Free parking, a free pumpkin area and $6 a la carte activities make this one of the few farms you can visit for almost nothing — but the published price table lists children at $17 and adults at $13, which needs checking before you pay.
Seniors 65+ $10, adults 18+ $13; the site also lists kids 2-17 at $17, which is higher than the adult rate and may be a site error - verify before budgeting. Individual activities $6 each. No fee for parking, the pumpkin area or food vendors.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $40.00 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.
Heritage Farms does something most fall festivals do not: it lets you in for free. The farm states there is no charge for parking, no charge for the pumpkin area and no charge for the food vendors. Admission buys the activities. That single structural choice makes this one of the lowest-risk stops in Northeast Ohio for anyone travelling with an unpredictable toddler, because if the visit falls apart after twenty minutes you have lost nothing but the drive.
If you do want the activities, they are priced two ways — a per-person admission or $6 per individual activity. For a family that wants the maze and nothing else, the a la carte route is worth doing the arithmetic on before you commit to a gate ticket.
The published table reads: seniors 65 and over, $10; adults 18 and over, $13; children aged 2 to 17, $17. A child rate four dollars above the adult rate is not a normal way to price a family attraction, and we think it is more likely a mistake on the page than a policy. We are flagging it rather than quietly assuming the numbers should be swapped, because guessing would be worse than saying we do not know.
The practical consequence is small but real: do not budget from the website. Ask what your specific group costs before you hand over a card, and if the figure comes back higher than you expected, the $6-per-activity route is your fallback.
The location is a genuine part of the appeal and a genuine part of the problem. Peninsula sits in the Cuyahoga Valley, which is one of the most heavily visited leaf-season corridors in Ohio, and the hayride runs through a Christmas tree farm rather than a bare field. On a clear mid-October Saturday that is lovely. It also means the roads around Riverview Road are carrying leaf traffic, park traffic and pumpkin traffic at the same time, and none of that shows up in the farm’s published hours.
Go at the 10am weekend opening if you are coming at a weekend at all. The alternative — the Wednesday-to-Friday session — is genuinely quiet, but it is only four hours long and it does not start until 2pm, so it works for local families collecting children from school and badly for anyone driving in.
The run ends October 25, which is before Halloween weekend. If you are the sort of household that leaves the pumpkin until the last minute, this is not the farm for it. And as with every standing maze in the north, the crop and the weather have the final word on the last weekend — a hard frost changes the field. Check before a late visit.
The 2026 run is September 26 to October 25, Wednesday through Sunday, closed Monday and Tuesday. Weekends are 10am to 5pm; Wednesday to Friday the farm does not open until 2pm and closes at 6pm, which is a four-hour window and an after-school one. That weekday slot is the quiet option, but it is short, and in the last two weeks of October the light is already going by the time you finish. If you have a full day free, a Sunday morning at opening beats everything else.
Two hours is enough. The attraction list — a harvest maze, a hayride through the Christmas tree farm, a scavenger challenge and a kids activity zone — is a pleasant half-day at most, and the a la carte pricing means there is no incentive to stretch it out.
October weekends in the Cuyahoga Valley are busy for reasons that have nothing to do with pumpkins — this is peak leaf season on a heavily visited scenic corridor, and the traffic on Riverview Road reflects that. Arrive at the 10am weekend opening or accept the queue on the way in as much as at the gate.
Free, which the farm states explicitly and which is worth more than it sounds when neighbouring operations charge for it. Surface is not described; assume grass or gravel and dress for mud after autumn rain.
You want a long day out with a lot of attractions. This is a modest, focused operation, not a 50-ride agritourism park, and a family that has budgeted for six hours will be back at the car in two. Skip the weekday session too if you need more than four hours.
Derthick's Farm & Corn Maze in Mantua is roughly 17 miles east and is the opposite kind of day: a ticketed night maze that runs to 11pm on Fridays and Saturdays. If you are already coming into the Cuyahoga Valley for the leaves, Heritage in the afternoon and Derthick's after dark is a genuinely good Saturday.
The farm's published table lists seniors 65 and over at $10 and adults 18 and over at $13. It also lists children aged 2 to 17 at $17, which is higher than the adult rate and looks like an error on the page rather than a deliberate policy. Individual activities are $6 each. We have flagged the anomaly rather than guessing at the correct figure — confirm your family's total before paying.
No. The farm states there is no fee for parking, for the pumpkin area or for the food vendors. Admission covers the activities, not access to the site.
No. The 2026 season runs Wednesday through Sunday, closed Monday and Tuesday. Weekday hours are short — 2pm to 6pm — while weekends run 10am to 5pm.
September 26 – October 25, 2026. Wednesday through Sunday (closed Monday and Tuesday). Hours: Sat-Sun 10am-5pm; Wed-Fri 2pm-6pm.
Admission starts at $10 per person. Seniors 65+ $10, adults 18+ $13; the site also lists kids 2-17 at $17, which is higher than the adult rate and may be a site error - verify before budgeting. Individual activities $6 each. No fee for parking, the pumpkin area or food vendors.
6050 Riverview Road, Peninsula, OH 44264, in Summit County. It is one of 10 patches we track in Northeast Ohio.
We track 10 patches in Northeast Ohio. At $10 a head this one sits below the regional median of $14, undercutting 3 of the 6 paid patches we track here.
Its season runs about 30 days against a regional average of 45, so it is a shorter window than most of its neighbours — miss it and the nearest alternatives will still be open.
There is 1 other patch we track in Summit County. All Northeast Ohio patches →
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Checked August 2026.