A working Fort Wayne dairy where the walk-through barn tour is the real attraction, priced at $15 with non-refundable tickets - so the forecast matters more here than at most farms.
Admission is $15 per person, children under 2 free, and all tickets are non-refundable. A season pass is $15 more at $30 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.
Kuehnert is a working dairy on Fort Wayne’s northwest side that opens for a fall festival, and it publishes an unusually honest attraction list. Corn maze, pumpkin patch, barn tour, calves, ice cream. That is what you get, and there is something to be said for a farm that does not pad the page.
Plenty of farms have a corn maze. Very few let you walk through a freestall barn among a milking herd. For a child who has only seen cows from a car window, standing in the barn where the milk actually comes from is a different order of experience from a hayride, and it is the thing that will still be remembered in November.
It is also the thing that sets the dress code. A dairy yard is a working surface. Whatever the forecast says, wear shoes you would be happy to hose down, and do not put a five-year-old in white trainers.
$15 a head, under-2s free. A family of four is $60. That is mid-range for northeast Indiana and reasonable for a two-hour visit with a genuine point of difference, though it is not cheap given the short attraction list - you are paying for the dairy access, not for volume.
The season pass at $30 is the cleanest deal on the page. It is exactly two admissions. Go twice and the second visit is free; go three times and you are well ahead. For an Allen County family with young children and six and a half weeks of season, that is easy arithmetic. For anyone driving in from further out, it is money you will not use.
Then the part that needs saying plainly: tickets are non-refundable. That is the farm’s stated policy, and it means the weather risk sits entirely with you. Buying a fortnight ahead for a specific Saturday in mid-October is a genuine gamble in this part of the state. Either buy close to the date once the forecast has settled, or accept that a wet Saturday costs you $60 and nothing else.
Friday is 6pm to 9pm. That is an evening visit, full stop - three hours, in the dark for most of the season, and not a realistic plan with a toddler. It is the quietest slot and the best one for older children who want the maze after sunset.
Saturday, 10am to 9pm, is eleven hours and the only day with a morning. It is the whole farm at full stretch and correspondingly the busiest. Arrive at ten and you will have the barn and the maze more or less to yourselves for an hour.
Sunday closes at 5pm after a noon start - five hours, which is a tight window and an early finish. It suits a family that wants the farm as the second half of a Sunday and nothing more.
September 11 is an early start by northeast Indiana standards, and the difference between the first weekend and the last is substantial. In mid-September a 9pm Saturday close still has light in it until well past eight. By the closing weekend on October 25, Fort Wayne is dark before seven, and the last two hours are a night visit in cold air.
Frost is the other clock. Northern Indiana gets its first hard frost earlier than the centre of the state, and the season ending on October 25 rather than running to Halloween is consistent with that. If you want the corn maze at full height and the pumpkin field at its best, aim for late September through mid-October rather than the closing weekend.
The 2026 Fall Festival runs September 11 through October 25, Friday to Sunday. Saturday 10am-9pm is the only full day and the only morning of the week; Friday is a 6pm-9pm evening block and Sunday closes early at 5pm. For a first visit with children, Saturday morning is the obvious answer - you get the barn tour and the maze before the afternoon fills up, and you are not committed to staying until nine. For an after-dark maze, Saturday evening is the only option on the schedule.
Two to two and a half hours. The published attraction list is short and focused - corn maze, pumpkin patch, freestall barn tour, calves and farm-made ice cream - so this is a solid half-day rather than a full one.
Friday to Sunday over six and a half weeks is a longer season than most northeast Indiana farms manage, which spreads demand. Saturday still absorbs the bulk of it, being the only full day. Sunday noon-5pm is the shortest window on the schedule and pushes everyone into five hours; a Friday evening is the least crowded option if the 6pm start suits your family.
Not published. A dairy farm off West Cook Road will have field or gravel parking, and northeast Indiana Octobers are wet - assume soft ground after rain.
Not documented. A freestall barn, a corn maze and a pumpkin field are working-farm surfaces, and we have no information on what the farm provides. Call 260-490-1937 if it matters to your group.
You want a long list of rides and attractions. The farm publishes a short, honest list, and it is a maze, a patch, cows and ice cream. Skip it too if your plans are weather-dependent and you cannot absorb a loss: tickets are explicitly non-refundable.
$15 per person, with children under 2 free. A season pass is $30 per person. All tickets are explicitly non-refundable.
September 11 to October 25, Friday to Sunday. Friday 6pm-9pm, Saturday 10am-9pm, Sunday noon-5pm.
Yes - a freestall barn tour takes you in among the milking herd, and calf viewing is on the published list. This is the farm's distinguishing feature, and the reason to choose it over an attraction-led festival.
The farm's own festival page lists a corn maze, a pumpkin patch, the barn tour, calves and farm-made ice cream, and does not itemise anything beyond that. Treat the list as complete rather than assuming rides and inflatables are waiting.
September 11 – October 25, 2026. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Hours: Friday 6pm-9pm; Saturday 10am-9pm; Sunday noon-5pm.
Admission starts at $15 per person. Admission is $15 per person, children under 2 free, and all tickets are non-refundable. A season pass is $15 more at $30 per person.
6524 West Cook Road, Fort Wayne, IN 46818, in Allen County. It is one of 3 patches we track in Northern Indiana.
We track 3 patches in Northern Indiana, 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 45 days against a regional average of 45, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
kuehnertdairy.com
Checked August 2026.