This is an excellent place for the very young kids to run around, probably under 7 is ideal. There were two hay mazes, best for under 4' crowd, a hay pyramid, cute baby animals, two tether balls (my teen/tween boys were excited by this), live music, educational panels, and friendly staff. There are lots of pumpkins (mostly off the vine when we went late in the season), including the cool "warty" knucklehead variety. Prices depend on girth, not weight, and range from $13-$22 for most of the average sizes. You can bring your own lunch or purchase from vendors. Either way, there are plenty of clean covered picnic tables, It started misting with blustery winds, and we stayed dry. The canopies seemed securely anchored. The drive is beautiful, with the hills and redwoods and happy cows. Parking was okay, but I advise to get there early. The cheese shop abuts the patch and is a must. read more

2025 weekend October visit Location: beautiful, an actual place where you see vines, gourds and other produce still growing from ground. Parking: plenty but busy days require patience for families loading back into car and leaving. Activities: petting zoo with a horse for children to ride, ducks, chickens, pigs, goats and more, hayride, face painting, bounce houses, maze, live music from littles and a band for adults. Payment: Best to bring cash but vendors have card readers too, reception can be spotty. Pumpkins: Nice variety, priced by size. I heard a few families complaining about pricing but a few extra bucks is well worth supporting a local farm that supports the neighboring natural environment and creates a wonderful fall experience for families this time of year. Vibe: Extremely family friendly, vendors were sweet to the children. Many children running around, smiles seen, laughter heard. Food: Coffee, Bbq, shaved ice, ice cream and drinks. read more

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I had high hopes for this pumpkin patch, I always like supporting local farms, but our experience was definitely mixed. Everyone was friendly, but the pricing for the bouncy house and hay ride was quite high, even by Bay Area standards. $10 per kid for 15 minutes in the bouncy house was more than I expected. The kids had a good time, but it wasn't the best value. read more

Amazing people and great service. The venue seems like it has a lot to offer.So many different areas to host an event. Thanks for letting us launch pumpkins on halloween read more

Every year since kindergarten eight years ago, the three of us enjoy all that Nicasio pumpkin patch has to offer. It's always gorgeous and every year a little bit better with additions and we've equally enjoyed every year . Feedback would be to have fans every weekend, Saturday and Sunday instead of just two and the entire season . And although there are adequate honey buckets and sinks, they are located quite a distance from the food trucks so it would be nice to have just a washing station where the band plays and the food tracks are maybe next year You can buy eggs here and sometimes pick produce . It's such a chill vibe, and in the most gorgeous setting of any pumpkin patch you'll ever see. read more

Nicasio Valley Pumpkin Patch - Pumpkin Patches Near Me - Nicasio, California

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WOW! I was unprepared for the amazing find at Nicasio Valley pumpkin patch. It's an authentic family run venture with great pumpkin selection, but that's not all. We spent nearly 3 hours...pony rides, Facepainting, hay rack ride, corn maze, petting zoo and more. My only regret is that we didn't come earlier in the day and enjoy some barbecue! This is worth the drive to get here... Which by the way is incredibly scenic. My kids have been off devices all afternoon. I love it! read more

Nicasio Valley Pumpkin Patch - Amazing selection and adventure. - Pumpkin Patches Near Me - Nicasio, California

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Nice family daytime experience. They sell barbecue gelato food and drinks they have a hayride on a tractor a small and a large maze and a bounce house Large variety of punpkim types and sizes. Prices vary $5-40/pumpkin. Nice backdrop for family pics with the hills and cow farm. read more

This place was just beautiful! There were so many different kinds of pumpkins, that it was so hard to choose from. This is the first pumpkin patch that I've seen that has a LIVE band and a really good one too! Bbq food, ice cream etc. There were hay bales (perfect to pose with for the 'gram) and lots of pumpkins that were just so unique (also perfect for the 'gram). It's such a big open space that I didn't feel crowded compared to the ones in the city. + the staff were sooo nice and helpful! Definitely coming back next year. read more

Nicasio Valley Pumpkin Patch - Pumpkins! - Pumpkin Patches Near Me - Nicasio, California

