Farms and orchardsChester County and the Brandywine Valley

Linvilla Orchards

Media, PA · 1 hour 14 minutes from Reading · Free

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Drive1 hour 14 minutes from Reading, 52 miles1 hour 14 minutes from Boyertown · 1 hour 37 minutes from Hamburg · 58 minutes from Morgantown

Where137 West Knowlton Road, Media, PAOpen in maps →

OpenOpen daily year round; closed January 1, Easter, December 25 and 26; longer evening hours in late September and October for the fall seasonFall (September 18 to October 30): 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday; October 31 to December 23: 9 to 6; January 2 to March 6: 9 to 5; March 7 to September 17: 8 to 6

AdmissionEntry, Pumpkinland and parking are free. Fall activities ticketed: daytime hayride $9 online, $11 on site (ages 5 and up), $7 and $9 ages 1 to 4; Witch's House hayride $13 online, $16 on site; corn maze $7 online (2026)

Good forlittle kids, big kids, teens, adults

Linvilla Orchards is a farm, farm market and garden center in Media, PA, with pick-your-own fruit, hayrides, a playground, fishing and barnyard animals. Parking and entry to the grounds are free; the hayrides and activities are ticketed.

Fall is the reason to go: Pumpkinland, the farm's display of larger-than-life harvest figures and scarecrows, is free to walk through from September 12 to November 8, with daytime harvest hayrides, a 2-acre corn maze, Apple Blasters, train rides and evening Hayrides to the Witch's House alongside it. The farm market and grounds are open year round, with pick-your-own by crop in season.

Before you go

Buy activity tickets online before you go; walk-up tickets cost $2 to $3 more, are limited, and the farm expects to sell out at peak hours. Parking is free. Daytime harvest hayrides take 15 minutes and the Autumn Moon Hayride 20; face painting is cash only.

Coming up

Pumpkinland runs September 12 through November 8, 2026, free to walk through, with Hayrides to the Witch's House and Autumn Moon Hayrides on fall evenings and pony rides and a petting zoo on Saturdays and Sundays.

Official site →Tickets →

Checked October 8, 2026 on the official site. Hours, prices and seasons change, so confirm there before a long drive.

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