Four weekends only, $15 plus tax for more than 20 included activities and several hundred farm babies you can hold — but there is no corn maze and no haunted maze in 2026, whatever the older directory listings still say.
Admission is $15 plus tax and covers more than 20 activities; children under 23 months are free. Extras cost more: paintball shooting gallery $5.00, pumpkin cannon $3.00 for one shot, apple cannon $3.00 for three shots, and pumpkins $6-$10.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $60.00 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.
Two facts should decide whether you drive to Govin’s this autumn, and neither is buried.
The first is that there is no maze. Not a smaller maze, not a maze on selected weekends — the farm states plainly that there is no corn maze and no haunted maze in 2026, and that it has put the effort into more activities and more farm babies instead. This matters because the outdated listings are still out there. At least one regional pumpkin directory was still advertising an 11-acre corn maze here, along with a September 20 to November 2 season and Friday night hours, none of which match what the farm itself now publishes. If you have a teenager who wants a maze, this is not the farm and you will have an unhappy afternoon.
The second is the calendar. October 3 to 25, weekends only, 10:00am to 5:00pm. Eight operating days. Fifty-six hours of trading for the entire fall season. There is no rain date, no weekday alternative, no quiet Tuesday. If the weekend you have chosen turns wet, your options are the following weekend or next year.
Admission is $15 plus tax for anyone 23 months and older, and it covers more than 20 activities: tractor hay rides, a giant slide, mini golf, a hay jump, a corn box, duck races, steer roping, giant Jenga and checkers, farm basketball, wall ball, rat rollers, a tractor pull, tug of war, climbing on tractors and a fire truck, and pumpkin picking.
That is a lot of ticket, and it changes the strategy. A free-entry farm is fine to dip into for an hour. A $15-a-head gate is not. Two adults and two school-age children is $60 plus tax before anything else happens, and the only way that reads as good value is if you treat it as most of a day rather than an errand. Pack accordingly: this is a four-hour visit or it is a poor one.
The paid add-ons are individually trivial and collectively significant. The paintball shooting gallery is $5. The pumpkin cannon is $3 for a single shot. The apple cannon is $3 for three. Pumpkins run $6 to $10.
Run it for a real family. Two children, one paintball each and one pumpkin cannon shot each, is $16. Two pumpkins is another $12 to $20. Your $60 gate is now something between $88 and $96 plus tax, and that is before anyone has eaten. None of that is unreasonable pricing — a cannon shot is a cannon shot — but the difference between a $60 day and a $95 day here is a conversation you have in the car, not at the counter with two children watching.
Strip out the maze and what is left is a farm that has decided its differentiator is baby animals in quantity — several hundred of them, according to the farm — that visitors can hold. That is a genuinely distinctive thing to build a fall season around, and it points at a specific audience: children under about eight, and adults who would rather queue for a lamb than for a haunted trail.
It also points at a timing strategy. Animal-handling is a bottleneck attraction. It cannot absorb a crowd the way an open field of yard games can, so the gap between arriving at 10:00am and arriving at 1:00pm on the second Saturday in October is likely to be substantial. Be there when the gate opens.
The farm does not publish anything about parking surface, accessibility, food, or whether the baby-animal barn is timed or first-come. On an eight-day season with a $15 gate, those are worth a phone call before you commit a Saturday. And a practical note about the light and the cold: a 5:00pm close on October 25 in western Wisconsin is near enough to sunset that the last hour will be genuinely chilly, especially for a small child who has been sitting in a corn box. Layers, not one big coat.
The 2026 fall season is October 3 through 25, weekends only, 10:00am to 5:00pm. That is four Saturdays and four Sundays and nothing else. Get there at 10:00am. With a season this compressed and an attraction as popular as holding baby animals, the first hour is the difference between a queue and a photograph. The two middle weekends, October 10-11 and 17-18, are peak fall in western Wisconsin and will be the busiest; the opening weekend of October 3-4 is the warmest and probably the calmest.
Three to four hours. With more than 20 activities bundled into the admission price and no way to visit on a weekday, a short visit is bad value — you need a long stay to justify a gate price, and here there is genuinely enough to fill one.
Eight operating days in the entire season. That is the tightest calendar of any farm we have covered in Wisconsin, and it concentrates a full autumn's demand into 56 hours. Expect the animal barn to be the bottleneck rather than the wide-open games area, and expect the paid extras — the cannons and the paintball gallery — to build queues in the middle of the day. Arrive at open or come after 3:00pm.
Not published. This is a rural Dunn County farm, so plan for a field or gravel lot. Western Wisconsin gets real rain in October and unpaved farm parking turns to mud quickly; boots rather than trainers for anyone who would mind.
Not published. A hay jump, a corn box, a giant slide and climbing on tractors and a fire truck are inherently physical attractions, and nothing on the farm's site describes accessible routes or a wheelchair-friendly hay ride. Call 715-231-2377 in advance if that matters.
You are coming for a corn maze. The farm states directly that there is no corn maze and no haunted maze in 2026. Third-party directories still advertise an 11-acre maze and a longer September-to-November season, and both are out of date. Skip it too if weekends do not work for you, because there is no weekday option at all, and skip it if $15 a head plus add-ons for a two-hour visit is not something your budget tolerates.
The farm is roughly eight miles out of Menomonie in Dunn County, which puts it within easy reach of the I-94 run between Eau Claire and the Twin Cities. That makes it a plausible break in a longer drive rather than a destination on its own — though with a four-weekend season and eight-hour days, treat it as the day rather than a stop-off if you have children in tow.
No. The farm states there is no corn maze and no haunted maze this year, and says it has added more activities and farm babies instead. Some directory sites still list an 11-acre maze from earlier seasons — that listing is out of date.
$15 plus tax per person, with children under 23 months free. That covers more than 20 activities. The paintball shooting gallery ($5), pumpkin cannon ($3 for one shot), apple cannon ($3 for three shots) and pumpkins ($6 to $10) all cost extra.
October 3 through 25, 2026, weekends only, 10:00am to 5:00pm. That is eight operating days in total. There is no weekday option.
Holding baby farm animals is the farm's headline activity and it is included in admission. The farm describes several hundred fall farm babies. We have not visited, so we cannot tell you how the queue is managed on a busy Saturday.
October 3 – October 25, 2026. Weekends only. Hours: 10:00am-5:00pm.
Admission starts at $15 per person. Admission is $15 plus tax and covers more than 20 activities; children under 23 months are free. Extras cost more: paintball shooting gallery $5.00, pumpkin cannon $3.00 for one shot, apple cannon $3.00 for three shots, and pumpkins $6-$10.
N6134 670th Street, Menomonie, WI 54751, in Dunn County. It is one of 2 patches we track in Northern Wisconsin.
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
govinsfarm.com
Checked August 2026.