EAGLE SPRINGS: Buy some pumpkins and hay bales or enjoy hayrides, a corn maze, super slide, barrel train, hamster wheel and more at Kalawi Farm. Don’t forget to try the fall flavors of homemade ice cream. Visit Friday through Sunday through November 3. See times and pricing.
CARTHAGE: Parkwood Farms has pumpkins and gourds farther than the eye can see, all grown by Union Pines High School Agricultural teacher Thadd Davis. Pumpkins ranging from $1-$12 are available every day of the week — as Thadd says, “when the sun is shining, the farm is open.” Find Parkwood Farm at 4617 N.C. 22. Cash only.
CAMERON: White Hill Farms has a corn maze and pumpkin patch open daily. See hours here, pumpkin.
SANFORD: Weekends now through November 3 navigate through the giant corn maze at Gross Farms, kid’s can play a game of whodunnit in the maze. You can also do other activities like hay rides, a pedal kart track and jump pad. Visit the pumpkin patch on the way out. Have a gourd time.
FAYETTEVILLE: Have a fa-boo-lous time at Gillis Hill Road Produce where you can buy pumpkins, mums and local honey or enjoy activities like a giant slide, corn maze and seeing farm animals. Go big or gourd home.
CHAPEL HILL: Get your dose of autumn but add goats at Spring Haven Farm. Book a time for pumpkin carving with goats or perhaps a murder mystery night… with goats. Baaaaaa.
HOPE MILLS: Gallberry Corn Maze has 12 acres of farm fun. Enjoy kids activities, photo-ops, pumpkin picking, hayrides and nas-hawg pig racing. Yes, really. You can watch pig racing. Choose between a season pass or a one-day admission. Give ’em pumpkin to talk about.
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