With the rows of cars lined up for this venue, I was expecting a lot more than what we we experienced, especially with all the hype I've heard from neighbors. There was a MALT event from 11am-3pm that we attended yesterday. It was advertised as having cider tasting and food options. I think I was expecting more than 1 cider tent and 1 food truck, so we were disappointed when the food truck was already shut down at 2pm. What we liked: - Free entrance and free parking - Overflow parking is vast Due to there being no trees for shade, there were a good amount of tents, tables, and seating. - Porta potties were tastefully hidden behind a good stack of hay bales - There's signage throughout the property - There aren't any pushy salespeople trying to get you to buy anything - There was a jumpy house, hay stacks, climbing wall, train ride, pony ride, petting zoo, and hay ride for kiddos - The 4H Club was running a bake sale for donation with their kiddos and some animals Room for improvement: - Lack of food and drink options for the hundreds of visitors - Everything costs money. Yes, it is expensive to raise and feed animals as well as to run a farm. But not one activity was free, other than entrance. It was $3 per person for the hay ride, $3 per person for the petting zoo, $3 per person for the pony ride, then you have to purchase tickets for the jumpy house and climbing wall, etc.... Ideas (maybe they've tried this in the past?) - How about a free petting zoo, but you have to pay a fee for kale / carrots / sugar cubes if you want to feed the animals? - How about offering an entrance fee, but then all the activities are free? There is a fee ATM on-site, but just come prepared with cash! Also, buy some cheese on the way out! I'll be checking out Petaluma's pumpkin patch next weekend to compare the experience. read more

Beautiful day and nice pumpkins but the woman in charge of payment was not wearing a mask nor behind her plexi glass. Its also cash only which is not a wise choice during the pandemic. Beautiful day and nice pumpkins but the woman in charge of payment was not wearing a mask nor behind her plexi glass. Its also cash only which is not a wise choice during the pandemic. read more

This place is always so beautiful and fun... but this year for 2020 all most all of it is gone. We checked it out today and there were maybe 20 pumpkins TOTAL in the entire patch/field. Usually there have been hundreds. Understandably almost everything else home or closed... the hay maze for kids, gone, no hay ride, no inflatables, no animal farm, no food things (that were open). Fortunately Petaluma pumpkin patch is not too much further of a drive and they had everything up and running - had pumpkins, food, a maze, etc. hopefully nicasio will get their act together again next year?? read more

Nicasio Valley Pumpkin Patch - Oct 11th. Available pumpkins for sale. - Pumpkin Patches Near Me - Nicasio, California

Yeah, this is pretty lame. We've been here 20 minutes and already have done everything. It's free admission bc every booth is pay or paid ticket. There is: a 36" tall hay bale maze, an old guy band, two timed bounce houses, an inflatable slide, laid out pumpkin patch, lawn mower train rides, and a standard tractor hay ride. The only thing that looked cool was the petting zoo but the line is past the potapottys so... If you live in Marin county this is an acceptable to do but coming from any other county is NOT advised. I wish more than one person since 2014 had said something, we would not have come. read more

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Free access, my daughter loved the pumpkin patch, live music, plus the animals. You can pay extra for petting zoo and pony rides. Also, solid bounce house selection, although she's only 11 months so we skipped out on that. Couple food trucks there, including solid BBQ spot and juice/healthier food truck, and ice cream. Staff was friendly, the little cheese shop on the farm has some great award winning cheeses you can pick up. I'll echo what other people say, the pumpkins are pricey. Huge selection of small gourds and mini pumpkins that are $1 each though, they've got white pumpkins and then large patch of orange. It's not pick your own, it's simply a bunch of pumpkins laid out in a patch, but I'm totally okay with that. Also, the drive out to Nicasio is gorgeous so worth it for me and the fam vs. schlepping up to Petaluma (which has 3-4 patches alone). read more

There is a huge selection of pumpkins and plenty of room to socially distance while searching for the perfect pumpkin, enjoying the farm animals, BBQ and music (on weekends). read more

$20 for 30 carnival tickets divided by 3 tickets for a trip through in a bounce house which they will defiantly kick your child out after their 5 minutes are up of and it's 1 ticket to go down the slide once and that doesn't include the rock climbing wall or the train ride those aren't included and neither was the petting zoo that's $3 per person and if you want to ride a pony its TWENTY DOLLARS TO SIT ON A HORSE WHILE IT WALKS AROUND A TREE! then $30 on gross under-cooked bbq chicken and beans and once your will to negotiate had been thoroughly degraded your child, on the brink of a meltdown, will need you to buy her the most perfect $40 pumpkin she could find and honestly if you told me it cost twenty bucks just to return to your car we would have just paid it and been glad to leave. read more

this place was lots of fun. the farmstead their own cheese too. free cheese sampler is tasty. and the 1lb square is a great price too. organic pumpkins of all shapes and sizes. jumpy house and slide too. read more

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I was hoping this farm would really be "pick 'em off the vine" but they're just laying about in a cleared field like most pumpkin patches. They had some nice gourds and a few interesting colored pumpkins (mostly peachy colored) but none of those fun dark red warty ones. Still, they had two great hay bale mazes sized for little kids (i.e. about half height). And the location is just beautiful - I think West Marin is about the prettiest place on the planet. Definitely cool that the pumpkins are all organic - I might not be eating any of them, but I appreciate that they don't put a bunch of chemicals into our environment to grow these for our enjoyment! read more

