A 40-plus attraction Saratoga County farm with five ziplines and a new mini-tractor course for 2026 — genuinely ambitious, but it publishes no prices at all on its own site, so you cannot budget the day before you commit.
Tickets are sold through an external ticketing portal and no prices are displayed on the farm's own home page, Plan Your Visit page or pricing page as read.
Ellms is one of the more ambitious fall farms in the Capital Region, and the 2026 attraction list makes the case: five all-ages ziplines, nine mini tractors on a barnyard course, a corn maze, a pumpkin train, a jump park and jumping pillow, a low ropes challenge course, pedal carts, apple cannons, gemstone mining, a farm stage with live music and cider donuts. The ziplines and the mini tractors are both advertised as new for this season.
The season runs September 19 to November 1 — six and a half weeks, weekends plus some weekday hours, with the exact daily pattern unpublished on the pages we read.
There is one significant problem with planning a visit here, and it is the same problem for everyone: no prices. The farm’s pricing page returned no readable content, and ticketing routes out to an external portal. So the only way to find out what a family of four pays is to start a booking.
Do that before you build the day around it. At a farm with more than forty attractions, the difference between an all-inclusive ticket and a base ticket with paid extras is the difference between a $100 day and a $200 one — and we cannot tell you which model this is. A regional feature did publish a breakdown of which attractions carry fees, but it is explicitly labelled 2023 information, which makes it worse than useless for budgeting a 2026 visit.
The question to ask when you find the portal: what is included, and what costs extra? Gemstone mining and apple cannons are the two most likely to sit outside a base ticket at farms that offer them.
The value logic at an attraction-heavy farm is unforgiving. Whatever the ticket costs, it is priced for a family that arrives near opening and works through the list. If you are planning to be there ninety minutes, you would get more for your money at a smaller farm with a lower gate.
That also shapes who this suits. Children who are big enough for the ziplines and the low ropes course get far more out of it than toddlers, who will use the jumping pillow and little else while you pay full price for the rest.
Running to November 1 puts the final weekend of this season past the point where most northern farms have finished. That is a bonus if Halloween is your only free weekend and a warning about clothing: by then the afternoons are short and the ground has usually had a few soakings. Boots, layers, and no expectation that the pumpkin field will be dry.
The 2026 season runs September 19 through November 1. The farm operates weekends from mid-September through October plus some weekday hours, but does not publish a daily timetable on the pages we read — so the days and times need checking for your specific date. If weekday hours are available on the date you want, they are the obvious choice for both crowds and, at most farms of this type, price.
Four hours or more. With five ziplines, nine mini tractors, a low ropes course, a jump park, a corn maze and a farm stage, this is built as a full-day property and a two-hour visit wastes most of what you paid for.
A six-week season built mainly around weekends concentrates demand into a dozen or so days. The last two weekends before Halloween are the reliable peak in this region.
Not published. Expect a Saratoga County farm field, and expect it to be soft after autumn rain.
You need to know the cost in advance. The farm's own pricing page returned nothing readable and tickets route to an external portal, so there is no published figure to plan against. Skip it too if you are after a quiet orchard afternoon — 40-plus attractions is the opposite proposition.
We could not find out. The farm's home page, Plan Your Visit page and pricing page carried no readable prices, and tickets route to an external portal. Check that portal for your date before planning the visit.
The farm advertises five all-ages ziplines and nine mini tractors on a barnyard course as new for the 2026 season.
September 19 through November 1, 2026. The farm describes weekends from mid-September through October plus some weekday hours, but does not publish a full daily timetable on the pages we read.
September 19 – November 1, 2026. Weekends from mid-September through October; some weekday hours also offered.
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. Tickets are sold through an external ticketing portal and no prices are displayed on the farm's own home page, Plan Your Visit page or pricing page as read.
448 Charlton Road, Ballston Spa, NY 12020, in Saratoga County. It is one of 4 patches we track in Capital Region.
We track 4 patches in Capital Region, 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 44 days against a regional average of 48, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
What sets it apart locally: it has u-pick fields, rides and play structures, which most Capital Region patches on our list do not.
There is 1 other patch we track in Saratoga County. All Capital Region patches →
ellmsfarms.com
Checked August 2026.