An evening-weighted fall festival with an unusually deep attraction list and bonfire rentals, but two of its four open days start after 5pm — and the admission price on the farm's own site was still labelled 2020 when we checked.
The farm's own admission page showed $12.00 general admission with children 2 and under free, but that page was headed '2020 Fall Fun Admission Tickets', so the figure is stale. A local news roundup listed $13. Current-season price not established; call before going.
Niederman runs its fall festival on an evening schedule, and that single fact should drive your planning. Thursday opens at 6pm. Friday opens at 5pm. Sunday opens at 1pm and shuts at 6pm. Only Saturday behaves like a normal farm day, running 11am to 9pm.
For a farm with a jumping pillow, a petting zoo, a climbing hill, a sand pit, a tractor pull and a flying piggies ride — an attraction list aimed squarely at primary-school children — that is a genuinely unusual choice. It works beautifully for a Friday-night outing with older kids and a bonfire. It works considerably less well for a family with a four-year-old whose day ends at seven.
This matters more in late October than most people expect. On the season’s opening weekend in late September, a 9pm close means a couple of hours after sunset. By Halloween, sunset in southwest Ohio has moved back by roughly an hour and a quarter, so the Thursday 6pm opening starts in near-darkness and the entire three-hour session is a night visit.
None of that is a problem if you plan for it. It is a problem if you arrive at 6pm on October 29 dressed for an afternoon, with a toddler, expecting to see the corn maze. Bring torches, bring coats, and treat the late-season evenings as a different product from the September ones.
We could not establish what admission costs in 2026. The farm’s own admission page showed $12 with children 2 and under free — but the page was headed 2020 Fall Fun Admission Tickets, which makes it a historical document rather than a price list. A regional news roundup listed $13. Neither is something to budget against three seasons later.
There is a related caution. The farm’s fall festival page carried 2025 maze artwork alongside the 2026 dates we have listed, which raises the possibility that the calendar is carried-over text rather than confirmed. The dates are plausible and consistent with the region, but a phone call before a long drive is the right move here in a way it is not at farms with a freshly stamped season page.
Bonfire rentals are the genuinely distinctive item. Very few farms in the region will sell you a fire and a place to sit around it, and paired with the long Friday and Saturday evenings it makes this a plausible venue for a birthday, a youth group or a gathering of adults who have run out of enthusiasm for the jumping pillow. If that is what you came for, the evening-heavy schedule stops being a drawback and becomes the reason to choose this farm over any other on the list.
The listed 2026 season is September 25 to November 1, Thursday to Sunday. The hours are the story: Thursday 6pm to 9pm, Friday 5pm to 9pm, Saturday 11am to 9pm, Sunday 1pm to 6pm. Saturday is the only day with a genuine daytime window, and Sunday is the only short-and-early option. If you have young children, Saturday morning is effectively the sole sensible slot. If you want the farm after dark with a bonfire, Friday is the long evening. Bear in mind that a 6pm Thursday start in late October begins at or after sunset in southwest Ohio — that is a night visit, not a late-afternoon one.
Two to three hours. With a corn maze, jumping pillow, petting zoo, climbing hill, sand pit, tractor pull and the flying piggies ride, there is enough here to justify a Saturday afternoon rather than a quick stop.
Saturday runs ten hours against Sunday's five and the two evening-only weekdays, so it absorbs most of the demand and is also the day worth arriving early for. Late October Fridays and Saturdays are the peak of the season.
Not published. Assume a farm field. Add the evening hours to that and a wet late-October Friday means walking across soft ground in the dark — take a torch and shoes you do not mind.
Not published. A corn maze, a climbing hill and a sand pit are not surfaces that suit small stroller wheels, and much of the visit is on grass and dirt.
You need a morning. Only Saturday opens before 1pm, and only Saturday opens before 5pm on three of the four days. Skip it too if you want a fixed budget before you leave: the price is the least certain thing in this listing.
We could not establish it for 2026. The farm's own admission page showed $12 general admission with under-2s free, but that page was headed 2020 Fall Fun Admission Tickets, so the figure is stale. A local news roundup listed $13. Call before you go.
It varies more than most: Thursday 6pm to 9pm, Friday 5pm to 9pm, Saturday 11am to 9pm and Sunday 1pm to 6pm. Saturday is the only day open in the morning.
The farm lists bonfire rentals among its attractions. Pricing and booking terms were not published on the pages we read, so treat it as a call-ahead item.
September 25 – November 1, 2026. Thursday-Sunday. Hours: Thu 6pm-9pm; Fri 5pm-9pm; Sat 11am-9pm; Sun 1pm-6pm.
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. The farm's own admission page showed $12.00 general admission with children 2 and under free, but that page was headed '2020 Fall Fun Admission Tickets', so the figure is stale. A local news roundup listed $13. Current-season price not established; call before going.
5110 Lesourdsville West Chester Rd, Liberty Twp, OH 45011, in Butler County. It is one of 9 patches we track in Southwest Ohio.
We track 9 patches in Southwest Ohio, 2 of which are free to walk into. The farm has not published a gate price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
Its season runs about 38 days against a regional average of 38, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
What sets it apart locally: it has rides and play structures, which most Southwest Ohio patches on our list do not.
There are 4 other patches we track in Butler County. All Southwest Ohio patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
niedermanfamilyfarm.com
Checked August 2026.