09/02/2026
🍂 AUTUMN IN SOUTH JERSEY: 10 STOPS YOU NEED TO MAKE THIS SEASON 🍎🚂🌻
You don’t have to drive to New England to find a great fall road trip.
Some of the best fall experiences are right here in South Jersey - tucked along country roads, on family farms, beside the Delaware Bay, and in the small towns that make this region special.
So fill up the tank, grab a cider donut, and start exploring. We’ve put together 10 South Jersey stops worth making this fall.
🐐 1. Coombs Barnyard - Elmer
📍 20 Route 77, Elmer, NJ 08318
🌐 https://coombsbarnyard.com
This family farm is all about giving kids a chance to experience agriculture firsthand. Meet the farm animals, take a wagon ride, explore the corn maze and watch for special seasonal farm events throughout the fall.
🍂 DON’T MISS: Their fall events and flashlight corn maze nights!
🍎 2. Mood's Farm Market - Mullica Hill
📍 901 Bridgeton Pike, Mullica Hill, NJ 08062
🌐 https://moodsfarmmarket.com
A true South Jersey farm-market experience. Stop for locally grown produce, pick-your-own fruit, cider, cider donuts, the corn maze and seasonal activities.
🍎 MAKE A DAY OF IT: Mood’s Apple Festival is September 12 this year, with apple-picking hayrides and plenty of fall fun.
⚓ 3. Bayshore Center at Bivalve - Port Norris
📍 2800 High Street, Port Norris, NJ 08349
🌐 https://www.bayshorecenter.org
Head all the way down to the Maurice River and discover one of South Jersey’s most fascinating pieces of history. Explore the historic oyster shipping sheds, learn about the Delaware Bay oyster industry and visit the Delaware Bay Museum.
⛵ EXPERIENCE IT: Book a sail aboard the A.J. Meerwald, New Jersey’s official tall ship and a restored 1928 oyster schooner.
🎶 DON’T MISS: Second Fridays bring live music, programs and activity back to the historic waterfront.
🔥 4. WheatonArts - Millville
📍 1000 Village Drive, Millville, NJ 08332
🌐 https://www.wheatonarts.org
Watch artists work with molten glass, explore the Museum of American Glass and Down Jersey Folklife Center, visit the pottery and glass studios, shop handmade work and walk the nature trail through the 45-acre campus.
🎨 SAVE THE DATE: The Festival of Fine Craft - October 3 & 4, brings together more than 150 juried artists, demonstrations, family activities, music, specialty foods and more.
🍏 5. MC Farms NJ - Pilesgrove
📍 593 Eldridges Hill Rd, Pilesgrove, NJ 08098
🌐 https://mcfarmsnj.com/
Spend a crisp fall day wandering the orchards at MC Farms, a family-run South Jersey farm offering plenty of reasons to make it a destination this season.
Pick your own apples and pears, take a hayride through the farm, enjoy the sunflower fields, grab something to eat, and settle in for an afternoon surrounded by the orchard and countryside.
🍷 Don’t miss out on having a glass of local wine in the orchard 🍏
🚂 6. Woodstown Central Railroad - Woodstown
📍 650 Alloway-Woodstown Road, Woodstown, NJ 08098
🌐 https://woodstowncentral.com
There may be no better way to see rural Salem County than from a historic train.
Woodstown Central offers excursions through the farmland, forests and small towns of western South Jersey - and their fall calendar is packed.
🎃 TRY THIS: Take one of their fall or Halloween excursions and experience Salem County’s countryside from the rails.
👨🚒 Stop out for First Responders Day on Sept 12
🧑🌾 Enjoy a local Farmers Market on Nov 7
🌻 7. Dalton Farms - Swedesboro
📍 660 Oak Grove Road, Swedesboro, NJ 08085
🌐 https://daltonfarms.com
Fields of flowers meet fall on this beautiful family farm. Their fall season features pick-your-own sunflowers and flowers, pumpkins, a corn maze, giant slide, farm attractions and plenty of photo opportunities.
🎶 WEEKEND BONUS: Live music, food vendors and a beer garden turn a farm visit into an afternoon out.
🥾 8. Parvin State Park - Pittsgrove
📍 701 Almond Road, Pittsgrove, NJ 08318
🌐 https://dep.nj.gov/parksandforests/state-park/parvin-state-park/
Not every fall stop needs a ticket.
Slow things down with a walk through Parvin State Park, where trails wind through pine and hardwood forest surrounding Parvin Lake. Pack a picnic, bring your hiking shoes and enjoy South Jersey when the leaves begin to change.
🤠 9. Cowtown Rodeo - Pilesgrove
📍 780 Harding Highway, Pilesgrove, NJ 08098
🌐 https://cowtownrodeo.com
This one is pure South Jersey Americana.
Dating back to 1929, Cowtown is the longest-running weekly professional rodeo in the United States and New Jersey’s only professional weekly rodeo. Bull riding, barrel racing, bronc riding, roping and more bring the Old West to Salem County every Saturday night during rodeo season.
🤠 DO IT THIS SEPTEMBER: There are only a handful of Saturday-night rodeos left in the 2026 season, so grab tickets early - popular nights can sell out.
🎃 10. Creamy Acres Farm - Mullica Hill
📍 448 Lincoln Mill Road, Mullica Hill, NJ 08062
🌐 https://www.creamyacres.com
A working dairy farm since 1968, Creamy Acres has grown into one of South Jersey’s best-known seasonal agritourism destinations.
Families can spend the day at Fall Fest with wagon rides, the pumpkin patch, kiddie corn maze, farm animals and Family Farm Park.
👻 AFTER DARK: If you like your fall a little scarier, come back for Night of Terror - their massive Halloween attraction featuring four haunted experiences.
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You don’t have to visit them all in one day.
Pick a few. Take the back roads. Stop somewhere you haven’t been before. Buy something local. And discover a little more of South Jersey along the way.
📍 How many of these 10 have you visited?
Tag the person you’re taking on your South Jersey Fall Road Trip. 🍁
