A small Gilmer County farm with a corn maze, a barrel train and animals that is open six days a week, which is its real advantage, but no 2026 dates or prices are published and our map pin is the town centre rather than the farm.
No corn maze or admission pricing is published on the farm's own website.
Cress Creeks is one of the small ones, and small is not a criticism here. The published list runs to a corn maze, a barrel train, farm animals and fresh treats. Four things, aimed squarely at children under about seven, at a farm you can see all of in an hour.
Read it honestly and the audience is obvious. A barrel train is a tractor-towed ride for small children. Farm animals hold a three-year-old for as long as you let them. Fresh treats is a counter, not a restaurant. The corn maze is the only element with reach beyond that age band, and one maze does not make an afternoon for a ten-year-old who has already done a bigger farm this season.
For a family that has been through the large ticketed operations and found them exhausting, that is a genuine reason to choose this instead. There is no queue architecture, no wristband, no five stations you have paid for and must now visit. You arrive, you walk round, you leave.
Nothing is published. The farm’s own site carries no corn maze or admission pricing, and our record does not mark it as free entry, so the safe assumption is that something is charged and the honest answer is that we do not know what.
Work it as a range before you go. If there is a single small maze fee, a family of four is buying four of those plus whatever the treats counter extracts, and this is an inexpensive morning. If the barrel train is ticketed separately on top, the same visit has two per-head lines rather than one, and small charges multiplied by four children add up faster than parents expect. Ask both questions on the phone: what does it cost to come in, and is the train included.
Most small farms open Saturday and Sunday only. This one lists Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm and Sunday 11am to 4pm, closed Mondays, which is a materially different proposition in this particular part of Georgia.
Ellijay sits at the centre of the state’s apple belt, and in October that means three streams of visitors on the same rural roads at the same time: people driving up for orchards, people driving up for leaf colour, and people driving up for pumpkins. Peak leaf season and peak patch season land on the same weekends here. A Tuesday costs you nothing and removes the entire problem.
Note the shape of the days too. A 5pm close is not generous once you have driven up, and the Sunday 4pm close is tighter still, so a Sunday visit realistically needs to start by two.
The one thing this record does establish clearly is that you are in real corn-maze country. Gilmer County is well north of the fall line, so the maze is cut into a crop that actually grew there and the pumpkins in this part of the state are a local harvest rather than trucked-in stock arranged on straw. October here delivers the version of autumn that Georgia is genuinely good at, with cold mornings, warm afternoons and colour on the ridges.
The rest is homework. Confirm the maze is open and what it costs, and put the Boardtown Road address into your navigation rather than trusting our pin, which sits in the middle of Ellijay and not at the farm.
A weekday in early or mid October. The farm's own site says the corn maze runs late September through November without naming 2026 dates, and its listed hours are Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm and Sunday 11am to 4pm, closed Mondays. Being open six days is unusual for a farm this size and it is the single best reason to choose it, because October weekends around Ellijay carry apple-orchard queues, leaf-season day trippers and pumpkin traffic on the same handful of roads. If you must go at the weekend, note that the Sunday 4pm close means arriving after two leaves you very little.
An hour, maybe ninety minutes with a slow maze and a long stop at the animals. Four published attractions and none of them is a full afternoon.
No crowd information is published for the farm itself. The regional pattern is unambiguous though: Gilmer County in October is one of the busiest rural corners of Georgia because apple season, leaf season and pumpkin season peak on the same weekends. The farm's weekday opening is the release valve.
Not published. Small north Georgia farms typically park visitors on grass or gravel beside the barn, which is fine in dry weather and soft after mountain rain. Regional norm rather than a confirmed detail.
Unpublished. Corn maze paths and animal pens are uneven ground almost everywhere, and nothing on record describes an accessible route. Worth a call if it matters.
You are planning a whole day, need the cost in advance, or have older children. Four attractions aimed at the under-sevens will not hold a ten-year-old, and no price of any kind is published.
No corn maze or admission pricing is published on the farm's own website, and none was found elsewhere. Our record does not mark it as free entry, so assume there is a charge and ask when you call.
The farm says late September through November without naming dates. A corn-maze directory lists a September 25 to November 1 window, but that same directory carries a different phone number for the farm, so we treat both as unconfirmed.
Probably not on its own. A barrel train and farm animals are aimed at the under-sevens. The maze is the only element with broader appeal, and one maze is not an afternoon for a ten-year-old.
No. No coordinate was available on any page we read, so the pin is the Ellijay town-centre coordinate rather than the farm. Navigate to the Boardtown Road address instead.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Tuesday through Sunday; closed Mondays. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. No corn maze or admission pricing is published on the farm's own website.
4708 Boardtown Rd, Ellijay, GA 30540, in Gilmer County. It is one of 14 patches we track in North Georgia.
We track 14 patches in North Georgia, 6 of which are free to walk into. The farm has not published a gate price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 6 of the 14 patches we track in North Georgia had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There are 3 other patches we track in Gilmer County. All North Georgia patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
cresscreeksfarm.com · cornmazesandmore.org
Checked August 2026.