The closest working pumpkin farm to Columbus and one of the cheapest at $11 a head, but the farm publishes no 2026 dates, days or hours at all — you know exactly what it costs and nothing about when you can go.
General admission $11.00 per person; children 2 and under free. Pumpkins $5.00 each, not included in admission.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $44.00 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.
Circle S is an unusual listing in that the money is clear and the calendar is a blank. The farm publishes an $11 general admission, tells you children under 2 are free, tells you what admission includes — the corn maze, the sunflower maze, the hayride, the Fun Barn and the bale crawl — and tells you pumpkins are a separate $5 each. Then it says nothing at all about when any of that is available in 2026.
So the useful advice is simple and slightly annoying: you can budget this trip precisely, and you cannot schedule it without calling 614-878-7980.
Eleven dollars a head is at the cheap end for central Ohio. Two adults and two children over the age of 2 is $44 through the gate. Four pumpkins at $5 each takes that to $64, which is still reasonable but is not the number on the website.
That gap is the standard trap at farms that price pumpkins separately, and it is worth naming before you are standing in the field with a child holding the largest pumpkin they can lift. One each, decided in the car.
The farm’s pitch is proximity — it is the nearest real pumpkin farm to the city, and Grove City is a short run from most of the metro. For a family without a whole day free, that is genuinely valuable, and the farm’s forty-plus years in operation suggest it is not a pop-up.
It also means an October Saturday here draws from a metropolitan area of well over a million people onto a modest working farm. There is no way to make that pleasant. If whatever weekday schedule the farm runs turns out to include a day you can use, take it.
The sunflower maze is one of the two things that distinguish this farm from its competitors, and it is the one with a deadline. Sunflowers are an earlier crop; a central Ohio field will not be holding them at the end of October. If the sunflower maze is why you chose Circle S, go as early in the season as the farm allows and ask about the field when you call.
We cannot tell you, and neither can the farm's website — it had published no 2026 season dates, days of the week or hours when we read it. What we can say is that proximity to Columbus is this farm's defining feature and also its problem: being the closest patch to a metro of well over a million people means October Saturdays here will be busier than the farm's modest size suggests. If you can go on a weekday and the farm is open, do. Call 614-878-7980 to find out which days those are before you plan anything.
About two hours. A corn maze, a sunflower maze, a hayride, the Fun Barn and a bale crawl is a straightforward morning, not a full day out.
Grove City sits on the southwest edge of Columbus, and the farm markets itself on being the closest patch to the city. That is a crowd magnet on an October weekend. Whatever weekday opening exists is the better bet.
Not described. A working produce farm on London Groveport Road will park you on grass or gravel, which after central Ohio autumn rain becomes mud. Wear boots if the week has been wet.
You cannot phone ahead. With no published dates, days or hours, a visit here is unplannable from the website alone. Skip it too if you want a big-ticket day out with rides and cannons — this is a family farm running a modest fall operation, not an agritourism park.
Leeds Farm at Ostrander is about 27 miles north and is the bigger, more expensive, more physical option — zip lines, pedal carts and a low ropes course — if you want a full day rather than a morning. The MAiZE at Little Darby Creek is a similar distance west.
General admission is $11 per person, with children 2 and under free. Pumpkins are $5 each and are not included in admission. Admission covers the corn maze, the sunflower maze, the hayride, the Fun Barn and the bale crawl.
The farm had not published 2026 season dates, days of the week or hours when we last checked. That is the single biggest gap in what is otherwise a clearly presented listing. Call 614-878-7980 before planning a visit.
No. Admission is $11 and pumpkins are a separate $5 each, so a family should budget for both.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission starts at $11 per person. General admission $11.00 per person; children 2 and under free. Pumpkins $5.00 each, not included in admission.
9015 London Groveport Road, Grove City, OH 43123, in Franklin County. It is one of 6 patches we track in Central Ohio.
We track 6 patches in Central Ohio. At $11 a head this one sits below the regional median of $12, undercutting 2 of the 4 paid patches we track here.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 4 of the 6 patches we track in Central Ohio had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There are 8 other patches we track in Franklin County. All Central Ohio patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
circlesfarm.com
Checked August 2026.