Hillcrest Farm kicks off pumpkin season with trains and treats

REEDLEY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A autumn contented since 1960 continues astatine Hillcrest Christmas Tree Farm and Pumpkin Patch successful Fresno County.

The family-owned workplace successful Reedley celebrated its opening time implicit the weekend, welcoming families to the pumpkin patch.

The vintage steam motor is offering rides to visitors to and from the pumpkin spot for those wanting to bask the autumn scenery surrounding the farm.

The workplace says it caters to each ages, offering breathtaking hayrides, a quality trail, nutrient from section vendors and your prime of immoderate size pumpkin.

While astatine the farm, families tin hop connected committee 2 steam engines that person been operating astatine the workplace for astir 3 decades.

"It takes a batch of expertise to support a steam motor due to the fact that there's nary parts astatine the store. It's a batch of expertise to bash it," said Melissa Bautista, co-owner of Hillcrest Farm and Pumpkin Patch.

Train tickets are $5 and hayrides are $4.

To prevention money, the workplace is charging families a $10 admittance interest per car, lone disposable during the pumpkin spot season.

If you bash program a visit, the pumpkin spot is unfastened lone connected weekends from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. done the extremity of October.