The longest fall season of any big Chicago-area farm and an all-in ticket that genuinely includes unlimited rides — but the price only exists inside a date-picker, so you cannot compare it against anywhere else without doing the click-through first.
Admission is sold through an interactive online pricing calendar that varies by date; no flat rate is printed on the public pricing page. All guests age 2 and older must buy admission, children 1 and under are free, and admission includes unlimited rides. Parking is free. Active and veteran military get free admission plus one complimentary companion ticket with ID, in person only.
Bengtson’s is the region’s endurance runner. It opens the Friday before Labor Day and does not close until November 8, which is a full week after Halloween and roughly a month longer than most Chicago-area farms manage. If your family’s fall is congested — sports, birthdays, an out-of-town weekend — that flexibility is worth more than any discount.
The farm’s own pages describe an admission that includes unlimited riding across 14 themed mechanical rides, alongside a list that runs to pig races, a petting zoo, hayrides, train rides, gemstone mining, a corn box, a haunted barn, three walk-through attractions, four playgrounds and live music. Parking is free on top. That is the all-inclusive model done properly: once you are through the gate, the day has one more cost centre, which is food and the pumpkin itself.
It is worth naming why that matters. At pay-per-ride farms the spending decision repeats every twenty minutes and every one of them is a negotiation with a child. Here it happens once, in advance, and the rest of the day is just the day.
The catch is that the price does not exist in a form you can read. The public pricing page runs on an interactive date-picker, so the number changes by date and only appears once you have chosen one. We could not capture a figure, and we are not going to invent one.
Practically, that means the pre-trip task is five minutes on the farm’s calendar with two or three candidate dates open. Because pricing moves by date, that exercise is also the cheapest planning you can do — you will see immediately that early-September weekdays sit at the bottom and October weekends sit at the top, and you can decide whether the difference is worth rearranging a Saturday.
The daily opening hours have the same problem: they are published inside a “Fall Hours 2026” image rather than as text, so we could not read them either. Check them the same way, at the same time.
September 8 to 10, the farm shuts. That is three days immediately after opening weekend, and it is the single most likely way to waste a drive here. A farm that has publicly opened for the season reads, in most people’s heads, as open. Check the calendar before an early-September midweek trip and this never touches you.
Admission starts at age 2, not age 3. That is a genuine difference from most of the region and it means a two-year-old costs a full ticket here where they would be free elsewhere — worth factoring into a comparison that otherwise looks close.
No pets except service animals, so the dog stays home. And guests under 16 need adult supervision, which rules out dropping a group of middle-schoolers off for the afternoon.
If you take the November dates, understand what you are getting. Northern Illinois has usually had its first frost by then, corn mazes across the state get cut down as the season ends, and daylight is short. The upside is real though: light crowds, no queues for the rides you paid for, and pumpkins still on sale at a farm that has not yet packed up for winter. Dress for cold rather than for autumn, and go early in the day.
September 4 through November 8, 2026, with a deliberate three-day closure September 8-10 right after opening weekend. The two ends of that run are the value: early September weekdays are the cheapest dates the calendar sells, and the first week of November is the quietest week of the entire Chicago-area season, with the farm still open a full week after Halloween.
Four to five hours. With 14 themed mechanical rides and unlimited riding included, a short visit wastes most of what you paid for.
A ten-week season is unusually long and spreads demand better than most, but the pricing is date-variable, and a date-variable calendar is a crowd map: the dearest dates are the busiest ones, and they will be October weekends.
Free, per the farm's own pricing page. Surface is not published; expect farm ground and softness after rain.
Not published on the pages we read. The farm does state that guests under 16 need adult supervision and that pets are not allowed except service animals.
Your child is exactly two years old and you were hoping to slip in free. Admission starts at age 2 here, which is earlier than the age-3 cutoff most of the region uses. Skip it too if you need a printed price to budget against, because the public pricing page only reveals figures inside an interactive date calendar.
Konow's Corn Maze is a couple of miles away in the same village and is the cheaper, smaller, more traditional alternative — a corn maze and animals rather than a ride park. If you are choosing between them, they are genuinely different products at genuinely different prices, not two versions of the same day.
The farm does not print a flat rate. Its pricing page uses an interactive calendar where the price varies by date, and the figures did not render as readable text when we checked in August 2026. What is stated: everyone aged 2 and over needs admission, children 1 and under are free, admission includes unlimited rides, and parking is free.
September 4 through November 8, 2026, with a closure September 8-10 immediately after opening weekend. Daily opening hours are published only inside an image on the farm's site, so we could not read them — check before you travel.
That is the farm's own claim on its pricing pages: admission includes unlimited rides across 14 themed mechanical rides and 25-plus attractions. Food, pumpkins and merchandise are separate.
Active and veteran military get free admission plus one complimentary companion ticket with ID, in person only — so it cannot be claimed through an online booking.
September 4 – November 8, 2026.
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. Admission is sold through an interactive online pricing calendar that varies by date; no flat rate is printed on the public pricing page. All guests age 2 and older must buy admission, children 1 and under are free, and admission includes unlimited rides. Parking is free. Active and veteran military get free admission plus one complimentary companion ticket with ID, in person only.
13341 W 151st St, Homer Glen, IL 60491, in Will County. It is one of 9 patches we track in Chicago Suburbs.
We track 9 patches in Chicago Suburbs, 2 of which are free to walk into. The farm has not published a gate price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
Its season runs about 66 days against a regional average of 48, so it is a notably longer window than most of its neighbours, which takes the pressure off picking a weekend.
What sets it apart locally: it has an after-dark attraction, which most Chicago Suburbs patches on our list do not.
There are 3 other patches we track in Will County. All Chicago Suburbs patches →
pumpkinfarm.com
Checked August 2026.