A 12-acre maze on the South Plains with pumpkins sold by weight at 50 cents a pound, and a pricing structure that quietly rewards anyone who can go on a Tuesday - $10 midweek against $15 at the weekend gate.
$10 Tuesday-Thursday; $15 at the gate Friday-Sunday or $13 online. $13 for seniors, military, college ID holders and groups of 20 or more. Free for children 4 and under. Pumpkins from the patch are sold by weight at 50 cents per pound.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $40.00 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.
There is a $5 decision at the front of this farm and it is worth understanding before anything else. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday cost $10. Friday, Saturday and Sunday cost $15 at the gate, or $13 if you buy online. Nothing about the farm changes between those days.
For a family of two adults and two school-age children, that is $40 on a Wednesday against $60 at a Saturday gate. Twenty dollars, for choosing a different evening. Add the online discount if the weekend is unavoidable and you are still $8 better off than the person who paid at the window.
The catch is what the midweek ticket buys. Tuesday to Friday the farm opens at 6pm and closes at 9pm. That is a three-hour evening session, and by the second half of October on the South Plains it is entirely after dark. You are buying a night maze, not an afternoon at a farm.
For a nine-year-old, a 12-acre corn maze in the dark with a torch is a considerably better night than the same maze in daylight. For a three-year-old whose bedtime is seven, it is a non-starter, and Saturday - 10am to 9pm, the only day with morning hours - becomes the only workable option.
Sunday sits awkwardly between the two, opening at 2pm and running to 9pm. It is the day to take if you want some daylight and some dark without paying Saturday crowds, though it is priced with the weekend.
Fifty cents a pound is a low price for Texas. A 15-pound carving pumpkin comes to $7.50. Four of them is $30 - which is less than a family of four pays to walk through the gate on a Saturday.
More to the point, you get them by riding a hayride out to the field and cutting them there. Pricing by weight and hauling people to the crop are both signals of a working field rather than a display arrangement, and out here on the South Plains, an hour from Floydada, a real crop is entirely plausible in a way it simply is not around Houston or San Antonio.
So the honest budget for a full midweek trip is $40 in admission, roughly $20 to $30 in pumpkins, and whatever the s’mores cost. Somewhere near $70 for four people, an evening, a large maze and pumpkins to take home. Against the $150-plus that a full festival day runs at the big Central Texas farms, that is a serious difference.
Admission covers the maze, the Fairy Tale Trail, Pumpkin Hollow, the barnyard animals, the corn pit, the Cowtrain and the corn cannon, alongside a campfire with s’mores and a u-pick sunflower field. That is a well-balanced list: one big attraction for the older children, a scaled-down version for the small ones, and enough incidental activity to absorb the gaps.
The 12-acre figure is the headline and it is genuinely large - most Texas farm mazes are a fraction of that. Treat it as a full hour of your three, and be realistic about doing it in the dark with a five-year-old.
First, the discounts are broader than most farms offer: $13 covers seniors, military, college students with ID, and groups of 20 or more. In a university town that college rate is worth remembering, and it beats the weekend gate price outright.
Second, dress for the High Plains, not for Texas. The elevation and the dry air mean the temperature falls quickly once the sun goes down, and a September evening that started warm at six can be genuinely cold by nine. Bring the jacket you would not otherwise have bothered with.
The season runs September 12 to November 7, 2026, closed Mondays. Tuesday to Friday it opens at 6pm and closes at 9pm - evenings only, so midweek this is an after-dark farm. Saturday runs 10am to 9pm and Sunday 2pm to 9pm. Take a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday evening if you can: it is the cheapest ticket, the quietest night and, in September and early October, by far the most comfortable time to be walking 12 acres of corn on the High Plains. If you want the pumpkin field in daylight, Saturday morning is the only real option.
Two and a half to three hours. A 12-acre maze can take an hour on its own, and the hayride out to the patch, the Fairy Tale Trail, the corn cannon and a campfire with s'mores fill the rest. The three-hour midweek window is enough but leaves no slack.
An eight-week season with six operating days a week is unusually well spread for Texas, and the price structure does crowd management for you - the $5 gap between a Tuesday and a Saturday moves people around. Saturday, the only day with morning hours, is the busiest by a distance.
Not published. The farm is on FM 1294 northwest of Lubbock; expect open field or caliche parking, which on the South Plains usually means dust rather than mud.
Not addressed on the farm's site. A corn maze, a hayride and a working pumpkin field mean uneven ground throughout. Call 806-763-5594 to ask before relying on it.
Monday is your day off - the farm is closed. Skip midweek too if you specifically want the patch in daylight, since Tuesday to Friday the gate does not open until 6pm and by mid-October that is close to dark. And if you have a toddler who will not last past bedtime, the evening-heavy schedule works against you every day except Saturday.
The farm is about 20 minutes northwest of Lubbock on FM 1294. Assiter Punkin Ranch is roughly an hour northeast, near Floydada in the heart of the state's real pumpkin-growing district. They complement each other rather than compete: Assiter is the working commercial grower with a petting zoo and almost no entertainment, this one is the maze-and-campfire evening. A weekend covering both is the strongest pumpkin itinerary in Texas.
$10 Tuesday to Thursday. Friday to Sunday it is $15 at the gate or $13 online. Seniors, military, college ID holders and groups of 20 or more pay $13. Children 4 and under are free. Pumpkins are extra, sold by weight at 50 cents per pound.
Closed Mondays. Tuesday to Friday 6pm to 9pm. Saturday 10am to 9pm. Sunday 2pm to 9pm. The season runs September 12 to November 7, 2026.
Yes. A hayride takes you out to the patch and pumpkins are priced by weight at 50 cents a pound, which points to a real field crop rather than a trucked-in display.
Reported at 12 acres, which is large for Texas. There is also a separate, much shorter Fairy Tale Trail and a Pumpkin Hollow area for younger children.
September 12 – November 7, 2026. Tuesday-Sunday; closed Mondays. Hours: Tuesday-Friday 6:00pm-9:00pm; Saturday 10:00am-9:00pm; Sunday 2:00pm-9:00pm.
Admission starts at $10 per person. $10 Tuesday-Thursday; $15 at the gate Friday-Sunday or $13 online. $13 for seniors, military, college ID holders and groups of 20 or more. Free for children 4 and under. Pumpkins from the patch are sold by weight at 50 cents per pound.
6323 FM 1294, Lubbock, TX 79415, in Lubbock County. It is one of 3 patches we track in West Texas.
We track 3 patches in West Texas. At $10 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $10.
Its season runs about 57 days against a regional average of 52, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
atldofarms.com · pumpkinpatchesandmore.org
Checked August 2026.