Short answer: The 2026 farm season is already open. Hazelmere Pumpkin Patch in South Surrey opened the weekend of September 19–20, Aldor Acres in Langley runs September 19 to October 31 daily 9am–6pm, and Laity Pumpkin Patch in Maple Ridge runs September 26 to October 31 at $16 on weekends and $13 on weekdays. Budget $7 to $25 per person for a farm visit. Fright Nights at Playland opens October 7 and is not recommended for anyone under 13. City of Surrey Halloween programs are published in late September and fill within days — set a reminder now.
Fall in the Lower Mainland has a short, crowded window. The good farms sell out their Thanksgiving and mid-October weekend slots, the city recreation programs fill the day registration opens, and by the last week of October you are choosing from whatever is left. This guide is organised the way the decisions actually get made: what is confirmed for 2026, what each place costs, and — the question nobody publishes an honest answer to — how frightening each one really is.
Confirmed 2026 dates
| Where | City | 2026 season | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hazelmere Pumpkin Patch | South Surrey | Opened Sept 19–20, daily through October | Around $10 weekends, $7.50 weekdays |
| Aldor Acres Family Farm | Langley | Sept 19 – Oct 31, daily 9am–6pm | Around $20; day, family and season passes |
| Laity Pumpkin Patch | Maple Ridge | Sept 26 – Oct 31 | $16 weekend/holiday, $13 weekday, under 3 free |
| Fright Nights at Playland | Vancouver | Opens Oct 7 | Ticketed; ages 13+ recommended |
| City of Surrey programs | Surrey | Listings publish late September | Free to about $10 |
Everything else on this page runs on a similar rhythm year to year, but confirm the date on the venue’s own site before you drive out — farms change their opening weekend by a week depending on the harvest.
Pumpkin patches in Surrey
Hazelmere Pumpkin Patch, South Surrey
18507 20th Avenue, open 10:00am to 5:00pm. This is Surrey’s best-known patch and 2026 is its 26th season. Alongside the two-acre patch there are wagon rides, a petting zoo, a mini corn maze and children’s play areas, and admission has historically run around $10 on weekends and $7.50 on weekdays. It is the closest thing the city has to a classic farm day, and it gets genuinely busy on October weekends after 11am — go at opening.
Port Kells Nurseries
Open daily through October, with admission around $7 that includes one pumpkin — the cheapest real pumpkin outing in Surrey. There is an outdoor cedar maze, face painting and a children’s play centre with a sandbox. It is small, which is exactly right for a two- or three-year-old who would be overwhelmed at a full farm.
Rondriso Farms
Open from the end of September through October, with hay rides out to the pumpkin field, plus cows and chickens. A short, low-key visit rather than a half-day.
Langley and the Fraser Valley
Aldor Acres Family Farm, Langley
24990 84th Avenue, September 19 to October 31 2026, open daily 9:00am to 6:00pm with last farm entry at 5:00pm. Eighty acres of farm animals, sunflowers, pumpkins, hayrides, a hay jumping pile, forest walks and farm food. Day passes, family passes, fall memberships and school rates are all sold, and a membership pays for itself in roughly two visits if you have more than two children. Phone 604-652-3276.
Eagle Acres Dairy Farm, Langley
Weekends only, roughly late September to the end of October, 10:00am to 5:00pm. Around $14 for adults and $12 for children, including a hay ride out to the pumpkins, a tour of the dairy barn and a small petting zoo. The barn tour is the differentiator — it is the only patch in the region where kids see a working milking operation.
Maan Farms, Abbotsford
790 McKenzie Road. Mid-September to early November, typically around $19 on weekdays and $25 on weekends for the daytime festival: a pumpkin forest, bouncy pillow, pedal carts, play fort, zipline, petting zoo and wagon rides. Maan also runs the region’s biggest haunted line-up after dark — the Slaughterhouse, 3D CarnEvil, The Way Down and Badlands — which is a completely separate event aimed at over-13s. Do not book the two on the same ticket assuming they are the same afternoon.
