The rare Northern Virginia farm where one ticket genuinely covers the day, including a pumpkin to take home, but the price doubles between a quiet September weekday and a peak October Saturday and there is no gate window at all.
Four date-based tiers: Discount $15, Value $20, Regular $25, Peak $30 per person. Tickets are sold online only and are required for everyone 2 years and older; under 24 months is free. Admission covers the attractions and includes a pumpkin. The Fields of Fear night event (Fridays and Saturdays 7:30pm-11:00pm) is a separate ticket.
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.
Most large Northern Virginia farms price like metro attractions: a gate fee, then a wristband, then pumpkins by the pound, then the corn cannon. Cox Farms does something different, and it is the main reason to read past the headline number. Admission covers the attractions and includes a pumpkin. What you pay at the online checkout is close to what the day actually costs, minus food.
That changes the arithmetic. Two adults and two children aged 2 and over on a $25 Regular date pay $100 and leave with four pumpkins and no add-on decisions. The same family at a farm charging $12 a head plus $0.90 a pound for pumpkins is not obviously cheaper once four pumpkins are on the scale, and they will have spent the afternoon saying no to things.
Four tiers — $15, $20, $25, $30 — attached to dates rather than to what you do. For a family of four that is a $60 spread across an identical experience. The tiers also work as a crowd forecast: the farm has priced its own expectations, and Peak dates are the ones it knows will fill. If your household can move a Saturday to a Friday, or an October weekend to a late-September weekday, that is the single highest-value decision on this page.
There is no ticket window. The farm sells online, caps numbers, and says busy dates sell out. Plenty of families treat a pumpkin patch as a weather-dependent, decide-at-breakfast outing; that does not work here. Check availability for your date before you commit to the drive out Braddock Road, and buy it once you have. A sold-out October Saturday is not something you can talk your way past at the entrance.
Last entry is 5:00pm in September and October, and 4:00pm in November. Those are the numbers that catch people who plan a late-afternoon visit around a nap or a morning commitment. In November the whole thing shortens: a 10:00am to 5:00pm day, with the light going early and the ground colder underfoot after a Virginia autumn’s rain. September and early October afternoons in this part of the state can still be genuinely warm, which argues for a morning start at the front of the season and a midday one at the back.
The attraction list — hayride, Cornundrum corn maze, dino slide, giant slides, animal encounters — is built for children who can walk, climb and queue. Under-2s are free but get very little out of it, and the free entry is a courtesy rather than a reason to bring a baby. At the other end, older children and teenagers will exhaust the daytime festival faster than the ticket price justifies; for them, Fields of Fear on a Friday or Saturday night is the version of the farm that fits, and it is a separate purchase.
Two gaps worth closing before you leave. The farm does not publish per-attraction add-on prices, which is consistent with an all-inclusive model but means food and market spending are the only unknowns — budget for them the way you would at any festival. And parking and accessibility details are not published in what we could confirm. For a farm on this scale, in this county, field parking on grass is the safe assumption; after the storms that reach Northern Virginia in late September and early October, that means boots rather than trainers.
The Fall Festival runs September 19 through November 8, 2026, daily, 10:00am to 6:00pm in September and October and 10:00am to 5:00pm in November. Last entry is one hour before close in both cases. The cheapest and calmest visits are September weekdays, which fall into the $15 Discount tier; the most expensive are the Peak $30 dates, which the farm reserves for its busiest October weekends. If you want the October look without the October crowd, an early-October weekday buys you the same decorated hayride at a lower tier.
Three to four hours to use the ticket properly. With a hayride, a corn maze, multiple giant slides, animal areas and a pumpkin to choose, this is not a one-hour stop, and at $25 or $30 a head a short visit is poor value.
This is a Fairfax County farm inside the Washington commuter belt, and the four-tier pricing is effectively the farm telling you which dates it expects to be mobbed. Peak dates are peak for a reason. Weekday visits in late September and early November are the quiet end of the same season.
Not published in what we could confirm. Assume farm field parking on grass, which is standard for the region and turns soft after the heavy late-September and early-October rain that reaches Northern Virginia most years.
Not published. Hayrides, slides and maze paths on a working farm generally involve uneven ground and steps up into wagons; if mobility or a stroller is a factor, call 703-830-4121 before buying, because online-only tickets are harder to unwind than a gate decision.
You are a walk-up sort of visitor. Tickets are sold online only, there is no gate purchase, and the farm says busy dates sell out — turning up on an October Saturday hoping to buy at the entrance is how this trip fails. Skip it too if a four-figure-adjacent day out for a large group is not in budget: at the Peak tier, everyone 2 and over pays $30.
It depends entirely on the date. The farm runs four tiers: Discount $15, Value $20, Regular $25 and Peak $30 per person. Everyone 2 years and older needs a ticket; under 24 months is free. A family of four with two ticketed children pays $60 at the low end and $120 at the high end.
No. Tickets are online only, and the farm warns that ticket counts are limited and busy dates sell out. Buy before you drive.
Yes. Admission covers the attractions and includes a pumpkin, which is unusual among large Northern Virginia farms that typically charge by the pound on top of the gate price.
No. Fields of Fear runs Friday and Saturday nights from 7:30pm to 11:00pm and needs its own ticket. It is not part of daytime admission.
September 19 – November 8, 2026. Daily. Hours: 10:00am-6:00pm in September and October (last entry 5:00pm); 10:00am-5:00pm in November (last entry 4:00pm).
Admission starts at $15 per person. Four date-based tiers: Discount $15, Value $20, Regular $25, Peak $30 per person. Tickets are sold online only and are required for everyone 2 years and older; under 24 months is free. Admission covers the attractions and includes a pumpkin. The Fields of Fear night event (Fridays and Saturdays 7:30pm-11:00pm) is a separate ticket.
15621 Braddock Road, Centreville, VA 20120, in Fairfax County. It is one of 5 patches we track in Northern Virginia.
We track 5 patches in Northern Virginia. At $15 a head this one sits above the regional median of $12.
Its season runs about 51 days against a regional average of 40, so it is a notably longer window than most of its neighbours, which takes the pressure off picking a weekend.
What sets it apart locally: it has an after-dark attraction, which most Northern Virginia patches on our list do not.
coxfarmsva.com
Checked August 2026.