One flat $17 ticket covers everything except pony rides, which is refreshingly simple pricing for a farm advertising 70-plus activities — but the price and hours we have come from a visitor bureau listing, not the farm.
$17 per person for unlimited access to all activities except pony rides; pony rides $6 and weekends only. Children 2 and under free.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $68.00 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.
The pricing model is the story here. One ticket, $17, unlimited access to everything on the farm except pony rides. In a category where the standard practice is a gate fee followed by a gem mine, a cannon, a zip line and a face-painting stall all charging separately, a genuinely all-inclusive ticket is worth paying attention to.
It also changes how you should plan the day. At an a la carte farm you can pace yourself and control the spend as you go. Here the money is gone at the gate, so the only lever you have is time. A family of two adults and two children over the age of 2 is $68 before anything else. Stay four hours and that is good value. Stay ninety minutes and it is not.
We are being careful about this because it matters: the $17 figure and the 11am-to-7pm hours did not come from Nickajack. They came from the Visit Canton visitor bureau’s directory listing. The farm’s own pages gave us the season dates of September 12 to October 31, the address, and the claim of more than seventy activities — and no price and no hours.
Visitor bureau listings are usually supplied by the business, so this is probably right. But it is one degree removed, and the farm publishes no phone number on its site for us to check against. If the price is the reason you are choosing this farm over another, verify it before you commit the afternoon.
The season runs daily for seven weeks. That is rare in Stark County, where most operations are Saturday-and-Sunday affairs, and it is the strongest practical argument for this farm.
There is one wrinkle. Pony rides are weekends only, and they are also the sole thing not covered by the ticket. So a weekday visit gets you the light crowds and simultaneously removes the one attraction your child might ask for and be told no. Depending on the child, that is either a bonus or an argument you now have to have in the car park on the way in.
The last date is October 31, and by then Northern Ohio evenings are cold and dark long before a 7pm close. This is a farm with a lot of open-field activities — pedal race track, spider web climb, slides, bubbles — and none of that is fun in the dark in a cold wind. For a late-October visit, arrive early in the day rather than after lunch, and bring more layers per child than seems reasonable.
The farm publishes a season of September 12 to October 31, 2026, open daily. Daily opening across seven weeks is the whole advantage here, and it is wasted on a Saturday. A weekday in early October gets you the same maze, the same pedal carts and the same spider web climb with a fraction of the queueing. The hours we have — 11am to 7pm — come from the Visit Canton directory rather than the farm's own pages, so confirm them before a long drive. One genuine weekday trade-off: pony rides run at weekends only.
Three to four hours. If the farm's 70-plus activity claim is anywhere close to accurate, a family that leaves after ninety minutes has paid a flat rate for a small slice of it. This is a ticket that rewards staying.
Daily opening across seven weeks spreads demand better than nearly anything else in this batch. October Saturdays will still be heavy, and Halloween weekend heaviest of all. Any weekday in late September or early October should be comfortable.
Not described. Farms of this scale in Stark County generally park visitors on grass, so treat a wet week as a boots week — Northeast Ohio autumn rain turns a field lot into mud quickly and it does not dry out between weekends.
You want a quick pumpkin and a photo. At $17 a head with nothing cheaper on offer, a family of four is $68 before they have picked anything up, and the value is entirely in spending the afternoon. Skip a weekday too if a pony ride is non-negotiable for your child — they run at weekends only.
Maize Valley in Hartville is about 18 miles east and runs a $15 ticket with paid extras plus a winery on site — the natural comparison if you want somewhere for adults to sit. Ramseyer Farms in Wooster is roughly 16 miles southwest and is the option if stroller and wheelchair access matters, since it states that explicitly and Nickajack does not.
Seventeen dollars per person for unlimited access to everything except pony rides, which are $6 and weekends only. Children 2 and under are free. Important caveat: that pricing comes from the Visit Canton visitor bureau listing rather than from the farm's own pages, which did not publish a price when we read them.
Everything except pony rides, according to the listing we have. That is genuinely unusual — most farms at this price point charge separately for gem mining, cannons or ropes courses. Verify at the gate, since the source is third-party.
The farm states its Pumpkin Days season runs daily from September 12 to October 31, 2026. Weekday visits are the best value here because the crowds are lighter and the one paid extra is not operating.
September 12 – October 31, 2026. Daily. Hours: 11am-7pm.
Admission starts at $17 per person. $17 per person for unlimited access to all activities except pony rides; pony rides $6 and weekends only. Children 2 and under free.
2955 Manchester Avenue NW, North Lawrence, OH 44666, in Stark County. It is one of 10 patches we track in Northeast Ohio.
We track 10 patches in Northeast Ohio. At $17 a head this one sits above the regional median of $14.
Its season runs about 50 days against a regional average of 45, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
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Checked August 2026.