Taves Family Farms and Applebarn, Abbotsford
Mid-September to October 31, roughly $27 on weekdays and $30 on weekends for the full activity pass. Corn maze, pumpkin patch, u-pick apples, hay rides, pedal carts, jumping pillows and a petting zoo. It is the most expensive farm on this list and also the most to do — it is a genuine five-hour day, not an hour.
Chilliwack Corn Maze at Greendale Acres
Open from the beginning of August right through to the end of October, which makes it the earliest fall outing in the region. Around $16 on weekdays and $18 on weekends when booked online, higher at the gate. Pumpkin pyramid, pedal carts, tractor rides, farm animals and a jumping pillow, and no haunted element at all.
Petey’s Pumpkin Patch at Fantasy Farms, Chilliwack
Early October to around November 1. Roughly $14 for adults and $10 for seniors, under 3 free, with train rides, a petting zoo and play areas, and pumpkins from $3 to $25. The Reapers Maze of Terror on the same site is a serious scare aimed at older teens and adults — keep small children well away from that end of the property.
Maple Ridge, Richmond, Delta and Vancouver
- Laity Pumpkin Patch, Maple Ridge — September 26 to October 31, 2026. $16 per person on weekends and holidays, $13 on weekdays for ages 3 and up, under 3 free with a paying adult. Two sites: North at 21145 128th Avenue and South at 12725 Laity Street. The South patch has Pumpkin Town and an obstacle course; the North site is calmer and better for toddlers.
- Richmond Country Farms — end of September to Halloween. Admission usually includes one pumpkin per person and a wagon ride, and there is a corn maze, animal farm and produce market on site.
- Westham Island Herb Farm, Delta — open daily 10:00am to 5:00pm, free admission, u-pick pumpkins and fall decorations. The no-cost option if you only want a pumpkin and a photo.
- Southlands Heritage Farms, Vancouver — end of September to October 31, around $13 per person including one pumpkin, with pony rides and farm animals. Small and family-run, which suits under-fives.
For the full year-round picture of these farms — u-pick berries, apples and animal visits outside October — see our family farms near Vancouver guide.
How scary is too scary? A ladder by age
This is the question parents actually need answered, and almost nothing published locally answers it. Here is an honest calibration.
Ages 2–4: no scares at all
Port Kells Nurseries, Westham Island, Southlands Heritage Farms, the Laity North patch, and the Halloween Pumpkin Express mini train at Bear Creek Park. Daytime only. Avoid anything with animatronics, fog machines or costumed actors — a friendly adult in a full mask is frightening at this age.
Ages 5–7: atmosphere, not jump scares
Aldor Acres, Hazelmere, Eagle Acres, the Maan Farms and Taves daytime festivals, city recreation-centre Halloween parties, the Museum of Surrey’s BOO-seum party, and Burnaby Village Museum’s Haunted Village. Pumpkins After Dark in Burnaby is lit and elaborate rather than frightening and works well at this age if bedtime allows.
Ages 8–11: mildly spooky, with an exit
Daytime corn mazes, the Halloween at the Cannery event in Steveston, Canyon Frights at Capilano Suspension Bridge — which uses skeletons and spider decorations rather than actors — and family versions of haunted attractions where they are offered without live actors. The rule at this age is that they should always be able to see the way out.
Ages 12 and up: the real haunted attractions
Fright Nights at Playland opens October 7, 2026 and is explicitly not recommended for children 12 and under, or for guests 65 and older, anyone sensitive to strobe lighting or fog effects, anyone with high blood pressure, or pregnant guests. The Maan Farms haunted attractions are for over-13s, and the Reapers Maze of Terror in Chilliwack is aimed at older teens and adults. These use live actors who follow you. A confident eleven-year-old is usually still too young.
City of Surrey Halloween programs
The City of Surrey runs a full slate of low-cost Halloween programs, but the 2026 listings are not published until late September — registration then opens through cityofsurrey.perfectmind.com and the popular sessions fill in days. If you take one action from this guide, make it a calendar reminder for the last week of September.
