A flat $15 that genuinely covers the corn maze, zip line, jump pad and wagon rides with only pumpkins and cannon shots extra, but it is open to the public on weekends only and the accessible wagons are currently out of service.
$15 general admission, free for children under 2. Admission covers the corn maze, wagon rides, slides, barnyard zoo, games, jump pad and kids' zip line. Pumpkins and cannon shots are sold separately. School field trips start at $8 per person.
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.
Jeter Farm has one of the cleanest pricing structures we have seen in Virginia this season. Fifteen dollars, under-2s free, and that covers the corn maze, wagon rides, slides, the barnyard zoo, the games, the jump pad and the kids zip line. Only two things sit outside it: the pumpkins and the cannon shots.
That matters more than it sounds. At a lot of fall farms the gate price is an entry fee and then every attraction a child points at is another transaction. Here, a family of four pays $60 and can then say yes to essentially everything for the rest of the visit. If you have children who ask for things, the difference in stress is worth real money.
The farm is open to the public on weekends only. Weekday mornings, 9:00am to 1:00pm, are reserved for booked school field trips, and that is the whole weekday operation. There is no version of a Tuesday visit for a family that happens to have the day off.
Five weekends, ten public days, running September 26 to November 1. That is a short season even by fall-farm standards, and the compression is the crowd story here. Add that Sunday does not open until noon, and Saturday is doing most of the work. Saturday 9:00am to 6:00pm is the only nine-hour day the farm offers.
The practical advice follows directly: go on a Saturday, go at 9:00am. You get the longest day, the emptiest maze and the first pick of the patch, and you are back on the road before the Blue Ridge Parkway leaf traffic thickens up in the afternoon.
The last hayride departs at 5:00pm regardless of the 6:00pm close. That is an hour of the posted operating day in which you can still be on the farm but can no longer take the ride. On a Sunday, where the gate opens at noon, that leaves a five-hour hayride window inside a six-hour day.
If the wagon ride is the point of the trip, treat 4:30pm as the real closing time and plan backwards from there.
The farm states that handicapped-accessible wagons are currently unavailable. That is unusually specific for a farm to publish and it deserves to be taken at face value rather than hoped around. If someone in your group needs an accessible wagon to do the hayride, this trip does not currently work for them, and there is no workaround on the activity list. Nothing else about accessibility is documented, so if uneven ground is a concern more broadly, the farm’s own page will not answer it.
Sixty dollars for four at the gate. Then pumpkins, which are priced separately and are the reason most people came. Then cannon shots, which are the discretionary line and are sold individually, so the total depends entirely on how many times a nine-year-old gets to fire one.
A realistic Saturday for a family of four: $60 admission, four pumpkins, a handful of cannon shots and lunch from the weekend grill. Call it somewhere in the ninety-to-a-hundred-and-twenty range depending on pumpkin size and cannon enthusiasm. That is a mid-range fall farm day in Southwest Virginia, and the fact that the maze and the zip line are already paid for is what keeps it from climbing further.
Botetourt County, despite the Roanoke mailing address, puts this at the northern end of the Roanoke Valley in the shadow of the Blue Ridge. Elevation means the season starts and runs cooler than the Piedmont, and by mid-October the mornings at a 9:00am opening are genuinely cold. Layers, and the understanding that a 6:00pm close in the last days of October comes very close to dusk.
The other regional reality is traffic. This is Parkway country and October weekends bring leaf-season visitors onto the same approach roads. Leaving early is not fussiness in this corridor, it is the difference between a comfortable drive and an hour of queuing.
Party tables can be reserved for up to three and a half hours, which is longer than most farms allow and roughly matches how long a family will actually stay. School groups run self-guided from $8 per person on the reserved weekday mornings. The farm operates only during the fall festival season rather than year round, so there is no shoulder-season version of a visit.
The fall festival runs September 26 through November 1, 2026. Public hours are Saturday 9:00am to 6:00pm and Sunday noon to 6:00pm; weekdays 9:00am to 1:00pm are reserved for booked school field trips only. Saturday morning is the longest usable window by a wide margin, and a 9:00am Saturday arrival is the quietest hour of the week. Sunday's noon start compresses everyone into six hours.
Three hours. With the corn maze, zip line, jump pad, slides, barnyard zoo and a wagon ride all included in one price, there is enough here to justify a real visit rather than a quick stop.
Five weekends, ten public days, and a Sunday that does not open until noon. That is a tight container for a Roanoke Valley fall season, so expect Saturday afternoons in mid-October to be the busiest hours of the year here.
Not published. This is a working Botetourt County farm off Blue Ridge Boulevard, so assume field or gravel parking and soft ground for a few days after autumn rain.
The farm states that handicapped-accessible wagons are currently unavailable, which is the clearest accessibility signal on the record and a genuine reason to reconsider the trip if a wagon ride is essential to your group. Other access details are not published.
You can only visit midweek. Weekdays are field-trip reservations only and a Tuesday drive-out will not get you through the gate. Skip it also if anyone in your group needs an accessible wagon, which the farm says is currently unavailable.
The Blue Ridge Parkway runs close by, and October leaf traffic on the approach roads is heavy on weekend afternoons. Doing the farm at the 9:00am Saturday open and the Parkway afterwards avoids the worst of it in both directions.
Not to the public. Weekdays from 9:00am to 1:00pm are reserved for booked school field trips only. Public visiting is Saturday 9:00am to 6:00pm and Sunday noon to 6:00pm, from September 26 through November 1, 2026.
The corn maze, wagon rides, slides, the barnyard zoo, games, the jump pad and the kids zip line. Pumpkins and cannon shots are charged separately. Children under 2 are free.
$60 for two adults and two children over 2, before pumpkins. That is one of the more predictable farm bills in Southwest Virginia because so little sits outside the ticket.
5:00pm, an hour before the 6:00pm close on both Saturday and Sunday. If the wagon ride is why you are going, do not arrive after about 4:30pm.
September 26 – November 1, 2026. Saturdays and Sundays for the public; weekdays by field-trip reservation only. Hours: Saturday 9:00am-6:00pm, Sunday 12:00pm-6:00pm; weekdays 9:00am-1:00pm for reserved field trips. The last hayride leaves at 5:00pm..
Admission starts at $15 per person. $15 general admission, free for children under 2. Admission covers the corn maze, wagon rides, slides, barnyard zoo, games, jump pad and kids' zip line. Pumpkins and cannon shots are sold separately. School field trips start at $8 per person.
181 Blue Ridge Boulevard, Roanoke, VA 24012, in Botetourt County. It is one of 3 patches we track in Southwest Virginia.
We track 3 patches in Southwest Virginia. 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 42, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
jeterfarm.com
Checked August 2026.