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Garden Patch Farms & Orchard
Enjoy three seasons of fresh fruits and vegetables. Pick your own apples, peaches, plums, pears, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, cherries...
Bengtson's Pumpkin Farm
Families can enjoy a tractor pulled hayrack ride, animated Haunted Barn and Fun Barn, pig races and petting zoo. Also featuring a corn maze, pumpkin...
Butterprint Farm Pumpkin Patch
Take a hayride to the pumpkin patch and choose from pumpkins, squash and gourds. Afterward, visit the four-acre corn maze. Then shell, crack and mill...
Johansen Farms
Walk through the pumpkin patch of over 25,000 pumpkins on the way to the children's zoo where over 500 animals are waiting. Hayrides, pony rides (weekends...
Siegel's Cottonwood Pumpkin Farm
This 103 year old family owned working farm features three playlands, climbing wall, haunted barn, giant slides, moon walk, petting zoo and train rides. ...
Bird Haven Greenhouse
A Joliet Park District facility located in Pilcher Park. It consists of four greenhouses that are open to the public with outdoor gardens. There are...
Riegel Farm & Conservation Center
This site has a barn and picnic areas. The petting zoo has a diverse group of animals, including exotic birds, snakes and an alligator. Birthday parties,...
The Children's Farm at The Center
12700 Southwest Highway, Palos ParkSixty acre educational working farm with cows, pigs, sheep, goats, horses, rabbits, chickens and ducks. Complimentary pony rides and hayrides...
Hidden Oaks Nature Center
419 Trout Farm Road, BolingbrookFind bluebirds, a raccoon, snakes and other animals while exploring the nature center. Search the exhibits and interpretive signs along the trails...
Irons Oaks
20000 S. Western Ave., Olympia FieldsThis 38-acre nature preserve is home to a diversity of wildlife and habitat types. See beautiful woods, flora and fauna on the trails along both sides...
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