.

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.

Our take

This is a straightforward church pumpkin patch, and it is worth being clear about what that means so you arrive with the right expectations. There is a pumpkin display and a photo backdrop. There is no corn maze, no hayride, no petting zoo and no admission fee. You walk up, you look at pumpkins, you pay for one, you leave.

Judged as that, it is good. The two things it has going for it are both structural. It is open daily through October rather than for three or four weekends, which removes the concentrated-demand problem that makes Florida festival farms so crowded. And the listed hours run late — 8pm on weeknights, 9pm on Friday and Saturday — which means you can go after work, in the dark, and never experience an October afternoon in Pinellas County at all. Very few patches in Florida let you do that.

The thing we cannot tell you is when it opens. One directory listing shows a full October 1 through 31 season; another shows a mid-October opening in the prior year. Those cannot both be right, so we have not published dates. If you are planning a trip in the first week of October, call ahead.

One general note that applies here as everywhere in Florida: the pumpkins were trucked in. The state’s climate does not support a commercial fall pumpkin crop, so every patch in Florida — farm or church lot — is selling pumpkins grown somewhere else. A church parking lot is at least honest about it.

Planning your visit

Best time to go

After 6pm. The listed hours run to 8pm Monday through Thursday and 9pm Friday and Saturday, which is late for a Florida pumpkin patch and the whole reason to pick this one — you skip the October heat entirely and the light is better for photos anyway. Weekday evenings will be quieter than weekend ones.

How long to budget

Twenty to forty minutes. There is a pumpkin display and a photo backdrop; that is the visit. Anyone planning longer should be looking at a festival farm instead.

Crowds

Open daily through October rather than weekends only, which spreads demand out considerably. That is the practical advantage of a church patch: there is no three-weekend crush to fight.

How to spend less here

  • Entry is free, so your entire spend is the pumpkin itself — the lowest-risk fall stop on our Pinellas list
  • Church patches are typically run as fundraisers, so haggling is not the move; buying one good pumpkin here still beats paying gate admission elsewhere to buy the same pumpkin

Who it suits

Good for

  • Buying a carving pumpkin without paying an admission fee for the privilege
  • A quick photo with small children, where a free patch means nothing is wasted if the toddler refuses to cooperate
  • People in north Pinellas who want a weeknight stop rather than a weekend drive

Skip it if

You want activities. There is no maze, no hayride and no play area here — this is a pumpkin display, and a family expecting a fall festival will be back in the car in ten minutes.

Common questions

Is the Heritage UMC pumpkin patch free?

Yes — admission is free and you pay only for pumpkins you buy.

What dates is it open in 2026?

We could not confirm them. One directory listed a full October 1-31 run and another listed a mid-October opening for the 2025 season, so we have left the dates blank rather than guess. Call before making a special trip in the first week of October.

When is Heritage United Methodist Church Pumpkin Patch open in 2026?

2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Daily in October. Check with the farm before driving out.

How much does Heritage United Methodist Church Pumpkin Patch cost?

Admission is free. Free admission; pumpkins available for purchase.

Where is Heritage United Methodist Church Pumpkin Patch?

2680 Landmark Drive, Clearwater, FL 33761, in Pinellas County. It is one of 11 patches we track in Tampa Bay.

How Heritage United Methodist Church Pumpkin Patch compares 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.

Other patches near Clearwater

There are 2 other patches we track in Pinellas County. All Tampa Bay patches →

Quick facts

SeasonSeason dates not yet published for 2026
Days openDaily in October
HoursMon-Thu 9am-8pm, Fri-Sat 9am-9pm, Sun 12pm-9pm
AdmissionFree
CountyPinellas County
RegionTampa Bay

Sources

heritageumc.com · pumpkinpatchesandmore.org · suncoastfamilyfun.com

Checked August 2026.