A Day at the Martial Cottle Park Fall Festival: A Mobility Scooter Guide

A Day at the Martial Cottle Park Fall Festival: A Mobility Scooter Guide

Once a year, Santa Clara County Parks turns Martial Cottle Park — a preserved working farm tucked along Snell Avenue in South San Jose — into a free, old-fashioned harvest celebration. There's a pumpkin patch, antique tractors and farm equipment on display, local crafts and food trucks, live music, and hands-on agricultural demonstrations for kids. It's a genuinely low-key, low-cost outing, and unlike a lot of fall festivals held on open fields, this one sits inside a park built with paved, accessible trails — which makes it a good candidate for a mobility scooter if you plan the day with a little care.

What the Festival Actually Is

The Fall Festival is put on by Santa Clara County Parks at Martial Cottle Park, a former dairy and produce farm now preserved as county open space. In recent years it's run on a single Saturday in October, roughly late morning through early afternoon, with free admission. Expect a pumpkin patch, historic autos and antique farm machinery, agricultural workshops, local arts and craft vendors, food trucks, and live music. Because the exact date, hours, and activity lineup can shift year to year, confirm the current details on the Santa Clara County Parks website before you build your day around it.

Why the Park Itself Works in Your Favor

Martial Cottle Park has over three miles of paved, largely flat multi-use trail, plus a trailhead parking lot with designated accessible spaces close to the entrance. That's the easy part. On the festival day itself, some of the more interesting stops — the pumpkin patch, the farm-equipment displays, a few vendor rows — tend to be set up on the grass or packed dirt near the historic farm buildings rather than directly on the paved loop. None of it is difficult ground, but it's worth expecting a mix of surfaces rather than pavement the entire way.

Planning Your Arrival

Martial Cottle Park is located at 5283 Snell Ave in San Jose, with a large paved lot at the main trailhead. Festival days draw a bigger crowd than a normal weekend at the park, so parking fills in as the morning goes on — arriving close to opening gives you the best shot at an accessible spot near the entrance and a full look at everything before the busiest hours.

Getting Around the Grounds

The paved trail loop connects most of the festival's main areas, so a scooter can comfortably cover the distance between the entrance, the music and food areas, and the craft vendors. When you reach the pumpkin patch or the farm-equipment exhibits, slow down and take a look at the ground first — a volunteer nearby can usually point out the smoothest path if the grass has softened from watering or a recent rain.

Getting a Scooter There

San Jose is part of our regular Bay Area service area, along with Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Campbell, and Milpitas. We'll deliver a sanitized, fully charged scooter free on a scheduled basis to your home or hotel ahead of the festival, with a quick walkthrough on the controls so nothing is unfamiliar once you're there. If you'd rather grab one yourself, our Bay Area location at 2700 Mission College Blvd in Santa Clara is a short drive from the park.

What It Costs

Bay Area rentals start at $50/day for a 2-day rental and step down the longer you rent, to $40/day for 3–6 days, $35/day for 7–19 days, and $25/day for 20-plus days. There's no deposit and no contract. Scheduled delivery, setup, and pickup are included at no extra charge; same-day delivery, if your plans come together last minute, carries a $20 fee.

How SafeCare Rental Helps

We deliver sanitized mobility scooters and wheelchairs throughout San Jose and the surrounding Bay Area with:

• Free scheduled delivery to your home, hotel, or another address you choose
• Self-pickup available at our Santa Clara location
• Same-day delivery available for an additional $20 fee when scooters are in stock
• No deposit and no contract
• Rentals from $25/day, with lower per-day rates the longer you rent
• Support 7 days a week, 8 AM–8 PM, at (614) 500-3616

Call (614) 500-3616 or get a free quote — free scheduled delivery across the Bay Area, no deposit, from $25/day.