The Absolute Best Pumpkin Patches You Should Visit This Fall

What’s autumn without a trip to the pumpkin patch? Now that temperatures are dropping and days are getting shorter, it’s just about time to pull on a sweater, take a hayride, and pick out a perfect pumpkin (or 10) from a farm near you. Despite the ongoing pandemic, most pumpkin patches seem determined to remain open this year, providing a much-needed sense of normalcy in a very not-normal year.

Although you’ll likely be outside, trips to the pumpkin patch aren’t a free-for-all: To protect the safety of yourself and others, make sure you’re following COVID-19 safety guidelines, which include maintaining at least six feet of distance between you and others, wearing a face mask when you can’t properly distance yourself, and keeping your hands clean, whether with sanitizer or onsite hand-washing.

Got all that? Good! Pick up a festive face mask and a bottle of hand sanitizer, and head to one of these farms, which are all open for business this year and offer family-friendly fun like petting zoos, pumpkin cannons, and doughnuts galore. Ahead, we gathered some of the best pumpkin patches in the United States, in no particular order.