If fall is your favorite season, you likely already know that Kentucky is full of festive destinations and activities that celebrate the changing foliage and spooky season vibes. Grab your friends and your favorite flannel — we’ve got your guide to Louisville haunted houses, pumpkin patches, corn mazes, and more!
PUMPKIN PATCHES
Applacres
Location: Bedford, IN
More Info: applacres.net
As its name suggests, Applacres boasts apples and pumpkins for picking. The orchard also offers other goodies like fresh-squeezed apple cider, hand-dipped caramel apples, veggies, candy, mums, and more.
Bowling Family Farms
Location: Greenville, IN
More Info: Facebook
Visitors can hop on a free hayride to pick a pumpkin from the Bowling Family Farms patch or select one from the stand. There’s also pumpkin bread, caramel apples, apple butter, and mums for sale.
Buckmeadow Farms
Location: Lawrenceburg, KY
More Info: buckmeadowfarms.com
Buckmeadow Farms offers activities for the whole family, including pumpkin picking, a barnyard petting zoo, a five-acre corn maze, slides, and more. There are also concession stands for snacking during a fun-filled day.
Cornucopia Farm
Location: Scottsburg, IN
More Info: cornucopiafarm.com
In addition to picking pumpkins, Cornucopia Farm features giant slides, wagon rides and hayrides, as well as corn and soybean mazes. Check the website for information on special fall events like flower workshops, puzzle nights, and dates when dogs are allowed to join in the fun.
Devine’s Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch
Location: Harrodsburg, KY
More Info: devinescornmaze.com
Admission at this Mercy County destination includes one pumpkin from the patch, plus more than a dozen other activities, including wagon rides, a corn maze, and duck races, to name a few. There’s also a cafe, so you can fuel up while spending your day out in the fields.
Eckert’s
Location: Versailles, KY
More Info: eckerts.com
Eckert’s visitors can pick pumpkins and apples before shopping in the country store and bakery for apple cider doughnuts, local jams, and honey. There is also a cafe and ice cream shop on site, as well as a corn maze and mega slide. Check the website for special weekend events like haunted hayrides, bonfires, and live music performances.
Evans Orchard
Location: Georgetown, KY
More Info: evansorchard.com
After picking pumpkins in the patch, guests can enjoy wagon rides, walks through the corn maze, rides down the mega slide, and lunch in the cafe. There’s lots to shop in the gift store and market, too, including fruits, veggies, apple cider doughnuts, and more.
Gallrein Farms
Location: Shelbyville, KY
More Info: gallreinfarms.com
Originally founded as a dairy farm in 1929, Gallrein Farms now offers pumpkin picking, apple cannon shooting, straw activities, and more. There’s even a free petting zoo — with feeding available for a nominal fee — and a haunted house.
Happy Jack’s Farm
Location: Frankfort, KY
More Info: happyjackspumpkins.com
Admission to the Happy Jack’s Farm 20-acre pumpkin patch is free. Guests can pick from more than 75 varieties of pumpkins, gourds, and squash. There is also a two-acre corn maze and opportunities to visit with farm animals.
Huber’s Orchard & Winery
Location: Borden, IN
More Info: visithubers.com
After taking a complimentary wagon ride at Huber’s, there’s lots to pick, including pumpkins, gourds, and fall squash. Families can make a day of the trip, as the property also boasts a park with slides, gem mining, race pedal karts, and more. There is also a store and restaurant on the property.
McGlasson Farms
Location: Hebron, KY
More Info: mcglassonfarms.com
Family-owned and -operated for six generations, this farm offers pumpkins and apples for picking, as well as a variety of produce for sale at the roadside stand. There is also an annual fall music festival featuring local bands.
Mink and Walters Pumpkin Patch
Location: Elizabethtown, KY
More Info: Facebook
Fall at the pop-up-style Mink and Walters Pumpkin Patch means games, a corn maze, numerous fun photo ops, and pumpkins for the porch, of course. Creatives can enter the annual pumpkin carving contest; winners usually get a gift certificate for Southern fare at The Whistle Stop, a family-owned restaurant in Glendale.
Mulberry Orchard
Location: Shelbyville, KY
More Info: mulberryorchardky.com
Fall picking options at Mulberry Orchard include both pumpkins and apples. Visitors can also enjoy wagon rides, a petting zoo and kid’s area, soybean and corn mazes, a zipline, and fresh produce at the store.
HAUNTED ATTRACTIONS
American Horrorplex
Louisville Neighborhood: Portland
More Info: americanhorrorplex.com
Fear is what’s playing at American Horrorplex, located just behind rusted ramshackle gates. The attraction features haunted halls, a maze of maniacs, and terror around every corner. General admission is $25.
Baxter Avenue Morgue
Louisville Neighborhood: Irish Hill
More Info: baxtermorgue.com
An 1860s crematorium and morgue is now the site of gruesome tours through a space with tight corridors, long hallways, and low ceilings. Visitors can’t touch the actors — but there’s a chance they’ll touch you. General admission is $20.
The Devil’s Attic
Louisville Neighborhood: Park Hill
More Info: thedevilsattic.com
A collection of elements from classic horror films, The Devil’s Attic promises encounters with childhood demons and horrific twists on well-known Halloween monsters. Tickets start at $25, and group rates are available for parties of eight or more.
Field of Screams
Location: Brandenburg, KY
More Info: fieldofscreamsky.com
Featuring a two-story haunted barn, forbidden woods, a hayride to hell, and a six-acre corn maze, Field of Screams promises Kentucky’s most extensive and impressive horror experience. Tickets to see monsters, madness, and things that go ‘bump’ in the night start at $30.
Grim Trails
Neighborhood: East Louisville
More Info: grimtrails.com
This award-winning fairy tale and folklore-themed haunted trail features scary scenes woven throughout small buildings and the woods. Spread over 20 acres in EP Tom Sawyer State Park, the 2024 show is the largest one yet. Tickets are $25.
The Haunted Hotel
Neighborhood: South Louisville
More Info: hauntedhotelky.com
This extreme, interactive, in-your-face touch haunt strives to push the limits and scare guests to death — while keeping customers safe, of course. Attendees should expect strobe lights, loud noises, loud music, extreme props, and fog machines. Tickets start at $25.
Waverly Hills Sanatorium
Neighborhood: South Louisville
More Info: thewaverlyhillssanatorium.com
This former tuberculosis sanatorium is visited by thousands of people all year long, but during spooky season, it is also home to a Haunted House and RIP experience (which includes a mini tour). General admission starts at $20.
Have a spooky, pumpkin-filled fall, Louisville!
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