$8 a head for the walking option or $12 with the hayride, and both include a small pumpkin and a sunflower to take home — the best straight value on our southwest Ohio list, provided you understand the hayride only runs at weekends.
Two options, both including admission to all activities plus a small pumpkin and a sunflower to take home: walking option $8 per person; hayride option $12 per person. Pre-scheduled weekday hayride groups welcomed.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $32.00 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.
Burwinkel prices its fall season in a way almost nobody else does: two tiers, both all-inclusive, both with the pumpkin already in the price. $8 to walk, $12 with a hayride, and either one covers every activity on the farm plus a small pumpkin and a cut sunflower per person to take home.
Do the arithmetic against the regional norm and it stands out sharply. A family of four walks in for $32 and drives away with four pumpkins. At most farms in southwest Ohio, $32 is roughly the admission alone, and the pumpkins are a separate transaction priced by weight. Whatever else is true about this farm, the value is not in question.
The walking path runs daily, 9am to 7pm. Hayrides run Saturdays and Sundays only, 10am to 6pm, and the farm attaches a weather-permitting caveat to them.
So there are effectively two different farms here depending on the day you pick. A weekday visit is quiet, open for ten hours, and hayride-free. A weekend visit costs $4 more per head if you want the wagon and puts you in with everyone else in Butler County. Neither is wrong, but choosing by accident is how a five-year-old ends up disappointed at the wagon stop on a Tuesday.
If you have a group, the farm says it will take pre-scheduled weekday hayride parties. That is worth knowing for a birthday or a school outing.
This is southwest Ohio, so the corn maze is cut into a crop that actually grew here and the sunflower fields are the farm’s own. That also means the season is bounded by the crop and the weather rather than by a marketing calendar: September 26 to October 31, and no longer.
The daylight point is worth flagging because the posted hours hide it. A 7pm close on the last weekend of September is still light. A 7pm close on October 31 is well after dark, and a farm field in the dark at the end of October in Ohio is cold in a way the September version is not. If you are coming late in the season, come earlier in the day or bring proper coats.
The other quiet virtue of the two-tier structure is that once you have paid, you are done. Both tiers state they include admission to all activities — the corn mazes, the sunflower fields, the scarecrow search, the duck races, the corn pool, the animals and the Halloween scavenger hunt. There is no gem-mining stand or ride ticket booth waiting to reopen the wallet halfway round.
That matters more than the headline price for some families. The common failure mode at a fall festival is not the admission, it is the four separate $6 add-ons that the children find before you do. Here the only variable left is food.
The farm’s own listed address is in Hamilton, but it is commonly described as being in Ross. Both are Butler County and both refer to the same place. Put the street address into your maps app rather than the town name, and the confusion resolves itself before you are driving.
The 2026 season runs September 26 to October 31. The walking path is open daily 9am to 7pm; the hayrides run Saturdays and Sundays only, 10am to 6pm, weather permitting. That split decides your day. If the hayride is the reason you are going, it has to be a weekend and it has to be before 6pm. If it is not, a weekday morning on the walking path is quiet, cheap and entirely yours. Note that a 7pm close is broad daylight in late September and comfortably after dark by Halloween — the last hour of the season's final week is a different visit from the first.
Ninety minutes to two hours on the walking option; two to three hours if you add the hayride and let the kids work through the corn pool, duck races and scarecrow search properly.
Two-day hayride availability across a five-week season funnels most visitors into ten weekend days, and the second half of October is the peak of that. The walking path being open daily is the pressure valve.
Not published. This is a Butler County produce farm, so expect a field or a gravel apron rather than asphalt, and expect it to be soft after autumn rain.
You want a large all-day agritourism park with rides and attractions stacked up. This is a working produce farm running a well-priced, modest fall operation, not a festival with a midway. Skip a weekday too if the hayride matters, because it will not be running.
Two options, both covering all activities plus a small pumpkin and a sunflower to take home: $8 per person to walk, or $12 per person with the hayride. A family of four is therefore $32 or $48.
Not as a walk-up. Hayrides run Saturdays and Sundays, 10am to 6pm, weather permitting. The farm does say it welcomes pre-scheduled weekday hayride groups, so a party or school group can arrange one in advance.
Yes — a small pumpkin and a sunflower are included in both ticket tiers. That is unusual; most farms in the region sell pumpkins separately, often by weight.
September 26 – October 31, 2026. Walking path daily; hayrides Saturdays and Sundays. Hours: Walking path 9am-7pm daily; hayrides Sat-Sun 10am-6pm, weather permitting.
Admission starts at $8 per person. Two options, both including admission to all activities plus a small pumpkin and a sunflower to take home: walking option $8 per person; hayride option $12 per person. Pre-scheduled weekday hayride groups welcomed.
4359 Hamilton Cleves Rd, Hamilton, OH 45013, in Butler County. It is one of 9 patches we track in Southwest Ohio.
We track 9 patches in Southwest Ohio, 2 of which are free to walk into. At $8 a head this one sits below the regional median of $12, undercutting 2 of the 3 paid patches we track here.
Its season runs about 36 days against a regional average of 38, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
There are 4 other patches we track in Butler County. All Southwest Ohio patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
burwinkelfarms.com
Checked August 2026.