A well-equipped five-acre corn maze north of Atlanta where unlimited hayrides and the kids' play area come bundled into one ticket — but the farm had not posted its 2026 dates when we last checked, so treat every schedule you find online as a guess.
2025 pricing reported by local guides: about $18.50 single admission, about $32.50 for the combo adding the Haunted Forest. Children 2 and under free. Season passes and group bookings offered. All tickets include the Kids' CORNer play area and unlimited hayrides.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $74.00 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.
Buford Corn Maze is a genuine corn maze, and in Georgia that sentence means something it does not mean further south. North of the fall line, farms here cut their mazes into corn they grew and sell pumpkins from fields you could drive past in August. Five acres is a real maze — enough that families with young children will want the shorter route and a phone with battery left.
The attraction list is unusually well-stocked for a farm of this size: a sunflower maze alongside the corn, a popcorn jumping pillow, a cornball slider, a corn box, alpacas and farm animals, weekend pony rides, and a butterfly release, which is not something most patches offer. The Barnyard Grill means you are not obliged to pack lunch.
The most useful thing reported about this farm’s pricing is what admission covers. Unlimited hayrides and the Kids’ CORNer play area are included rather than sold as ride tickets — that is the opposite of the model at farms where a low gate price hides a stack of $5 add-ons. If the reported figure of roughly $18.50 a head holds for 2026, a family of four is looking at something near $74 for a day where the two things children ask to repeat cost nothing extra.
The Haunted Forest is the exception, and it sits behind a combo ticket at roughly $32.50. That is a meaningfully different product with a meaningfully different audience. Buying combo tickets for a family with a six-year-old is spending about $14 a head on something you will not use.
We have to be blunt here. In August 2026 the farm’s own hours page still said the farm was closed for the season, and no 2026 calendar had gone up anywhere we could read. The Atlanta parenting and deal blogs that carry Buford’s dates were all describing 2025, and they do not agree — the spread between the earliest and latest opening dates we saw was around two weeks.
That is not a small inconvenience for a farm whose season is a handful of weekends. Call or check the farm’s own site before you build a Saturday around it.
The upside of a Georgia patch over a Florida one is that October actually feels like October. The downside is that this is peak leaf season, and the roads out of Atlanta toward the north Georgia mountains carry a lot of traffic on autumn weekends — traffic that has nothing to do with this farm but will still be sitting in front of you. Leave earlier than the drive time suggests.
The other thing visitors underestimate is the temperature swing. A pleasant 72-degree afternoon becomes a genuinely cold evening once the sun goes down, and families who arrived in shorts for the hayride are miserable by the time they reach the Haunted Forest queue. Bring the jacket you think you will not need.
We cannot tell you the 2026 opening date, because the farm had not published one — its own hours page still read "Our Farm is closed for the season" in August 2026, and the third-party guides that carried 2025 dates disagree with each other by as much as two weeks. What we can say is that this is a Gwinnett-corridor farm inside Atlanta's commuter belt, which makes Saturday afternoon the worst slice of the weekend and a weekday or an opening-hour Sunday the best. Late October also puts you in peak leaf season in north Georgia, and the roads north of the perimeter carry that traffic on top of the farm's own.
Two and a half to four hours. Unlimited hayrides and the Kids' CORNer play area are included in every ticket, so the value comes from riding more than once and letting children loop back to the jumping pillow and corn box rather than doing a single circuit and leaving.
Not documented by the farm, but the geography tells you enough: this is the closest thing to a full-scale corn maze for a large slice of Atlanta's northeast suburbs, and a season that runs a handful of October weekends concentrates all of that demand into a few afternoons. Assume Saturday from noon onward is the busiest window of the week.
Not published. Most working corn-maze farms park visitors on grass or a mowed field rather than pavement, and north Georgia gets real autumn rain, so a wet weekend can mean a muddy walk from the car. Plan footwear for that rather than for a parking deck.
You need certainty about dates or hours before you commit a Saturday. Until the farm posts its 2026 calendar there is no reliable source, and driving out on the strength of a blog post that describes last year is how people end up at a locked gate.
The most recent figures we could find — reported by Atlanta-area guides for the 2025 season, not confirmed by the farm — were about $18.50 for single admission and about $32.50 for the combo that adds the Haunted Forest, with children 2 and under free. Those are 2025 numbers and should be treated as a rough guide until the farm posts 2026 pricing.
According to the same reporting, every ticket includes the Kids' CORNer play area and unlimited hayrides. That bundling is the main argument for the price — you are not buying ride tickets on top.
It has a Buford mailing address, but the Census geocoder places 4470 Bennett Road in Hall County rather than Gwinnett. It makes no difference to the visit; it does matter if you are searching by county.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission starts at $18.5 per person. 2025 pricing reported by local guides: about $18.50 single admission, about $32.50 for the combo adding the Haunted Forest. Children 2 and under free. Season passes and group bookings offered. All tickets include the Kids' CORNer play area and unlimited hayrides.
4470 Bennett Road, Buford, GA 30519, in Hall County. It is one of 12 patches we track in Atlanta Metro.
We track 12 patches in Atlanta Metro, 3 of which are free to walk into. At $18.5 a head this one sits above the regional median of $15, undercutting 1 of the 5 paid patches we track here.
What sets it apart locally: it has u-pick fields, an after-dark attraction, which most Atlanta Metro patches on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 3 of the 12 patches we track in Atlanta Metro had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
bufordcornmaze.com · atlantaonthecheap.com · atlantaparent.com
Checked August 2026.