To show you what to expect and roughly what it costs, here is what ran in 2025:
- Halloween Family Fun Night, Cloverdale Recreation Centre, October 30, 6:45–8:45pm, $8 per person — pumpkin decorating with a free pumpkin for each child, plus a bouncy castle, crafts and games.
- Halloween Family Dance, Fleetwood Community Centre, October 24, 6:00–8:30pm, $10 per person — music, crafts, themed games and costume prizes.
- Family Halloween Event, Newton Seniors Centre, October 25, 9:30–11:00am, free — arts, crafts and games for all ages.
- Halloween Fun, South Surrey Recreation and Arts Centre, October 25, 1:00–3:00pm, $8 per person.
- Halloween Trick-or-Skate, North Surrey Sport and Ice Complex, October 31, 6:45–8:15pm — on-ice games, off-ice activities and prizes, with skate and helmet rentals available.
- Movie Night, Clayton Community Centre, October 31, 5:45–8:30pm — a screening of Hocus Pocus.
- Halloween Aquafit Monster Mash, Guildford Recreation Centre, October 31, drop-in sessions through the morning.
Treat those as a template for 2026 rather than a booking list. The pattern is consistent: the big family events land on the two weekends before Halloween, and October 31 itself is skating, swimming and movies.
Free Halloween in Surrey
- Museum of Surrey runs the BOO-seum Halloween Party on the Saturday before Halloween — a costume parade, live music, crafts and photo stations, free to attend.
- Sensory-friendly trick-or-treating at the Museum of Surrey, wheelchair and stroller accessible, with relaxed trick-or-treat stations, crafts and a scavenger hunt. This is the best-designed option in the region for a child who finds the noise and crowds of Halloween hard.
- Surrey Libraries run free Halloween storytimes, crafts, parties, movies, pumpkin carving and trivia across branches through the second half of October, sorted by age.
- Community centre drop-ins and neighbourhood association events, which are posted on individual centre pages rather than the main events calendar.
Halloween nights out beyond Surrey
- Pumpkins After Dark, Burnaby — thousands of hand-carved pumpkins in lit displays. Spectacle rather than scare, and one of the few evening events that works from about age four upward.
- Burnaby Village Museum Haunted Village — storytelling and light theming in a heritage village setting, aimed squarely at families.
- Halloween at the Cannery, Steveston — a haunted-sea theme through the Gulf of Georgia Cannery, running from late September. Mildly spooky.
- Canyon Frights, Capilano Suspension Bridge — decorated rather than staffed with actors, so it stays manageable for younger children.
- Halloween fireworks, Minoru Park, Richmond and Celebrate the Night, Memorial Peace Park, Maple Ridge — free community fireworks nights, generally the middle two weeks of October for Maple Ridge and October 31 for Richmond.
- HowlOver Canada at FlyOver Canada — a Halloween version of the flight ride in downtown Vancouver, with family ticket bundles.
Trick-or-treating in Surrey: the practical bits
Most Surrey neighbourhoods run from about 5:30pm to 8:30pm on October 31, earlier in townhouse complexes and later on the established single-family streets. A few things that make the night work:
- Apartments and townhouses. Many strata buildings do not allow door-to-door. Mall events, community centre parties and organised trunk-or-treats at churches and community associations fill the gap, and they run earlier in the evening — usually 4:00 to 7:00pm.
- Food allergies. Watch for teal-painted pumpkins on porches. The Teal Pumpkin Project marks houses giving out non-food treats such as stickers, glow sticks and small toys, and it costs nothing to join in if you want to be one of them.
- Costumes over coats. It is usually 8 to 10 degrees and often raining. Size the costume to fit over a fleece, and put reflective tape on the back — most costumes are black.
- Younger children. An hour is plenty. Start at 5:00pm while it is still light, do one loop, and be home before the older kids are out.
