What is on around the Valley and across the state this month, plus the Cardinals and Suns schedules and the fall pumpkin patches. Written for agents who want something worth sending a client, and for anyone planning a weekend.
Updated · covering October 2026
Peak season. The State Fair runs all month, the weather finally turns, and every farm within an hour of Phoenix opens a pumpkin patch. Dates and times below come from each venue’s own listing — confirm before you buy tickets, because line-ups move.
The big ones, and the ones worth driving for.
Haunted attractions run select nights from late September through November 1.
Football every Sunday, Suns preseason from the 5th and the season opener on the 21st. Home games are the ones worth planning a client touch around.
State Farm Stadium, Glendale · all times Arizona
Two home games this month. The Lions game is the one to build a watch party around.
Mortgage Matchup Center, Phoenix · all times Arizona
Preseason runs Oct 5 to 16 and the season opens Oct 21. The first long homestand starts November 4.
Arizona does this properly. Most patches open the first week of October and close on Halloween, most charge a flat admission that covers the maze and the rides, and the good ones sell out on Saturday afternoons. Prices below are general admission per person as published by each farm.
The biggest one. 85th anniversary this year. Ten-acre corn maze, u-pick pumpkins, pig races, hayrides, two music stages and rides. Closed Monday to Wednesday.
The Valley’s longest-running corn maze. Five acres, plus ropes course, mini golf, barrel train and a jump pad. Discounts for military, first responders and seniors with ID, and $2 off with a food bank donation.
Open every day, which none of the others are. Hayride, adventure maze, spider web crawl, and a pumpkin to take home included in admission.
Five-acre family corn maze with a new design every year, a toddler maze, a petting zoo, and a haunted maze after dark. Train ride costs extra.
Evenings only, which makes it the comfortable one while it is still warm. Excavator dig, a 90-foot slide, hay bale archery and a corn pit.
Bouncy town, straw bale maze, pumpkin decorating and a fall festival market.
Round-trip train ride, a pumpkin and all activities included. Weekends only and it books out — this is the one to plan rather than decide on a Saturday morning.
Ninety minutes up the 17 and about fifteen degrees cooler. U-pick pumpkins, old-fashioned rides, animals and fresh produce.
The cheapest admission in the state and the only one where you will need a jacket. Straw maze, carnival games, pumpkin decorating.
An actual working orchard. U-pick produce, farm goods, maze and hayride. Pair it with Chiricahua if you are making a day of it.
The Tucson-side option. Rides, pumpkins and a petting zoo.
Arizona Pumpkin Patch also runs free-admission lots through late October in Chandler, Chandler Heights, Gilbert, Glendale, Queen Creek, Sierra Vista, Marana and Tucson — pumpkins only, no maze, no ticket.
Event listings are read off each venue’s own calendar — ASU Gammage, Desert Diamond Arena, Symphony Hall, The Van Buren, Stand Up Live, the Orpheum, Downtown Phoenix and the Arizona State Fair. Sports schedules come from the teams. Pumpkin patch dates, hours and prices come from the farms. Nothing on this page is invented, and nothing is sponsored. We do not sell tickets to any of it.
Dates move. Confirm with the venue before you buy, and tell us if you catch something wrong — [email protected].
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