One of the few fall farms in northeastern Pennsylvania that puts everything inside the ticket — rides, petting zoo and pick-your-own all included for $17.75 to $19.95 — but the published pick-your-own is fruit and flowers, and pumpkin picking is never actually named.
Day pass $17.75-$19.95 depending on date. 2026 season pass $109.95-$154.95. All listed activities are included with admission; hard ciders, food and BBQ carry additional charges.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $71.00 in admission alone at the posted starting rate, before pumpkins, food, parking or any add-on listed above. Most families end up well north of that once they are through the gate.
The all-inclusive ticket is genuinely unusual and it deserves credit. Across most of Pennsylvania’s fall farm circuit, the published gate price is a floor: you pay to get in, then you pay again for the apple cannon, the gem mining, the pony, the corn maze. Lakeland states that every activity it lists — the train, the Scrambler, the carousel, the jump pads, the petting zoo, the pick-your-own — sits inside the day pass, and that only cider, food and BBQ are extra. If that holds at the gate, a family of four walks in for somewhere between seventy-one and eighty dollars and that is more or less the day.
For household budgeting that is worth a lot more than a few dollars off the headline. Predictability is the thing families actually want, and this farm is offering it.
Opening on September 3 puts Lakeland ahead of nearly everything else in the region. That first fortnight is real apple-and-cider season and it is a different visit: 10am to 6pm hours, warm weather, and a farm doing what an orchard does. Nobody in northeastern Pennsylvania is picking pumpkins in the first week of September, and it would be dishonest to suggest otherwise.
From September 18 the schedule changes shape. Thursday and Sunday run to 9pm, Friday and Saturday to 10pm. That is a serious evening operation, and it is what turns a nine-week season into two distinct products. If you want the daylight-orchard version, go early. If you want the long-evening version with the cidery open, go from late September.
One end-of-season note: November 1, 2026 is the day the clocks go back and it is the final day of the festival, a Sunday running to 9pm. That last stretch is four hours after dark, in a way the same Sunday close in September is not.
This site exists to help people find pumpkins, so it matters that we say this plainly: the farm’s own pages, as we read them, describe pick-your-own fruits and flowers. Pumpkins are not named. That may simply be a gap in the copy — an orchard that runs a nine-week autumn festival almost certainly sells pumpkins somewhere — but “almost certainly sells” is not “you can pick your own from a field,” and those are very different afternoons for a five-year-old.
The answer costs one phone call to 570-254-6038. Make it before you drive, particularly if you are coming from outside Lackawanna County.
An on-site hard cidery is rarer than it should be at family fall farms, and it does something useful: it gives the adults in a group a reason to want the fourth hour rather than endure it. That is the difference between a visit that ends when the children get tired and one that ends when everyone is ready. It is also the one part of the day that is not included, so treat the tasting as a separate line in the budget.
Set against the neighbouring farms, the trade is clear. Lakeland gives you a fixed, near-total price and a long season with no corn maze. The bigger attraction farms nearby give you more rides and a maze, at a gate price that then keeps growing. Which is the better day depends entirely on how many times you are willing to say no to a seven-year-old.
The Apple Harvest Festival runs September 3 through November 1, 2026, Thursday to Sunday, closed Monday to Wednesday. Through September 17 the hours are 10am to 6pm. From September 18 the farm goes long: Thursday and Sunday 10am to 9pm, Friday and Saturday 10am to 10pm. A Thursday in the second half of October is the sweet spot — same all-inclusive ticket, eleven hours of operating day, and none of the Saturday crush. Early September is apple and cider season here rather than pumpkin season, so if pumpkins are the point, come from late September onward.
Three to four hours to get value out of an all-inclusive ticket. Anything under two hours and you are paying rides-and-petting-zoo money for a walk around an orchard. From September 18 the long evening hours make a five o'clock arrival genuinely viable, which is unusual for a farm at this latitude.
The narrow price band, $17.75 to $19.95, tells you this farm is not using price to spread its demand the way some neighbours do. That means October Saturdays absorb the peak the old-fashioned way, with queues. Thursdays and the post-6pm hours from September 18 are the pressure release.
Not published. Assume unpaved farm parking, and assume a walk back to it in the dark on any date after September 18, when the farm regularly runs past sunset.
Not published. An orchard with train, carousel and Scrambler rides suggests reasonably firm main paths, but pick-your-own rows in an orchard are uneven ground by definition. Call 570-254-6038 if this is a deciding factor.
Your specific goal is to cut a pumpkin from a field. The pages we read describe pick-your-own as fruits and flowers and never name pumpkins, so that is a call-ahead question, not an assumption. Skip it too if Monday to Wednesday are your only free days, or if you want a big corn maze — no maze appears in the attraction list at all.
Scott Township sits just north of Scranton, near Roba Family Farms in North Abington Township. The two share a season-pass price band and make an obvious weekend pair, but not a same-day pair — both are built to hold a family for half a day, and Roba does not open until 4pm midweek.
The farm states that all listed activities are included with the day pass — the Lakeland Express train, the Scrambler, the country carousel, jump pads, the animal barn and petting zoo, live entertainment, character meet-and-greets and pick-your-own. Hard ciders, food and BBQ are the additional charges.
Between roughly $71 and $80 at the gate, based on the published $17.75 to $19.95 day-pass range. Because the ticket is all-inclusive, that figure is much closer to your real total than it would be at a farm with premium add-ons — add food and cider and little else.
We cannot confirm it. The pages we read describe pick-your-own as fruits and flowers and do not name pumpkins specifically. If a pumpkin field is the reason for your trip, phone 570-254-6038 first.
Thursday to Sunday, closed Monday to Wednesday. Through September 17, 10am to 6pm. From September 18 to November 1, Thursday and Sunday 10am to 9pm and Friday and Saturday 10am to 10pm.
September 3 – November 1, 2026. Thursday through Sunday; closed Monday to Wednesday. Hours: Through September 17: Thursday-Sunday 10:00am-6:00pm. September 18-November 1: Thursday and Sunday 10:00am-9:00pm, Friday and Saturday 10:00am-10:00pm..
Admission starts at $17.75 per person. Day pass $17.75-$19.95 depending on date. 2026 season pass $109.95-$154.95. All listed activities are included with admission; hard ciders, food and BBQ carry additional charges.
1649 Lakeland Drive, Scott Township, PA 18433, in Lackawanna County. It is one of 4 patches we track in Northeast Pennsylvania.
We track 4 patches in Northeast Pennsylvania, 1 of which are free to walk into. At $17.75 a head this one sits above the regional median of $15.95.
Its season runs about 60 days against a regional average of 47, so it is a notably longer window than most of its neighbours, which takes the pressure off picking a weekend.
What sets it apart locally: it has u-pick fields, which most Northeast Pennsylvania patches on our list do not.
There is 1 other patch we track in Lackawanna County. All Northeast Pennsylvania patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
lakelandorchard.com
Checked August 2026.