Southwest Florida's biggest fall festival and the only one on our list with both a family maze and a haunted one — but tickets are online-only in 30-minute slots, so it is not a place you can decide to visit from the car park.
Tickets are online only, sold in 30-minute time slots, with a skip-the-line fast pass option. Specific prices were not published on the sources read.
Farmer Mike’s is a working u-pick farm first and a fall festival second, and that ordering shows up in what the October operation actually offers. Alongside the mazes and bounce houses there is u-pick that means something: sunflowers, which South Florida can genuinely grow in the autumn, on a farm that sells picked produce the rest of the year. That puts it in a different category from the nurseries and parks that assemble a pumpkin display for six weeks and pack it away.
The pumpkins are still trucked in. Florida’s climate does not permit a commercial fall pumpkin crop anywhere in the state, so “u-pick pumpkins” here, as everywhere in Florida, means picking one up off the ground rather than off a vine. The sunflowers are the part where the u-pick label does real work.
Tickets are online only, sold in 30-minute entry slots, with an optional fast pass for skipping queues. This has two consequences that matter more than any attraction on the list. First, you cannot show up and decide — a sold-out slot is a wasted drive, and Southwest Florida families are all competing for the same three days a week. Second, because entry is timed, the address you point your car at needs to be right the first time, and Farmer Mike’s runs a second location in Fort Myers.
The published hours tell you plainly that this is two different events. Friday is 6pm to 9:30pm — an evening-only session. Saturday runs 9am to 10pm. Sunday runs 9am to 6pm and closes before dark.
Read those alongside the attraction list and the pattern is obvious. Daytime is the family maze, the hayrides, the bounce houses and the u-pick fields. After dark is the haunted maze, and the crowd shifts accordingly. If you are bringing children under about eight, Sunday is the day the schedule was built for; if you are bringing teenagers, Friday night is.
Late September and October in Lee County is still hot and still wet. Afternoon storms are routine, the fields are unshaded, and a farm’s parking area is a field that becomes mud. Morning slots beat afternoon slots for both reasons.
The evening sessions swap heat for mosquitoes. A farm at dusk in Southwest Florida with standing water anywhere nearby will find you; repellent belongs in the car.
One gap worth flagging honestly: no prices were published on the sources we could read, and 2026 dates had not been posted when we checked. A previous season ran roughly late September through Halloween. Before you build a Saturday around this, get both figures from the farm’s own ticketing page.
Saturday or Sunday morning if you have young children — Sunday opens at 9am and closes at 6pm, which is the most daylight-friendly window of the three festival days. Friday is an evening event only, running 6pm to 9:30pm, and Saturday runs until 10pm; those after-dark hours belong to the haunted maze crowd rather than to toddlers. Weekday u-pick runs 9am-5pm without the festival attached, which is the quiet option if all you want is the fields.
Two to four hours for the festival, depending on whether you do both mazes. The mix of mazes, hayrides, u-pick fields, bounce houses and a cafe supports a long visit, but nothing here demands a full day the way a big-ticket paid park does.
Three festival days a week against a whole region's demand concentrates the crowd hard into Saturday. The timed-slot system spreads arrivals but does nothing for queues inside, and the fast pass option exists precisely because those queues are real.
Not documented in the sources we read. This is a working farm rather than a purpose-built venue, so assume a field or grass overflow, and assume it is soft after rain — Southwest Florida's wet season runs into October.
No accessibility information is published. Corn mazes and u-pick fields are uneven ground by definition; if you are bringing a wheelchair or a small-wheeled stroller, call the farm before buying a timed ticket you cannot easily change.
You are a spontaneous visitor or a walk-up. Tickets are sold online only in 30-minute entry slots, so a full slot means you are not getting in that day. Also skip the Friday and late-Saturday hours if you have small children — a haunted corn maze after dark is not a toddler environment.
Lakes Regional Park in Fort Myers has run a free-entry pumpkin event with $3 parking, which makes it a natural low-cost counterpart if you want a second, cheaper fall outing rather than a second attraction on the same day. It is on Gladiolus Drive, the same road as Farmer Mike's other site.
No. Tickets are sold online only, in 30-minute time slots, with an optional skip-the-line fast pass. Book before you drive out.
The farm had not published prices on the sources we read. Check the farm's own ticketing page before you go — this is the single figure we could not verify.
There are two separate mazes — a family maze and a haunted one. Treat the haunted maze as a teen-and-adult attraction, and note that the Friday evening and late Saturday hours are built around it.
The festival address is on Morton Avenue in Bonita Springs. Farmer Mike's also operates a second location on Gladiolus Drive in Fort Myers, roughly 25 miles north, and confusing the two is the easiest way to ruin a timed-entry booking.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Festival activities Fri-Sun; weekday u-pick 9am-5pm. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. Tickets are online only, sold in 30-minute time slots, with a skip-the-line fast pass option. Specific prices were not published on the sources read.
26031 Morton Ave, Bonita Springs, FL 34135, in Lee County. It is one of 6 patches we track in Southwest Florida.
We track 6 patches in Southwest Florida, 4 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.
What sets it apart locally: it has a corn or crop maze, an after-dark attraction, which most Southwest Florida patches on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 0 of the 6 patches we track in Southwest Florida had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There are 8 other patches we track in Lee County. All Southwest Florida patches →
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Checked August 2026.