A daytime farm park built for under-tens rather than a corn maze destination, with a clear 2026 price table and a $2-a-head online discount — but its own hours page was still showing 2024 dates, so the one thing you cannot get from the website is when it is open.
2026 rates: general admission $17.99 online / $20.00 at the booth; seniors 60 and over $13.99 online / $16.00 at the booth; under 2 free; two-day pass $26.99 online / $30.00 at the booth; season pass $44.99 online / $50.00 at the booth; groups of 20 or more $15.99 online / $18.00 at the booth. Military receive 10% off regular admission with ID.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $55.96 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.
Corn Cob Acres has done something slightly unusual with its website: the 2026 prices are complete and specific, down to the group rate and the military discount, while the hours page was still displaying 2024 dates when we looked. That combination is more misleading than a site with no information at all, because the currency of one section implies the currency of the other.
So take the prices as good and the schedule as unknown. What the farm does say generally is that it runs from the beginning of September into the first week of November. That is a long season by Lancaster County standards — two months rather than the six or eight weekends many farms manage — and if it holds for 2026 it is genuinely useful, both for dodging the October crush and for having a fallback if your first choice of weekend rains off.
Every tier is about two dollars cheaper bought online than at the booth. General admission $17.99 against $20.00. Seniors $13.99 against $16.00. Groups $15.99 against $18.00. Two-day pass $26.99 against $30.00. Season pass $44.99 against $50.00.
For two adults and two children over two, that is $71.96 online against $80.00 at the gate. Eight dollars is not life-changing, but it is free, and it requires nothing except doing the booking the night before.
The passes deserve more thought than most families give them. The season pass at $44.99 online is about two and a half single admissions. If you live within half an hour and there is any prospect of a second visit across a two-month season, the pass is the correct purchase and the single ticket is not. The two-day pass at $26.99 is the middle option: about one and a half admissions, and a sensible hedge if you suspect one visit will not be enough but do not want to commit to a whole season.
The senior rate is real too. At $13.99 online for over-60s, a grandparent costs four dollars less than a parent, which makes this an easier multi-generation day out than farms that charge one flat rate to everyone over two.
This is the honest framing. Corn Cob Acres sells itself on fifty-plus activities, and the published list bears that out: a pumpkin patch, hayrides, the Grain Chute Mega Slide, the Cornelius Quest scavenger hunt, Corn Cob Stables, a bounce pillow, a corn bin with a dump truck, pedal carts, pig races, a barrel train, a gem mine, a pumpkin slide, a goat walk, a birdhouse slide and a games area.
Read that list and the target audience is obvious. It is toddlers through about nine. There is no headline corn maze doing the heavy lifting, and that is a deliberate design choice rather than an omission. For a family with a three-year-old and a six-year-old, that is exactly right — nothing too big, plenty of small things, no forty-minute walk through corn with a child who wants to be carried.
For a family with an eleven-year-old, it is a harder sell at $17.99, and there are farms twenty minutes away built around a large maze that will serve them better.
Three things are flagged as new for 2026 — the Grain Chute Mega Slide, Cornelius Quest and Corn Cob Stables — which is worth knowing if you came last year and are wondering whether there is anything to come back for.
Corn Cob Acres shares a site with the Field of Screams haunted attraction. That has no effect on the daytime family park itself, but it does have a practical effect on traffic: October evenings around the property draw a very different crowd in significant numbers. If you are visiting late in the day on an October weekend, expect the roads in and out to be busier than a children’s farm park would otherwise explain, and allow for it.
Nothing about parking surfaces or facilities is published, and no phone number appeared on the pages we read, so the website is the only channel for questions. The safe assumption is farm ground and mud after rain.
The bigger practical step is simply to check the hours page again before you go. The prices told us this is a farm that maintains its site; the 2024 dates suggest one section had not yet been got to. It may well be fixed by the time you read this — but do not drive out on the assumption.
The farm publishes 2026 prices but not 2026 dates. Its own statement is that the park runs every fall season from the beginning of September into the first week of November, and its hours page was still displaying 2024 dates when we checked. So the season is long by regional standards, but the specific days are not confirmed — check the site's hours page for a 2026 update before travelling. Early in the season is the sensible target: warmer, quieter, and well clear of the October rush that a Lancaster County farm attracts.
Three to four hours. With fifty-plus activities aimed at small children and no single dominant attraction, this is a graze-around visit rather than a hit-the-maze-and-leave one, and young children set the pace.
A September-to-early-November window is a long season, which spreads demand better than the eight-weekend farms nearby. The October weekends will still be the peak, and the site shares ground with the Field of Screams haunted attraction, so October evening traffic in and around the property can be heavy even though Corn Cob Acres itself is a daytime family park.
Not published. Assume farm ground rather than paving, and expect it soft after autumn rain — October in Lancaster County is reliably wet.
Not published. A park built around slides, bounce pillows, pedal carts and a gem mine is physical by design, though the ground is likely to be more consistent than at a farm whose main attraction is a field maze. No phone number appeared on the pages we read, so questions have to go through the site.
You want a serious corn maze. The park's identity is the fifty-plus activities, not a headline maze, and older children who came for a challenge will be finished quickly. Skip it too if you need certainty about opening days right now, because the farm's published hours were out of date when we last looked.
Mountville sits just west of Lancaster city, so the farm is an easy morning with the afternoon left free — which suits a park where small children will run out of energy before the day does.
General admission is $17.99 online or $20.00 at the booth. Seniors 60 and over pay $13.99 online or $16.00 at the booth, children under 2 are free, a two-day pass is $26.99 online or $30.00 at the booth, a season pass is $44.99 online or $50.00 at the booth, and groups of 20 or more pay $15.99 online or $18.00 at the booth.
Not confirmed. The farm states it runs every fall season from the beginning of September into the first week of November, but its hours page was still showing 2024 dates when we checked, so specific 2026 days and hours were unavailable.
Three attractions are flagged as new: the Grain Chute Mega Slide, a scavenger hunt called Cornelius Quest, and Corn Cob Stables.
Less so. The park bills itself as fifty-plus activities aimed at younger children — pig races, pedal carts, corn bins and slides rather than a large maze. Children over about ten may find it thin for the price.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission starts at $13.99 per person. 2026 rates: general admission $17.99 online / $20.00 at the booth; seniors 60 and over $13.99 online / $16.00 at the booth; under 2 free; two-day pass $26.99 online / $30.00 at the booth; season pass $44.99 online / $50.00 at the booth; groups of 20 or more $15.99 online / $18.00 at the booth. Military receive 10% off regular admission with ID.
191 College Avenue, Mountville, PA 17554, in Lancaster County. It is one of 6 patches we track in Lancaster & Berks.
We track 6 patches in Lancaster & Berks. At $13.99 a head this one sits below the regional median of $15, undercutting 3 of the 5 paid patches we track here.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 2 of the 6 patches we track in Lancaster & Berks had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
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corncobacres.com
Checked August 2026.