A well-stocked daily harvest fair inside Virginia Beach city limits, but the cheap weekday ticket quietly excludes the hayrides and the per-cup add-ons turn an $18 gate into a much bigger bill.
General admission $18 per person, free under 2, covering the petting farm, TreeWalk Adventure and unlimited farm-tour hayrides. A cheaper $15 Monday-Friday ticket covers the petting farm and treewalk only and excludes hayrides. Extras: pony rides $10 each or 4 for $30 (age 12 and under), animal feed $6 a cup with $4 refills, bird sticks 2 for $3.
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.
The useful thing to understand about Hunt Club Farm is that it sells two different days under two prices, and the cheaper one is missing the part most people drive out for.
The $18 general admission covers the petting farm, the TreeWalk Adventure and unlimited farm-tour hayrides. The $15 Monday-to-Friday ticket covers the petting farm and the treewalk, and the farm is explicit that hayrides are not included. Three dollars is not much of a discount to begin with; giving up unlimited hayrides to get it is a bad trade for almost anyone. If you are visiting on a weekday, buy the general ticket.
Start with two adults and two children over 2 at $18 each: $72 through the gate, before anything else happens. Under-2s are free, which meaningfully helps families with a baby in the group.
Then the extras, which are where a Virginia Beach farm day quietly doubles. Animal feed is $6 a cup with $4 refills. Bird sticks for the aviary are two for $3. Pony rides, for ages 12 and under, are $10 each or four for $30. A family that buys one feed cup, two refills, a set of bird sticks and two pony rides is at $72 plus $6 plus $8 plus $3 plus $20, so $109, and has not yet bought a pumpkin. Pumpkins from the patch are a separate purchase again.
None of that is a criticism of the pricing so much as a warning about the shape of it. The gate figure is a floor. Decide before you park how many feed cups and pony rides you are willing to say yes to, because the ask will come inside the fence with children present.
The farm runs school field trips Tuesday through Friday, and those groups close the animal pens to general visitors. The BirdWalk Aviary stays open, but the petting farm, which is the headline attraction for the toddler-and-preschool crowd, is not reliably available midweek. That reverses the usual advice. At most farms you go on a weekday to avoid crowds; here, a weekday can cost you the main attraction.
The practical answer is Monday, which is a public day without school groups, or a weekend, which adds a live DJ, games and food stalls but brings the Hampton Roads crowd with it.
A September 26 opening puts the first two weekends in genuinely warm coastal weather. Early October near the Virginia coast can still be hot in the afternoon, and this is a mostly outdoor operation with a straw pile and an elevated walk in it. The 10:00am opening is the comfortable arrival for those dates.
Late-season visits swing the other way. A November 1 close means the last weekend runs after the clocks-change conversation has started and the light goes flat by late afternoon. The pony ring shuts at 5:00pm regardless of the 6:00pm gate close, so a 4:30pm arrival buys you thirty minutes of pony and an hour of everything else.
The other calendar item worth knowing: the after-dark Halloween Festival is a separate event with its own ticketing. If someone in the family is expecting a haunt, the daytime Harvest Fair is not it.
The activity mix — petting farm, straw pile, pony rides for ages 12 and under, a treewalk, an aviary — is built for young children rather than teenagers. There is no corn maze on the list to give an older kid something to solve. Families with children roughly 2 to 10 will get their $18 a head back. A group of twelve-year-olds probably will not.
The Harvest Fair runs September 26 through November 1, 2026, daily, 10:00am to 6:00pm, with pony rides operating 11:00am to 5:00pm. School field trips occupy Tuesday through Friday and close the animal pens to general visitors, so if the petting farm is the reason you are coming, a Saturday, Sunday or Monday is the visit that actually delivers it. For a quieter version of the same day, arrive at 10:00am on a Monday. For the fullest version, a weekend brings the live DJ, games and food stalls.
Two and a half to three hours. Unlimited hayrides are the thing that stretches a visit, and with the pony ring closing at 5:00pm the practical last useful arrival is around 3:30pm.
A five-week daily season takes some pressure off compared with a weekends-only farm, but the weekend programming concentrates families anyway. October Saturday afternoons will be the peak; weekday afternoons after the school groups clear out are the calmest paid window.
Not published in what we could read. Most Hampton Roads farm lots are grass or gravel, so expect soft ground for a few days after coastal rain, which is worth planning around during hurricane season.
Not documented. The activity list leans heavily on hayride wagons, a straw pile and an elevated treewalk, none of which the farm describes in accessibility terms. Call 757-427-9520 before driving if wagon or walkway access matters.
Your only free days are Tuesday to Friday and the animals are the whole point, because field trips close the pens on those days. Skip the $15 weekday ticket entirely if anyone in your group came for a hayride.
You are inside Virginia Beach, so the obvious pairing is the coast rather than another farm. An early-season visit that finishes by mid-afternoon still leaves time at the oceanfront while the weather holds.
General admission is $18 per person, so two adults and two children over 2 pay $72 at the gate. Children under 2 are free. That covers the petting farm, TreeWalk Adventure and unlimited farm-tour hayrides. Pumpkins, pony rides, animal feed and bird sticks are all charged on top.
The $15 ticket is Monday to Friday only and covers the petting farm and TreeWalk. It explicitly excludes hayrides. The $18 general admission includes unlimited hayrides. If you want to ride, the $15 ticket is not the one you want.
Yes, the fair is open daily 10:00am to 6:00pm, but school field trips run Tuesday through Friday and close the animal pens to general visitors during those days. The BirdWalk Aviary stays open. Weekends and Mondays are the days the petting farm is reliably available.
No. The farm runs a separately ticketed after-dark Halloween Festival that is not part of the daytime Harvest Fair. Buying a Harvest Fair ticket does not get you into it.
September 26 – November 1, 2026. Daily. Hours: 10:00am-6:00pm; pony rides 11:00am-5:00pm.
Admission starts at $15 per person. General admission $18 per person, free under 2, covering the petting farm, TreeWalk Adventure and unlimited farm-tour hayrides. A cheaper $15 Monday-Friday ticket covers the petting farm and treewalk only and excludes hayrides. Extras: pony rides $10 each or 4 for $30 (age 12 and under), animal feed $6 a cup with $4 refills, bird sticks 2 for $3.
2388 London Bridge Road, Virginia Beach, VA 23456, in City of Virginia Beach. It is one of 3 patches we track in Hampton Roads.
We track 3 patches in Hampton Roads, 1 of which are free to walk into. At $15 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $15.
Its season runs about 37 days against a regional average of 37, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
There is 1 other patch we track in City of Virginia Beach. All Hampton Roads patches →
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Checked August 2026.