Fireworks: the rules in Surrey
Consumer fireworks are not legal to set off in Surrey. Only individuals with the appropriate federal certification and a permit from Surrey Fire Services may discharge fireworks, under the Surrey Fireworks Regulation Bylaw. Penalties are substantial: a Fireworks Bylaw violation carries a minimum $400 fine and a maximum of $50,000, a Municipal Ticket Information carries up to $1,000, and a Bylaw Enforcement Notice up to $450. Bylaw officers work with the RCMP and step up patrols around both Halloween and Diwali.
To report fireworks in your neighbourhood, call the City of Surrey non-emergency bylaw line at 604-591-4370. If you want fireworks with your kids, take them to a permitted public display instead — Richmond and Maple Ridge both run free ones.
Your fall planning timeline
- Early September: book farm tickets for Thanksgiving weekend now — it is the single busiest weekend of the season and the popular time slots go first.
- Late September: City of Surrey Halloween programs are published and registration opens. Also the calmest two weeks to visit a pumpkin patch, before the crowds.
- First week of October: haunted attractions open and weekend tickets start selling out. Fright Nights opens October 7.
- Mid-October: library and community centre programs run; buy the costume now rather than in the last week.
- Last week of October: pick your carving pumpkin no more than five or six days before Halloween or it will collapse, and confirm your October 31 plan.
Frequently asked questions
When do pumpkin patches open near Surrey in 2026?
Hazelmere Pumpkin Patch in South Surrey opened the weekend of September 19–20, Aldor Acres in Langley runs September 19 to October 31 daily, and Laity Pumpkin Patch in Maple Ridge runs September 26 to October 31. Most other Lower Mainland farms open in the second half of September.
How much does a pumpkin patch cost near Vancouver?
Between about $7 and $30 per person. Port Kells Nurseries in Surrey is around $7 including a pumpkin, Hazelmere around $7.50 to $10, Laity $13 to $16, Aldor Acres around $20, and the Abbotsford farms $19 to $30 for a full activity pass. Westham Island Herb Farm in Delta is free.
Which pumpkin patch is best for toddlers?
Port Kells Nurseries, Southlands Heritage Farms and the Laity North patch are the smallest and calmest. Avoid the big Abbotsford festival farms with a two-year-old — you pay for zip lines and obstacle courses they cannot use.
What age is Fright Nights at Playland appropriate for?
Fright Nights is recommended for ages 13 and up and explicitly not recommended for children 12 and under. It opens October 7, 2026. It also carries warnings for guests 65 and older, anyone sensitive to strobe lighting or fog, anyone with high blood pressure, and pregnant guests.
Are there Halloween events in Surrey that are not scary?
Yes. The Museum of Surrey’s BOO-seum party, its sensory-friendly trick-or-treating event, Surrey Libraries programming, the Halloween Pumpkin Express train at Bear Creek Park and the city recreation-centre family nights are all designed for young children with no scares at all.
When do City of Surrey Halloween programs open for registration?
The listings publish in late September and registration runs through the city’s PerfectMind portal at cityofsurrey.perfectmind.com. Popular sessions fill within days, so register in the first week they appear.
Can you set off fireworks in Surrey on Halloween?
No. Only certified operators holding a Surrey Fire Services permit may discharge fireworks. Fines start at a minimum of $400 and run to a maximum of $50,000 under the Fireworks Regulation Bylaw, with extra enforcement at Halloween and Diwali.
Which corn mazes near Vancouver are haunted?
Maan Farms in Abbotsford runs the Slaughterhouse and other haunted attractions for over-13s, and Fantasy Farms in Chilliwack runs the Reapers Maze of Terror for older youth and adults. The Chilliwack Corn Maze at Greendale Acres, Laity and Hazelmere have no haunted element.
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Last updated: September 2026. Farm dates and prices are the operators’ own published 2026 information where available; where a 2026 date has not yet been announced, typical recent-season pricing is given for planning only. Confirm with each venue before you travel.
