The most attraction-heavy fall farm in the western Panhandle and the rare Florida patch open every day of the season — worth $16 a head if you commit half a day, and beware the add-ons that are not included.
$16 general admission; $18 admission including a pumpkin; children under 2 free; military discount $15-$17 in person. Pony rides, food trucks and mining station cost extra.
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.
Holland Farms does two things that separate it from almost every other Florida fall farm, and both are on the calendar rather than in the field. It opens daily for a five-week season, and it opens at 8am.
Daily opening matters because the standard Florida model — three or four October weekends — forces every family within an hour’s drive through the gate on the same twelve days. Here you can go on a Wednesday in early October, walk onto a zipline without a queue, and leave before lunch. If a storm ruins your Saturday plan, there is a Sunday, a Monday and a Tuesday behind it. That flexibility is worth more than most people realise when they are comparing ticket prices.
The 8am start is the other half of the same advantage. Late September and October in Santa Rosa County are hot and humid, with afternoon thunderstorms as a routine feature rather than an exception. An 8am arrival gives you three genuinely comfortable hours on a property that has very little shade. A 1pm arrival gives you the version of the day people complain about.
Admission is $16, or $18 for a ticket that includes a pumpkin. Under-2s are free, and serving military save a couple of dollars — but only in person, which is worth knowing before you buy online and discover the discount does not apply.
The attraction list is long: corn maze, hayride, train ride, zipline, mega slide, racing carts, swings, corn pit and a sunflower field. What the farm explicitly puts outside the ticket is pony rides, food trucks and the mining station. That is a manageable set of extras by Florida standards — some Central Florida farms charge separately for half the property — but it is also the classic budget trap. A mining bag and a pony ride per child, plus lunch from a truck, can add more to the day than admission did. Set that expectation in the car, not at the mining station.
For arithmetic: two adults and two children over 2 is $64 at the gate, $72 if everyone takes the pumpkin ticket. Add the extras and $110 to $130 is entirely realistic.
The signature attractions — zipline, mega slide, racing carts — reward children who are big enough and brave enough to use them, which in practice means roughly 4 and up. A family whose youngest is 18 months will spend $16 a head to use the corn pit and look at the sunflowers, and they will feel it. The corn maze and hayride broaden the range, and there is enough here to keep an eight-year-old going for three hours, but the property is built for the middle of childhood rather than either end of it.
The sunflower field deserves a specific mention. It is a real crop and it photographs well, which puts it in a different category from the rest of the day — and unlike the pumpkins, it actually grew there.
Florida’s climate does not support a commercial fall pumpkin crop. The pumpkins at Holland Farms, like the pumpkins at every patch in this state, were grown somewhere else and trucked in to be arranged. That is not a criticism of the farm — it is simply what a Florida pumpkin patch is, and the sooner your expectations match it, the better the day goes. What you are paying for is a well-equipped play farm with a good sunflower field, an unusually flexible schedule and a pumpkin on the way out.
A weekday morning, which is an option here and at almost no other Florida patch. Gates open at 8am daily, which is the earliest opening on our Florida list and the single best thing about the schedule: you can be through the zipline, the mega slide and the corn maze before 11am and off the property before the heat and the storms arrive. Late September and early October in Santa Rosa County are still firmly summer. If you can only go at a weekend, the 8am opening still matters — it is two full hours ahead of when most families arrive.
Three to four hours to get your money's worth. With a corn maze, hayride, train ride, zipline, mega slide, racing carts, swings, a corn pit and a sunflower field all on the property, a one-hour visit is paying a full ticket for a fraction of the farm.
A five-week daily season spreads demand better than the weekends-only model most Florida farms use, and that is the practical advantage of visiting here. Weekends and the two before Halloween will still be the crush; a Tuesday morning in early October should be quiet. The daily schedule also means you have a real fallback if a storm ruins your first attempt.
Not published. Assume the unpaved field that is standard for farms this size in the Panhandle. Milton sits in one of the wetter corners of Florida and October afternoon storms are routine, so a rained-on lot turns to mud and the walk from car to gate goes with it. Closed shoes, and something you can hose off.
Nothing published on surfaces or facilities. Given a corn maze, a corn pit, a sunflower field and a hayride, expect uneven ground throughout — a stroller with large wheels rather than an umbrella model, and a call ahead if anyone in your group needs an accessible restroom.
You have a baby or a toddler and nothing else. The headline attractions are height-and-nerve activities — zipline, mega slide, racing carts — and a family paying $16 a head for a two-year-old who can use the corn pit and the animals is overpaying for the property. Also skip it if you want a quick pumpkin: $64 for a family of four before extras is not a photo-stop price.
Milton is about 30 minutes northeast of Pensacola, so a morning at the farm pairs naturally with an afternoon back toward the coast — which, given the heat and an 8am start, is roughly the right order to do them in.
$16 for general admission or $18 for admission that includes a pumpkin. Children under 2 are free, and there is a military discount of roughly $15 to $17 available in person. Pony rides, food trucks and the mining station are extra.
Yes — the season runs daily from late September to the start of November, 8am to 6pm. That is unusual for a Florida pumpkin farm and it is the main reason to choose it over weekend-only alternatives.
The published extras are pony rides, food trucks and the mining station, which implies the corn maze, hayride, train, zipline, mega slide, racing carts, swings and corn pit come with the ticket. Confirm at the gate before promising a child a pony ride.
As close to the 8am opening as you can manage. It is the coolest part of a Panhandle October day, ahead of both the heat and the afternoon storm window, and the queues are shortest.
September 26 – November 1, 2026. Daily (Mon-Sun). Hours: 8am-6pm.
Admission starts at $16 per person. $16 general admission; $18 admission including a pumpkin; children under 2 free; military discount $15-$17 in person. Pony rides, food trucks and mining station cost extra.
2055 Homer Holland Road, Milton, FL 32570, in Santa Rosa County. It is one of 14 patches we track in Panhandle.
We track 14 patches in Panhandle, 9 of which are free to walk into. At $16 a head this one sits above the regional median of $12, undercutting 1 of the 5 paid patches we track here.
Its season runs about 37 days against a regional average of 41, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
What sets it apart locally: it has a corn or crop maze, hayrides, rides and play structures, which most Panhandle patches on our list do not.
There are 2 other patches we track in Santa Rosa County. All Panhandle patches →
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hollandfarmsonline.com
Checked August 2026.