Ten minutes south of Lincoln, on what used to be the Meyers homestead, the Schaefer family has been running Roca Berry Farm since 1980 — long enough that “Harvesting Memories Since 1980” is the motto and plenty of parents now bring the kids their own parents brought.
Daytime is pure family fall: more than 100,000 pumpkins across 35 acres, a hayrack ride out to the patch, a corn maze, jumping pillows, pig races, a life-size game of Candy Land, farm animals, and famously good kettle corn. At night the farm flips into Roca Scary Farm — the Haunted Manor, the Psych-O-Path through haunted woods, and a haunted hayrack ride, for teens and adults. The farm also grows strawberries in late spring and raspberries in summer, so fall isn’t the whole story. Open daily 9 to 7 during the season.