Credit: Daytrippingmom
Update: Giveaway is now closed. The winners of the giveaway are Amanda, Kristin and Lejarie. Thank you all for entering and stay tuned for another Irvine Park giveaway early next month!
I think if you read this site on a regular basis, you know that I’m a fan of Irvine Park Railroad. One of my favorite times of the year is Halloween and heading to Irvine Park Railroad to pick a pumpkin and participate in the fun activities and it has now become a tradition for our family.
There are plenty of places for photo opportunities and the pumpkin patch has great size pumpkins at a pretty reasonable price. We usually head there twice during the season.This year’s Pumpkin Patch activities include: Train rides, hay rides, a haunted house, a hay maze, pony rides, a moon bounce, carnival games, John Deere tractor racers, face painting (weekends only), picture stands, great food and The Orange County Zoo.
Credit: Daytrippingmom
I still can’t get over the fact that is summer almost a thing of the past and that fall is almost here (it doesn’t feel that way with this weather). The 7th annual Irvine Park Railroad Pumpkin Patch opens on Saturday, September 22nd and goes until Halloween. The patch is open 7 days a week from 10am to 5pm on weekdays and 10am to 6pm on weekends. Pack a picnic and head down soon before the crowds arrive. I recommend heading there early in the day or late in the afternoon to avoid crowds.
It is a must visit in our family and has become a family tradition. I can’t wait to head down there, pick a couple of pumpkins, enjoy all the activities and of course take plenty of pictures.
To learn more about the Irvine Pumpkin Patch head here.
It’s Giveaway Time!
We are giving away
1 Grand Prize
4 Train Tickets
8 Pumpkin Patch Activity Tickets
1 Wheel Fun Rentals at Irvine Park Bike Rental (good for all bikes excluding the double surrey)
2 Runner Up Prizes
4 Train Tickets
1 Wheel Fun Rentals at Irvine Park Deuce Coupe Bike Rental
All you have to do is let me know what are you most looking forward to about Halloween and that’s pretty much it! Giveaway ends on Sunday, September 16th at 11:59pm. Winner will be selected at random. Good Luck!
I am totally looking foward to the decorations and halloween parties and the trip to Irvine Railroad of course!
As a new resident to SoCal, I am looking forward to all of the great things that there are for my family to discover. This experience would be fantastic, particularly for my train-fanatic son. Thanks for the opportunity!
I am looking forward to the fall weather (which hopefully means cooler weather)’ Halloween decorations and taking both of my kids to the pumpkin patch. I’m also looking forward to the costume picks this year.
I’m looking forward to carving pumpkins with my kids and the reaction of my 16 month old and 2.5 year old when we go trick or treating.
I LOVE Halloween! I am looking foward to all the festivities and events that come along with it. We always enjoy Irvine Railroad Parks Pumpkin Patch. We went once when it was raining and were the only ones there 🙂
I love Halloween, because my nephews and nieces come to our home to trick or treat. Together with my 3 sons, they create a giant celebration! I love the giggles, the pretending, the innocence that fills their little faces. This is one holiday that is just for them, all about them!
I am looking forward to decorating with the kids and dressing up as The Incredibles for our whole family! Excited… I love the fall, oh and baking!
I look forward to my lil guys dressing up in their Mario, Luigi, and Toad costumes. We enjoy making fresh pumkin pie together yummy. Can’t wait!
I’m looking forward to hanging out and creating my babies costumes.
I am looking foward to my daughter getting to carve her own pumpkin this year… She had a blast last year and we love irvine park.
I am only and only looking forward to see a Humongous Smile on my son’s face !!!… He is so looking forward to ride the John Deere tractors …he was very sad last year because he was too little to ride them!!! that’s why I can’t wait to see a happy face this time at the park. Plus he enjoys the hay rides…and the pony rides.!!!! So ready for FALL !!!!!
We love the Fall! Cooler weather, falling leaves, spicy candles, pumpkin and apple treats, and harvest festivals/ pumpkin patches, etc. We love Irvine park, and have been looking forward to going during this season.
We go to the Pumpkin Patch every year on the day they also have the OC Zoo Halloween event. It’s a double score day!!! My daughter looks forward to going and taking along a friend. We heart Irvine Park!
This is my youngest son’s first Halloween and I am most looking forward to being able to coordinate my boys costumes this year! I may even be able to talk my husband into themed family costumes! Lol. I also love cool fall weather and look forward to baking everything pumpkin, and of course the return of pumpkin spice lattes at Starbucks! Yum!
I am looking foward to all the events that come along with Halloween. I can’t wait to take my girls to the pumpkin patches, decorate the house, pick out and put together their costumes, and of course trick-or-treating time!
