Opens the last weekend of August, which is weeks ahead of most McHenry County farms, and sells its attractions unbundled from $9 — but every price is quoted as a from-figure that rises on peak dates, so the number you plan with is a floor rather than a quote.
2026 tickets: Barnyard Fun from $9 (corn maze plus 30+ attractions, single use); Apple Picking from $12 (includes a 1/4 peck bag, orchard entrance and hayride); Combo Pass from $19 for both; Season Pass from $49 for unlimited visits and all activities. Ages 2 and under free.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $36.00 in admission alone at the posted starting rate, before pumpkins, food, parking or any add-on listed above. Most families end up well north of that once they are through the gate.
The single most useful thing about this orchard is its calendar. It opens on August 29, several weeks before most farms in McHenry County get going, which means there is a real window in early September when the apples are on and the fall-festival crowd has not yet formed. If you have ever driven to an orchard on a mid-October Saturday and spent twenty minutes finding a parking space, the alternative is right here and it is cheaper.
Three products, plus a pass. Barnyard Fun from $9 covers the corn maze and the 30-plus attractions, on a single-use basis. Apple picking from $12 includes a quarter-peck bag, the orchard entrance and the hayride out to the trees. The combo from $19 covers both. A season pass from $49 covers unlimited visits and everything.
That structure rewards knowing what you came for. A family of four who only want to pick apples pays $48 rather than the $76 they would spend on four combos, and they are not paying for a ropes course nobody is going to use. Conversely, the combo only saves $2 over buying the two tickets separately, so there is no reason to buy it defensively.
The season pass is the interesting one at from-$49: three barnyard visits or two and a half combos and it has paid for itself. For a household within twenty minutes of Woodstock with a child who likes animals, that is a plausible number of visits across ten weeks.
Every one of those figures is quoted by the orchard as a from-price that rises on peak dates. This matters more than it sounds. It means the $9 you planned around is the floor, available on the quiet days, and an October Saturday will cost more — the orchard just does not say how much more in advance. Check the actual price for your date in the booking flow before you commit, rather than assuming the headline figure applies.
Being fair to the orchard, this is a common and defensible way to price a weather-dependent business. But it does mean a page like this cannot honestly quote you a family total for a mid-October weekend, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
Corn maze, apple picking, pumpkin picking, a petting zoo, a sunflower trail, pony rides, a ropes course, an apple cannon, hayrides, a farm market, and the food stand. The 2026 corn maze is cut as a Dolly Parton tribute. The orchard runs about 16,000 apple trees, which is a serious commercial operation rather than a token row for visitors, and the cider donuts and caramel apples are the most frequently cited reason people come back.
That last point deserves its own line in the budget. Northern Illinois fall runs on apples and cider as much as on pumpkins, and the queue at an orchard’s donut window on an October Saturday is regularly longer than the queue for any ride. Nothing in any ticket covers it, and nobody walks past.
Weekdays close at 5pm. That is an hour earlier than most farms on this list and it is easy to plan straight past — a 2pm arrival on a Wednesday in October leaves three hours, which is not much for an orchard plus a corn maze plus a ropes course. Weekends and holidays get until 6pm.
Closed every Tuesday, but open on Labor Day and Columbus Day. Both of those holidays are worth using precisely because a lot of comparable farms treat them inconsistently.
McHenry County is far enough north that the season ends decisively. The orchard closes on November 1, which is around when frost typically starts finishing off standing corn in this part of the state. October rain is the more immediate consideration: orchard rows and a corn maze are both soft ground, parking is almost certainly not paved, and the sunflower trail is a field. Boots for anyone under twelve, and a jacket each even on a warm afternoon, because a 6pm close at the end of October is nearly dark.
August 29 through November 1, 2026, daily except Tuesdays, including Labor Day and Columbus Day. Weekdays run 10am to 5pm and weekends and holidays 10am to 6pm. Early September is the genuinely underused window: apples are the draw, the pumpkin crowds have not arrived, and the from-prices are at their lowest. Late September and October weekends are when the same tickets cost more.
Three to four hours for the combo. Two hours if you are buying Barnyard Fun alone, which is a single-use ticket rather than an all-day pass.
An August 29 opening buys you three or four weeks that most McHenry County farms do not offer, and those are the quiet weeks. October weekends are the crush, and the orchard's own from-pricing confirms it by rising on peak dates.
Not published. McHenry County orchard parking is generally field or gravel; expect softness after autumn rain.
Not published. An orchard, a corn maze, a sunflower trail and a ropes course cover a lot of varied ground. Call 815-338-5637 in advance if that matters.
You want a late afternoon. Weekdays close at 5pm, which is early for a fall farm, and the last usable hour disappears fast in October. Skip Tuesdays entirely — the orchard is closed every one of them, even though it opens on both Labor Day and Columbus Day.
Woodstock sits in the middle of McHenry County's orchard belt, and the drive north-west from the suburbs runs through peak leaf colour in the same weeks as peak apple season. Budget more time for the roads on an October weekend than the map suggests.
2026 tickets start at $9 for Barnyard Fun, which covers the corn maze and 30-plus attractions on a single-use basis; $12 for apple picking, which includes a quarter-peck bag, the orchard entrance and the hayride; $19 for a combo of both; and $49 for a season pass with unlimited visits and all activities. Children 2 and under are free. All of those are from-prices that rise on peak dates.
A Dolly Parton tribute, cut for the 2026 season.
August 29 to November 1, 2026, daily except Tuesdays, and open on both Labor Day and Columbus Day. Weekdays are 10am to 5pm and weekends and holidays are 10am to 6pm.
Pumpkin picking is on the orchard's activity list alongside apple picking. Which ticket covers it was not spelled out on the pages we read, so ask at the gate before buying if the pumpkin is the priority rather than the apples.
August 29 – November 1, 2026. Daily except Tuesdays, including Labor Day and Columbus Day. Hours: Weekdays 10am-5pm; weekends and holidays 10am-6pm.
Admission starts at $9 per person. 2026 tickets: Barnyard Fun from $9 (corn maze plus 30+ attractions, single use); Apple Picking from $12 (includes a 1/4 peck bag, orchard entrance and hayride); Combo Pass from $19 for both; Season Pass from $49 for unlimited visits and all activities. Ages 2 and under free.
14510 IL Route 176, Woodstock, IL 60098, in McHenry County. It is one of 5 patches we track in Northern Illinois.
We track 5 patches in Northern Illinois, 2 of which are free to walk into. At $9 a head this one sits below the regional median of $17, undercutting 2 of the 3 paid patches we track here.
Its season runs about 65 days against a regional average of 63, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
What sets it apart locally: it has farm animals, which most Northern Illinois patches on our list do not.
There are 2 other patches we track in McHenry County. All Northern Illinois patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
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Checked August 2026.