October Family Activities
This article was prepared in early September. Please call or visit websites/social media for the locations below to ensure up-to-date information as well as rules, policies, and procedures. Dates, times, and events are all subject to change.
October is a wonderful time to get out and around town with family and friends. Check out some of these local events, and feel free to send us photos and reviews of your fun! Email mike.cozart@strollmag.com.
LAKE METROPARKS FARMPARK
8800 Euclid Chardon Road, Kirtland
440-256-2122
Farmpark admission (applies to apple butter/cider and corn/pumpkin weekends):
Age 12-59 $9
Age 60+ $8
Age 2-11 $7
Under 2 Free
Corn and Pumpkin Weekend (Oct. 7-8)
Celebrate the harvest season at Corn & Pumpkin Weekend. Younger visitors can challenge each other in a game of pumpkin bowling and make handmade corn husk dolls and paint pumpkins ($3) to take home. This weekend will be your last chance to get lost in the three-acre corn maze. Enjoy harvest-themed crafts and other harvest activities throughout the weekend.
Halloween Drive-Thru (6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Oct. 6-8, 13-15, 20-22, 27-29)
*Advance purchase of tickets is required - $27.50 per carload
Travel Farmpark’s trails and roadways after dark in the comfort and safety of your own vehicle and experience many playfully frightful sites throughout the park–some that you have come to love and some new surprises. Ticket sales online only.
MA & PA’S
15161 Main Market Road (Route 422)
Burton, Ohio 44021
Burton, Ohio 44021
440-548-5521
Horse-Drawn Hayrides – Saturdays starting 9/30 through October 12-4 p.m. If it rains on Saturday, rides may be on Sunday. Sign up for email notification list on website.
$5 adults
$4 kids 3-12
2 and under free
Nothing says fall better than a horse-drawn hayride through the woods with the leaves crunching beneath the feet of a team of Percheron horses, a glass of Ma & Pa's cider in your hand and a maple cookie! Come experience the fall harvest this season at Ma & Pa's. Pa picks his pumpkins in all colors. Pink, blue, white, orange and green, corn stalks, gourds all at reasonable prices.
PATTERSON FRUIT FARM
11414 Caves Road
Chesterland
2022 Family Fun Fest
Runs through Oct. 29
Weather hotline: 440-729-7144
Monday-Thursday, open 10-6. Admission is $7 per person, and 2 and under are free. We will sell tickets until 5:15, and we close the play area right at 6 to give our staff time to clean and prepare for the next day.
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, open 10-5. Admission is $11 per person, and 2 and under are free. Seniors are $7 every day. We will stop selling tickets at 4:15, and we close the play area promptly at 5 p.m. to allow our staff time to clean and prepare for the next day.
We would like to welcome you to our Family Fun Fest. We created this area to give our friends and neighbors a taste of what it was like for us to grow up on a family farm. All of our activities are things we did growing up in this great outdoor environment. We have a giant covered straw pile, tons of slides, including our slide barn, 50′ racing slide in the woods, silo slide, pedal tractors, push carts, tire swings, corn maze, sandbox, play buildings, wagon rides and much more. For an extra fee, we have face painting and pumpkin painting from 2-6 p.m. Mon- Thursday and 10-5 p.m. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On Saturdays and Sundays, we have pony rides available. We invite you to bring your family and enjoy a day on the farm! No dogs are allowed at Fun Fest.
THE YARD AT STONEWATER
1 Club Dr
Highland Heights
Fall Fest (Closing Night)
Multiple Food Stands, Food, Donuts, Cider & More! Fall Beer Tasting, Pumpkin Painting (+$5), Scavenger Hunt, Face Painting, Putt-Putt.
EDDY FRUIT FARM
12079 Caves Road
Chesterland
(440) 729-7842
Pick your own apples (Jonathan, Empire, Jonagold, Melrose, Red and Yellow Delicious, Shizuka, Ida Red, Mutsu-Crispin, Blushing Golden, Winesap, Evercrisp, Fuji, Gold Rush)