An animal park in the Redland that adds a pumpkin display in the fall — good value at $18 on a weekday if you came for camels and an aviary, poor value if you came for pumpkins.
General park admission: $18 per person Monday-Friday, $25 per person Saturday-Sunday. Pony and camel rides, ATV tours and horse riding are paid add-ons on top of admission; reviewers report ATV rides at $100-$170 and horse riding from $130, and note Groupon deals around $12-$13 have been available.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $72.00 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.
By Brothers is not really a pumpkin patch, and the sooner you accept that the better a time you will have. It is a privately run animal and activity park on SW 177th Avenue in the Redland, open daily from 9am to 8pm, with camels, alpacas, donkeys and goats, an aviary, a koi and swan pond, a train, and a long list of play attractions. In the autumn it puts up a pumpkin display with photo setups and a pumpkin parade. That display is a feature of the park, not the reason the park exists.
If you go understanding that, the value proposition is reasonable. If you go expecting a field of pumpkins, you will have paid $18 to $25 a head for something you could get free at half a dozen South Florida nurseries.
Admission is per person and there is no meaningful family rate published: $18 Monday to Friday, $25 Saturday and Sunday. For two adults and two children that is $72 on a weekday and $100 at the weekend, and the weekday-versus-weekend difference is the easiest $28 you will ever save.
The harder problem is the add-ons. Pony and camel rides, ATV tours and horse riding are all charged separately, and the reported figures are not trivial — reviewers describe ATV rides in the $100 to $170 range and horse riding starting around $130. A family that walks in without a plan and says yes to two requests can easily triple the cost of the day. This is not a criticism of the park’s honesty; the structure is published. It is a warning about how it feels from the inside when a nine-year-old sees a camel.
The counterweight is Groupon. Reviewers report having found admission around $12 to $13 there. That is worth five minutes of checking before you buy at the gate.
This is agricultural Miami-Dade in the tail of the wet season. September and October days run hot and humid, afternoon thunderstorms are the norm rather than the exception, and the standing water that comes with a fish farm, a koi pond and irrigated grounds is exactly the environment mosquitoes want. Repellent is not optional here in a way that it might be at a paved suburban nursery.
The animals give you a second reason to go early. Livestock and birds in Florida heat are active in the morning and inert by lunchtime. A 9am arrival gets you a park where the camels are on their feet; a 1pm arrival gets you a park where everything interesting is lying in the shade, including your children.
The 8pm closing time looks generous but is partly notional for the parts most people come for — the fish farm and the Explorer’s Aviary close at sunset, and pony rides stop at 5:30pm.
Florida cannot grow a commercial fall pumpkin crop; the state’s climate simply does not allow it. Every pumpkin you see at By Brothers, as at every other patch in Florida, was grown elsewhere and trucked in. Here that is slightly less jarring than elsewhere, because the park never really pretends otherwise — the pumpkin offering is described as photo opportunities and a parade, which is an accurate description of what it is.
One practical consequence: because the park operates year-round, the pumpkin display goes up on the park’s own schedule and that schedule was not published for 2026 when we checked. The 2025 run was mid-September to early November. If the pumpkins are the point of the trip for you, confirm by phone that they are actually out before you drive down.
A weekday morning, as close to the 9am opening as you can manage. Weekend admission is $25 versus $18 Monday to Friday — a $28 difference for a family of four — and the animals are the whole point of the place. Animals in deep South Miami-Dade in September and October are lethargic by 11am and hiding by 1pm, so the first two hours are the ones worth having. Pony rides are closed on Tuesdays and run 10:30am-5:30pm, so a Tuesday visit or a 9am arrival misses them.
Three to five hours. The park is genuinely large — petting farm, aviary, train, corn pit, obstacle course, funhouse, jump pads, koi pond, bird gardens — and at $18 to $25 a head you need to use most of it for the price to make sense. It is not a stop, it is a destination.
Weekends carry the $7-per-head premium and the crowd that justifies it. Because the park is open every day 9am-8pm through the season, there is more genuine flexibility here than at farms that only open Friday to Sunday — use it.
Not documented on the park's published pages. This is a large rural property off SW 177th Avenue in the Redland, so expect field or gravel parking rather than a paved lot, and expect it to be soft after the afternoon storms that continue into October.
The park publishes no accessibility detail. A property spanning a petting farm, aviary, ponds and an obstacle course means long distances on mixed surfaces; anyone using a wheelchair or pushing a small-wheeled stroller should call before committing to the drive.
You want a traditional pumpkin patch. The pumpkin element is a photo setup and a parade inside a much larger animal park, and you pay full park admission to reach it. Also skip it if you are on a tight budget with children who will ask for the paid extras — the add-on pricing here is the steepest on our Florida list.
The Redland agricultural area south of Miami is full of farm stands and u-pick operations, and By Brothers sits in the middle of it. Because the park is a half-day on its own, treat the surrounding area as the drive home rather than a second stop.
General park admission has been $18 per person Monday to Friday and $25 per person Saturday and Sunday. Pony rides, camel rides, ATV tours and horse riding are extra on top of that.
By Brothers had not published 2026 pumpkin patch dates when we last checked. The 2025 season ran mid-September to early November. The park itself is open daily regardless, so it is possible to arrive in that window and find the pumpkin display not yet set up — worth a phone call first.
No. You pay full park admission whatever you came for, and the pumpkin element is a photo area and a parade rather than a field. There are free-entry patches in Miami-Dade and Broward if a pumpkin and a photograph is the whole goal.
They have run 10:30am to 5:30pm and been closed on Tuesdays. If pony rides are a promise you have already made to a child, avoid Tuesday and do not arrive at 9am expecting them.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Open daily (pony rides closed Tuesdays). Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission starts at $18 per person. General park admission: $18 per person Monday-Friday, $25 per person Saturday-Sunday. Pony and camel rides, ATV tours and horse riding are paid add-ons on top of admission; reviewers report ATV rides at $100-$170 and horse riding from $130, and note Groupon deals around $12-$13 have been available.
15515 SW 177th Ave, Miami, FL 33187, in Miami-Dade County. It is one of 10 patches we track in South Florida.
We track 10 patches in South Florida, 4 of which are free to walk into. At $18 a head this one sits below the regional median of $20.99, undercutting 3 of the 4 paid patches we track here.
What sets it apart locally: it has farm animals, rides and play structures, which most South Florida patches on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 4 of the 10 patches we track in South Florida had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There are 2 other patches we track in Miami-Dade County. All South Florida patches →
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Checked August 2026.