We've been going here 22 years and this was the 1st year we came home empty handed. No small or medium pumpkins available so only large that cost minimum $30 (by size) What a marketing ploy. We needed 4 pumpkins so yeah no. Took our annual photo with pumpkins we didn't buy and then went to Fairfax Mkt. and got 4 small to medium ones for $20. total. read more

The best thing to say about this place is the drive - really, really beautiful. They have some cute little features that are good for kids...you can pay $4 to sit on a bench and pet little creatures, which was nice. Pay a few more dollars and ride a little pony. Miniature corn mazes. Jumpy things. Here's the thing - there were about 12 pumpkins there. Seriously. So....we missed out on the whole "pumpkin" part of the patch. I guess it is late in the season, so am trying to keep that in mind. Would probably give it another chance, just for the lovely drive. read more

We went last weekend with our 14 month old. It looks like there are lots of activities for older kids, and it seemed as though they were having lots of fun. Go for the setting which is BEAUTIFUL, but not for the pumpkins. The prices here are ridiculous! REALLY. CRAZY, like double or triple the cost you'll pay at your local grocery store. Not sure what other pumpkin patches sell for, but it was shocking. Even though the access to the patch is free almost everything is pay, just so you realize. read more

I had heard that they were short on pumpkins but that is not true at all! They are loaded with many varieties of pumpkins!! Such a great setting..so beautiful there! They are COVID friendly, wearing masks and social distancing, hand washing stations and sanitizer available. Staff is great and the barbeque is awesome!! read more

Super Adorable Family Outing! We had a 6 and 8 year old as charges this weekend and needed something fun but low key to fill the Sunday. I was feeling seasonally appropriate as ever, so we bundled up and headed to the Nicasio Valley Pumpkin Patch. From San Rafael it was a mere but gorgeous 20 minute drive. En route we passed by hilled vistas, Skywalker Ranch, bay and oak forests and towering redwoods. Then we found parking right away, jumped out and of course straight to the bounce house and giant jumpy slide. The kids were free to play as long as they liked, and people were friendly and in good spirits. There was a hay maze, hay ride, farm stand, petting zoo, as well as pumpkin picking. On weekends there is a delicious BBQ. The patch is opened until October 30. Popular children's recording artist Tim Cain performs October 4, 10, 18, and 25. Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) Day is October 18, with kids' games and contests, wood-fired pizza for Fornax Mexican food by Delicias de Marin, beer from Iron Springs Brewery, and educational booths. Four pumpkins, gorgeous tomatoes, and frame worthy photo ops (not to mention some much needed energy burnage) later, we drove to the Marin Cheese Factory and loaded up on their goods. Great day in all, and so grateful this in my backyard!!! read more

Not a whole lot to do here it's mainly pumpkins and cheese but regardless they have a tiny little sections to see animals and a jump house. The staff are super sweet and although it's not a big pumpkin patch with lots to do it's a down to earth not as busy cute place to see. read more

We were looking forward to picking our own pumpkin, which is what we thought this patch offered. Still, a great selection of pumpkins, we got a 14' pumpkin for $14, which is a lot of money but I think worth the entire experience. A wagon ride, hay maze, jumpy houses and farm animals complete the package. There was music and organic ice cream and BBQ. Such a lovely drive out to Nicasio. Good times for family fun read more

I am a photographer (www.resplendentphotography.com) and took my clients here for mini sessions a couple years back. The owners were SO nice and the pumpkin patch is a beautiful place to take photos. I have taken my clients to many pumpkin patches in the bay area and this is definitely one of my favorites. The prices are really reasonable, too. I hope to bring more clients here and spread the word about this farm now that we have moved to Marin. :) read more

Holy jumpy houses! They have a TON of them! This might be a better pumpkin destination for older kids (mine are still toddlers, and too little for face painting, pony rides and jumpy houses). The petting farm was ok, although the signs posted said not to touch the animals, so I guess that makes it just a farm. Overall, it was an "ok" experience, but we are still on the hunt for our annual pumpkin patch destination in Marin. read more

Lovely drive from east bay however we were disappointed to discover that the pumpkins are just laid out on a field, not actually growing there. I know, they make cheese but still they bill themselves as a farm. Hay bale maze was free and fun for shorter kids. The slide and bounce house were kind of meh at $1/ slide and the little cow and chicken were near the outhouse and covered in flies. We got two med size pumpkins for $10 and $14 each and 2 gourds for $4. Then drove back Berkeley and stopped by Monterey Market for their pumpkins, which were the same size and in way better shape for $3.99. We also got a huge 52 # pumpkin at monterey market for $28. So, all in all a decent location at Nicasio and terrific cheese (we got some of that too), nice people, but extremely overpriced on the actual pumpkins. read more

Very disappointing. Have been going there for years, but were surprised by charging $1 per slide for a short blown up slide and $6 for a pony ride where you go around in circles for three minutes. They was even a charge to chicks. Really?!? Seems as though this farm has lost touch with economic reality. read more