A weekends-only Sullivan County farm built around what it bills as the county's largest corn maze and a storytelling hayride — a straightforward half-day, though the farm's own site gave two different opening dates.
No admission or activity price is published on the pages read.
This is a small, legible operation and that is its appeal. Six things are on offer — a pumpkin patch, a roughly four-acre corn maze the farm calls Sullivan County’s largest, hayrides with storytelling, a hay bale maze, a play area and a harvest market — and none of them is a queue-and-token attraction dressed up as farming. If you want a maze, a wagon and a pumpkin, that is precisely what is here.
The four-acre figure is worth taking seriously rather than as marketing. A maze that size walked properly with children is forty-five minutes to an hour, longer if anyone insists on finding every checkpoint. Against a five-hour operating day, that is a substantial slice, which is the main argument for arriving at eleven rather than drifting in at two.
The storytelling angle on the hayride is the other thing that distinguishes it. It suggests a narrated, scheduled ride rather than a continuous loop you step onto — so expect it to run at set times and to need waiting for, and ask about the schedule when you arrive rather than assuming you can catch one on the way out.
Two practical notes about the season. The farm closes on Halloween, and in the Catskills that is late enough that the maze corn is dry, brittle and loud, the ground has usually taken several soakings, and the 5pm close is not far from sunset. Boots and a warm layer matter more here in the last week of October than most people expect in early September. And the opening date genuinely is unresolved — the farm’s website showed two different September start dates at once, which is a common symptom of a page updated in one place and not another. That is a phone call, not a gamble.
Pricing is the one real gap. Nothing we read published an admission figure, an activity charge or a payment policy. That is not unusual for a farm of this scale, and small Sullivan County operations tend to be at the cheap end, but treat it as unknown rather than assume it.
Saturdays and Sundays only, 11:00am-5:00pm, closing on Halloween. Arrive near the 11am open: a five-hour operating day is short, and the maze plus the hayride plus the market will use two to three hours of it without hurrying. Late in the season that 5pm close also lands close to sunset.
Two to three hours. A four-acre maze is a real walk rather than a loop, and the hayride is a timed, seated activity you may have to wait for.
Weekends-only opening across roughly six or seven weekends concentrates the whole season into a dozen or so days, and the two weekends before Halloween will be the busiest. Sullivan County draws less traffic than the Route 9W corridor, which works in your favour.
Not published. Assume a farm field, and assume it is soft after autumn rain — Catskills farm lots take days to dry out.
You only have a weekday free — this farm does not open midweek. Skip it too if you need a full day of rides and attractions; the list here is short and honest rather than sprawling.
The farm consistently gives Halloween as the closing date, but its site showed two different start dates — a September 16 line and a September 13 line that reads as carried over from a previous year. We have left the opening date blank rather than guess. Call to confirm before an early-season trip.
Roughly four acres, which the farm bills as the largest in Sullivan County. A regional parenting guide repeats the same claim.
No. The published schedule is weekends only, 11:00am to 5:00pm.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Weekends. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. No admission or activity price is published on the pages read.
233 Hurd and Parks Road, Swan Lake, NY 12783, in Sullivan County. It is one of 10 patches we track in Hudson Valley.
We track 10 patches in Hudson Valley, 2 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 2 of the 10 patches we track in Hudson Valley had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There is 1 other patch we track in Sullivan County. All Hudson Valley patches →
cunninghamfamilyfarms.com
Checked August 2026.