A rebranded Central PA farm market whose pumpkin season dates and prices are simply not published yet, and whose 2pm closing time on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays will strand anyone who drives out after lunch.
No current admission price is published on the rebranded site. Under its former Ard's Farm Market branding the pumpkinpatchesandmore.org directory listed adults $7, children 4-12 $6 and a limited-park ticket at $5 - treat that as historic, not as a 2026 rate. No source read states whether walking onto the property is free, so free_admission is set to false as a conservative default rather than as a verified fact.
The most useful thing to know about this farm is that it changed its name. Ard’s Farm Market on Old Turnpike Road outside Lewisburg is now The Banty Rooster, same address, same phone. That matters more than a rebrand usually does, because most of the information you will find about the place online was written about Ard’s. The pricing in those listings, the season window, the themed maze names, the Friday 4pm to 9pm and weekend noon to 6pm hours - all of it describes the previous operation, and the new site does not repeat any of it.
Two evening events, both dated, both in September. Banty’s Wine(d) Down at Sundown runs September 18 from 5:30pm to 9:30pm, and Banty’s Glow Night in the Maze runs September 26 from 6:30pm to 9:30pm - an after-dark run through the corn, which means the maze is cut and standing by the fourth week of September.
Beyond that, the farm describes a popular fall pumpkin patch, seasonal festivals and farm tours, and attaches no dates or prices to any of them. That is the honest state of it. Nobody visiting in October 2026 currently has a published start date, end date or admission figure to work from.
Wednesday and Thursday 9am to 2pm. Friday and Saturday 9am to 8pm. Sunday 9am to 2pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
Read that again in the context of a family weekend. Sunday, the day a lot of households actually have free, ends at 2pm. If you finish lunch and then drive out, you have missed it. Only Friday and Saturday give you an afternoon, and only those two give you an evening.
The seasonal swing matters here too. A farm open to 8pm on a mid-September Saturday has real light to spare; the same 8pm close on the last Saturday of October is more than two hours after sunset. If daylight is what you want for photographs in the patch, the calendar is working against you every week you delay.
You cannot budget this trip precisely, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise. What you can do is set expectations. Under the old Ard’s structure, a family of two adults and two children aged four to twelve paid about $26 to get in, with pumpkins presumably on top. If the rebranded operation lands anywhere near that, this is a mid-priced Central Pennsylvania farm rather than a festival-park one - no ride bracelets, no all-access tier, just a maze, a patch and a market.
But treat that as a shape, not a number. Rebrands frequently come with repricing, and a farm that has removed its old prices from public view has given you no basis to plan.
Call 570-524-9820 before you drive. Ask three things: whether the pumpkin patch and maze are open on your intended date, what admission costs, and whether the daytime hours during pumpkin season differ from the year-round schedule posted on the site. That last question is worth asking specifically, because many Pennsylvania farms run extended fall hours that are not reflected in a general opening-times block.
If the answer is that nothing is settled yet, the market and restaurant side still works as a destination on its own, and Lewisburg is a short drive further on.
Friday or Saturday, when the farm stays open until 8pm. Those are the only two days with an evening, and in October an 8pm close is the difference between seeing the corn maze in daylight and arriving with an hour of usable light. Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday all shut at 2pm, which makes them morning-only visits. Monday and Tuesday the place is closed entirely. Two specific 2026 evening events are already on the calendar, both in September rather than October: Banty's Wine(d) Down at Sundown on September 18 from 5:30pm to 9:30pm, and Banty's Glow Night in the Maze on September 26 from 6:30pm to 9:30pm.
Two hours for the maze and patch. Longer if you are eating, since the market and restaurant are a substantial part of what this place is.
Not documented. The pattern worth anticipating is that a farm open only five days a week, with three of those ending at 2pm, funnels most of its traffic into Friday and Saturday. The two September night events are single-date, time-limited and likely to sell or fill in a way a general afternoon does not.
Not published. Central Pennsylvania farm lots are usually unpaved or part-grass, and October in the Susquehanna Valley is a wet month, so plan for soft ground rather than asphalt.
Not published. The market and restaurant side of the operation is more likely to be firm-surfaced than the maze and patch, but the farm has not documented either, and the corn maze on any working farm is field ground.
You need to know the price before you commit, or you can only visit on a Monday or Tuesday. Skip it too if a mid-afternoon arrival is your only option on a Wednesday, Thursday or Sunday, because the gates are shut at 2pm on all three.
Lewisburg itself, five minutes down Old Turnpike Road, is the natural other half of the day - a walkable college town centre that gives you somewhere to go when the farm closes at 2pm.
It is the same operation at the same place. Ard's Farm Market has rebranded as The Banty Rooster at 4803 Old Turnpike Road outside Lewisburg, with the same 570-524-9820 phone number. The old ardsfarm.com address now redirects to the new site. Older guides, directories and reviews still describe it under the Ard's name, and the pricing and hours in those listings are pre-rebrand.
The rebranded site does not publish an admission price, and we found no current figure. The adult $7 and child $6 rates that appear in directory listings are historic Ard's pricing and are not confirmed for 2026. Call ahead.
The farm has not published season dates. It refers to a fall pumpkin patch, seasonal festivals and farm tours without attaching a calendar to any of them. The only firm 2026 dates on the site are the two September evening events.
Wednesday through Sunday. Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday are 9am to 2pm; Friday and Saturday are 9am to 8pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Wednesday-Sunday; closed Monday and Tuesday. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. No current admission price is published on the rebranded site. Under its former Ard's Farm Market branding the pumpkinpatchesandmore.org directory listed adults $7, children 4-12 $6 and a limited-park ticket at $5 - treat that as historic, not as a 2026 rate. No source read states whether walking onto the property is free, so free_admission is set to false as a conservative default rather than as a verified fact.
4803 Old Turnpike Road, Lewisburg, PA 17837, in Union County. It is one of 3 patches we track in Central PA.
We track 3 patches in Central PA. The farm has not published a gate price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
What sets it apart locally: it has an after-dark attraction, which most Central PA patches on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 1 of the 3 patches we track in Central PA had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There are 4 other patches we track in Union County. All Central PA patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
banty-rooster.com · ardsfarm.com · pumpkinpatchesandmore.org
Checked August 2026.