A Stark County farm with a winery attached, which makes it one of the few fall festivals where the adults have a reason to stay — but it opens at noon, so there is no morning visit to be had here.
$15 for guests over age 2; $10 seniors; free under 2. Season pass $39.99. Groups of 30+ save $2/ticket with advance purchase. Apple cannon and gem mining cost extra.
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.
Maize Valley is a farm market and winery that runs a fall festival, and that ordering explains most of what is good about it. The attraction list is a proper agritourism spread — an eight-acre corn maze, wagon rides, duck races, a pumpkin cannon, animal train rides, a pumpkin jump pad, a goat interaction area, a gem mine, pedal trikes and the patch itself — but the thing that separates it from a dozen similar Stark County operations is that adults have somewhere to be.
At most fall farms the parents’ role is to stand in a field holding coats. Here there is a market and a winery. Whether that appeals is a matter of taste, but it changes the shape of a visit: one adult can supervise the jump pad while the other is not simply waiting.
September is weekends only. October is Thursday through Monday. This is the single most common way to get this farm wrong, and it is entirely avoidable — if you are going before the end of September, go on a Saturday or Sunday, full stop.
Once October arrives, the Thursday and Monday openings are the reason to choose this place. Almost every farm in this region is a weekend operation, and a Thursday afternoon in mid-October at a farm with an eight-acre maze is a substantially better experience than the same maze on a Saturday.
The farm did not publish a closing date, which is worth registering before you plan a Halloween-weekend visit. Northern mazes come down when the crop does.
There is no morning here. The gates open at noon and last admission is 6pm, an hour before the 7pm close. That is a six-hour window in which you must both arrive and finish.
In late September, 7pm is dusk. By the last week of October it is fully dark well before closing, and Stark County evenings at that point in the year are cold enough that a jumper will not cover it. If you have small children, arrive at noon rather than at four — you will get more of the farm and less of the cold.
Fifteen dollars a head over the age of 2, $10 for seniors. A family of two adults and two school-age children is $60 through the gate. The apple cannon and gem mining are extra, and gem mining in particular is the attraction that turns a planned $60 into an unplanned $95 — it is visible, it is fun, and it is not covered.
The $39.99 season pass is the more interesting number. Against a $15 ticket it breaks even at just under three visits. For a family in Hartville or Canton with two children who will each want to bring a friend, that is a straightforwardly good purchase. For anyone driving more than half an hour, it is not.
The season opens September 19 and runs weekends only through September before switching to Thursday-through-Monday in October, closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. That schedule change is the thing to get right: a September Thursday will find the gates shut. October hours are noon to 7pm with last admission at 6pm, so the practical window is six hours and the useful one is five. An October Thursday or Monday is the quiet visit; the Saturdays are the crush. The farm did not publish a closing date.
Three to four hours if you are using the ticket properly. With an eight-acre maze, wagon rides, duck races, a pumpkin cannon, animal train rides, a jump pad, the goat area and pedal trikes, a family that leaves after ninety minutes has paid $15 a head for a fraction of it.
October Saturdays and Sundays carry the demand, as they do everywhere in Stark County. The Thursday and Monday openings in October are the release valve and the single best reason to choose this farm over a weekends-only competitor. September, being weekends only, has no such escape.
Not described by the farm. A working farm market and winery on Edison Street will have a lot of some sort, but assume grass overflow at weekends and mud after rain — that is the standard Northeast Ohio autumn story.
You want a morning out. Nothing opens before noon, and with last admission at 6pm the whole operation is an afternoon and early evening. Skip it too if you want an all-inclusive ticket — the apple cannon and the gem mine both cost extra, and those are the two things children ask for.
Rufener Hilltop Farms in Mogadore is only about seven miles away and prices weekdays at $5 against Maize Valley's flat $15. If cost is the deciding factor and you can go on a weekday, that comparison is worth making before you book. Nickajack Farms in North Lawrence is roughly 18 miles the other way and runs an all-inclusive $17 ticket.
Fifteen dollars for anyone over the age of 2, $10 for seniors, free under 2. A season pass is $39.99. The apple cannon and gem mining are separate purchases on top of admission.
Noon, with October hours running to 7pm and last admission at 6pm. There is no morning session — if you are used to arriving at a farm at 10am to beat the heat or the queue, this one does not offer that.
No. It runs weekends only through September, then Thursday to Monday in October, closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The farm did not publish a closing date for the 2026 season.
The winery and farm market are on the same site. The farm's fall festival ticket covers the festival attractions; treat anything at the winery as a separate spend.
Opens September 19, 2026 (closing date not published). Weekends only in September; Thursday-Monday in October (closed Tuesday and Wednesday). Hours: 12pm-7pm in October, last admission 6pm.
Admission starts at $15 per person. $15 for guests over age 2; $10 seniors; free under 2. Season pass $39.99. Groups of 30+ save $2/ticket with advance purchase. Apple cannon and gem mining cost extra.
6193 Edison Street NE, Hartville, OH 44632, in Stark County. It is one of 10 patches we track in Northeast Ohio.
We track 10 patches in Northeast Ohio. At $15 a head this one sits above the regional median of $14, undercutting 1 of the 6 paid patches we track here.
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Checked August 2026.