One of the better-documented free patches in Seminole County — confirmed October 5-31 dates, daily hours, pumpkins from $1 to $50 and cards accepted, with a service-dogs-only policy that catches people out.
Free to enter. Pumpkins run from about $1 for the smallest up to $50 for the largest; hay bales are $12 each. Cash or card accepted.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $4.00 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.
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.
Sanlando’s patch is a useful reference point for what a well-run Florida church patch looks like, mostly because the church has actually told you things. Confirmed 2026 dates. Hours for every day of the week, including a shortened Halloween. A published pumpkin price range. A stated payment policy. That sounds like a low bar, and it is, and most patches in this state do not clear it.
What you get is straightforward: pumpkins from about a dollar to about fifty, hay bales at $12, photo sessions, and nearly four weeks of daily opening to fit them into. There is no maze, no hayride and no inflatable, and the church does not pretend otherwise. As a place to buy a pumpkin and take a good photograph without paying twenty dollars a head for activities you did not want, it is close to ideal.
The first is the dog rule. Service animals only, published plainly. Some Florida patches are pet friendly and some are emphatically not, and the ones that are not tend to find out about your dog in the car park. If a photograph with the dog was the plan, this is the wrong patch.
The second is the price spread. A dollar to fifty dollars is an enormous range, and the practical consequence is that the cost of the visit is set entirely by which pumpkin a child points at. Decide the ceiling before you get out of the car. Add two hay bales at $12 and a free-entry patch has quietly become a $50 afternoon — which may be exactly what you wanted, but should be a decision rather than a surprise.
The pumpkins arrived on a truck, as they do at every patch in the state; Florida’s climate does not support a commercial fall pumpkin crop. At a church patch this is entirely honest — the pumpkins are the fundraiser, and nobody is charging you admission to look at freight. It is worth adjusting the mental image before a child asks, but it is not a criticism of Sanlando specifically.
One practical note on finding the place: the street address did not resolve cleanly in the geocoder we use, so the map point on this listing is a Longwood town-centre coordinate rather than the church. Navigate by the street address on State Road 434 rather than by the pin.
Late afternoon on a weekday. The patch opens at 1pm Sunday through Friday and runs to 7pm, which puts the comfortable part of an October day squarely inside the operating window. Saturday's 10am opening is the only morning slot of the week. Halloween itself closes early at 6pm, so if that is your plan, arrive by mid-afternoon.
Twenty to forty-five minutes, or longer if you have booked a family photo session. The listed offering is pumpkins, photo sessions and hay bales — this is a well-run pumpkin lot, not an afternoon of activities.
Nearly four full weeks of daily hours spreads the load better than the typical three-weekend church patch. Weekend afternoons will still be busiest, and the last few days before Halloween will be the peak. A Tuesday at 4pm should be calm.
A church campus on State Road 434 rather than a farm field, so a hard lot is the likely arrangement. SR 434 is a busy corridor and the turn in at a weekend peak is the more realistic irritation than the parking itself.
You are bringing a dog. Service animals only, and that is a published policy rather than an inference. Skip it too if you want activities: there is no maze, no ride and no inflatable here.
Seminole and north Orange County have several paid farm festivals within a reasonable drive. Sanlando works best as the cheap pumpkin half of a plan whose expensive half is somewhere with a maze and a hayride, rather than as a destination in itself.
From about $1 for the smallest to $50 for the largest, with hay bales at $12 each. Entry itself is free and both cash and card are accepted.
October 5 to October 31, 2026, open daily — one of the few patches on our list with explicitly confirmed 2026 dates. Hours are 1pm to 7pm Sunday through Friday, 10am to 7pm on Saturday, and 10am to 6pm on Halloween itself.
No. The church operates a service-animals-only policy. This is the single most common reason people are turned away at patches that publish such a rule, and it is published here.
Yes, and the patch hosts family photo sessions as one of its listed offerings. Details of how those are booked or priced are not published, so ask when you arrive or call 407-571-2100 first.
October 5 – October 31, 2026. Daily. Hours: Sun-Fri 1pm-7pm; Sat 10am-7pm; Halloween 10am-6pm.
Admission is free. Free to enter. Pumpkins run from about $1 for the smallest up to $50 for the largest; hay bales are $12 each. Cash or card accepted.
1890 W State Road 434, Longwood, FL 32750, in Seminole County. It is one of 14 patches we track in Central Florida.
We track 14 patches in Central Florida, 2 of which are free to walk into. At $1 a head this one sits below the regional median of $15, undercutting 9 of the 9 paid patches we track here. Entry here costs nothing, which puts it in the minority even in a region with several free options.
Its season runs about 27 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.
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
sanlando.org
Checked August 2026.