A free-to-browse roadside market and cafe with a cheap corn maze bolted on — but the fall page the prices come from is the 2023 season page, so treat every figure here as three years stale.
Last published pricing (2023 season): corn maze only $5 for ages 4+; corn maze and hayride combo $8 ages 4-12 / $10 ages 12+; hayride only $3/$5; unlimited Fall Pass $15/$20; free for age 3 and under. Entering the market, cafe and gift shop is free.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $20.00 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.
Lane Southern Orchards is a market first. That is the honest framing, and it is also the reason to stop: the roadside market, the Peachtree Cafe and the gift shop are open year round, open daily from 9am, and free to walk into. For anyone moving through middle Georgia on I-75, that is a better break than the alternatives, with or without a corn maze attached.
The fall layer is modest and priced accordingly. A corn maze, a hayride, a playground with vintage tractors, a Maze-O-Poly game that turns the maze into something with a structure rather than a wander, and a Fall Farm Festival with craft vendors and food trucks. Pumpkins are on the list too.
We have to lead with this because it changes how you should use everything else here. The farm’s fall-events page, as it was being served when we read it, is still the 2023 season page. Every corn maze date, every hour and every price quoted anywhere on this site traces back to it.
That is not a small gap. Three seasons is long enough for prices to move substantially and for a schedule to change entirely. The market hours are current and reliable; the fall attraction details are a historical record, and we would rather label them that way than present them as a plan.
What that means practically: drive here for the market and the cafe with confidence, and phone ahead if the corn maze is the reason you are making the trip.
The 2023 structure was unusually granular and unusually cheap. Five dollars for the maze on its own for ages 4 and up. Three or five dollars for the hayride alone. Eight or ten dollars for the combo. Fifteen or twenty for an unlimited Fall Pass.
If anything resembling that survives, this is one of the cheapest ways in Georgia to put a family through a corn maze — a family of four could do maze-and-hayride for well under $40. The Fall Pass only makes sense for people intending to ride and walk repeatedly; for one pass through each, the individual tickets win. Do the arithmetic at the window rather than taking the pass because it sounds like the better deal.
Fort Valley sits about at Georgia’s fall line, which puts it in the honest middle of the state’s autumn. It is meaningfully cooler than south Georgia in early October and meaningfully warmer than the north Georgia mountains, and it is a region where farms grow their own corn — the maze is cut into a real crop rather than assembled.
The practical note is the 5:30pm maze close. In the second half of October the light is already going and the temperature dropping by then, so the last hour is colder than the afternoon led you to expect. And if peak leaf season is why you are in the state at all, be aware that the traffic heading for north Georgia does not touch this stretch of I-75 much — which is a quiet argument in favour of a middle Georgia stop over a metro one on a busy October weekend.
Weekday mornings, if what you want is the market and the cafe: they open daily at 9am, run year round and cost nothing to walk into. For the corn maze, the last published schedule had weekdays running noon to 5:30pm and weekends from 10am to 5:30pm — a short weekday window that does not open until midday. Whether that pattern still holds is genuinely unknown, because no 2026 fall schedule has been posted anywhere.
Under an hour for the market, cafe and gift shop. Ninety minutes to two hours if you add the maze and a hayride. This is a stop rather than a day out, and it works best treated that way.
Not documented. The market draws steady traffic year round from the highway rather than seasonal spikes, and the fall attractions are small enough that they are unlikely to generate the queues you would find at a metro Atlanta farm.
Not published, but this is an established roadside market operation rather than a pasture, which usually means a real lot. That is a meaningful advantage in a wet Georgia October.
You want a large fall festival with rides and inflatables. The attraction list here is a corn maze, a hayride, a playground with vintage tractors and a festival with craft vendors and food trucks. It is modest by design.
The last published prices, from the 2023 season, were $5 for the maze alone for ages 4 and up, $8 for ages 4-12 or $10 for 12 and up for the maze-and-hayride combo, $3 or $5 for the hayride alone, and $15 or $20 for an unlimited Fall Pass. Children 3 and under were free. These figures are three years old and no 2026 pricing has been posted.
Yes. Entering the roadside market, the Peachtree Cafe and the gift shop carries no charge, and they operate year round rather than seasonally.
The last published schedule had the corn maze running seven days a week through October, noon to 5:30pm on weekdays and 10am to 5:30pm at weekends, with the market open daily 9am to 5pm. The corn maze schedule dates to 2023 and should be confirmed.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Corn maze open through October, seven days a week per the last published schedule; roadside market and cafe open year round. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission starts at $5 per person. Last published pricing (2023 season): corn maze only $5 for ages 4+; corn maze and hayride combo $8 ages 4-12 / $10 ages 12+; hayride only $3/$5; unlimited Fall Pass $15/$20; free for age 3 and under. Entering the market, cafe and gift shop is free.
50 Lane Road, Fort Valley, GA 31030, in Peach County. It is one of 8 patches we track in Middle Georgia.
We track 8 patches in Middle Georgia. At $5 a head this one sits below the regional median of $13.95, undercutting 4 of the 6 paid patches we track here.
What sets it apart locally: it has a market, bakery or taproom, which most Middle Georgia patches on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 6 of the 8 patches we track in Middle Georgia had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
lanesouthernorchards.com · pumpkinpatchesandmore.org
Checked August 2026.