The best-documented fall farm on the North Fork and one of the most expensive — the weekday rate is $7 to $8 a head cheaper than the weekend, and the cheapest ticket does not include the corn maze.
Apple Picking $20 weekday / $27 weekend and holiday; Combo Pass $24 / $32; Apple Lovers Special $29 / $37. Packages include an apple bag, the wagon tour and weekend live music. The corn maze is included only in the Combo Pass and Apple Lovers Special. The Spooky Night Maze is a separate $26 ticket.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $80.00 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.
Harbes publishes more about itself than any other Long Island farm we looked at, and that alone changes the calculation. You can work out what your day costs, which tier gets you what, and when the gates actually stop letting people in — before you get in the car. That is rarer than it should be.
What you get for the money is a real orchard operation rather than a play park with fruit attached: apple picking, a nine-acre u-pick pumpkin patch, the Robin Hood trivia corn maze, the Apple Express wagon tour, weekend live music, cider and donuts, pony rides, and a Spooky Night Maze running in October.
There are three packages and they are not just different sizes of the same thing. Apple Picking is the base at $20 weekday and $27 weekend. The Combo Pass is $24 / $32. The Apple Lovers Special is $29 / $37. All three include an apple bag, the wagon tour and weekend live music.
The line that costs people money is this: the corn maze is included only in the Combo Pass and the Apple Lovers Special. Buy the base ticket, walk to the maze, and you are buying access again. If the maze is part of why you are going, the $4-a-head jump from Apple Picking to Combo is the cheapest decision you will make all day.
Seven to eight dollars a head is not a rounding error. A family of four picking apples pays $80 on a Wednesday and $108 on a Saturday for the same orchard. On the Apple Lovers Special the gap is $32 across four people.
There is a second, unpriced benefit. Sound Avenue in October carries the North Fork’s entire weekend economy — farms, wineries, farm stands — down two lanes. A weekday visit is cheaper, quieter, and the drive is a fraction of the ordeal.
The farm closes at 6:00pm, but last admission is 5:40pm and last corn maze entry is 5:00pm. That 5:00pm maze figure is the one to plan around, and it tightens as the season goes on for an obvious reason: by the last week of October the light is going not long after five, and a maze full of families in the dark is nobody’s idea of a good outcome.
The Spooky Night Maze at $26 is not an add-on to a daytime ticket in any meaningful sense — it is a second visit, priced like one, and aimed at older children and adults. Treat it that way when you budget. And dress for it properly: an open field on the North Fork after dark in late October, with wind coming off the Sound, is genuinely cold in a way an afternoon at the same farm is not.
Weekdays, without much argument. Apple picking is $20 on a weekday against $27 at a weekend, and the same $7-to-$8 gap runs through every tier — for a family of four that is close to $30 saved for going on a Wednesday. The orchard reopened for the season on August 29, 2026 and publishes no closing date. Weekday hours are 10:00am-6:00pm and weekends and holidays 9:00am-6:00pm, but the times that matter are the cut-offs: last admission 5:40pm and last corn maze entry 5:00pm.
Three to four hours. With a nine-acre pumpkin patch, the apple rows, the wagon tour, the maze and weekend live music, the packages are priced for a substantial visit rather than a stop.
North Fork weekends in October combine farm traffic with winery traffic on the same two roads, and Sound Avenue is the road. The 9:00am weekend opening exists for a reason; use it. Weekdays are a different farm entirely.
Not published. Assume a field lot off Sound Avenue and assume it softens after autumn rain.
Not published. A nine-acre pumpkin field and a wagon tour across orchard ground are uneven going, so ask about distances if anyone in your group needs to plan around them.
You want a free-entry farm stand experience. Every route in here is a paid package starting at $20 a head, and a family of four at weekend rates crosses $100 before pumpkins. Skip the base Apple Picking pass specifically if the maze is why you came — it is not included.
Riverhead is the gateway to the North Fork, so the natural pairing is the drive east rather than a second farm. If you want a South Fork alternative instead, Hank's Pumpkintown in Water Mill is the Hamptons equivalent — though it publishes far less about itself.
Apple Picking is $20 on weekdays and $27 at weekends and holidays; the Combo Pass is $24 / $32; the Apple Lovers Special is $29 / $37. Packages include an apple bag, the Apple Express wagon tour and weekend live music. The Spooky Night Maze is a separate $26 ticket.
Only in the Combo Pass and the Apple Lovers Special. The base Apple Picking package does not include it. Last entry to the maze is 5:00pm, forty minutes before the farm's last admission at 5:40pm.
The farm states it reopened for the season on August 29, 2026. No closing date was published. Weekday hours are 10:00am-6:00pm; weekends and holidays 9:00am-6:00pm.
No. Harbes runs three separate Long Island sites with different attractions and pricing. This page covers the Riverhead orchard on Sound Avenue only — check you are booking for the right one.
Opens August 29, 2026 (closing date not published). Daily. Hours: Weekdays 10:00am-6:00pm; weekends and holidays 9:00am-6:00pm; last admission 5:40pm; corn maze last entry 5:00pm.
Admission starts at $20 per person. Apple Picking $20 weekday / $27 weekend and holiday; Combo Pass $24 / $32; Apple Lovers Special $29 / $37. Packages include an apple bag, the wagon tour and weekend live music. The corn maze is included only in the Combo Pass and Apple Lovers Special. The Spooky Night Maze is a separate $26 ticket.
5698 Sound Avenue, Riverhead, NY 11901, in Suffolk County. It is one of 6 patches we track in Long Island.
We track 6 patches in Long Island. At $20 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $20.
What sets it apart locally: it has u-pick fields, an after-dark attraction, 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 →
harbesfamilyfarm.com
Checked August 2026.