The Hartville area shines as a backdrop for your fall family, engagement, and senior photos. With a variety of settings including pumpkin farms, park trails, and historic buildings you’re sure to find an opportunity for color, texture, and unique views. Here are some of our favorites!
Thanks to Abundance Film, Everett Jade Photography and Brittany Humes Photography for sharing a few photos with us for this story!
Farms
Home Again Flowers, Maize Valley, and Kingsway Pumpkin Farm welcome photographers to their farms with paid general admission or purchase.
Home Again Flowers is open dawn to dusk, July-September, for u-pick flowers. Photographers are welcome to use their fields for a gorgeous floral backdrop. No reservations are required but each party (a person, a couple, or a family who lives in the same household) is required to make a minimum $20 purchase while visiting. If one photographer has multiple sessions, there is a $20 minimum for each session.
Kingsway Pumpkin Farm is an annual tradition for many local families. Photos in the pumpkin patch followed by an afternoon of fun is a great way to guarantee smiles over tears. Lots of hand-painted photo-ops throughout the play area too! Check their website for seasonal hours mid-September through the end of October. General Admission $10, seniors (60+) $8, children 3 and under are free.
Maize Valley is wrapping up sunflower field season this month and will quickly move into pumpkins and corn mazes. Here you’ll find chippy tractors, a great rusty blue vintage truck, and a variety of fences, fields, and winding paths. Great spot to pair with a delicious lunch or dinner and glass of wine or a house-made craft brew. Sunflower field admission is $5 per person age 2 and up and $5 per bloom. Fall activity admission is $16.95 per person ages 2 and up, $10 on Thursdays.
Historic Downtown Hartville
Historic Buildings
Downtown Hartville’s historic buildings are a mix of historic and industrial textures and colors. Try the porch at Hartville Elevator and the train station at Maple Street Gallery for great textures, old doors, and chippy paint. For a pop of color, you’ll find a bright yellow caboose and a sage green block building in the neighborhood.
Senior photos at Maple Street Art Gallery’s historic train station.
Photo: Everett Jade Photography
Deuble Square Park on the corner of State Routes 43 and 619 in downtown Hartville is also a great photo spot with brick walkways and greenery that turns into gorgeous fall color.
Parks
Uniontown Community Park is 17 acres located at the end of a long wood-surrounded street. The pond and fountain with fall color make a beautiful spot for reflection with a gazebo nearby.
Fichtner Park is a hidden gem tucked right next to Hartville Kitchen. This park has two trailheads. The parking/entrance next to Hartville Kitchen/behind Comfort Suites hotel goes into the woods, with lots of open fully wooded areas and a bench. The other entrance is off of Market Ave N. and is closer to the pond and raised wooden walkway.
Quail Hollow Park is a favorite photo location for good reason. With wooded areas, a historic 1930’s manor house, stone patios and archways, a gravel drive, fields and gardens there is a great mix of backgrounds all in one spot! Be sure to check out the herb garden and area behind the manor house for some interesting history and architecture. Open sunrise to sunset.
Fall at Quail Hollow Park
Photo: Brittany Humes Photography
Regarding old buildings for Fall Photos. What about the Old Schoolhouse and LTHS Museum (Greentown Library)? There is also the Greentown Park. These make great back drop for family photos.