I am most looking forward to seeing the joy on the faces of my three children as we celebrate this fun season!
I’m looking forward dressing my boys up in their favorite characters and go trick-or-treat with them. Just enjoying the family time.
Looking forward to watching my kids dress up in their favorite costumes (star wars this year!)
I am looking forward to Tanaka Farms! It’s a yearly tradition! Would love to try this out, though…never been!
I’m looking forward to spend time with my wife and kid and start our own traditions since families are far from us !
My kids love going here for the pumpkin patch
Looking forward to all the fall fun… Pumpkin patch, carving pumpkins and Halloween parties!!
just looking forward spending time with the family and making special memories.
We look forward to Halloween time, we love the change in colors on the trees. We love pumpkin carving time :)I’ve been taking my kids to the irvine park pumpkin patch since they were born. Always get awesome pictures.
My son is a Halloween baby, so we have birthday madness!
The costumes! My daughter loves dressing up, she wants to be “Belle” from Beauty and the Beast this year!
My kids will get to experience Halloween at the park for the first time. It sounds like it will be a lot of fun.
This is the first year Scott recognizes what Halloween is, so I am definitely looking forward to having him experience all the decorations, the pumpkins, and getting to go trick-or-treating! Every time he sees a pumpkin he says “Halloween!” so I know he is really going to enjoy it this year. Last year we went to Irvine Park and we had a blast, so I think this year is going to be off the hook! 🙂
Also, I always look forward to creating our family’s costumes! Right now I am brainstorming how to make them…I am currently making plans for Alice and I: a koala bear and a tree!
My kids look forward to seeing the pumpkins every year around Halloween time. There are always so many activities around this time of the year that make family time extra special.
I still haven’t been to Irvine Park’s pumpkin patch, so I think we’ll have to stop by and check it out. I always look forward to taking those pics of my son picking out the pumpkin. He’s done it every year since he could walk.
My boys are most looking forward to the candy!!! I am most looking forward to their adorable faces in their costumes!!!
I can’t wait for the cooler weather & all the cute boots & sweaters in teeny tiny sizes for DD.
Looking forward to dressing baby up and taking pictures of her first Halloween!!
I can’t wai for Halloween to see my little boys smiling ear to ear as they run to each door with their pillow cases of candy! Yep, the looks on their faces are the best!
I have always wanted to take my kids to that pumpkin patch! My kids love Halloween! ~ As do their parents, to be honest.
Halloween is my 5 year old favorite Holiday. He looks so forward to this every year. I can’t wait to take him to all the fan activity s that So Cali has to offer this year. Thanks so much for all these great opportunity’s.
we have a gigantic street festival in Brea that is sponsored by our church. It is super fun!
Well, now I am definitley looking forward to visiting Irvine Railroad Park for Halloween! I have 4 1/2 yr old twins and have never been. Sounds awesome:) Thank you!
The pumpkin patch is our favorite Halloween activity! We love Irvine Park!
We are looking forward to making our costumes for our son and daughter and going trick or treating for the first time in our new neighborhood.
We LOVE halloween at our house!! We are looking fwd to carving our pumpkins, buying costumes for our kids, making special treats for the occassion, and having our annual halloween party with our friends! 🙂
Pumpkin carving, dressing up, and candy! What’s better than that?
i’m looking forward to costume shopping with my daughter!
My girls (6 and 3) are SO into Halloween this year. I am really looking forward to all of it because of that. They want to make the house fun and a little scary, pick out elaborate costumes and experience everything. I love the fall weather, baking and visiting all our local celebrations. We love Irvine Park and can’t wait for the pumpkin patch!
Candy!!! I love eating my kids candy. Lol
I am looking forward to dressing up my little girls in their princess dresses and taking them to our church’s Blocktober Event. We have never been in town for this event and I am excited to be able to take my kids there for the very first time.
I love when Halloween comes around because the weather starts to get cooler, I love dressing my kids up in their costumes and watching them carve their pumpkins. It also gets me excited because it marks the beginning of the end of the year and all the fun stuff that brings.
I can’t wait to decorate for Halloween! I love to go overboard and my boys think its great!!
I’m looking forward to fall weather and the fall baking that comes with it. Seeing my kids in their themed costumes togethers. And seeing their reactions at all the different Halloween themed activities!
I’m looking forward to the parties & trick-or-treating with my two daughters, especially since its the LO’s first Halloween!
Fall is a season I always look forward to. Love pumpkin patches and would love to take my two girls.
Just seeing Halloween through the eyes of my three kids.
I am most looking forward to seeing my daughter get dressed up and have fun during the parades and trick or treating. The cooling weather doesn’t hurt either.
