A corn maze built around four separate challenges rather than one wander, which makes it a better bet for older children than most - but the farm publishes its hours and prices on Facebook rather than its website, so plan on checking there before you drive.
The farm's site links to a 'Corn Maze Hours & Pricing' page but publishes no figure that could be read. No source read states whether walking onto the property is free, so free_admission is set to false as a conservative default rather than as a verified fact.
The interesting thing about Gearhard is the maze design. Most corn mazes ask one question, which is how to get out, and a competent ten-year-old answers it in twenty minutes. This one asks four: find the exit, draw the maze’s design, answer twenty trivia questions, and find ten hidden animal pictures scattered through the rows. That turns a short walk into a proper hour or two, and it shifts the age range upward. Families with teenagers who have grown out of a jumping pillow have fewer good options in western Pennsylvania in October than families with toddlers do, and this is one of them.
Alongside the maze there are hayrides and a pumpkin patch with a range of sizes and styles. It is a compact offering rather than a farm park, and that is fine at the right price - which brings us to the problem.
The farm’s own site carries the address, the attraction descriptions, contact numbers and an opening date of Friday September 11. What it does not carry is hours, a closing date, or a price. There is a link labelled for hours and pricing, but no figure rendered behind it for us. The farm instead directs visitors to Facebook for current hours, and says so explicitly in the context of bad weather.
Take that at face value. It means the practical schedule for this farm lives on a social feed, and it means a rained-out evening will be announced there rather than on the website. If you are driving out from Pittsburgh on a wet Saturday in October, check the feed from the car park at home, not from the farm gate.
A directory listing circulates suggesting a September 11 to November 1 season with Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday afternoon hours. It is consistent with the farm’s own opening date, but the same directory is demonstrably out of date for other farms in the region, so we would not plan around it.
Three questions close most of the gap. What does admission cost per person, and is there a child rate. Is the hayride included in that or charged separately, because at farms that separate them a family of four pays twice for what looks like one visit. And are pumpkins priced individually or by weight, since weight pricing regularly doubles what parents expect once children pick the biggest one in the field.
Group visits are handled by different people from the general enquiry line, which suggests school and scout bookings are a real part of the business. If you are organising twenty children rather than four, start there.
September 11 is an early opening for this region, and early-season evenings are the pleasant ones. A field in Westmoreland County in late September is a mild place to spend two hours. The same field on the last Friday of October is a genuinely cold one, and the daylight has gone by well before a typical evening close. Layers, closed shoes and a light in a pocket cover most of it. Mud covers the rest: October is the wet month here, and unpaved farm parking after rain is the norm rather than the exception.
The 2026 maze opens Friday September 11. No closing date, no daily hours and no price are published on the farm's own site, which links to a Corn Maze Hours and Pricing page that did not render for us. September and early October evenings are the comfortable end of the season here; by late October a Laurel Highlands field after dark is cold enough that layers matter more than a jacket.
Allow two hours if you intend to complete all four maze challenges. Finding the exit alone is quicker, but the trivia questions and the ten hidden animal pictures are designed to keep a group in the corn considerably longer.
Unknown, because the schedule is unknown. What is safe to say is that a maze without a published weekday programme concentrates demand into weekend hours, and that mid-October is the peak fortnight everywhere in western Pennsylvania. If the farm runs evening sessions, the hour after opening will be quieter than the hour after dinner.
Not published. This is a working farm on Saltsburg Road, so expect field or gravel parking and soft ground after rain. October in Westmoreland County is wet often enough that boots are the safer choice.
Not published. Cut corn rows are rutted and uneven by nature and a hayride means a step up onto a wagon. Ring 412-398-5512 before travelling if that matters to anyone in your group.
You need a firm price or firm hours before committing. Neither is published on the farm's website, and the farm itself tells visitors to check Facebook, particularly in bad weather. Skip it too if your group is mostly under five - a four-challenge maze is aimed above that age, and there is no published list of small-child attractions.
Murrysville is an easy eastward run from Pittsburgh on Route 22, which makes this a half-day rather than a full expedition for most of the metro. Because the schedule is uncertain, treat it as the anchor of the day and build the rest around what the farm confirms.
No price is published. The farm's website links to a Corn Maze Hours and Pricing page, but no figure could be read from it. Check the farm's Facebook page or ring 412-398-5512 before travelling.
The farm states the maze begins Friday September 11, which matches the 2026 calendar. No closing date is published on the farm's own pages. A directory listing suggests the season runs to around November 1, but that source is out of date for other farms so we have not treated it as confirmed.
It is set up as four challenges rather than one route: find the exit, draw the maze's design, answer twenty trivia questions, and locate ten hidden animal pictures. That structure suits older children who would otherwise be through a straight maze in twenty minutes.
Group reservations go through separate contacts rather than the main number - Cassie on 330-428-1563 or Mike on 412-302-0739, or by email to the farm's maze address.
Opens September 11, 2026 (closing date not published).
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. The farm's site links to a 'Corn Maze Hours & Pricing' page but publishes no figure that could be read. No source read states whether walking onto the property is free, so free_admission is set to false as a conservative default rather than as a verified fact.
5909 Saltsburg Road, Murrysville, PA 15668, in Westmoreland County. It is one of 3 patches we track in Laurel Highlands.
We track 3 patches in Laurel Highlands. 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 farm animals, which most Laurel Highlands patches on our list do not.
There are 2 other patches we track in Westmoreland County. All Laurel Highlands patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
gearhardfarms.com · pumpkinpatchesandmore.org
Checked August 2026.