One of the widest attraction lists in Marion County at what local reporting describes as a low single-digit admission, but as of late August 2026 the farm had announced nothing beyond Opening Fall 2026 — no dates, no hours, no price.
Ocala News reports admission is 'typically around $5 general admission for most events,' generally including a hayride and access to the fields and live music. The farm has not published 2026 pricing.
Cannon Farms has the longest attraction list of any North Florida patch we track and the least confirmed information about how to visit it. Both of those are worth stating up front, because they pull in opposite directions.
The list: a corn maze and a haunted corn maze, a haunted trail, hayrides and farm wagon rides, a petting zoo with mini Highland cows, goats, lambs and sheep, u-pick flower and pumpkin fields, live music, bounce houses, face painting, food trucks and craft vendors. That is a full county-fair spread, and local reporting puts admission to the farm’s events at around five dollars, generally covering a hayride and access to the fields and the music. If that holds for 2026, the value is not close — it is one of the cheapest ways to spend an afternoon on a farm in the state.
As of late August 2026 the farm’s site said Opening Fall 2026 and little else. Dates, hours, admission and pumpkin pricing were all listed as coming closer to opening. In 2025 the season ran Friday to Sunday, with a shorter Sunday, but a 2025 pattern is a hint and not a schedule.
Practically, that means this is a farm you check in late September, not one you build a plan around in August. If you need to book time off, coordinate other families or drive more than an hour, pick a farm that has published its dates and keep this one as the spontaneous option.
A haunted trail and a mini-cow petting zoo are not for the same person on the same evening. Most farms that run both keep the frights after dark and the toddlers before it, but Cannon Farms has not published the hours that would confirm that split. If you are bringing a five-year-old, the question to ask on the phone is not what time you close, it is what time the haunted attractions start.
At a five-dollar gate, admission is not what you will spend. Food trucks, craft vendors, pumpkins and any charged extras are, and the farm has already signalled that pumpkin pricing is a separate announcement from admission. A family of four can walk in for the price of a coffee round and leave eighty dollars lighter, entirely voluntarily. That is not a criticism — it is how cheap-gate farms work everywhere — but it is the number to plan for rather than the one on the sign.
One more thing worth checking on the phone: the u-pick pumpkin field. Florida cannot grow pumpkins commercially in the fall, so at nearly every patch in the state the pumpkins were trucked in and laid out. A farm advertising a u-pick pumpkin field is either doing something unusual or using u-pick loosely to mean pick-from-the-display. Either is fine. Knowing which before a child gets attached to the idea of a vine is better.
The 2025 season ran Friday to Sunday, with Sunday the short day (10am-6pm Fri and Sat, 10am-4pm Sun). If that pattern returns, Friday is the quietest and Sunday the most compressed. Whichever day you pick, go at opening: Marion County in October is hot by midday and the storms build in the afternoon.
Three to four hours if the full list is running, which is unusual value at the price local reporting quotes. Families who only want the maze and a hayride can be in and out in ninety minutes.
Weekend-only operations in a short season concentrate everything into a handful of afternoons, and a farm with food trucks, craft vendors and live music draws people who are not there for the pumpkins. Expect the busiest window to be mid-afternoon Saturday.
Not published. Assume a grass field, which is the norm for farms of this size in Marion County, and assume mud if it rained that week.
You need to plan more than a week ahead. The farm has explicitly said dates, hours, admission and pumpkin pricing will be announced closer to opening, so anyone building a trip around a fixed weekend is planning on air.
Dunnellon sits on the Rainbow River, and Rainbow Springs State Park is the obvious way to turn a farm morning into a full day — bear in mind Florida spring water stays around 72 degrees year-round, so October swimming is a bracing proposition rather than a warm one.
The farm had not published 2026 admission as of late August 2026. Ocala News has reported that admission is typically around five dollars for most events, generally including a hayride and access to the fields and live music. That is a reported typical figure, not a quoted 2026 rate.
It runs both a haunted corn maze and a haunted trail alongside a petting zoo and bounce houses. Farms that do both normally separate them by time of day, but this one has not published its 2026 hours, so ask which attractions run when before bringing a young child.
The farm advertises u-pick flower and pumpkin fields, which is worth asking about directly. Florida's climate does not support a commercial fall pumpkin crop, so most state patches truck pumpkins in and arrange them; a genuine on-the-vine pick would be unusual and worth confirming before you promise it to anyone.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: 2025 season ran Fri-Sun (Fri-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 10am-4pm); 2026 days not yet announced. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. Ocala News reports admission is 'typically around $5 general admission for most events,' generally including a hayride and access to the fields and live music. The farm has not published 2026 pricing.
11801 SW 180th Ave, Dunnellon, FL 34432, in Marion County. It is one of 15 patches we track in North Florida.
We track 15 patches in North Florida, 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.
What sets it apart locally: it has an after-dark attraction, u-pick fields, which most North Florida patches on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 11 of the 15 patches we track in North Florida had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
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cannonfarms.net · onlyinocala.com
Checked August 2026.