One of the best-value big farm festivals in Central Florida at $16 online — provided you buy online, because walking up to the gate costs a family of four an extra $16 for nothing.
$16 online / $20 at the gate, tax and fees not included; ages 2 and under free. General admission covers the pumpkin patch, 7-acre corn maze, jumping pillow, castle playground, kids' zipline, giant yard games, super slide, rope maze, tree maze, farm tours and corn pit. Gem mining is a separate purchase.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $64.00 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.
Great Scott Farms is doing something unusual for a Florida farm: running an eight-weekend season, from September 26 to November 15, in a state where most operations cram everything into four October weekends. That length is worth more than it sounds. It means you are not forced into the Halloween-weekend crush, you can wait out a bad forecast, and you have the option of going in November — when Central Florida finally stops being unpleasant to stand around in.
Sixteen dollars online is genuinely competitive for what is included: the corn maze, the jumping pillow, the 60-foot slide, the castle playground, the kids’ zipline, the rope and tree mazes, the corn pit, the yard games and the tractor farm tours all sit inside general admission. Plenty of Florida farms charge more for less.
Twenty dollars at the gate is a different proposition. It is a 25% penalty for turning up unprepared, and it applies per person — a family of four that books in the car park pays $80 instead of $64. There is no benefit to waiting. If you take one thing from this page, take that.
Gem mining is the one significant carve-out. It is priced separately, it is placed where children will see it, and it is the standard mechanism by which a $64 day becomes a $100 day at farms across the state. Decide before you walk in, not at the counter.
This is an activity farm rather than an agricultural experience, and it is honest about that. The attraction list — jumping pillow, castle playground, super slide, three separate maze formats — describes a well-equipped play property with a pumpkin display at the centre of it. The presence of a cafe, a market and beer and wine service reinforces the model: the farm expects you to stay for hours and spend while you are there.
That is not a criticism, but it does set the terms. If your mental image of a pumpkin patch involves walking a field and cutting a pumpkin off a vine, adjust it now. Florida’s climate cannot support a commercial fall pumpkin crop, so the pumpkins at every patch in the state, this one included, arrived on a truck and were arranged. What Florida farms sell is the festival. Great Scott sells a good one at a fair price.
Last entry is 4pm against a 5pm close, which catches out anyone treating the final hour as a cheap window. And the jumping pillow requires socks — a small thing that becomes a large thing when it is the attraction your five-year-old came for and everyone is in sandals.
On heat: a September 26 opening in Lake County is a summer visit in all but name, and the site is built around open play areas rather than shade. Morning is the usable half of the day through September and October. By November the calculus flips entirely, and a late-season Saturday here is about as pleasant as a Florida farm day gets — which, given the season runs that long, is the version of this trip we would plan for if the date is yours to choose.
Saturdays and Sundays, 10am to 5pm, with last entry at 4pm — arriving at 4:15 gets you turned away, not a cheap final hour. Go at the 10am opening: the season starts September 26, and late September in Lake County is hot, humid and prone to afternoon storms. The season runs all the way to November 15, and those November weekends are the single most comfortable time to visit a Florida farm — cooler, drier, and past the Halloween-weekend surge.
Four to five hours if you intend to use what admission covers. A 7-acre corn maze, a jumping pillow, a 60-foot slide, a castle playground, a zipline, a rope maze, a tree maze, a corn pit and tractor farm tours is a lot of ground; families who leave after two hours have paid full price for half a farm.
Weekends only, which concentrates everyone into two days a week, and the Halloween-adjacent weekends are the predictable peak of any Florida season. The farm's own market and cafe run Tuesday through Saturday from September 22, so the property is busier midweek than the festival hours suggest — but the festival itself is a Saturday-Sunday affair. We have no first-hand crowd counts; the November weekends are the structurally quieter half of the season.
Not documented by the farm. Central Florida farms of this size almost always park on unpaved grass, and this season runs through the tail of the wet season — after a storm, expect mud between the car and the gate and dress footwear accordingly.
The farm has not published accessibility information. What the attraction list tells you is that this is a grass-and-dirt site with a corn maze, a corn pit and a tractor-drawn tour that involves climbing aboard. Small-wheeled strollers will struggle. Call 352-383-6900 before travelling if step-free access or an accessible restroom is a requirement.
You are after a quick pumpkin. At $16 to $20 a head with pumpkins and gem mining priced separately, a family of four is $64 to $80 through the gate before anyone picks anything up. Free-entry patches serve that trip far better. Also skip if your group is stroller-bound infants or teenagers — almost nothing on the attraction list is aimed at either.
Amber Brooke Farms in Eustis is roughly twenty minutes away and runs a comparable model at a higher price, so the two are best treated as a choice rather than a same-day pair — Great Scott is the cheaper ticket, Amber Brooke the bigger build-out. Mount Dora's walkable downtown is the natural lunch or afternoon stop either way, and it is the reason to make a full day of the drive.
Yes, and by a meaningful margin. Admission is $16 online against $20 at the gate, before tax and fees. For a family of four that is a $16 difference for doing nothing but booking ahead.
The pumpkin patch, the 7-acre corn maze, the jumping pillow, the castle playground, the kids' zipline, giant yard games, the super slide, the rope maze, the tree maze, the tractor-drawn farm tours and the corn pit. Gem mining is a separate purchase, as is anything you eat or take home.
5pm on Saturdays and Sundays, with last entry at 4pm. The on-site market and cafe keep different hours — Tuesday to Saturday, 9am to 5pm, from September 22 — so the shop being open does not mean the festival is.
September 26 – November 15, 2026. Saturdays and Sundays. Hours: 10am-5pm (last entry 4pm). The on-site market and cafe run Tuesday-Saturday 9am-5pm from Sept 22..
Admission starts at $16 per person. $16 online / $20 at the gate, tax and fees not included; ages 2 and under free. General admission covers the pumpkin patch, 7-acre corn maze, jumping pillow, castle playground, kids' zipline, giant yard games, super slide, rope maze, tree maze, farm tours and corn pit. Gem mining is a separate purchase.
26216 County Road 448A, Mount Dora, FL 32757, in Lake County. It is one of 14 patches we track in Central Florida.
We track 14 patches in Central Florida, 2 of which are free to walk into. At $16 a head this one sits above the regional median of $15, undercutting 3 of the 9 paid patches we track here.
Its season runs about 51 days against a regional average of 41, so it is a notably longer window than most of its neighbours, which takes the pressure off picking a weekend.
What sets it apart locally: it has rides and play structures, a market, bakery or taproom, which most Central Florida patches on our list do not.
There are 6 other patches we track in Lake County. All Central Florida patches →
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Checked August 2026.