Book Your Field Trip
We are excited to share a new way to enjoy our Fall Field Trips!
Our updated self-guided field trips allow your group to be more flexible. Before your field trip, you will get an email with a map of our field trip stations along with handouts that provide supplemental information for the self-guided stations.
We’ll be communicating more information about our fall field trips in the coming months, but booking is open now to secure your spot!
Here is some information to help you book, please review it carefully:
- We will be hosting field trips Wednesday-Friday from September 25th to October 31st from 9am to 4pm.
- Fall field trips will include a hayride and an educational pumpkin talk from one of our farmers. The self-guided portion of our field trips include visiting our animals, a pumpkin-themed story walk, and access to all of our activity and play areas. Each attendee also gets to take home a sugar pie pumpkin!
- Our fall field trips are estimated to be 1.5 hours to 2 hours long. This depends on how much time your group spends at the self-guided stations and if your group has lunch/snack at our picnic tables while at the farm.
- 2024 field trip improvements
- Staff will greet each group as they arrive to ensure a smooth check in.
- Streamlined admission area to allow for easier check in for school groups.
- Moving the farm talk location so it is more accessible.
- Adding new stations to the rotation.
Payment
- We collect payment for field trips upon arrival. Payments can be made with cash, check, or card. We suggest designating one person in your group to collect payment beforehand to ensure the check-in process runs smoothly. If your school requires an invoice or for payment to be made over the phone, please let us know.
- Field trip admission is based on the date of your reservation
- $9/person before October 11th
- $11/person after October 11th.
- Admission is required for all students and adults. One teacher per class is free. Children under 2yo are free.
Other Information
- We have a minimum group size of 15, and a maximum of 150 per timeslot. These numbers include students, adults, and teachers.
- You are welcome to have your group eat lunch/snack while at the farm. We have limited covered eating areas and picnic tables that are on a first come first serve basis.
Please call us at 503-645-9561 or email office@plumperpumpkins.com with any questions.
Visit the Animals
On our farm we have many animals: pigs, a llama, alpacas, cows, goats, rabbits, turkeys, chickens, sheep and more! Children love to check out the farm animals and the animals love the attention!
Tour the Farm
Take a scenic hayride though our Christmas trees and into our upper field. The pay off is at the top of hill, when you look down at the full spread of the farm and valley below. Our custom built wood trailer is pulled by one of our tractors and has a real down home farm feel. The trailers are also covered, so you can take refuge from the Oregon rain if needed.
Activities
Play on our mazes and slides. We have 5 tube slides, a rope spider web and 2 different mazes all suitable for children and adults to enjoy! Pick your very own sugar pie pumpkin to take home. Stay longer and play in our fallow field, or in our play structure and tire garden.
Weather
We will conduct your farm tour rain or shine. We will do our best to customize your tour to fit the rapidly changing weather here in Oregon, and we do have many covered areas. The farm talk inside our barn and the hay ride is covered. We also have several covered spaces for your group to gather to eat their snack or lunch.
Our best advice is to make sure that your group is dressed properly. Rain coats, umbrellas and rubber boots are always a good choice when rain threatens!
Food
Have lunch or a snack in one of our picnic areas. Apple cider and kettle corn are great options for a snack here on the farm, bring your own smaller containers to split up the large containers we sell.
Treat your group to a colorful harvest experience!
Costs
2023 Fall Field Trip Pricing:
- $9 per student, chaperone, and sibling for field trips taking place from September 27th - October 14th.
- $10 per student, chaperone, and sibling for field trips taking place from October 15th - October 27th.
- 1 teacher per class (30 students) is free.
- Ages 2+ need field trip admission.
School Buses
Sometimes school buses coming from the south prefer to avoid the sharp curves of Old Cornelius Pass Road below the farm.
An alternate route is to take Cornelius Pass Road to the top of the hill at Skyline Boulevard, turning left/west. Then turn left/south at the quick stop sign and then turn right into the driveway a quarter mile from the last turn.