A working dairy farm with over 40 pumpkin varieties, a 9am-to-7pm daily window that is longer than almost anything else in the county, and a cash-only policy that catches people out — but hayrides run weekends only, so a weekday visit is pumpkins and cows and nothing more.
Hayride pricing is $5 for adults and $3 for children under 10. Private group hayrides run weekdays 3:00-5:00pm with a $50 minimum and require a phone reservation. Lake Country Family Fun notes the farm is cash only.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $12.00 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.
Cozy Nook is a dairy farm that sells pumpkins, not a fall entertainment venue, and the whole visit makes sense once you accept that framing. There is no maze, no ropes course, no show schedule. There is a field with an unusually deep pumpkin selection, a herd of cows nearby, and a hayride on weekends.
For a specific kind of visitor, that is exactly right.
More than 40 varieties is a lot. Most farms grow two or three field pumpkins and a handful of decorative gourds. A list that runs to white Icicles, oversized New Moons, green Jarrahdales and red Cinderellas, plus 14 squash varieties, is the kind of selection people drive past three closer farms to reach.
If your household treats pumpkin buying as a design decision rather than a chore, this is the listing in the county that rewards you. If you want one orange pumpkin and a slide for the children, it is not.
Open 9am to 7pm, every day, from September 26 to October 31. Compare that to the weekends-only festival farms that give you fourteen operating days in the whole season, and to the ticketed farms that stop admitting people at 3pm or 5pm.
A ten-hour day, seven days a week, means the crowd is spread across far more hours than usual. It also means the single most useful piece of advice on this page: go on a weekday evening. Most people cannot visit a farm at 5:30 on a Tuesday because most farms are shut. This one is not. Late September and early October still have usable light at that hour, the field will be close to empty, and you will get a version of the place that a Saturday visitor never sees.
By the last week of October a 7pm close is well past dark, so an evening visit late in the season is a torch-lit trip to the market rather than a walk in the field. Plan accordingly.
Hayrides run 11am to 5pm on weekends only. On weekdays they exist only as private bookings, 3pm to 5pm, with a $50 minimum and a phone reservation required. For a single family that is a poor deal — $50 buys a hayride for four that would cost $16 at the weekend rate. For an extended family, a birthday group or a couple of households going together, it divides down to something reasonable and buys you a wagon to yourselves.
So the plan splits cleanly. Pumpkins on a weekday evening. Hayride on a weekend afternoon. Trying to do both on a Tuesday means paying $50 for the privilege.
Regional guides report that Cozy Nook is cash only. That has not been confirmed to us by the farm itself, so treat it as a strong caution rather than a certainty — but the cost of being wrong is asymmetric. Arriving with cash at a farm that takes cards costs you nothing. Arriving with only a card at a cash-only farm means driving away empty-handed after a forty-minute journey, or hunting for a cash machine in rural Waukesha County.
Bring more than you plan to spend. Pumpkin prices are not published anywhere in our record, and a farm with 40 varieties and oversized specimens has a wide price range by definition. The big New Moons are not going to be priced like a small field pumpkin.
October here is wet, and a working dairy field after rain is genuinely muddy rather than picturesquely damp. Boots, not trainers, and something to put the pumpkins on in the car. The herd being nearby is part of the appeal and also part of the ground conditions.
One mapping note worth knowing before you set off: a regional 2026 roundup lists this farm under Wales rather than Waukesha. Both point at the same Summit Avenue address, but if a search result puts it in a different town than you expected, that is why.
September 26 through October 31, 2026, open 9am to 7pm every day. Those hours are the reason to come here: a 7pm close means a weekday-evening visit after work or school is genuinely possible, which is rare and which is the best way to see a pumpkin field in October without a crowd. If you want the hayride, it has to be a weekend between 11am and 5pm.
An hour to ninety minutes. This is a pumpkin-buying trip with animals attached, not a half-day attraction farm, and pretending otherwise sets you up for disappointment.
Five weeks, open daily, with a ten-hour day. That is an unusually generous amount of operating time for the demand, and it means Cozy Nook has more genuinely quiet hours than most farms in the region. The pinch point is the weekend 11am-to-5pm hayride window, which compresses everyone who wants a ride into six hours on Saturday and Sunday.
Not published in our record. This is a dairy farm on Summit Avenue between Waukesha and Wales; assume field or gravel parking that softens after rain, which October in southeastern Wisconsin reliably supplies.
Not published. A pumpkin field on a working dairy is uneven ground and, in a wet October, muddy ground. The one advantage is that the pumpkins come to a market area rather than requiring you to walk the whole field, though our record does not confirm how the picking is arranged.
You want rides, mazes and attractions. There is no corn maze, no slide, no ropes course — the activity list is pumpkins, squash, gourds, corn stalks, straw bales, animals and a weekend hayride. Skip a weekday visit if the hayride is the point, because weekday hayrides exist only as private bookings with a $50 minimum and a phone reservation.
Waukesha County has two other free-or-cheap-gate farms within a short drive: Schuett Farms south near Mukwonago, which has the 12-acre corn maze and night maze that Cozy Nook does not, and The Elegant Farmer, also in Mukwonago, for apples and the paper-bag pie. A morning at Cozy Nook for pumpkins and an afternoon at Schuett for the maze covers most of what a fall Saturday needs, for far less than one ticketed farm.
Local guides report it is cash only. Our record does not include a statement from the farm itself confirming a card policy, so bring cash and treat any card acceptance as a bonus.
Weekends only, 11am to 5pm, starting September 26. On weekdays, hayrides are available 3pm to 5pm as private bookings with a $50 minimum, arranged by phone in advance.
$5 for adults and $3 for children under 10.
More than 40 varieties, including white Icicles, oversized New Moons, green Jarrahdales and red Cinderellas, plus 14 varieties of squash. That range is unusual for a farm this size and is the main reason to choose it over a bigger operation.
September 26 – October 31, 2026. Daily. Hours: 9:00am-7:00pm every day; weekend hayrides 11:00am-5:00pm.
Admission starts at $3 per person. Hayride pricing is $5 for adults and $3 for children under 10. Private group hayrides run weekdays 3:00-5:00pm with a $50 minimum and require a phone reservation. Lake Country Family Fun notes the farm is cash only.
S11 W30780 Summit Avenue, Waukesha, WI 53188, in Waukesha County. It is one of 7 patches we track in Milwaukee Region.
We track 7 patches in Milwaukee Region, 3 of which are free to walk into. At $3 a head this one sits below the regional median of $10, undercutting 3 of the 4 paid patches we track here.
Its season runs about 36 days against a regional average of 42, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
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Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
cozynookfarms.com
Checked August 2026.