Howard Family Holiday Farm
3706 Moody Pkwy, 35004
Howard Family Holiday Farm is ranked #1 on this list, located at 3706 Moody Pkwy, Moody, AL, 35004. It carries a 4.6-out-of-5 rating on Google from 38 reviews, which puts it among the more established pumpkin patches in our data.
Beyond the pumpkin field itself, it's tagged for u-pick pumpkins and farm store, so there's usually more to a visit than just picking a pumpkin and heading home.
Recurring themes in reviews of Howard Family Holiday Farm include pumpkins, local honey, christmas trees, helpful staff and welcoming atmosphere — not a direct quote from any single visitor, but the topics that come up most often when people describe the farm.
Howard Family Holiday Farm is one of the farms we track with a u-pick pumpkin patch, which typically means true u-pick means walking into a growing field and cutting a pumpkin off the vine yourself. it is the version of the experience most people picture, and it is worth checking for specifically — a great many farms advertis…
Based on its public listing, Howard Family Holiday Farm is typically open Tuesday 10AM-6PM, Wednesday 10AM-6PM, Thursday 10AM-6PM, Friday 10AM-6PM, Saturday 9AM-6PM, Sunday 11AM-6PM. Pumpkin patch hours shift often during the season — expect longer hours the two or three weekends around mid-October and shorter, sometimes weekend-only hours toward either end of the season — so treat this as a strong starting point rather than a guarantee.
Admission pricing isn't listed for Howard Family Holiday Farm either — pumpkin patches generally charge one of three ways (free entry with pumpkins priced individually or by weight, a flat gate admission bundling attractions, or a per-attraction wristband system), so it's worth asking which applies here before you go.
Payment methods aren't listed, and a meaningful share of family-run patches are cash-only for field admission and wagon rides even when the farm store takes cards — bringing some cash as backup avoids an awkward trip back to the car at the gate.
Like most working farms, the exact open and close dates for Howard Family Holiday Farm can shift year to year with weather and how the pumpkin crop comes in, even though the general window is fairly predictable.
If you're planning a special trip, a weekday morning is consistently the quietest time to go, with shorter waits for wagon rides and easier parking than a weekend afternoon.
Wear shoes you don't mind getting muddy — pumpkin fields are working farmland rather than paved lots, and they get soft fast after rain — and call ahead if it's rained heavily in the last day or two, since field access and hayrides are usually the first things a farm closes when the ground is saturated.
Layers help too: fall mornings can start cold and warm up quickly once the sun is over an open field.
Howard Family Holiday Farm sits, near Moody, AL, with parking typically in a grass field rather than a paved lot — allow a few extra minutes on busy weekends for staff or volunteers to direct traffic, and if you're navigating by GPS rather than the link on this page, search the farm name directly rather than just the street address, since rural addresses sometimes route to the wrong gate.
See the full profile — hours table, rating breakdown, review themes, FAQ and a map you can route from — on Howard Family Holiday Farm's listing page, or tap Directions below to head straight there.