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| Where Was Pumpkin Regatta Romance Filmed? All Ontario Locations. |
Hallmark’s Pumpkin Regatta Romance turns a family feud into a lakeside love story, and its fictional town was brought to life in and around Hamilton, Ontario. The film follows marina owner Nadine Brooks and pumpkin farmer Ethan King as they attempt to save the town’s much-loved Pumpkin Regatta while trying to settle a long-running disagreement between their fathers.
Naturally, fixing a family feud turns out to be considerably easier than ignoring the chemistry between them. Directed by Liz Farrer, the romantic drama was filmed in Ontario in 2026, with Hamilton providing most of the locations used to create the film’s colourful small-town setting.
The main production base was Hamilton, a port city at the western end of the Niagara Peninsula in Southern Ontario. The city gives the film plenty of variety, from urban streets and waterfront scenery to agricultural landscapes, making it a practical setting for a story that jumps between a marina, a pumpkin farm and a community festival. Principal photography reportedly took place in May 2026 under the working title Love at the Pumpkin Regatta, with filming running for roughly a couple of weeks.
One of the most recognisable areas used for the production was Dundas, a historic community within Hamilton known for its streets lined with older buildings, independent businesses and a distinctly small-town atmosphere.
The production filmed around the downtown area, including streets close to Thirsty Cactus at 2 King Street East. That setting works rather neatly for a Hallmark romance: charming streets, familiar-looking shops and just enough local character to make a fictional town feel like somewhere viewers could actually spend a weekend.
The production also used Adventure Attic at 28 King Street West, although audiences will not necessarily recognise it as the same business. The sports store was reportedly redressed to portray a fictional hardware store for the film. It is one of those movie-location tricks that sounds incredibly simple until you realise how often filmmakers turn an ordinary shop into something completely different with a new sign, some dressing and strategically placed camera angles.
Another important location was Puddicombe Farms, Winery & Cider at 1468 ON-8 in Stoney Creek. The agricultural property brings a more rural side to the production and fits naturally with Ethan’s pumpkin-farming storyline. Stoney Creek itself sits within Hamilton and has a mix of farmland, residential areas and access to the wider waterfront region, giving the filmmakers plenty of visual contrast without having to stray far from the main production area.
For the scenes involving the film’s central Pumpkin Regatta, the production used Macassa Bay Yacht Club at 80 Harbour Front Drive and the surrounding Macassa Bay. The waterfront location is particularly important because the regatta is not just a decorative backdrop in the story; it is the community event that brings Nadine and Ethan together and gives their two families a reason to put aside their differences. A pumpkin-based boat race on the water is already wonderfully odd in the best Hallmark way, so having a genuine harbour setting gives those scenes some extra personality.
Several other sequences were filmed around a real estate office at the intersection of Young Street and James Street South. While it may sound less glamorous than a waterfront yacht club or a picturesque farm, these everyday commercial locations are often what make a fictional town feel complete. A convincing small town needs somewhere for people to buy houses, run businesses and presumably make questionable decisions about who should organise the annual pumpkin festival.
For a little more Hamilton context, James Street South is one of the city’s established urban corridors, running through a part of Hamilton that blends commercial activity with older residential architecture. Its connection to the production helps broaden the visual identity of the fictional town beyond the obvious festival and countryside scenes. It also demonstrates how Pumpkin Regatta Romance uses different parts of Hamilton rather than relying entirely on one picturesque street and hoping nobody notices.
The film’s waterfront setting also connects naturally with Hamilton Harbour, a major part of the city’s geography and identity. Although the supplied production details specifically identify Macassa Bay and the yacht club for the regatta sequences, Hamilton’s broader harbour landscape provides useful context for understanding why the city works so well for a story built around boating, community events and a marina-owning heroine.
The cast is led by Mishael Morgan and Corey Sevier, who play Nadine Brooks and Ethan King respectively. Morgan takes on Nadine as the determined marina owner caught between her family responsibilities and an increasingly complicated relationship with Ethan. She is best known for playing Amanda Sinclair on The Young and the Restless, while her film credits include Total Recall, Sway, A Killer in My Home and Hearts Around the Table: Kiki’s Fourth Ingredient.
Corey Sevier plays Ethan King, the pumpkin farmer whose family history puts him on the opposite side of Nadine’s father. Sevier has built a substantial screen career across film and television, with credits including The Northlander, Immortals, Rodeo Christmas Romance, Hudson & Rex, Mistresses and Cedar Cove. He has also moved behind the camera, directing projects including It Takes a Christmas Village, Heart of the Holidays and The Christmas Charade.
The supporting cast includes Jenny Raven as Allie, Sharron Matthews as Tracey, Eugene Clark as George Brooks, Rob Stewart as Andrew King, Catherine McGregor as Barb, Paula Boudreau as Frankie King, Jordan Hayes as Lola and Jake Epstein as Jacob Hawthorne.
Jordan Belliveau plays Sam, while Braedyn Ferguson appears as Receptionist Theresa. With two feuding families, a community festival and enough relatives to keep everyone permanently involved in someone else’s business, there is clearly no shortage of opportunities for awkward conversations.
What makes the filming locations particularly fitting is the way Hamilton can shift between city, countryside and waterfront without the movie having to travel across half of Ontario. Dundas supplies the town atmosphere, Stoney Creek adds the agricultural backdrop, and Macassa Bay provides the setting for the story’s signature regatta. Put them together and the fictional lakeside community becomes much easier to picture, even though it exists only within the film.
My take is that Hamilton is a surprisingly good match for Pumpkin Regatta Romance because the story needs several different environments without losing the feeling that everything belongs to the same community. The Dundas streets give the film its cosy small-town character, while Puddicombe Farms adds the rustic pumpkin-farming side and Macassa Bay handles the slightly bonkers spectacle of people racing pumpkins on water.
It is exactly the sort of location mix Hallmark romances tend to benefit from: attractive without looking completely detached from ordinary life. The funniest part is probably how a family feud serious enough to cancel an entire festival can apparently be repaired once two attractive adults start spending more time together. Still, that is hardly a complaint. If every community dispute could be solved with a pumpkin regatta, autumn would be considerably more productive.
With Mishael Morgan and Corey Sevier leading the cast and Hamilton standing in for the fictional lakeside town, Pumpkin Regatta Romance has a setting that does much of the visual work alongside its romantic storyline. From Dundas and Stoney Creek to Macassa Bay and the streets around James Street South, the production made use of distinctly different parts of Hamilton to build its world. Would you visit these Hamilton locations after watching the film, and which one would you most like to see for yourself?