A big, well-programmed Loudoun County farm where buying online saves $2 to $4 a head and the 4:00pm wagon cutoff, not the 5:00pm closing time, is the deadline that actually governs your day.
Weekday (Tuesday-Friday and non-holiday Monday): $16 at the gate for ages 3+, or $12 child / $14 adult bought online in advance plus a $1 ticketing fee. Saturday, Sunday and Columbus Day Monday: $18 at the gate, or $14 child / $16 adult online. Under 2 free. Military and veteran families get complimentary weekday admission for up to 6 guests with ID. Pumpkins are extra at $0.59/lb for carving and specialty or $5.99 each for pie pumpkins; pumpkin cannon boxes are $5 small / $10 large.
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.
There are two versions of this farm and the price grid tells you which one you are buying. The weekday version costs $12 to $14 a head online, has the 80-foot slide, the jumping pillows, the obstacle course, putt-putt, the goats, the 1.5-acre corn maze and the pumpkin field, and is comparatively quiet. The weekend version costs $2 more per person and adds pig races at 11am, 1pm and 3pm, cider pressing demonstrations, live music and, on October weekends, the P-Rex dinosaur show. Neither is wrong. But a family that drives out to Bluemont on a Wednesday expecting pig races has bought the wrong day, and that is a mistake nobody makes twice.
Two adults and two children online on a weekday is $52 plus fees. The same four on a Saturday is $60. Both figures are before pumpkins, and pumpkins are the reason most people came. At $0.59 a pound, four decent carving pumpkins is not a rounding error; four pie pumpkins at $5.99 each is $24 on the nose. Call the realistic weekend total for a family of four somewhere in the $85 to $100 range once fruit and a snack are in, and you will not be unpleasantly surprised.
The gate-versus-online gap is the easiest money on this page. It is $2 a person on weekends and $4 on weekdays, against a ticketing fee of about a dollar. Even if you are deciding over breakfast on the morning of, buying on your phone in the driveway beats paying at the entrance.
Nine to five looks generous, and it is — but the operational deadline is 4:00pm, when the last wagon runs out to the field. Everything else stays open until five. If pumpkin picking is the whole point, aim to be through the gate by mid-afternoon at the latest, and earlier on a weekend when the wagon queue is longer than the wagon.
This is western Loudoun, up against the Blue Ridge, and the roads out here carry leaf traffic as well as farm traffic on October weekends. Leaving early is not fussiness; it is the difference between a pleasant drive and an hour of crawling. The same elevation makes mornings genuinely cool by mid-October even when the afternoon warms up, so layers rather than a single jacket.
The farm has Henway Hard Cider on site and a farm market with the Knead It bakery, so an adult can make an afternoon of it while children work through the play area. A farm wristband gets 10% off at neighbouring Bluemont Vineyard, and Dirt Farm Brewing is close by, which makes this one of the few pumpkin outings in the region that can honestly be sold to a reluctant grown-up.
Parking and accessibility are not published. On a hillside farm of this size, assume grass parking, a walk, and slopes — and after the storm systems that reach Virginia in late September, assume mud. If a wheelchair or a stroller with small wheels is in the picture, the phone call before the drive is worth more than anything written here.
The Fall Pumpkin Harvest Festival runs September 19 through October 31, 2026, daily, 9:00am to 5:00pm. The last wagon out to the pumpkin field leaves at 4:00pm, so treat that as closing time if picking is the point of the trip. Weekdays are cheaper and quieter; weekends and Columbus Day Monday carry the higher price but are when the pig races, cider pressing demonstrations, live music and the October P-Rex dinosaur show actually run.
Three to four hours. A 15-acre play area with an 80-foot slide, jumping pillows, an obstacle course and putt-putt is not a quick loop, and the wagon ride out to pick adds a chunk on its own.
Bluemont sits at the western edge of the Northern Virginia commuter belt, and this is one of the larger operations serving it. October Saturdays and Columbus Day Monday concentrate the demand, which is exactly why they cost more. A Tuesday-to-Friday visit is a different farm at a lower price, with less running.
Not published. Assume field parking on a hillside Loudoun property, which means grass, slope and soft ground after autumn rain.
Not published in what we could confirm. The pumpkin field is reached by wagon or on foot, and a 15-acre play area on a working farm implies uneven ground and hills; call 540-554-2073 before travelling if that matters.
You want a single all-in price. Pumpkins are not included — carving and specialty pumpkins are $0.59 a pound and pie pumpkins $5.99 each — so admission is a floor, not the cost of the day. Skip weekdays specifically if the pig races and the dinosaur show are what the children have been promised; those are weekend programming.
Weekdays (Tuesday to Friday and non-holiday Mondays) are $16 at the gate for ages 3 and up, or $12 child and $14 adult online plus about a $1 fee. Saturdays, Sundays and Columbus Day Monday are $18 at the gate, or $14 child and $16 adult online. Under 2 is free.
No. Carving and specialty pumpkins are $0.59 per pound and pie pumpkins are $5.99 each, charged on top of your ticket.
The last wagon out to the pumpkin field leaves at 4:00pm, an hour before the 5:00pm close. Arrive after that and you can still use the play area, but you cannot ride out to pick.
Yes, dogs are welcome as long as owners clean up after them.
September 19 – October 31, 2026. Daily during the festival. Hours: 9:00am-5:00pm; the last wagon out to the pumpkin field leaves at 4:00pm.
Admission starts at $12 per person. Weekday (Tuesday-Friday and non-holiday Monday): $16 at the gate for ages 3+, or $12 child / $14 adult bought online in advance plus a $1 ticketing fee. Saturday, Sunday and Columbus Day Monday: $18 at the gate, or $14 child / $16 adult online. Under 2 free. Military and veteran families get complimentary weekday admission for up to 6 guests with ID. Pumpkins are extra at $0.59/lb for carving and specialty or $5.99 each for pie pumpkins; pumpkin cannon boxes are $5 small / $10 large.
18780 Foggy Bottom Road, Bluemont, VA 20135, in Loudoun County. It is one of 5 patches we track in Northern Virginia.
We track 5 patches in Northern Virginia. At $12 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $12, undercutting 1 of the 4 paid patches we track here.
Its season runs about 43 days against a regional average of 40, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
There are 2 other patches we track in Loudoun County. All Northern Virginia patches →
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Checked August 2026.