A full paid-gate attraction park where the ticket genuinely covers the rides, but October weekends hit $30 a head with no family cap, so the date you pick moves the bill more than anything else.
2026 ticket page: Early Bird (Aug 21-31) $17 weekday / $22 weekend; September $22 weekday / $28 weekend; October $22 weekday / $30 weekend. Tickets required ages 3 and up, children 2 and under free. Season passes $65 weekdays-only, $99 all days.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $68.00 in admission alone at the posted starting rate, before pumpkins, food, parking or any add-on listed above. Most families end up well north of that once they are through the gate.
The honest way to read this farm is as an amusement park that happens to grow pumpkins. Seventeen attractions appear in our record alone, from a six-lane pumpkin slide and a carousel to pig races, a jumping pillow, a haunted house and an Animal Land that includes a giraffe. The 2026 ticket page advertises 25-plus attractions inside one admission. That bundling is the whole proposition: you pay once, and then nobody has to say no at every ride.
Two adults and two children aged three or over on an October Saturday is 4 x $30, or $120, and there is no family cap in the published rates. The same four people on an October weekday is 4 x $22, or $88. The same four in the August 21-31 early-bird window is $68 on a weekday. That is a $52 spread on identical people doing broadly the same things, decided entirely by which square of the calendar you land on.
Then add what the ticket does not cover. Pumpkins themselves are a purchase, and so is anything from the market or the food stands. A realistic all-in for an October weekend family visit with lunch and two decent pumpkins sits meaningfully north of $150. If that number makes you wince, the answer is not to skip the farm, it is to go on a Tuesday.
$65 buys unlimited weekdays and $99 buys unlimited everything. Against a $30 October weekend ticket the all-days pass is even after four visits, and against the $22 weekday rate the weekday pass is even after three. For a local family with small children who will come back for the animals as much as for the pumpkins, that is a genuinely different way to buy the season — and it removes the “we paid $30, we have to stay” pressure that makes long days with toddlers go badly.
The 2026 season dates. The ticket page has this year’s prices, but the homepage and the area tourism listing were both still carrying the 2025 festival run and 2025 hours when we read them in August 2026. The hours in our record — Monday to Wednesday 9am to 6pm, Thursday to Sunday 9am to 8pm — are last year’s published schedule, and while farms rarely overhaul their hours year to year, we are not going to pretend they are confirmed. Call ahead if you are driving more than half an hour, particularly for an evening visit that depends on that 8pm close.
If the 9am opening carries over, take it. Farms of this scale are genuinely pleasant in the first ninety minutes and genuinely crowded by early afternoon, and the queue-forming attractions — the pumpkin-eating dinosaur show, the pig races, the carousel with a single loading gate — are the ones that punish a late arrival.
Late October changes the character of a Thursday-to-Sunday 8pm close. In late September that is dusk at the end of a long day; by Halloween week it is more than an hour of full darkness, cold enough that a jacket alone is not the right answer. Layers, and something on small heads.
One more thing worth saying out loud: this is northern Illinois in October, which means rain, and farm ground holds it. Nothing in what we read describes the parking surface, but very few Kane County farms pave a festival overflow lot. Assume grass or gravel and dress the children’s feet accordingly, and the one genuinely bad version of this day never happens to you.
The farm's own 2026 ticket page prices the season in three tiers, and that grid is the schedule that matters: an early-bird window August 21-31 at $17 weekday and $22 weekend, then September at $22 weekday and $28 weekend, then October at $22 weekday and $30 weekend. A September weekday is the sweet spot for value and quiet. If you need real October atmosphere, take a Thursday: the last published schedule ran Thursday through Sunday to 8pm, which buys you late-afternoon light without the Saturday queue.
Four to five hours. With 17-plus listed attractions in the record and more advertised on the ticket page, anything under three hours means paying full freight for a fraction of the ticket.
The pricing tells you where the crowds are. October weekends carry the highest rate precisely because that is when everybody comes. Weekday rates hold flat at $22 from September through October, which is the farm quietly telling you midweek is underused.
Not published in anything we read. Most Kane County farm lots are gravel or field grass, so assume soft ground after rain and shoes you do not mind.
Not published. With rides, mazes and an orchard wagon route spread across a working farm, surfaces will vary; call 847-464-5952 before travelling if wheels or mobility limits are a factor.
You want a quick, cheap pumpkin stop. There is no walk-in-and-buy-a-pumpkin tier in the record — everyone 3 and up needs a ticket, and at October weekend rates a family of four is $120 through the gate before a single donut. Skip it too if you need confirmed 2026 opening dates today; the ticket page has 2026 prices but the season run we could read was still the 2025 one.
Kane County sits in the middle of Illinois farm country, and the state grows more pumpkins than any other in the US — most of it processing crop further south around Morton, which calls itself the Pumpkin Capital of the World. If you are making a day of it, the drive west of the Fox River is the pleasant half of the trip.
The 2026 ticket page lists three tiers: early bird August 21-31 at $17 weekday and $22 weekend, September at $22 weekday and $28 weekend, and October at $22 weekday and $30 weekend. Everyone aged 3 and up needs a ticket; 2 and under are free.
Yes. The 2026 ticket page bundles 25-plus attractions into the one admission, which is why the gate price is high compared with pay-per-ride farms. Food, pumpkins and market purchases are separate.
No. This is the Pingree Grove and Hampshire location at 42W813 Reinking Rd in Kane County. Check the address before you set off — the family name appears on more than one site.
Not on the pages we read. The 2026 pricing is published, but the homepage and the local tourism listing still showed the 2025 run of August 22 to October 31 and 2025 hours, so we have left the season dates blank rather than guess.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Daily. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission starts at $17 per person. 2026 ticket page: Early Bird (Aug 21-31) $17 weekday / $22 weekend; September $22 weekday / $28 weekend; October $22 weekday / $30 weekend. Tickets required ages 3 and up, children 2 and under free. Season passes $65 weekdays-only, $99 all days.
42W813 Reinking Rd, Pingree Grove, IL 60140, in Kane County. It is one of 9 patches we track in Chicago Suburbs.
We track 9 patches in Chicago Suburbs, 2 of which are free to walk into. At $17 a head this one sits above the regional median of $15.95, undercutting 1 of the 6 paid patches we track here.
What sets it apart locally: it has an after-dark attraction, which most Chicago Suburbs patches on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 7 of the 9 patches we track in Chicago Suburbs had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
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Checked August 2026.