Fairfax County Pumpkin Patches and Corn Mazes for Fall Weekends

The right pick here depends less on which spot rates highest and more on what kind of outing you’re after: a real working farm to walk through, a more structured single-destination park visit, a fast pumpkins-and-mums errand with no planning required, or a full day built around one place.

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If you want an actual working farm

Ticonderoga Farms works best as an addition to a farm-hopping day rather than the one place you build a trip around — it rounds out the working-farm end of things for anyone already filling in a route with other stops. Hidden Gems Farm Va is the other option in this lane, built around a farm store rather than a big event layout, so it fits a lower-key visit better than a full day out.

If you want a structured, single-destination outing

Temple Hall Farm Regional Park is part of the NOVA Parks system, which puts it a step up in structure from a basic farm stand. A 4.6 rating across 41 reviews backs up treating it as worth building a whole morning around rather than a quick stop — this is the pick when you want one well-organized destination rather than several small ones.

If you just want the pumpkins, no field-walking required

Depaul’s Urban Farm is the most reviewed option here — 4.7 stars across 232 reviews. It reads more as a garden center leaning hard into fall than a working farm you walk out into. That’s the tradeoff: skip it if you want the field experience, choose it if you’re there for mums and pumpkins and don’t need the rest of the farm.

If you want to build a whole day around one place

Pumpkin Village Fall Fest is the option positioned for a fuller day out rather than a quick stop, in contrast to the farm-store and garden-center picks above — worth considering when the goal is one destination that anchors the whole visit rather than a stop on a larger route.