One of the few Hudson Valley farms that publishes its prices honestly and up front — $16.95 to $19.95 online for a single ticket covering the whole property, and a season pass that pays for itself on the second visit.
General farm-day admission $16.95-$19.95 online, higher at the gate. 2026 season pass $74.95-$104.95, covering the Tulip Festival, Strawberry Festival, Sunflower Extravaganza and Fall Festival. Children 2 and under and adults 80 and over are free.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $67.80 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.
Kelder’s does the thing that ought to be standard and mostly is not: it tells you what the day costs before you commit to it. One ticket, $16.95 to $19.95 online, covers the property — the pumpkin field, the corn maze, hayrides, the animals, the jumping pillow, mini golf, the tube slides. After reading a dozen Hudson Valley farms that route every price into a booking portal or publish none at all, the clarity here is worth calling out on its own.
The second structural advantage is the season. September 6 to November 2 is roughly nine weeks, against the six-weekend norm in this region. That matters in two directions. It gives you flexibility — an early-September visit in shirtsleeves and a late-October one in a coat are genuinely different days at the same farm — and it takes some of the pressure off the peak weekends, because demand is not being funnelled into twelve operating days.
At roughly $20 a head with everything included, the arithmetic is simple and unforgiving. A family of four is around $70 to $80 online. Spend four hours and that is good value for a full day of a child’s entertainment. Spend ninety minutes picking a pumpkin and leaving, and you have paid festival prices for a farm stand.
So this is not the farm for a quick stop. It is the farm for a committed day, ideally starting at the 10am open, and ideally on a Thursday or Monday when the same ticket buys you a much emptier property.
The season pass deserves a moment of actual thought rather than being dismissed as an upsell. It covers four separate festivals across the year — tulips in spring, strawberries in early summer, sunflowers in late summer, and the fall festival. For a family within easy reach of the Rondout Valley, two visits gets you close to break-even and three puts you clearly ahead. For someone driving up from the city for one October Saturday, it is irrelevant.
There is one thing to resolve before you plan a weekday trip. The farm’s own pages say Thursday through Monday — closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. A regional guide says daily except Tuesdays. Those cannot both be right, and the difference is a wasted two-hour round trip if you guess wrong. Phone 845-626-7137 and settle it.
Closing on November 2 puts the last few days of this season past where most northern farms stop, which is a genuine bonus if Halloween weekend is your only free one. It also means the final visits happen in real late-autumn conditions: the field churned up by six weeks of traffic, the corn dry and rattling, the light going noticeably earlier than it did in September, and afternoon temperatures that make the taproom look considerably more appealing than they did in week one. Dress for the season you are actually in, not the one you pictured when you booked.
The Fall Festival runs September 6 to November 2, 2026, open Thursday through Monday, 10:00am-6:00pm. Thursdays and Mondays are the obvious picks: same ticket, a fraction of the crowd, and no competition for the jumping pillow. If you must go at a weekend, be there at the 10am open — an eight-hour operating day sounds long until you are queuing behind a hundred families for the hayride.
Four hours or more. At close to $20 a head for a ticket that covers everything, a ninety-minute visit is money thrown away; the whole pricing model assumes you work through the property.
A nine-week season is long by Hudson Valley standards, which spreads demand better than the usual six-weekend crush. The Columbus Day weekend and the last two weekends of October are still the peak. Thursdays and Mondays are the quiet days and they cost the same.
Not published. Assume a field lot off Route 209, and assume it holds water after the autumn rains that reliably arrive in mid-October.
Not published. A property advertising more than 35 attractions is spread out, and mini golf, tube slides and a pumpkin field are all uneven ground — worth a call if anyone in your group has mobility limits.
You want a free-entry pick-your-own. Every ticket here covers the whole attraction set whether you use it or not, so a visitor who only wants a pumpkin and a photo is subsidising thirty-odd attractions they will not touch. Skip a midweek trip too until you have confirmed the schedule, because our sources disagree about Wednesdays.
Kerhonkson sits on Route 209 in the Rondout Valley, so the drive itself is one of the better leaf runs in Ulster County in the second and third weeks of October. Build the day around the road rather than around a second farm.
General farm-day admission is $16.95 to $19.95 booked online, with gate prices higher. Children 2 and under and adults 80 and over are free. A 2026 season pass covering all four of the farm's festivals runs $74.95 to $104.95.
The farm's own pages say Thursday through Monday, closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. A regional guide says daily except Tuesdays. That conflict is unresolved, so confirm before a Wednesday trip.
September 6 through November 2, 2026, from 10:00am to 6:00pm — around nine weeks, which is a long season for the Hudson Valley.
September 6 – November 2, 2026. Thursday through Monday; closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Hours: 10:00am-6:00pm.
Admission starts at $16.95 per person. General farm-day admission $16.95-$19.95 online, higher at the gate. 2026 season pass $74.95-$104.95, covering the Tulip Festival, Strawberry Festival, Sunflower Extravaganza and Fall Festival. Children 2 and under and adults 80 and over are free.
5755 US Route 209, Kerhonkson, NY 12446, in Ulster County. It is one of 10 patches we track in Hudson Valley.
We track 10 patches in Hudson Valley, 2 of which are free to walk into. At $16.95 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $16.95, undercutting 1 of the 3 paid patches we track here.
Its season runs about 58 days against a regional average of 61, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
There is 1 other patch we track in Ulster County. All Hudson Valley patches →
keldersfarm.com
Checked August 2026.