A seasonal pumpkin lot on Federal Highway that opens October 7 and stays open until 9pm daily — free if you buy anything, confusing to find because the operator markets it as Jensen Beach while the address is in Stuart.
No charge for visitors who make a purchase; $5 entrance fee per group/family for non-purchasing visitors. Pumpkins are sold by weight in pie, carving and heirloom varieties.
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.
Start with the address, because it is the thing most likely to go wrong. The operator lists this as its Jensen Beach location. The street address on that same page is on NW Federal Highway in Stuart, in Martin County. Those are neighbouring communities separated by water and a bridge, and if you set off for the name rather than the number you will spend twenty minutes finding out. Navigate by address.
With that settled, this is a seasonal pumpkin lot rather than a farm, and it is a good idea to judge it on those terms rather than being disappointed that it is not something it never claimed to be. The list runs to a patch, lawn games, a bounce house, a giant inflatable slide, pumpkin painting, a swing set with hay bales and photo spots. That is a decent hour for a small child and a poor afternoon for a big one.
Two structural advantages, and they are both about time. The first is that it opens on October 7 and runs daily until 9pm, when nearly every farm-based patch in Florida is a weekends-only operation that shuts by five or six. That matters on the Treasure Coast in October, when the afternoon is genuinely unpleasant and the evening is not. The second is that there is nothing to book. No timed entry, no ticket, no forfeited money if a three-year-old decides at the last minute that pumpkins are frightening.
The pricing follows the same logic. Customers pay nothing to enter; a group that buys nothing pays $5, once, for the group. Compare that with a ticketed fall festival where two adults and two children can be $80 down before touching a pumpkin.
No closing date is published. We assume the lot winds up at or shortly after Halloween because that is how seasonal pumpkin retail works, but the operator has not said so, and if your plan involves the first week of November you should confirm it.
Pumpkins are sold by weight rather than by the piece, which is more transparent than a flat price but means the final number is decided at the scale. Have a figure in mind before your children start lifting the heirlooms.
None of these pumpkins grew here. The state’s climate rules out a commercial fall crop, so every patch in Florida — farms included — sells fruit trucked in from somewhere with a real autumn. That is worth knowing because it removes the main argument for driving out to a farm instead. The farms are selling the day out: the tractors, the animals, the maze. If what you actually want is a pumpkin, a photograph and a bounce house before bedtime, a lot like this one is not the compromise option. It is the direct one.
Evening, from about 6.30pm. A 9pm close every night of the week is the single best thing about this lot and it fixes the problem that ruins most Florida patch visits: standing on open ground at two in the afternoon in October. Bear in mind the opening time shifts — 10am Monday to Thursday, 9am Friday to Sunday — so an early-morning midweek visit is an hour of waiting. The lot opens on October 7, 2026 and the first fortnight will be far quieter than the last.
Forty-five minutes to an hour. There is a bounce house, a giant inflatable slide, pumpkin painting, lawn games and a swing set, which is more than a bare retail lot offers, but it is still an evening stop rather than a day out.
Long daily hours over the whole of October flatten demand in a way that weekends-only farms cannot. The peaks are the final two weekends before Halloween and the hour or so after dinner once the heat drops. Weekday mornings in the first half of the month should be close to deserted.
Unconfirmed, but the address is a commercial site on Federal Highway rather than a field, so the after-storm mud that catches people out at Florida farm patches is unlikely to be the issue here. The likelier hassle is the road itself — US-1 through Stuart is a fast, busy corridor, and getting small children out of a car beside it needs more care than a farm field does.
Unconfirmed. A flat commercial lot is structurally better for strollers and wheelchairs than grass or dirt, but we have not verified surfaces, and we do not know whether there are restrooms on site at all. Plan a bathroom stop before you arrive rather than assuming one during.
You are looking for a farm. There are no animals, no hayride and no corn maze, and no quantity of hay bales turns a commercial lot on US-1 into agriculture. Skip it too if your children are past bounce-house age — a ten-year-old will paint one pumpkin and be ready to leave.
Hobe Sound Farms is about twenty-five minutes south and is the working-farm experience this lot is not. They are alternatives rather than a same-day pairing. The operator also runs lots in Jupiter and Wellington offering essentially the same product, so there is no reason to visit more than one of the three.
Both names refer to the same place. The operator brands this location Jensen Beach, but the street address published on its own page is on NW Federal Highway in Stuart, in Martin County. Navigate by the address, not the name.
It is free for customers. Visitors who make no purchase are charged $5 per group, not per person. Pumpkins are sold by weight on top of that.
The operator publishes an October 7, 2026 opening and no closing date. Lots of this kind almost always wind down at or just after Halloween, but that is our inference and not a published fact — confirm if you are planning anything in November.
Opens October 7, 2026 (closing date not published). Daily. Hours: Mon-Thu 10am-9pm; Fri-Sun 9am-9pm.
Admission is free. No charge for visitors who make a purchase; $5 entrance fee per group/family for non-purchasing visitors. Pumpkins are sold by weight in pie, carving and heirloom varieties.
2200 NW Federal Hwy, Stuart, FL 34994, in Martin County. It is one of 5 patches we track in Treasure Coast.
We track 5 patches in Treasure Coast, 3 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.
What sets it apart locally: it has rides and play structures, which most Treasure Coast patches on our list do not.
There is 1 other patch we track in Martin County. All Treasure Coast patches →
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Checked August 2026.