A low gate price that hides a token economy — the $14.95 admission at this Bartow County exotic-animal farm buys you a maze and a hayride, and everything a child will actually beg for costs $5 to $60 more.
General admission $14.95 plus tax cash price for ages 3 and up; under 2 free. Ages 60+ get $2 off, military 10% off. A Value Pack at $34.99 bundles admission with five ride tokens. Camel ride, pony ride, Euro-Bungy and swings run $5-$7 each; the aerial course is $24.99 with admission; the canopy tour $59.99.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $59.80 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.
Pettit Creek is not really a pumpkin patch that added animals. It is an exotic-animal farm that added a pumpkin season, and reading it that way makes the whole place make sense — including the pricing.
The animals are the reason to come. A petting zoo stocked with species you do not meet at a dairy, camel rides that children will talk about for a month, and enough of a menagerie that the walking around is the activity. Layered on top is a fall festival with a corn maze, a hay bale maze, a hayride, a duck race and scarecrow building, plus an aerial adventure operation — zip lines, a canopy tour, a Euro-Bungy — that belongs to a different kind of business entirely.
Admission ran $14.95 plus tax, cash, for ages 3 and up. That is genuinely cheap for what is on the property, and it is cheap for a reason: it is the ticket to walk in, not the ticket to do things.
Camel rides, pony rides, the Euro-Bungy and the swings were $5 to $7 apiece. The aerial course was $24.99 on top of admission. The canopy tour was $59.99 — four times what you paid to walk through the gate. The farm sells a Value Pack at $34.99 that bundles admission with five ride tokens, which is honest packaging but also a tell: they expect you to buy tokens.
Run it before you go. Two adults and two children through the gate is roughly $60. Give each child two rides and you are near $90. Buy four Value Packs instead and you have committed $140 before lunch. None of this is a scam and none of it is hidden, but the advertised $14.95 will give you a badly wrong picture of the day if you let it.
The operational detail most likely to sour a visit is the 5:30pm last hayride against a 6pm close. On weekdays the farm did not open until 2:30pm, which gives you a three-and-a-half hour window in total. Arrive at 4:30 on a Tuesday thinking you have plenty of time and you will be rushing the maze to make the ride.
Weekends open at 10am and are a genuinely different proposition — a full day, and the only realistic option if you are doing the aerial course as well.
The upside of a Bartow County farm over the Florida equivalent is that the season is real. The corn was grown here, the maze is cut into it, and the weather in October behaves the way the decorations suggest it should. The downside is that a 6pm close in the second half of October means the last hour of your visit happens as the temperature falls off a cliff, and I-75 north of Atlanta carries heavy leaf-season traffic on autumn weekends that has nothing to do with the farm and everything to do with how long your drive takes.
One last honest note: everything above describes the 2025 season. The farm had not posted a 2026 calendar when we looked, so treat the days, hours and prices as a well-sourced estimate rather than a promise.
Weekends open at 10am and give you a full eight-hour day; weekdays do not open until 2:30pm, which is a short window and one that runs straight into the school-pickup crowd. If you want the place quiet, an early weekday afternoon in the first half of October is the answer, but check that the farm is open at all — late September ran weekends only in the last published schedule. The last hayride leaves at 5:30pm, so an arrival after 5pm on any day means missing the ride you came for.
Three to four hours if you are buying ride tokens, closer to two if you are not. The aerial course and canopy tour are separate, longer commitments — budget an extra hour or more if anyone in the group is doing those.
Not documented, but the pattern is predictable: weekends are the crush and weekdays are not, and the farm closes Mondays entirely. Halloween is a short day, 10am to 4pm in the last published schedule, which concentrates a holiday crowd into six hours.
Not published. Assume a grass or gravel field, as at most working farms of this type, and assume it gets soft after the kind of steady autumn rain north Georgia actually gets in October.
Not documented. Farm terrain, a corn maze and a hay bale maze all imply uneven ground; the camel rides, pony rides and aerial attractions have physical requirements the farm has not published. Call ahead if that matters to your group rather than paying at the gate and finding out.
You are on a fixed budget with more than one child. The gate price is the smallest number you will pay here, and holding the line on tokens in front of a camel is harder than it sounds. A farm with an all-inclusive pass will cost you less and argue with you less.
The farm is minutes off I-75 north of Atlanta, which makes it easy to bolt onto a drive rather than build a day around. Downtown Cartersville is close enough for lunch if you want to make an afternoon of it without paying for a second attraction.
At the last published rate of $14.95 plus tax per person for ages 3 and up, four people is about $60 through the gate. That covers the maze, hayride, petting zoo and duck race. Camel rides, pony rides, the Euro-Bungy and the swings ran $5 to $7 each, so a family buying two rides per child lands closer to $100. The $34.99 Value Pack per person, bundling admission with five tokens, is $140 for four.
No. Camel rides, pony rides, the Euro-Bungy and the swings were all separate purchases in the $5 to $7 range. The aerial course was $24.99 on top of admission and the canopy tour $59.99.
The last published schedule ran Tuesday through Sunday in October with Mondays closed, and weekends only in late September. Weekday hours were 2:30pm to 6pm and weekend hours 10am to 6pm, with Halloween a shorter 10am to 4pm. No 2026 dates had been posted when we checked, so confirm before travelling.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Tuesday through Sunday in October; closed Mondays. Late September is weekends only.. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission starts at $14.95 per person. General admission $14.95 plus tax cash price for ages 3 and up; under 2 free. Ages 60+ get $2 off, military 10% off. A Value Pack at $34.99 bundles admission with five ride tokens. Camel ride, pony ride, Euro-Bungy and swings run $5-$7 each; the aerial course is $24.99 with admission; the canopy tour $59.99.
337 Cassville Road, Cartersville, GA 30120, in Bartow County. It is one of 12 patches we track in Atlanta Metro.
We track 12 patches in Atlanta Metro, 3 of which are free to walk into. At $14.95 a head this one sits below the regional median of $15, undercutting 3 of the 5 paid patches we track here.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 3 of the 12 patches we track in Atlanta Metro had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
pettitcreekfarms.com · atlantamom.com · explorethesouth.org
Checked August 2026.