Free parking and free gate admission make Linvilla the lowest-risk fall outing in the Philadelphia region, but every ride and maze is separately ticketed and the farm publishes none of those prices, so the day costs whatever your kids talk you into.
Parking and admission to the grounds are complimentary. Hayrides, mazes, Apple Blasters and other seasonal attractions are ticketed separately; the farm does not publish those individual prices on its own site.
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.
The economics here are unusual enough to be the whole story. Almost every large fall farm in southeastern Pennsylvania sells a gate ticket somewhere between fifteen and thirty-five dollars per head, which means a family of four commits well over a hundred dollars before anyone has been on a hayride. Linvilla does not. Parking is free, walking in is free, and you buy attractions one at a time.
That flips the risk calculation completely. With a three-year-old who might last twenty minutes or might last four hours, a free gate means a short visit costs nothing but the drive. It also means a large family can come, look at the harvest display, buy donuts, and leave, and that is a legitimate way to do the day rather than a failure to extract value.
The farm publishes no prices for the things people actually queue for. Hayrides, the Witch’s House hayride, the corn maze, train rides, pony rides, face painting, pond fishing, indoor mini golf and the Apple Blasters are all separately ticketed, and none of those figures appear on the farm’s own site. So the free gate buys you access and no information.
The practical consequence is that you cannot compare Linvilla to a flat-rate farm on paper. A visit where each of two children does three paid attractions can easily land in the same range as a thirty-dollar-a-head all-inclusive gate elsewhere, and a visit where they do one each will not come close. The variable is entirely in your hands, which is either the appeal or the problem depending on how well your household negotiates.
Set a number before you go in. Agree that each child picks one ride and one extra, and the rest of the visit runs on the free stuff — Pumpkinland itself, the barnyard animals, the playground, wandering the market. That converts an open-ended spend into a known one.
Worth being clear about, because the name suggests otherwise. Pumpkinland is the farm’s signature build: pumpkins, scarecrows and oversized seasonal decoration arranged as a walk-through set piece. It is the thing the farm is known for regionally and it photographs extremely well. It is not rows of pumpkins on the vine. Pick-your-own pumpkins and apples exist here separately, so both experiences are available, but do not arrive expecting the display to be the picking.
Very few fall attractions open at eight in the morning. Linvilla does, seven days a week through the extended fall period, and that is the most exploitable fact about the place. An October Saturday within reach of Philadelphia fills up steadily from about ten, and by early afternoon a free-admission farm has no mechanism to throttle arrivals. Getting there in the first two hours means the harvest display without a queue of tripods, the bakery before the good things sell out, and a parking spot you did not have to walk in from.
The other quiet window is the weekday evening. Sunday through Thursday the farm runs to 8:00pm, which is well past dark for most of October — the whole property will not be operating at that hour, but the market and the atmosphere are.
October 31 is a short day, 9:00am to 6:00pm, and the farm shifts to its winter schedule immediately afterward. If Halloween itself is the plan, that is three hours less than a normal Saturday and it will be the busiest day of the season compressed into it.
And Pumpkinland’s opening date rests on a press report of the mid-September Arts and Craft Festival weekend rather than on the farm’s own calendar. If you are aiming at the first weekend, call and confirm; any other weekend, it is academic.
Finally, on footwear. October in the Delaware Valley is wet, this is a working farm with pick-your-own fields, and the parking surface is not documented anywhere. Assume grass, and dress the children accordingly.
Pumpkinland runs from mid-September through October 31, 2026, daily. The farm opens at 8:00am, which is unusually early for a fall attraction and is the single most useful fact on this page: an 8:00am to 10:00am arrival on a Saturday in October gets you the harvest display and the market before the crowd that arrives after breakfast. Extended fall hours run 8:00am to 8:00pm Sunday through Thursday and 8:00am to 9:00pm Friday and Saturday from September 18 through October 30. Halloween itself is a short day, 9:00am to 6:00pm.
Two hours if you are there for Pumpkinland, the market and one hayride. Four or more if you are doing pick-your-own, the playground, mini golf and pond fishing as a full day. The long hours mean the schedule is not the constraint here; your budget for individual attractions is.
A free-admission farm within easy reach of Philadelphia on an October weekend is a busy place, and free entry removes the usual filter that a gate price applies. The 8:00am opening is the practical countermeasure. Weekday evenings are the other quiet window, since the farm stays open to 8:00pm Sunday through Thursday.
Free, and stated as such by the farm. The surface is not published; most farm overflow lots in southeastern Pennsylvania are grass or gravel, and October is a wet month here, so plan footwear for soft ground rather than assume asphalt.
Not published. The mix of paved market areas and field-based attractions suggests the retail and Pumpkinland side is easier going than the hayride and pick-your-own areas, but call 610-876-7116 before travelling if this is decisive.
You need a fixed, known cost before you leave the house. Hayrides, the mazes, the Apple Blasters and the other attractions are all ticketed individually and the farm does not post those prices on its own site, so the free gate is genuinely free but tells you nothing about what the afternoon will cost. Skip it too if what you picture is a quiet field of pumpkins on the vine — Pumpkinland is an elaborate constructed display, not a u-pick patch, though pick-your-own pumpkins are available separately.
Media sits in Delaware County with Ridley Creek State Park and the Media borough centre both close by, so an early farm visit pairs naturally with lunch in town or a walk afterwards rather than a second paid attraction.
Yes for entry and parking. The farm states that both are complimentary. Individual attractions including hayrides, the mazes and the Apple Blasters are ticketed separately, and the farm does not publish those prices on its own site.
From September 18 through October 30, 2026 the farm runs 8:00am to 8:00pm Sunday through Thursday and 8:00am to 9:00pm Friday and Saturday. On October 31 it is 9:00am to 6:00pm, then the farm moves to its winter schedule.
Reporting on the farm's Arts and Craft Festival places the Pumpkinland opening on the weekend of September 12 and 13, 2026. The farm's own site does not print a Pumpkinland start date, so treat mid-September as the expectation and confirm if you are planning the first weekend specifically.
Yes. Pick-your-own apples and pumpkins are both listed alongside the Pumpkinland display, which is a separate constructed harvest attraction rather than a picking field.
September 12 – October 31, 2026. Daily. Hours: 8:00am-8:00pm Sunday-Thursday and 8:00am-9:00pm Friday-Saturday from September 18 through October 30; 9:00am-6:00pm on October 31.
Admission is free. Parking and admission to the grounds are complimentary. Hayrides, mazes, Apple Blasters and other seasonal attractions are ticketed separately; the farm does not publish those individual prices on its own site.
137 West Knowlton Road, Media, PA 19063, in Delaware County. It is one of 5 patches we track in Philadelphia Region.
We track 5 patches in Philadelphia Region, 1 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.
Its season runs about 50 days against a regional average of 51, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
What sets it apart locally: it has rides and play structures, a market, bakery or taproom, which most Philadelphia Region patches on our list do not.
There are 2 other patches we track in Delaware County. All Philadelphia Region patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
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Checked August 2026.