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Pumpkin Peddler

📍 20354 North Dixie Highway, Bowling Green, OH 43402🗓 Season dates not yet published for 2026🏷 Pricing TBD

Cash or check only, closes at dark rather than a fixed time, and open only during October — a straightforward Wood County pick-your-own field rather than a festival, and a cheap one if you bring the right payment.

Pumpkin Peddler in Bowling Green, OH

What you get for the price

Included with admission

U-pick pumpkins in the fieldHayridesPumpkin mazeFace paintingPumpkin weigh-off

No pricing published. Payment is cash or check only, with an ATM on site.

Our take

Two things define a visit here and neither is on the attraction list.

The first is payment. Cash or check only, with an ATM on site. In 2026 that is an unusual enough policy that a good number of visitors will discover it at the point of paying, which is exactly the wrong moment. Stop at a bank before you drive out, or accept a withdrawal fee for the privilege of buying pumpkins.

The second is the closing time, which is not a time. Weekdays noon to dark, Saturday 9am to dark, Sunday 10am to dark. That is honest — a u-pick field genuinely stops being usable when the light goes — but it means the length of your window depends on the date. In the first week of October in northwest Ohio there is useful light past seven. By the last week of the month it is gone before half past six. A weekday visit at the end of the season is a short one whether you planned it that way or not.

What it actually is

A pumpkin field you pick from, hayrides, a pumpkin maze, face painting and a pumpkin weigh-off. That is the list, and it is a coherent one. This is the older kind of fall stop: a farm selling pumpkins with enough around it to make an hour of it, rather than a ticketed attraction that also has pumpkins.

That suits some families very well. There is no wristband to justify, no schedule to work through and no pressure to stay long enough to get your money’s worth. It suits other families badly, and if your children expect a jumping pillow and a slide tower they will be finished here in twenty minutes.

The hayride timing

Worth reading twice. Hayrides run Friday after 4pm and all day at weekends. There is no mention of weekday hayrides, so a Tuesday afternoon or a Friday lunchtime visit is a walk in the field and nothing more. If the wagon is the reason a four-year-old has agreed to come, that is a weekend trip.

On the dates

The page we read gives October and no specific dates, and carries no year anywhere. That may mean the text is evergreen and reliable, or it may mean it has not been touched in a while — we cannot tell from here. Either way, a phone call in the days before you go is worth the two minutes, especially at the start of the month and in the final week.

Planning your visit

Best time to go

The listed hours are weekdays noon to dark, Saturday 9am to dark and Sunday 10am to dark, during October. Hayrides run Friday after 4pm and all day at weekends. Closing at dark is the thing to plan around, because dark moves: early in October the light holds past seven, and by the end of the month it is gone before half past six. A weekday visit late in the season therefore gives you a much shorter window than the same visit three weeks earlier. Saturday's 9am opening is the longest day of the week by a wide margin.

How long to budget

An hour to ninety minutes. This is a pumpkin field with a hayride and a pumpkin maze, not an all-day attraction, and it does not pretend otherwise.

Crowds

October weekends, particularly the two before Halloween, are when a u-pick field in the Bowling Green area fills up. Weekday afternoons will be quiet, at the cost of a shorter window before dark.

Parking

Not published. Assume a field beside the patch, and assume it is soft after autumn rain — northwest Ohio gets plenty of it through October.

What to bring

  • Cash or a checkbook. This is the single most important item and the one most people will get wrong
  • Closed shoes and something to kneel on if you are cutting pumpkins from the vine in a wet field
  • Layers, particularly late in the day when the close is tied to sunset
  • A watch on the light rather than the clock, since closing time moves through the month

How to spend less here

  • No pricing is published, but a u-pick field with five activities is a fundamentally cheaper proposition than a wristband festival — the money here goes on pumpkins, not admission
  • Bring cash rather than using the on-site ATM, which will cost you a withdrawal fee for no benefit
  • Weekend visits get all-day hayrides for whatever the hayride costs; Friday hayrides only run after 4pm, so a Friday lunchtime trip is a hayride you have driven out for and cannot take

Who it suits

Good for

  • People who want to walk a field and cut their own pumpkin without paying for a festival around it
  • Families with young children, since the attraction list is short enough not to overwhelm and there is no long-stay ticket to justify
  • Weekend visitors, when the hayrides run all day rather than only after 4pm on Friday

Skip it if

You only carry cards. Payment is cash or check only. There is an ATM on site, but that is a fee and an errand rather than a solution. Skip it too if you want a big attraction list — five listed activities is the whole thing.

Common questions

Does the Pumpkin Peddler take cards?

No. Payment is cash or check only. There is an ATM on site if you arrive without either.

What time does it close?

At dark, rather than at a set time. That is roughly a forty-minute swing across October, so a late-month visit has meaningfully less daylight than an early-month one.

When are the hayrides running?

Friday after 4pm, and all day on Saturday and Sunday. Weekday hayrides outside that window are not listed.

When is Pumpkin Peddler open in 2026?

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

How much does Pumpkin Peddler cost?

Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. No pricing published. Payment is cash or check only, with an ATM on site.

Where is Pumpkin Peddler?

20354 North Dixie Highway, Bowling Green, OH 43402, in Wood County. It is one of 7 patches we track in Northwest Ohio.

How Pumpkin Peddler compares in Northwest Ohio

We track 7 patches in Northwest Ohio. 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 u-pick fields, which most Northwest Ohio patches on our list do not.

One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 5 of the 7 patches we track in Northwest Ohio had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.

Other patches near Bowling Green

There is 1 other patch we track in Wood County. All Northwest Ohio patches →

Quick facts

SeasonSeason dates not yet published for 2026
Days openDaily during October
HoursWeekdays noon-dark; Saturday 9am-dark; Sunday 10am-dark. Hayrides Friday after 4pm and all day weekends
AdmissionNot published
CountyWood County
RegionNorthwest Ohio

Directions

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Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.

Sources

bowlinggreenchristmastrees.com

Checked August 2026.