Free to walk in, free to browse, and $10 a head the moment anyone wants the hayride — a genuinely low-cost mountain pumpkin stop as long as you know the hayride is the only thing you actually pay for.
Entry to the pumpkin patch and country store is free; the hayride is $10 per person, sales tax included, children under 2 ride free (2026 rate on the farm's own site).
Free to walk in. Your spend here is whatever you choose — pumpkins, food, and any paid activities. That makes it a low-risk stop if you are not sure how long the kids will last.
The useful thing about Burt’s is the pricing shape. Entry to the patch and the country store costs nothing, which puts it in the category of fall outings you can abandon at any moment without having wasted money — the single most valuable property a pumpkin patch can have when you are travelling with a three-year-old. Everything else is optional and priced item by item.
That said, the one optional thing is not cheap. The hayride is $10 per person with tax included, and children under two ride free. For two adults and two school-age children that is $40, which is more than a full admission ticket at some ticketed farms elsewhere in the state. It is worth knowing that this figure has moved: a regional guide recorded the 2025 hayride at $6.50, so the 2026 rate is a meaningful jump. Arrive having decided whether the ride is part of the plan.
The farm’s own site names September 1 as the 2026 opening with daily 9am to 6pm hours, and lists school field trips from September 15 to November 5. What it does not name is a closing date. Nothing we could read publishes one for 2026. If you are planning around the first week of November, call first — the field-trip window is suggestive but it is not a season end, and running out of pumpkins is how these farms usually finish.
This is not the Florida version of a pumpkin patch, where the fruit arrives by truck because the climate cannot produce a fall crop. North Georgia grows pumpkins, and Dawson County in October is genuinely autumn — cool mornings, real colour on the ridges, weather that behaves the way the season is supposed to.
The flip side is traffic. The last two weekends of October are peak leaf season in the mountains and peak pumpkin season at the same time, and both funnel onto the same two-lane roads through Dawson County. A Saturday afternoon in late October is the worst possible time to attempt this drive; a Tuesday morning in late September is the best, and the farm’s long season makes that a real option rather than a theoretical one.
The published attraction list runs to pumpkin picking, a hayride, a country store and a drive-through photo stop. That is the whole offer. There is no maze, no haunted trail, no petting barn on anything we could read. Judged as a scenic, cheap, forty-minute stop on a mountain drive it is excellent value. Judged as a destination that has to justify a two-hour trip from Atlanta on its own, it is thin — and there are farms twenty minutes away that are built to fill an afternoon.
Early on a weekday in late September or the first half of October. The farm's own site says the 2026 season opens September 1 with daily 9am to 6pm hours, which is an unusually long runway — most north Georgia patches do not open until the third week of September. Use that. The last two weekends of October are peak leaf season in the north Georgia mountains as well as peak patch season, and the two-lane approach roads into Dawson County carry both crowds at once.
An hour to ninety minutes. This is a pumpkin field, a hayride and a country store, not a festival with a dozen attractions — plan it as a stop rather than a day.
October Saturdays are the crunch, and the compounding problem in this part of Georgia is that fall-colour traffic and pumpkin traffic peak in the same fortnight on the same mountain roads. September weekdays are the quiet end of the range, and the farm is open then.
The farm publishes nothing about its lot. Treat it as an unpaved field until you see otherwise, which means mud after rain and flat closed shoes rather than sandals.
You want a corn maze, a haunted trail, animals or a full afternoon of activities. The published attraction list is short and honest about itself: pumpkins, a hayride, a store and a photo stop.
Entry to the pumpkin patch and the country store is free, per the farm's own site. The hayride is the paid element at $10 per person, tax included, with children under 2 riding free.
The farm has not published a 2026 closing date. Its own site names September 1 as the opening and lists school field trips running to November 5, but no end-of-season date appears anywhere we could read. Call before a late-season trip.
Yes, and substantially. A regional guide recorded a $6.50 hayride for the 2025 season; the farm's own 2026 rate is $10. Budget from the current figure, not from anything you remember.
Opens September 1, 2026 (closing date not published). Daily. Hours: 9am-6pm daily.
Admission is free. Entry to the pumpkin patch and country store is free; the hayride is $10 per person, sales tax included, children under 2 ride free (2026 rate on the farm's own site).
5 Burts Pumpkin Farm Rd, Dawsonville, GA 30534, in Dawson County. It is one of 14 patches we track in North Georgia.
We track 14 patches in North Georgia, 6 of which are free to walk into. Entry here costs nothing, which puts it in the minority even in a region with several free options.
There is 1 other patch we track in Dawson County. All North Georgia patches →
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burtspumpkinfarmgeorgia.com
Checked August 2026.