Three ticket tiers between $19 and $25 mean you can genuinely underpay here if you check what each one covers first, but all sales are final at a weather-dependent corn maze and the farm's own two pages disagree about when it opens on a Saturday.
Barnyard Kingdom admission $25.00. Alternative packages: 'Farmer's Fare' $19.00, 'Potato a-peel' $22.00, season pass $49.00. All sales final, no refunds. The year these rates apply to was not stated on the page.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $76.00 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.
Most farms sell one gate price. Country Barn sells three, and that single structural difference is where the value is here — or where you lose it, if you click the first button you see.
Full Barnyard Kingdom admission is $25. A tier called Potato a-peel is $22. A tier called Farmer’s Fare is $19. The names tell you nothing about what is inside them, which means the only way to buy well is to open each one and read the included list against what your group will realistically do.
For two adults and two children, the spread is $100 at the top and $76 at the bottom. Twenty-four dollars is not the difference between going and not going, but it is the food budget, and it is entirely recoverable by spending five minutes on the ticket page before you leave the house.
We are not going to invent the contents of the packages, because the record does not carry them. What we can say is how to think about it. If your children are three and five, they will spend the day on the tater sack slide, the bouncy pumpkin, the barrel-style train, the animal encounters and the duck races, and they may not set foot in the corn maze. That family should check very carefully whether the cheapest tier already covers everything they will use. If your children are nine and eleven and the corn maze, the hedge maze and the gem mining are the plan, the full pass is more likely to be the right call.
The $49 season pass is the other genuine saving. At roughly two full admissions, it makes sense for any Lancaster County household that expects to come back — and with the farm open on October Fridays as well as weekends, a second visit is easy to arrange.
This deserves calling out because it inverts the usual advice. The farm states all sales are final. At a venue whose headline attraction is an outdoor corn maze in the wettest month of the Pennsylvania year, that shifts risk onto you in a way it does not at farms with flexible tickets.
The practical consequence: at most attractions we would tell you to buy early for the discount. Here, if the forecast is unsettled, there is a real argument for waiting until you are confident about the day. Weigh whatever advance saving exists against the possibility of eating a hundred dollars because it rained.
The farm’s information page says Saturdays run 10:00am to 5:00pm. Its own ticket page says 11:00am. Both are the farm’s pages; they simply disagree. Sundays are listed at 11:00am to 5:00pm on both.
Plan for 11:00am. An hour spent waiting outside a closed gate with children in the car is a bad start, and the downside of arriving at eleven when it opened at ten is only a slightly shorter day at a farm that closes at five anyway. If the extra hour matters to your plan, phone 717-872-5591.
Five o’clock is an early close by fall-farm standards, and it is the same close in September and late October even though those are very different amounts of daylight. In September you leave in the afternoon; on the last October weekend you leave close to dusk. Either way there is no evening here except on flashlight-maze nights, which are the farm’s separate after-dark product and a much better fit for older children than younger ones.
That short day also argues for arriving at opening rather than after lunch. Scheduled attractions — duck races, pig races, train rides — reward being there while there is still time to catch them a second time.
Nothing about parking or ground conditions is published. The safe inference for a Lancaster County farm in October is grass or gravel and mud after rain, so bring shoes accordingly.
Food is handled on site by the Country Kitchen and the farm market, which is convenient and, as always, the easiest place for the day’s real cost to drift above the ticket price you carefully chose.
The farm runs Saturdays and Sundays through September and October and adds Fridays during October, closing at 5:00pm every day. It publishes no opening and closing dates for the season. A Friday in October is the obvious pick — the same attractions, on a day most local families are at work and school. Note the hours conflict: the information page lists a 10:00am Saturday opening and the ticket page lists 11:00am. Assume 11:00am unless you have confirmed otherwise, or you may spend an hour in a car park.
Three to four hours. Thirteen listed attractions and a 5:00pm close mean the day has a natural shape, and with duck races, pig races and train rides running to a schedule you will want time to catch them rather than chase them.
Weekends in September, weekends plus Fridays in October, and a 5:00pm close compress the season into a limited number of short days. October Saturdays are the peak. The October Friday is the single best crowd decision available at this farm and costs nothing extra.
Not published. Assume farm ground rather than a paved lot — standard for Lancaster County — and expect it soft after autumn rain.
Not published. A corn maze, hedge maze and gem mining sit on varied ground; the market and Country Kitchen end of the site will be easier going. Call 717-872-5591 if this decides the trip.
You want a long evening. The farm closes at 5:00pm, so apart from flashlight-maze nights there is no dusk visit here. Skip it too if your plans are weather-contingent — all sales are final with no refunds, and a corn maze is the most weather-exposed attraction there is.
The site sits just outside Lancaster city, so a morning at the farm and an afternoon in town is an easy combination — and a better use of the day than trying to stretch a 5:00pm close into an evening.
Full Barnyard Kingdom admission is $25.00. Two cheaper packages cover fewer attractions: Potato a-peel at $22.00 and Farmer's Fare at $19.00. A season pass is $49.00. The farm's page did not state which season these rates apply to, so confirm before travelling.
The farm's two pages disagree. Its information page lists Saturdays 10:00am to 5:00pm, while its ticket page lists 11:00am to 5:00pm. We would plan for 11:00am and call 717-872-5591 to confirm if the earlier hour matters to you.
Saturdays and Sundays through September and October, plus Fridays during October. Sundays run 11:00am to 5:00pm. The farm did not publish explicit opening and closing dates for the season.
No. The farm states all sales are final with no refunds, which is worth weighing at an attraction built around an outdoor corn maze in a wet month.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Saturdays and Sundays in September and October, plus Fridays during October. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission starts at $19 per person. Barnyard Kingdom admission $25.00. Alternative packages: 'Farmer's Fare' $19.00, 'Potato a-peel' $22.00, season pass $49.00. All sales final, no refunds. The year these rates apply to was not stated on the page.
211 S Donerville Rd, Lancaster, PA 17603, in Lancaster County. It is one of 6 patches we track in Lancaster & Berks.
We track 6 patches in Lancaster & Berks. At $19 a head this one sits above the regional median of $15.
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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Checked August 2026.