Open daily for seven weeks with a real corn maze, a working cider mill and 25-plus animal species — but the maze closes six days before the pumpkin field does, and the farm publishes no prices at all.
The farm's hours page states an admission ticket is required depending on the season and directs visitors to buy in advance, but no dollar figures appear on any page read.
Critz Farms publishes something most farms do not: an activity-by-activity table of dates and hours. It is worth reading carefully, because the four activities do not all run on the same calendar, and the mismatches are the whole planning problem.
Pick-your-own apples and pumpkins run daily, 10am to 6pm, September 12 to October 31. The Gigantic Steam Engine Corn Maze and the wagon rides run daily on the same hours but end on October 25. Cider making is Saturdays and Sundays only. And the games run noon to 6pm on weekdays against 10am to 6pm on weekends.
Line those up and a clear answer falls out: a weekend before October 25 is the only date that gets you the whole farm. Everything else involves a trade you should make deliberately rather than discover at the gate.
This is normal in the north and worth understanding rather than resenting. Corn mazes are cut into a real crop, and once the crop is done and the weather turns, the maze comes down while the pumpkin field carries on. Critz is unusually clear about the dates; plenty of farms are not. If Halloween week is the only time you can go, you will still get pumpkins, wagonless as they may be, plus the animals, playgrounds and cafe — just not the thing the farm leads with.
The farm says a ticket is required and asks you to buy in advance, but shows no figures on any page we read. That is a real gap for anyone comparing options, and the advance-purchase instruction suggests there is an online rate worth having. Find the number in the booking flow before you plan the day around it.
In a region where most comparable farms are Saturday-and-Sunday operations, seven-day opening across seven weeks is a genuine advantage. It means weather flexibility, it means a quieter visit is actually available, and it means a rained-off plan can move by a day instead of a week.
The weekday catch is the noon start on games, and the cider mill being shut. If your children are old enough to care about the maze and the animals rather than the games, a weekday morning is close to ideal: full pick-your-own hours, the maze open, and nobody else in the corn.
One seasonal note. The 6pm close is a long light evening in mid-September and full dark by the end of October. Cazenovia gets cold once the sun drops, and standing in a field waiting for a wagon is the coldest part of any farm visit. Dress for the last hour, not the first.
Pick-your-own runs daily 10am to 6pm from September 12 to October 31, 2026. The corn maze and wagon rides run daily on the same hours but stop on October 25 — six days earlier. The cider mill only runs Saturdays and Sundays. So the ideal date depends entirely on what you came for: a weekend before October 25 is the only slot that gets you everything at once. Weekday games do not start until noon, so a 10am weekday arrival finds a quieter but partly shut farm.
Three to four hours on a weekend with the cider mill running. Two hours on a weekday, when the games open late and the mill is closed.
Daily opening spreads the load in a way weekend-only farms cannot. Weekends are still the busy end, and they are also the only days the cider mill runs, which concentrates interest further.
Not published. Expect a Madison County farm field and soft ground after autumn rain.
You are set on the corn maze and can only come in the final week of October — it shuts on the 25th while the rest of the farm runs to Halloween. Skip it too if you need to budget precisely; the farm states a ticket is required but publishes no dollar figures anywhere we read.
No prices appear on any page we read. The farm's hours page states an admission ticket is required depending on the season and asks visitors to buy in advance, but does not publish figures.
The corn maze and wagon rides run September 12 to October 25, 2026. Pick-your-own continues to October 31, so the last week of the season has pumpkins but no maze.
No. Cider making runs Saturdays and Sundays, 10am to 6pm. Pick-your-own, the maze and wagon rides run daily within their own date windows.
September 12 – October 31, 2026. Daily for pick-your-own, corn maze and wagon rides; cider mill weekends only. Hours: Pick-your-own 10:00am-6:00pm daily Sept 12 - Oct 31; corn maze and wagon rides 10:00am-6:00pm daily Sept 12 - Oct 25; cider mill 10:00am-6:00pm Sat-Sun; games noon-6:00pm weekdays and 10:00am-6:00pm weekends.
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. The farm's hours page states an admission ticket is required depending on the season and directs visitors to buy in advance, but no dollar figures appear on any page read.
3232 Rippleton Road, Cazenovia, NY 13035, in Madison County. It is one of 4 patches we track in Central New York.
We track 4 patches in Central New York, 1 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.
Its season runs about 50 days against a regional average of 51, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
What sets it apart locally: it has rides and play structures, which most Central New York patches on our list do not.
There are 6 other patches we track in Madison County. All Central New York patches →
critzfarms.com
Checked August 2026.