A substantial South Fork pumpkin farm with on-the-vine picking and a three-part maze park, opening September 12 in 2026, but its website blocks outside access entirely so we have no hours, no phone number and no prices for it at all.
Admission is ticketed and described as including the activities, but no price could be read - the farm's own website blocks automated access, so nothing here is sourced from the farm directly.
We are going to be blunt about the state of this record, because pretending otherwise helps nobody. Hank’s Pumpkintown’s website refused every attempt to read it, including the pages that would normally carry hours and pricing. Everything below comes from third-party guides and nothing at all comes from the farm.
The list is long and it is worth reading properly, because the activities tell you more about the day than a marketing paragraph would: pumpkin picking on the vine, a corn maze park with three separate age-based challenges, narrated hayrides, gem mining, duck races, a tube slide, a combine slide, a bounce pad, tractor trains and homemade donuts.
Ten items is a different proposition from the four-attraction farms elsewhere in this set. This is a built-out operation with enough to fill a morning, and the composition points clearly at primary-school children. Slides, a bounce pad and tractor trains are for the under-eights. The three-tier maze park is the one element engineered to work across ages, which is why it matters whether that arrangement still exists. Teenagers and adults without children would be buying a full ticket for one maze and a hayride.
Two of those items also deserve a flag. Gem mining and duck races are, at farms across the country, the classic pay-per-play stations rather than included attractions, and the 2023 guide we read said explicitly that some activities carry fees on top of admission. That guide is old enough that both the maze layout and the pricing structure will have changed, but the pattern it describes is the one to plan for.
There is no price. Admission is described as ticketed and as including the activities, but no figure could be read anywhere, and the multiplication is what matters at this kind of farm. Whatever the gate is, four people pay it four times before the day has started, and then the pumpkin, the donuts and any pay-per-play stations come after. On a ticketed farm the published admission is always a floor rather than the cost of the day, and here even the floor is unknown.
The practical consequence: this is not a farm to arrive at without checking. Find the current price through a route we could not use, and decide the extras budget in the car rather than at the third stall.
A September 12 opening is early by northeastern standards, and it gives this farm an unusually long run. Long Island is milder and later than upstate New York, so the frost that ends the season inland arrives here weeks after it arrives there, and September on the South Fork is still comfortably warm.
That makes the early weekends genuinely usable rather than a consolation. They are also the quiet ones, because most families do not think about pumpkins until October. Since we have no closing date at all, September and early October are the parts of this season we can tell you exist, and the last week of October is the part we would not plan around blind.
The South Fork’s weekend traffic in autumn is its own planning problem, and it falls hardest on exactly the roads you would take to Water Mill. Going at opening time, or on a weekday, is worth more here than the farm itself can offer.
If it is a long trip for you, the honest answer is that this is a farm very likely worth visiting and currently impossible to plan. Either close the information gap yourself first, or pick a farm with published details instead.
A September weekend or an early October weekday. A 2026 Long Island guide gives September 12 as the opening, which is early for the northeast and means the first three or four weekends run before the October rush arrives. Long Island stays milder and later than upstate New York, so a September visit here is not the half-season compromise it would be further north. No closing date, no operating days and no hours could be established from any source, which makes the back end of the season the risky end to plan for. Confirm before you drive out.
Two to three hours if the maze park, the hayrides and the smaller rides are all running. That is an estimate reasoned from a ten-item activity list rather than anything the farm has published.
Nothing is published. The planning reality on the South Fork is the road rather than the farm: autumn weekend traffic heading east is slow and unpredictable, and a farm on the main highway through Water Mill inherits that. Arriving at opening is worth more here than at most farms, both for the car park and for the drive.
Not published, and we will not guess at surfaces for a farm we could not read a single page from. Assume field parking, which is the norm for Long Island farms in October, and assume it is soft after rain.
Unpublished. A maze park, a vine field and slides are uneven ground almost everywhere. With no phone number on record, the farm's own site is the only route to an answer.
You need to plan and budget the day in advance. There is no published price, no published closing date, no operating days and not even a phone number we could find. Skip it too if the group is teenagers or adults only, because the activity list is a children's list from top to bottom.
We do not know. The farm's website blocks automated access on every page including pricing, so no figure could be read from it or from any other source. An older guide indicated that some activities carry fees on top of admission, but that guide dates from 2023 and should not be relied on.
A 2026 Long Island pumpkin guide gives September 12. No closing date was published anywhere we looked, and no operating days or hours either.
On-the-vine picking is the first item on the activity list from the 2026 guide, which is the meaningful difference between this and a patch that arranges bought-in pumpkins on straw. Long Island genuinely grows pumpkins.
Partly. The maze park with three age-based challenges is the element with the widest range, but slides, a bounce pad, duck races and tractor trains are aimed at younger children, so a group of teenagers would be paying a full ticket for one attraction.
Opens September 12, 2026 (closing date not published).
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. Admission is ticketed and described as including the activities, but no price could be read - the farm's own website blocks automated access, so nothing here is sourced from the farm directly.
240 Montauk Highway, Water Mill, NY 11976, in Suffolk County. It is one of 6 patches we track in Long Island.
We track 6 patches in Long Island. The farm has not published a gate price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
What sets it apart locally: it has a market, bakery or taproom, which most Long Island patches on our list do not.
There are 3 other patches we track in Suffolk County. All Long Island patches →
hankspumpkintown.com
Checked August 2026.