A large evening-first fall park where the Glowing Pumpkin Trail after dark is the actual product — dynamically priced from $15.95 to $24.95, with three of the attractions kids ask for loudest sitting outside the day pass.
Day pass $15.95-$24.95 depending on date. 2026 season pass $109.95-$154.95. Grandpa's Apple Cannons, gem mining and Paintball Bandits are premium add-ons not included in the day pass.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $63.80 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.
Read the opening hours before anything else here, because they define the visit more than the attraction list does. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday the gate does not open until 4pm. Friday and Saturday run to 10pm. This is not a farm that happens to stay open late; it is a farm built around being open after dark, with the Glowing Pumpkin Trail as the reason.
That has a consequence most people planning in September do not think about. In late September, northeastern Pennsylvania does not get properly dark until close to 7.30pm, so a 4pm Wednesday arrival means three hours of daylight before the trail does what it is there to do. By the third week of October, dark arrives before 7. The same ticket buys a meaningfully different evening depending on the week you pick, and the later dates give you more of what you came for in less standing-around time. Wrapped inside that is the cold: a 9pm close in late October in Lackawanna County is a hat-and-gloves proposition, and children who are fine at 5pm are miserable at 8 if you dressed them for the afternoon.
Roba prices dynamically, $15.95 to $24.95 for a day pass depending on the date. That nine-dollar spread is the farm telling you exactly when it expects to be busy. For a family of four it is the difference between roughly sixty-four dollars and roughly a hundred, for the same attractions, on farm ground that will be considerably less crowded at the cheaper end.
The practical move is to open the booking flow and price three or four candidate dates before you settle on one. Five minutes of clicking is worth more than any coupon.
Three of the most-wanted things are not in the pass: Grandpa’s Apple Cannons, gem mining and Paintball Bandits. This is a common structure and it is not dishonest — the farm says so plainly — but it does mean the day-pass figure is a floor rather than a total. Apple cannons in particular are the classic impulse purchase, positioned to be visible and irresistible, and gem mining is the sort of thing a seven-year-old will not let go of.
Assume a realistic October Saturday for two adults and two children: roughly a hundred dollars at the gate, thirty to sixty on add-ons if you say yes to two of the three, another forty on food, and a pumpkin on the way out. A hundred and eighty to two hundred is not a pessimistic number for this farm. That can absolutely be a good day — there is a lot of it, and the attraction list is long and varied — but it is not a casual stop.
At $109.95 to $154.95 the pass needs about six or seven visits before it beats buying days. There is a real cohort for whom that works: families within twenty minutes who spend most October weekends here anyway and who will come back for the last week of October, when a separate Halloween on the Farm programme runs. For anyone else it is worse value than it looks, because the season is only five weeks long and you would need to visit more than once a week to clear the bar.
The farm publishes a Wednesday-to-Sunday operating schedule running from September 4, and separately dates the Pumpkin Harvest Festival from September 30. Those are not the same thing, and it is not clear from the published information exactly what is running on a mid-September evening versus a mid-October one. If you are considering an early date, that is the question to ask on the phone: is the full attraction list live, or just part of it. Everything else here is well documented; that one is not.
The Pumpkin Harvest Festival runs September 30 through November 1, 2026, on a Wednesday-to-Sunday schedule that is in force from September 4. Wednesday and Thursday are 4pm to 9pm, Friday 4pm to 10pm, Saturday 10am to 10pm and Sunday 10am to 9pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday. The best-value slot is a Wednesday or Thursday in mid-to-late October: day passes are dynamically priced and midweek dates sit at the cheap end, and by then it is properly dark before 7pm, so a 4pm arrival still gets you the glowing trail without needing a Saturday. In late September the same 4pm opening means waiting until nearly 7.30 for darkness.
Three to four hours if you want daylight attractions and the trail after dark, which is the visit this farm is built around. Two hours is enough for a weeknight trail-only run. A Saturday, which opens at 10am and runs to 10pm, will absorb an entire day if you let it.
The pricing tells you where the crowds are. A day pass that swings from $15.95 to $24.95 by date is a farm managing October Saturday demand with money. Saturdays, particularly the two middle weekends of October, will be the fullest; Wednesday and Thursday evenings are the quietest paid slots on the calendar.
Not published. Assume unpaved overflow parking on a farm of this size, and assume that walking back to it in the dark, after rain, is part of the experience. A torch in a pocket is not a silly precaution.
Not published. A property with a boardwalk, a maze, slides and a trail across farm ground is likely to be mixed, and the after-dark element makes uneven surfaces harder for anyone with mobility limits. Call ahead on 570-563-2904 if this matters.
You want a cheap quick pumpkin run. The gate is $15.95 at absolute minimum and realistically higher on an October weekend, and the farm is designed to hold you for hours. Skip it too if Mondays and Tuesdays are your only free days — it is shut — or if you cannot manage a cold evening outdoors, because that is what most of this schedule is.
North Abington Township sits north of Scranton in the Abingtons, close enough to Lakeland Orchard & Cidery in Scott Township to make a two-farm weekend plausible — though not on the same day, since both are built to hold you for hours and Lakeland has its own long evening hours.
Between $63.80 and $99.80 at the gate, depending on the date, because day passes are dynamically priced from $15.95 to $24.95. That is before food, before pumpkins, and before the three premium add-ons — apple cannons, gem mining and Paintball Bandits — which are not included in the day pass.
Yes, the trail is listed among the day-pass attractions. The three items explicitly called out as premium add-ons are Grandpa's Apple Cannons, gem mining and Paintball Bandits.
Wednesday through Sunday, closed Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday 4pm to 9pm, Friday 4pm to 10pm, Saturday 10am to 10pm, Sunday 10am to 9pm, with the Pumpkin Harvest Festival running September 30 to November 1, 2026.
Only for repeat visitors. At $109.95 to $154.95 it takes six or seven visits to beat buying day passes, which is realistic for a nearby family who treat the farm as their October weekend habit and not much use to anyone driving in from an hour away.
September 30 – November 1, 2026. Wednesday through Sunday; closed Monday and Tuesday. Hours: Wednesday and Thursday 4:00pm-9:00pm, Friday 4:00pm-10:00pm, Saturday 10:00am-10:00pm, Sunday 10:00am-9:00pm (schedule in force September 4-November 1, 2026).
Admission starts at $15.95 per person. Day pass $15.95-$24.95 depending on date. 2026 season pass $109.95-$154.95. Grandpa's Apple Cannons, gem mining and Paintball Bandits are premium add-ons not included in the day pass.
200 Cranston Ave, North Abington Township, PA 18414, 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 $15.95 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $15.95, undercutting 1 of the 3 paid patches we track here.
Its season runs about 33 days against a regional average of 47, so it is a shorter window than most of its neighbours — miss it and the nearest alternatives will still be open.
What sets it apart locally: it has a corn or crop maze, hayrides, which most Northeast Pennsylvania patches on our list do not.
There is 1 other patch we track in Lackawanna County. All Northeast Pennsylvania patches →
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Checked August 2026.