A straightforward $15 corn-maze-and-hayride operation in DeLand with an unusually deep bench of small-farm games, plus a separate $25 haunted hayride at night that is a different event for a different audience.
$15 per person for corn maze and hayride; $25 per person for the Fields of Fright haunted hayride. Gem mining packages cost extra.
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.
Harvest Fields is running two distinct businesses on the same field, and the single most useful thing to understand before booking is which one you are buying into. The daytime operation — corn maze, hayride, pumpkin patch and a pile of small-farm games — runs Saturdays and Sundays, 10am to 6pm, from October 3 to 25. Fields of Fright, the haunted hayride, runs Fridays and Saturdays from 7pm to 11pm, October 9 to 24, and costs $25 rather than $15. Same farm, different audiences, no overlap.
The farm frames the fifteen dollars as covering the corn maze and the hayride, which are the two things worth the drive. What sweetens it is the supporting cast: a corn cannon, duck races, a giant hay fort, round bale racers, a corn box, a mini hay maze and cornhole. None of those individually justifies a ticket. Collectively they are the difference between a 90-minute stop and a genuine morning out, and they are the reason a $15 small farm can hold a seven-year-old’s attention as long as a $20 festival does.
What the price does not clearly cover is a pumpkin. The farm has not said either way, and across Florida the near-universal practice is to price pumpkins separately by size. Budget for that. Gem mining packages are explicitly extra, and gem mining is the reliable mechanism by which a $60 family visit becomes a $90 one.
October 3 to 25 gives you eight daytime dates for the entire year. In a state where the wet season has not fully let go until late October, that is not much room to dodge a bad forecast — one washed-out Saturday removes an eighth of the season. If this is the farm you want, put a date on the calendar early rather than treating it as a spontaneous option.
The heat is the other half of that. DeLand is inland Volusia County, and early-to-mid October there still delivers high-eighties afternoons. A property built around corn, hay and open field has very little shade by construction. The 10am opening is the usable part of the day; by 2pm you are competing with both the sun and the standard afternoon storm risk.
Fields of Fright is genuinely a different product, and it fills a gap — most Florida pumpkin farms are daytime, family-only affairs, and there is real demand for something with teeth. At $25 it is priced like a stand-alone attraction rather than an add-on, which is honest.
We would not guess at how frightening it is, and the farm has not published an age recommendation. If you are weighing it for a younger child, ask first. And factor in the practical stuff of an 11pm October night in a Florida field: it gets darker and cooler than people expect, the ground is uneven, and mosquitoes are more of a problem after sunset than at any point during the day.
One last framing note that applies statewide: the pumpkins here did not grow in this field. Florida cannot support a commercial fall pumpkin crop, so patches across the state truck them in. The corn maze, the hay and the hayride are the genuinely agricultural part of this visit — and at $15, that is a fair trade.
The daytime festival is Saturdays and Sundays, 10am to 6pm, across just four weekends — October 3 to 25. Go at 10am: DeLand sits inland in Volusia County and holds heat well into October, and the site is fields. The haunted hayride, Fields of Fright, runs Fridays and Saturdays 7pm to 11pm from October 9 to 24 and is an entirely separate ticket, so decide which of the two events you are attending before you look at dates.
Two and a half to four hours for the daytime visit. The corn maze and hayride are the anchors; the corn cannon, duck races, hay fort, round bale racers, corn box, mini hay maze and cornhole are the filler that turns it from a 90-minute stop into a decent morning.
Four weekends, eight daytime days. That is a short, concentrated season, and October Saturdays are where the pressure lands at any weekend-only Florida farm. We have no first-hand crowd counts for this farm. Worth noting that on the four Fridays and Saturdays when Fields of Fright is running, the property turns over to an evening event — plan the daytime visit around the 6pm close rather than assuming you can linger.
Not documented. A farm on N Spring Garden Ave running a corn maze and hayrides is almost certainly parking cars on grass or dirt, which turns into a problem after the afternoon storms that persist into October. Shoes, not sandals.
No accessibility information is published. The hayride involves climbing into a wagon, and the maze, hay fort and corn box are unpaved by nature. If step-free access matters to your group, call (386) 801-1810 before making the trip.
You are chasing a big polished agritourism park. This is a smaller operation than the ticketed festivals inland, and the attraction list reflects that — hay, corn and yard games rather than jumping pillows and ziplines. Also skip the daytime visit if what you actually want is the haunted hayride; they are different tickets, different hours and different money.
County Line Family Farms in Ormond Beach is the other Volusia County option, on the coastal side of the county and at the same $15 price. The seasons overlap in October, so the two work as an either-or rather than a double-header. DeLand's own downtown is walkable and the obvious place to eat afterwards if you are making a day of the drive.
The farm describes it as covering the corn maze and the hayride. It does not state whether a pumpkin is included, and at nearly every Florida farm pumpkins are priced separately by size, so assume they are extra until the farm says otherwise. Gem mining packages are explicitly an additional cost.
No. It is a separate $25 ticket, running Fridays and Saturdays from 7pm to 11pm, October 9 to 24 — different hours, different price, different event.
The farm has not published an age guideline, which is exactly why we would not guess at one. A late-evening haunted attraction is built to frighten teenagers and adults; if you are considering bringing a young child, ask the farm directly what the intensity level is before buying.
October 3 – October 25, 2026. Weekends (Sat-Sun); haunted hayride Fri-Sat, Oct 9-24. Hours: Sat-Sun 10am-6pm; Fields of Fright haunted hayride Fri-Sat 7pm-11pm.
Admission starts at $15 per person. $15 per person for corn maze and hayride; $25 per person for the Fields of Fright haunted hayride. Gem mining packages cost extra.
3000 N Spring Garden Ave, DeLand, FL 32724, in Volusia 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 $15 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $15, undercutting 4 of the 9 paid patches we track here.
Its season runs about 23 days against a regional average of 41, so it is a shorter window than most of its neighbours — miss it and the nearest alternatives will still be open.
What sets it apart locally: it has an after-dark attraction, which most Central Florida patches on our list do not.
There are 2 other patches we track in Volusia County. All Central Florida patches →
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Checked August 2026.