The 3 Best Pumpkin Patches in Santa Cruz, CA
Ranked by rating and review volume. Updated for the 2026 season — always confirm hours with the farm before you drive out.
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Post Street Farm
Post Street Farm takes the top spot, rated 4.9 out of 5 from 59 reviews. Visitors come here for farm store.
122 Post St, 95060
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Rodoni Farms
Rodoni Farms is next up, rated 4.6 out of 5 from 96 reviews. Visitors come here for corn maze.
4444 CA-1, 95060
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The Great Pumpkin Patch
The Great Pumpkin Patch rounds out this stretch of the list, rated 3.2 out of 5 from 20 reviews.
2124 Soquel Dr, 95065
What Santa Cruz farms offer
Visiting a pumpkin patch near Santa Cruz
Farms around Santa Cruz follow the same rhythm as the rest of California: gates open in the second half of September, the busiest weekends fall in mid-October, and most patches close within a few days of Halloween. Weekday mornings are consistently the quietest time to go.
Call ahead if it has rained recently. Field access and wagon rides are the first things a farm closes when the ground is soft, and that decision is usually made the morning of.