We would love to visit Irvine Park. We have NEVER been and would love to experience the pumpkin patch!!!
I love watching my girls toddle around the pumpkin patch looking at all the pumpkins. Its just something about that time of year that I LOVE.
I am most looking forward to taking my daughter, we went last year and she was only one and she still loved it at at that age. Seeing your smile at all the pumpkins is the best feeling in the world!
I am looking forward to having my 2yr old run around in his costume excited as he sees that everyone else dressed up as well. Also getting messy carving pumpkins.
I am most looking forward to decorating our front yard for Halloween and passing out candy to the over 250 kids who will show up that night. My whole family dresses up for it!
I am most looking forward to making my son’s costume. He is 11 on the Autism spectrum and loves Halloween. Even if we purchase some of his costume we always try to make something for it or add more details. My son is looking forward to Irvine Park’s Pumpkin Patch. He keeps looking at the ad for it ever since we got it this summer!
My kids dressing up is my favorite part. They look so stinkin cute!
I like the change in the leaves, the coolness in the air (in the rarity when it does get cooler), and how excited my kids get with selecting their costumes.
We just moved to Aliso Viejo from Florida, so the thing I’m looking the most forward to, is my 7 year old twins being able to dress up in their costumes without sweating to death and being stung by mosquitos:)
I am excited for my oldest daughter’s first Halloween! She is 10 and we adopted her from China last December. She has never experienced the fall fun of Halloween!
My daughter is turning 3 in late October and its the first time she can really experience the season so this will make it an excellent and fun experience besides all the candy and scary Halloween stuff.
I can’t wait until fall! This is my absolute favorite time of the year. The weather cools, and the nutmeg, cinnamon, and pumpkin aromas fill the air and to top it off, pumpkin lattes!! Our family looks forward to beginning to pack Christmas boxes for vets deployed in middle east, setting up hot chocolate n donuts stands and collecting blankets for the homeless in Downtown Fullerton ( but t hey a re EVERYWHERE. , just pick a city, grab a folding table and go), and getting creative with dressup for Halloween by allowing kids to go thrift shopping and then participate in making their own costume.
We love Halloween and are looking forward to our traditions. Carving pumpkins, trick or treating, visit to a pumpkin patch to name a few.
Seeing my girls dress up!
I am most looking forward to cooler weather & seeing my little boy dressed up!
It’s a great time to be with your neighbors and the kids can enjoy a night of receiving gifts from others!
I am looking forward to pumpkin patches, carving a pumpkin, cooler weather, and going to our church carnival.
I am super excited about Halloween this year because my girls are old enough now to get it and have fun! Now choosing a costume will be the tough part !!
Halloween is my favorite time of year! I am looking forward to doing all sorts of activities with my daughtwe and her birthday is a week before halloween so the month is extra fun for us!
Hope we win these tickets!
Well I just got my Halloween/fall/Thanksgiving decorations up today because I do LOVE this time of year. But what I am looking forward to the most is that my 5 year old daughter and 3 year old son are dressing up as Luke and Leia Skywalker this year….gonna be stinkin’ ADORABLE and Star Wars is my husband’s favorite movie!!
I’m looking forward to making Halloween fun for my daughter again. She got a bit scared from last year from some scary costumes. So I want to make it enjoyable for her again this year, we already have her ladybug costume, and we will make treats, and will carve family friendly pumpkins! We definitely want to check out the irvine pumpkin patch.
I’m looking forward to all the baking with pumpkin….love me some pumpkin bread, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin cupcakes, pumpkin pancakes, pumpkin pie…..yummy!
It is very difficult to choose only one activity that I am most looking forward to about Halloween. As a result, I will name only a few that are at the top of my list!
Examples include: trick-or-treating with my son, seeing the other children dressed up in their costumes, making Halloween crafts, and other Halloween themed activities. It also brings me great joy to observe my son when he is happily distributing treats to the children that knock on our door.
We’ve never been to the Irvine Park Railroad Pumpkin Patch, but it sure sounds like fun! Thanks for the opportunity to participate in this giveaway! 🙂
I love all the cute pictures that we can take at the pumpkin patch, but I am most looking forward to stealing my kids’ candy!!! That’s the best part for me!
I look forward to discuss with my son and my daughter what they would like to dress for Halloween. Then we will take lots pictures for all the trick or treat they attend.
I’m looking forward to the costumes (our whole family dresses up) & the spookiness of Halloween. We love to be scared, startled & spooked.
I’m excited to make my kids’ costumes. It’s my favorite thing to do each year!
I’m looking forward to trick or treating with my kids.