The most complete farm day in Flagler County and priced accordingly — $15 a head buys a genuinely long attraction list, but the add-ons are where a $60 family outing quietly becomes a $130 one.
$15 general admission; $13 for seniors, military and first responders with valid ID; children under 2 free. Add-ons: pony rides $8 or 2 for $15, face painting $12-$15, mechanical bucking bull $5-$10, tractor train $5 after the first free ride, corn cannon $2 per shot after the first free shot, photo sessions $50. These are the 2025 published prices.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $60.00 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.
Cowart Ranch is doing the thing that makes a Florida fall farm worth paying for. The pumpkins are imported — they always are here — so the product being sold is the day, and the day has enough in it to justify a gate price. A five-acre walking maze, hayrides, a mini maze for the small ones, a corn pit, a bounce house, animals, a bonfire, apple bobbing, sack races, a corn cannon, a mechanical bull and a country store. That is a full slate by Florida standards.
Gate admission is $15, $13 with senior, military or first responder ID, and free under 2. For two adults and two school-age children that is $60, which is genuinely cheap next to the $20-plus-a-head Central Florida festivals.
Then the add-on list starts. Pony rides at $8, or two for $15. Face painting at $12 to $15. The mechanical bucking bull at $5 to $10. The tractor train free once, then $5. The corn cannon free once, then $2 a shot. Photo sessions at $50.
None of that is hidden, and the free first go on the train and the cannon is a decent piece of hospitality. But add it up the way a real family day adds up — two pony rides, two painted faces, a bull ride, six cannon shots — and $60 becomes something like $120 before anyone eats. Go in knowing that, and the farm is good value. Go in budgeting the headline number and you will feel nickel-and-dimed by lunchtime, which is a shame, because the underlying offer is fair.
Saturdays and Sundays, 10am to 7pm. No weekday option. That means the whole of Flagler and northern Volusia funnels into the same handful of days, and it means the arrival time you choose is the single biggest lever you have over the quality of the visit. Ten in the morning is a different farm from two in the afternoon — cooler, emptier, and on the right side of Florida’s afternoon storm pattern.
The nine-hour operating day also implies something about the intended visit. Nobody builds nine hours of attractions for a forty-minute stop. If you cannot give it most of an afternoon, spend your money somewhere cheaper.
Its 2026 calendar. Everything on this page — prices, hours, the Saturday and Sunday pattern — is drawn from the 2025 season, which ran from around the start of October into the first days of November. Prices at a farm like this tend to be sticky year to year, so the numbers are a reasonable planning basis. The dates are not. One phone call to 386-437-0750 settles it.
Parking and accessibility are also unpublished. On a working ranch you should assume grass parking and uneven ground throughout, which is fine in dry weather and genuinely awkward with a stroller after a wet week.
The attraction list maps almost perfectly onto children between about three and twelve. Below three, most of it is off-limits or uninteresting and you are paying for a hayride and some animals. Above twelve, a mini maze and a corn pit are not going to hold anyone, and the five-acre maze is a walk rather than a haunt — there is nothing here pitched at teenagers looking to be scared.
The bonfire is the one element that suggests staying late rather than arriving early, and it is worth weighing. A 7pm close in October means the last hour is properly dark, which is when a bonfire is a bonfire rather than a fire pit in daylight. If your children can handle a long day, arriving mid-afternoon and finishing at dusk is a defensible alternative to the morning strategy — you trade a cooler start for a better ending, and you accept the busier middle.
Saturday or Sunday morning, as close to the 10am opening as you can manage. The farm runs weekends only, 10am to 7pm, which is a nine-hour day with no weekday release valve — so the gate is the choke point and the first ninety minutes are the calm ones. Flagler County in October still delivers afternoon heat and a real thunderstorm risk, and the maze, the hayride and the pony ring are all outdoors with no way to wait one out.
Four to five hours if you intend to get your money back. With a five-acre maze, hayrides, pony rides, a bounce house, a corn pit, a mini maze, a bonfire, a corn cannon, a mechanical bull and farmyard games, a family that leaves after ninety minutes has paid full price for a fraction of the farm. This is a day out or it is bad value; there is no middle setting.
Weekends only, which is the tightest possible concentration of demand. Saturdays run heavier than Sundays as a rule, and the October dates closest to Halloween will be the busiest of the season. Pony rides and the mechanical bull are the two attractions most likely to hold a queue, because both are one-at-a-time.
Not published, but this is a working ranch on Highway 100 west of Bunnell, so field or pasture parking is close to certain. That means mud after rain and a walk in — wear shoes you are prepared to write off, and think twice about a low car after a wet week.
Not published, and worth asking about. A ranch operation on grass, sand and dirt is difficult ground for small stroller wheels and harder still for a wheelchair. Call 386-437-0750 before committing if that matters to your group.
You want a pumpkin and a photograph. There is a pumpkin patch here, but you will be paying $15 a person to reach it, and free church patches thirty minutes away will sell you the same trucked-in pumpkin for the cost of the pumpkin. Also skip if you have a stroller-bound baby or a teenager — neither has much to do.
First Church Port Orange runs a free patch with long evening hours up in Volusia County. It is a plausible way to finish a Flagler day out — the pumpkin itself for nothing, after paying Cowart Ranch for the activities — though it is a genuine drive rather than a hop, and worth checking the church's hours first.
Gate admission alone is $60 for two adults and two children over 2. Add one pony ride each for the children ($15 for two), two faces painted ($24 to $30) and a few corn cannon shots and you are at $110 to $120 before food. The $15 headline is accurate and it is also less than half of a typical day's spend.
The five-acre walking maze, hayrides, the pumpkin patch, farm animal encounters, the bounce house, corn pit, mini maze, bonfire, apple bobbing and sack races, plus one free tractor train ride and one free corn cannon shot. Pony rides, face painting, the mechanical bucking bull, additional train rides and cannon shots, and photo sessions all cost extra.
No. Everything published — the $15 admission, the add-on prices and the Saturday and Sunday 10am to 7pm pattern — comes from the 2025 season, which ran roughly the start of October to the start of November. The farm had not announced 2026 dates when we last checked, so treat the prices as a strong guide and the calendar as unconfirmed.
No, and not at any Florida patch. The state's climate does not support a commercial fall pumpkin crop, so pumpkins are trucked in and arranged. The maze, the animals and the ranch are real; the pumpkins are freight.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Every Saturday and Sunday. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission starts at $15 per person. $15 general admission; $13 for seniors, military and first responders with valid ID; children under 2 free. Add-ons: pony rides $8 or 2 for $15, face painting $12-$15, mechanical bucking bull $5-$10, tractor train $5 after the first free ride, corn cannon $2 per shot after the first free shot, photo sessions $50. These are the 2025 published prices.
8185 W Highway 100, Bunnell, FL 32110, in Flagler 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 $15 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $15, undercutting 4 of the 9 paid patches we track here.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 8 of the 14 patches we track in Central Florida had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
cowartranchandfarms.com
Checked August 2026.