A roadside pumpkin lot on U.S. 1 rather than a farm, open 9am to 9pm every day of October - which makes it the rare South Florida patch you can visit after the heat breaks, and a poor choice if you were expecting a day out.
Customers are not charged admission, but a $5 entrance fee per group applies to those not making a purchase. Pumpkins and fall products are sold by the item.
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 most useful thing to understand about Pumpkin Towne is what category it belongs to. This is a seasonal retail lot on Old Dixie Highway - a pumpkin shop with a bounce house, some hay bales, lawn games and photo backdrops arranged around it. It is not a farm, does not pretend to be one, and should not be judged as one.
Judged as what it is, it is well-matched to how most families actually use a pumpkin patch. The honest truth about the ticketed fall festivals is that a large share of visitors want a pumpkin, twenty photos and forty-five minutes, and end up paying $80 for a family of four to get them. Here the entry cost is a purchase you were going to make anyway.
Open daily, 9am to 9pm, through the whole run. Nearly every farm-based patch in Florida is weekends-only, closes in the late afternoon, and therefore forces you to visit in the hottest part of the hottest available day. A 9pm close removes that constraint entirely. Late September and October in Palm Beach County still deliver high-eighties afternoons and reliable afternoon thunderstorms; by seven in the evening the lot is a materially more pleasant place to be, and the string lighting most seasonal lots run does the photos more favours than direct midday sun.
The operator published an opening date of October 7, 2026 and no closing date. We are treating the season as ending on October 31 because that is how lots of this kind almost always work, but that is our inference and not a published fact - if you are planning for the first weekend of November, confirm it.
We also have no published pumpkin pricing. The $5 figure that appears on the listing is the non-customer entrance fee, charged per group, not a price for anything. What a visit actually costs is whatever you pick up, and on a lot that also sells seasonal decor and fall products, that is a number worth deciding on before the kids start choosing.
The pumpkins were trucked in. Florida cannot grow a commercial fall pumpkin crop, so every patch in the state - farms very much included - is selling an arrangement rather than a harvest. What that means practically is that a purpose-built lot is not offering you a lesser version of the real thing. It is offering the same pumpkins, in a smaller space, without the gate fee, at hours that suit a Florida October. Whether that is a downgrade or the sensible option depends entirely on whether you came for the pumpkins or for the day out.
After 6pm. A 9pm close is close to unique among the Florida patches we track, and it solves the problem every other one of them has: October in Palm Beach County is hot until the sun goes down. Evening also puts the photo spots in better light than midday glare does. If evenings are out, the 9am opening is the next best thing. The lot opens October 7, 2026, and midweek in the first half of the month will be far quieter than the last weekend before Halloween.
Thirty to sixty minutes. There are lawn games, a bounce house and a small play area, but this is a pumpkin shop with entertainment attached rather than an attraction you spend an afternoon inside.
The long daily hours spread demand out more than a weekends-only farm does, which is the main structural advantage of the format. The pressure points are the last two weekends before Halloween and the after-dinner hours once the temperature drops. Weekday mornings in the first half of October should be close to empty.
We have not confirmed the arrangement. The address is a commercial site on a main road rather than a field, so the mud problem that follows an afternoon storm at most Florida patches probably does not apply here - but roadside lots on a highway are usually tight, and that is a different kind of hassle with small children getting out of a car.
Unconfirmed. A flat commercial lot is generally friendlier to strollers and wheels than a grass field, but we have not verified surfaces, restroom provision or whether restrooms exist on site at all. Assume you may need to plan a bathroom stop around the visit rather than during it.
You want the farm experience - hayrides, corn mazes, animals, a tractor. None of that is here, and no amount of fall decor makes a commercial lot into a farm. Skip it too if you have older kids who will have exhausted a bounce house and a round of cornhole inside ten minutes.
Bedner's Farm Fresh Market in Boynton Beach is roughly forty minutes south and is the actual farm experience this lot is not - admission, hayrides, mazes and animals. The honest pairing is that they are alternatives rather than a same-day double bill. The operator's Wellington lot is a similar drive inland and offers essentially the same product, so there is no reason to visit both.
For customers, yes. Visitors who are not making a purchase are charged a $5 entrance fee per group, not per head. Pumpkins and fall products are sold by the item on top of that.
The operator publishes an opening date of October 7, 2026 but had not published a closing date when we checked in August 2026. Pumpkin lots of this kind almost always wind down at or just after Halloween, so plan around a season that ends on October 31 and confirm directly if you need a date in early November.
The published hours run to 9pm every day, which makes an evening visit one of the main reasons to choose this over a farm patch. Florida heat in October makes daytime visits genuinely uncomfortable, and almost every farm-based patch in the state has closed by 5 or 6pm.
October 7 – October 31, 2026. Open daily, Monday-Sunday. Hours: 9am-9pm daily.
Admission is free. Customers are not charged admission, but a $5 entrance fee per group applies to those not making a purchase. Pumpkins and fall products are sold by the item.
14 N. Old Dixie Hwy. (U.S. 1), Jupiter, FL 33458, in Palm Beach County. It is one of 10 patches we track in South Florida.
We track 10 patches in South Florida, 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.
Its season runs about 25 days against a regional average of 41, so it is a shorter window than most of its neighbours — miss it and the nearest alternatives will still be open.
There are 3 other patches we track in Palm Beach County. All South Florida patches →
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Checked August 2026.