Bellemont Farm in Lambertville is preparing to welcome visitors back for its annual late summer agritourism celebration, as the Lambertville Sunflower Festival returns for its 2026 run from August 15 through September 13. Located at 22 Valley Road, the festival transforms five acres of the farm into a genuine field of gold, giving visitors a full month to experience towering, blooming sunflower fields alongside a rotating mix of family friendly entertainment that shifts depending on the day of the week.
At the heart of the festival experience sits the sunflower fields themselves, where visitors can stroll freely through five acres of golden blooms and take part in cut your own flower bouquet picking, letting guests walk away with a genuinely personal, hand selected arrangement rather than a pre-cut bunch from a stand. Weekends bring the festival’s fullest programming, featuring a rotating lineup of regional live music acts, local food trucks, and an on-site beer garden, giving adults visiting the farm plenty of reason to linger well beyond the flower fields themselves. Families with kids in tow will find a genuinely full slate of activities built specifically for younger visitors, including a dedicated kids’ play area, a petting zoo, pony rides, and a season long cornhole tournament that gives repeat visitors a running reason to come back throughout the festival’s full month long run.
Photographers and anyone hoping to capture a genuinely striking portrait have their own dedicated windows built into the schedule as well. The farm offers golden hour morning sessions running from 7 to 9 a.m., timed specifically to catch the sunflowers in their most photogenic early morning light, alongside separate Sunflowers at Sunset sessions built around the opposite end of the day’s lighting. Both sessions are scheduled specifically for portrait photography, giving families, couples, and photographers a genuinely optimal window to capture their visit rather than fighting midday crowds and harsh overhead sun.
The festival’s schedule splits cleanly between two distinct experiences depending on when visitors choose to come. Weekends and Labor Day itself run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and include the festival’s full setup, complete with live music, vendors, and food trucks layered on top of the flower fields. Advance tickets for that full weekend experience run $19 for adults and $12 for children, with prices increasing for anyone purchasing at the gate rather than booking ahead of time. Weekdays offer a considerably quieter, more low key alternative, running from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and limited to peaceful field access, flower cutting, and the kids’ play area, without the outside vendors and live entertainment that define the weekend crowds. That quieter weekday experience comes at a correspondingly lower price, with tickets dropping to $10 for adults and $7 for children.
Whether visitors are chasing the full festival atmosphere on a weekend, complete with music, food trucks, and a beer garden, or prefer a quieter weekday stroll through the fields with the kids in tow, the Lambertville Sunflower Festival offers a genuinely flexible way to experience one of the region’s most photogenic late summer traditions. With cut your own flowers included on weekends, dedicated golden hour photography sessions, and a full month long run stretching from mid-August into mid-September, Bellemont Farm gives visitors plenty of opportunity to plan a visit that fits their own pace, whether that means an active weekend outing or a peaceful weekday escape into five acres of blooming sunflowers.
