Evansville's main pick-your-own pumpkin operation, and it is closed on Sundays - the single most disruptive scheduling quirk in this directory, with Saturday the only full day and weekdays running just four hours.
Hayrides to the u-pick pumpkin patch are $12 per person on weekdays and $15 per person on weekends, with children under 3 free; the $5 corn maze is included with a hayride ticket. Barrel rides are $1 per rider, and the petting zoo and grain bin are free. These are the farm's most recently published rates and are not confirmed for 2026.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $48.00 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.
Start with the scheduling, because it overrides everything else about this listing.
Goebel Farms is closed on Sundays. It is also closed on Mondays. Saturday, 9am to 5pm, is the only full day it operates. Tuesday through Friday it opens at 1pm and shuts at 5pm - a four-hour afternoon and nothing before it.
Almost every pumpkin farm in the Midwest treats Sunday as a peak trading day. Several in this directory are open on weekends and nothing else. A visitor who has internalised that pattern and drives out to Boonville New Harmony Road on a Sunday in October will find the place shut, and that is a wasted afternoon that no amount of good pumpkins can recover.
Access to the pick-your-own pumpkin field is by hayride, and the hayride is the ticket. Twelve dollars a person on a weekday, fifteen at the weekend, children under three free.
For a family of two adults and two school-age children that is $48 on a Tuesday afternoon or $60 on a Saturday. The $5 corn maze is bundled into that hayride ticket rather than sold on its own, which is a fairer structure than it first appears - you are not being asked to buy the maze twice, and the maze is genuinely part of what you paid for.
Then the pumpkins themselves, on top. And barrel rides at a dollar a rider, which is the kind of pricing that does not need agonising over.
The free items are worth naming, because they are the difference between a cheap day and an expensive one: the petting zoo, with goats, a pony, a donkey and alpacas, and the grain bin play area, both at no charge. With a child under three, whose hayride is also free, a visit here can cost two adult tickets and nothing else.
One caution on all of these figures. They are the farm’s most recently posted rates, not confirmed 2026 prices. The site was still carrying last season’s information in late August and said explicitly that 2026 corn maze details were yet to come.
Twelve dollars against fifteen is a twenty percent saving, and for four people that is $12 back in your pocket. More importantly, Saturday here is doing the work of an entire weekend for a whole city, because Sunday is off the table. Whatever crowd Evansville generates for a pumpkin farm arrives on one day.
If you can make a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday afternoon, you get a cheaper ticket and a quieter field. The constraint is that 1pm start - there is no morning option Monday to Friday, so this cannot be a before-lunch trip, and by late October a 5pm close means you are finishing near dusk. In practice a weekday visit in October is a 1pm arrival with everything done by four.
The corn maze here is cut with GPS and a John Deere planter into pop-culture designs that change each year, which is a real cut maze in real corn rather than a path mown into grass. The 2026 design had not been announced as of late August, so if the theme matters to you - and for some families it is the deciding factor - that is something to check rather than assume.
The farm market is the part of this operation that gets undersold. More than 78 varieties of pumpkin and squash, which is the widest selection in the Evansville area. That is a genuinely different offer from a field of orange field pumpkins: warty ones, white ones, blue-grey ones, the whole range of decorative and eating squash. If your interest is in coming home with something unusual for a porch or a kitchen, the market rather than the field is where you will find it - and the market does not require a hayride ticket.
Apple cider slushies and a barn slide round out the list.
No 2026 season start. No 2026 season end. No 2026 corn maze design. The farm’s own guidance is that hayrides to the u-pick patch begin the last weekend in September and run through October, which is a normal southern Indiana pattern, but it is a description rather than a date.
The contact page on the farm’s site returned an error when we read it, so the phone number here comes from regional listings: 812-963-3001. Use it. Ask for the opening date, the current hayride price, and whether the maze is cut. Three questions, one call, and the only real risks of this trip removed.
Saturday, 9am to 5pm, which is the only day with a full schedule. Tuesday through Friday the farm opens at 1pm and closes at 5pm - a four-hour window that rules out any morning visit. Closed Sunday and Monday. The farm says hayrides to the u-pick pumpkin patch begin the last weekend in September and run through October, but has published no specific 2026 dates and stated outright in late August that the corn maze details for 2026 were still to come.
Two to three hours, which is most of a weekday opening. The hayride out to the field and back plus the corn maze is the core of it, with the petting zoo and grain bin filling the rest.
Being closed both Sunday and Monday compresses the week into five days, one of which is a full day. Saturday is therefore doing the work of an entire weekend and should be expected to be the busiest by a wide margin. The Tuesday-to-Friday 1pm-to-5pm slots are the quiet alternative for anyone whose schedule allows them.
Not published. Boonville New Harmony Road is a rural route and the farm is a working pick-your-own operation, so a grass or gravel lot is the reasonable expectation. Southern Indiana Octobers are wet.
Not published. Access to the pumpkin field is specifically by hayride, which involves getting up into a wagon - that is the part worth asking about on 812-963-3001 if mobility is a consideration. The petting zoo, grain bin and farm market are closer to the buildings.
Sunday is your family day. The farm is shut, and that catches out more visitors here than anything else. Skip it too if you need a morning visit on a weekday - nothing opens before 1pm from Tuesday to Friday.
Evansville itself is a few minutes away and is the practical other half of any trip here, particularly given the short weekday hours - a 1pm to 5pm farm window leaves the rest of the day open.
No. The farm is closed Sunday and Monday. Saturday 9am to 5pm is the only full day, and Tuesday to Friday it runs 1pm to 5pm. This is unusual for a pumpkin farm and it is the main reason visitors turn up to a closed gate.
Hayrides to the u-pick pumpkin patch are $12 per person on weekdays and $15 per person at weekends, with children under 3 free. The $5 corn maze is included with a hayride ticket. Barrel rides are $1 per rider. These are the farm's most recently posted rates and are not confirmed for 2026.
The farm says hayrides to the u-pick patch begin the last weekend in September and run through October, but has not published specific 2026 dates. As of late August it stated that 2026 corn maze information would be updated in the coming days, so the maze design for the year had not been announced.
The farm describes access to the u-pick pumpkin patch as being by hayride, and prices the two together. If walking out is an option it is not something we found published, so ask on the phone.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Tuesday-Saturday; closed Sunday and Monday. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission starts at $12 per person. Hayrides to the u-pick pumpkin patch are $12 per person on weekdays and $15 per person on weekends, with children under 3 free; the $5 corn maze is included with a hayride ticket. Barrel rides are $1 per rider, and the petting zoo and grain bin are free. These are the farm's most recently published rates and are not confirmed for 2026.
4745 W. Boonville New Harmony Road, Evansville, IN 47720, in Vanderburgh County. It is one of 4 patches we track in Southern Indiana.
We track 4 patches in Southern Indiana, 1 of which are free to walk into. At $12 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $12, undercutting 1 of the 3 paid patches we track here.
What sets it apart locally: it has farm animals, which most Southern Indiana patches on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 2 of the 4 patches we track in Southern Indiana had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
goebelfarms.com · pumpkinpatchesandmore.org
Checked August 2026.