A well-stocked Orlando-outskirts fall festival at a flat $18.95 a head with no child discount — good value for a family that stays four hours, poor value for anyone under about three or over about twelve.
$18.95 per person per day. Infants who cannot yet walk and play are free.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $75.80 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.
Club Lake Plantation runs a fall festival on a working event property in Apopka, and the attraction list is one of the longer ones in Central Florida: two hayrides rather than one, a corn maze and a separate toddler maze, pumpkin chunking, an air cannon, a “Cow Wash,” play structures, high strikers, and football and basketball areas. Breadth is the selling point. Whether that breadth is worth $18.95 a head depends almost entirely on how long you plan to stay.
It is a flat $18.95 per person per day. There is no child tier, no senior tier, no online discount published. The only exemption is infants who cannot yet walk and play. That is a meaningfully unusual structure, and it lands hardest on families with toddlers: a two-year-old who can walk pays exactly what an adult pays, for a property where they can realistically use the toddler maze, the hayrides and not much else. Families with kids in the roughly five-to-ten range get far better value from the same ticket.
Run the arithmetic before you go. Four people is $75.80 through the gate. Add lunch and something from the country store and $100 is an easy afternoon.
The operating day is 10am to 6pm, but the play areas close at 5pm — only the country store and the pumpkin patch run the last hour. That effectively makes it a seven-hour day, and a 3pm arrival buys a full-price ticket for two hours of activity. It is the single most avoidable way to waste money here.
The heat argument points the same way. Late September and October in Orange County still deliver 90-degree afternoons and a reliable thunderstorm window, and farm play areas are rarely shaded. Ten in the morning is not merely the least crowded time; it is the only comfortable one.
As at essentially every Florida patch, the pumpkins here were trucked in and arranged rather than grown on site — Florida’s climate will not carry a commercial fall pumpkin crop. The corn maze is the real crop. This is not a criticism of the farm, just a correction to the New England picture most people arrive with. What you are buying in Florida is a festival, and Club Lake has assembled a good one.
Be careful with the calendar. Our source directory listed September 26 to November 1, 2026, while the venue’s own fall festival page was still showing the previous year’s window when we looked in August 2026. Stale season pages are endemic in this industry and the failure mode is a wasted drive across the Orlando metro. Five minutes on the phone beats an hour in the car.
The sweet spot is a family with children old enough to run at the property independently and young enough to still want to — roughly five to ten. That group can plausibly use eight or nine of the eleven listed attractions in an afternoon, which is what makes $18.95 defensible. Below that age the toddler maze and the hayrides carry the whole ticket. Above it, the play structures, high strikers and ball courts start to read as a school field day rather than an outing, and teenagers will be done in an hour.
For everyone else in the Orlando area, the honest comparison is not against other festivals but against doing nothing: this is a paid attraction competing with a very crowded local market for theme-park money, and it wins only on the days you were going to spend something anyway.
Thursday, if you can take the day. The farm runs Thursday through Sunday, so Thursday is the only genuinely quiet operating day and it costs the same as a Saturday. Whichever day you pick, go at the 10am opening: the play areas shut at 5pm while the country store and pumpkin patch stay open until 6pm, so a late-afternoon arrival buys a full-price ticket for a half-price experience. Central Florida heat in late September and early October also makes midday the worst possible arrival window.
Four hours to break even on the ticket. Two hayrides, a corn maze, a toddler maze, pumpkin chunking, an air cannon, the Cow Wash, play structures, high strikers and ball courts is a lot of ground, and the seven-hour operating day is built for people who use most of it.
Thursdays are the outlier. Friday through Sunday across a five-week season concentrates the Orlando metro into about twenty operating days, and Halloween-adjacent weekends will be the peak. Queues will form at the two hayrides and the air cannon before anywhere else.
Not documented by the venue. Assume an unpaved field, as at most Central Florida farms — which matters because Orange County gets afternoon thunderstorms into October and a soaked field means mud between the car and the gate.
The property is farm ground rather than paved paths, so narrow stroller wheels will struggle. The venue has not published accessibility or restroom details, which is worth a phone call to 407-886-1077 if anyone in your group needs step-free access or an accessible restroom.
Your child is a walking toddler. Only infants who cannot yet walk and play get in free, so a two-year-old costs the same $18.95 as an adult — a family of four is $75.80 at the gate for a farm whose value is in the activities, and toddlers will use maybe three of them. Also skip it if you want a pumpkin and nothing else; the entry price alone buys a lot of grocery-store pumpkins.
Apopka sits on the northwest edge of the Orlando metro, so this is an easy add-on to an Orlando weekend rather than a destination drive. Anyone comparing options should look at the Lake County farms 20 to 30 minutes further north, which run bigger properties at broadly similar prices.
$75.80 per day, before food, pumpkins or anything from the country store. It is a flat $18.95 per person per day with no child discount; only infants who cannot yet walk and play are free.
Listed as September 26 to November 1, 2026, but treat that as provisional. When we checked in August 2026, the venue's own fall festival page was still displaying the 2025 window of September 27 to October 31. Confirm before you drive.
Thursday only. The farm is closed Monday through Wednesday and runs Thursday through Sunday, 10am to 6pm.
September 26 – November 1, 2026. Thu-Sun (closed Mon-Wed). Hours: 10am-6pm; play areas close at 5pm, country store and pumpkin patch stay open until 6pm.
Admission starts at $18.95 per person. $18.95 per person per day. Infants who cannot yet walk and play are free.
3403 Rock Springs Road, Apopka, FL 32712, in Orange County. It is one of 14 patches we track in Central Florida.
We track 14 patches in Central Florida, 2 of which are free to walk into. At $18.95 a head this one sits above the regional median of $15, undercutting 1 of the 9 paid patches we track here.
Its season runs about 37 days against a regional average of 41, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
There are 10 other patches we track in Orange County. All Central Florida patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
clublakevenue.com
Checked August 2026.