The most complete farm day within easy reach of Tallahassee, and reasonably priced — but the farm had not published its 2026 dates or prices when we last checked, so confirm before you drive.
2025 Fall Farm Days were $12 online / $15 at the gate; children 3 and under free. An earlier listing quoted a flat $8 per person - pricing has changed year to year, so check before going.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $48.00 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.
Aunt Louise’s Farm is the answer to a question a lot of Tallahassee families ask each September, which is where to go that is neither a church parking lot nor two hours away. Half an hour east on Waukeenah Highway gets you a three-acre corn maze, a hayride, a barrel train, a corn pit, pony rides, duck races, an animal barn with bunnies, goats, cows and sheep, and food trucks — a proper farm day rather than a photo stop.
The catch is planning. When we last checked, the farm’s own calendar had not been filled in for 2026 and the regional tourism listing still showed dates as TBA. What we can tell you is what last season looked like: roughly six weekends from early October to mid-November, Saturdays 10am to 6pm and Sundays 2pm to 6pm, at $12 online or $15 at the gate. That is a reasonable basis for penciling in a weekend. It is not a basis for driving out without checking, particularly since an older listing had admission at a flat $8 — the price here has moved more than once.
The 2pm Sunday opening is the schedule detail worth building around. It means a Sunday visit starts in the hottest four hours of a Florida afternoon, with a hard 6pm close and no way to get ahead of the heat. Saturday’s 10am opening gives you the cool part of the day and twice the window.
If you can only do Sunday, treat it as a late-afternoon trip rather than a lunchtime one, and accept that everyone else arriving at Aunt Louise’s that day walked through the gate at the same moment you did.
At 2025 rates, two adults and two children over three booked online came to $48, which is genuinely good value against the $70-to-$100 that comparable farms charge in Central Florida. The variables are pony rides and food trucks. The farm lists pony rides as an attraction without saying whether they are included, and at most farms of this size they are not — ask at the gate before your children join the queue, because a per-child add-on repeated two or three times reshapes the afternoon’s budget. Food trucks do the same thing more predictably.
The listing says pumpkins are for sale rather than u-pick, and that is honest of them. Florida’s climate does not support a commercial fall pumpkin crop, so pumpkins at every patch in the state — Panhandle included — are trucked in and arranged. What you are buying here is a farm afternoon with animals, a maze and a hayride, and a pumpkin on the way out. Set the expectation with children before you arrive rather than in the field.
Saturday morning. The farm opens at 10am on Saturdays and not until 2pm on Sundays, which makes Sunday a heat-of-the-day visit by default. Both days close at 6pm. In the 2025 season the run went from early October into mid-November; if that pattern holds, the November weekends are meaningfully cooler than the October ones and worth choosing if anyone in your group struggles with heat.
Two and a half to three hours. A three-acre corn maze, a hayride, a barrel train, a corn pit, pony rides, duck races and an animal barn is enough to fill an afternoon properly without needing a full day.
Weekends only, and it is the main option for a whole city, which concentrates demand. The Sunday 2pm opening means the entire Sunday crowd arrives at once; Saturday spreads across eight hours and is the better bet for elbow room even though it is the busier day overall.
Not published. The farm is on a rural highway south of Monticello and, like most working farms in the Panhandle, is very likely to park visitors on grass or dirt rather than pavement. October in this part of Florida still produces afternoon storms, so a wet field means a muddy walk — wear closed shoes you do not mind.
You need certainty about the date. The farm's own calendar had not been filled in for 2026 when we checked, and both dates and pricing have moved between seasons here — one older listing had admission at a flat $8, the 2025 season ran $12 online and $15 at the gate. Turning up on a weekend the farm is not open is a real risk.
Monticello's small historic downtown is a short detour north of the farm if you want to make an afternoon into a day out.
The farm had not populated its 2026 calendar when we last checked, and one regional tourism listing still shows dates as TBA. In 2025 the season ran from early October to mid-November, Saturdays 10am to 6pm and Sundays 2pm to 6pm. Treat that as the likely shape of 2026, not a guarantee.
2026 pricing is not published. The 2025 season was $12 online and $15 at the gate, with children 3 and under free. An older listing quoted a flat $8 per person, so the price has moved between years — check before you go.
It sits on Waukeenah Highway south of Monticello, roughly half an hour east of Tallahassee, which makes it the nearest large farm attraction to the city.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Weekends (Sat-Sun). Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission starts at $12 per person. 2025 Fall Farm Days were $12 online / $15 at the gate; children 3 and under free. An earlier listing quoted a flat $8 per person - pricing has changed year to year, so check before going.
8101 Waukeenah Highway, Monticello, FL 32344, in Jefferson County. It is one of 14 patches we track in Panhandle.
We track 14 patches in Panhandle, 9 of which are free to walk into. At $12 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $12, undercutting 2 of the 5 paid patches we track here.
What sets it apart locally: it has a corn or crop maze, hayrides, rides and play structures, which most Panhandle patches on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 2 of the 14 patches we track in Panhandle had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There are 6 other patches we track in Jefferson County. All Panhandle patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
auntlouisesfarm.com
Checked August 2026.