A genuine Barrow County u-pick farm with real pick-your-own pumpkins and a cut corn maze, but it runs entirely through Facebook with no published dates, hours or prices, so it is a local option rather than a planned trip.
There is not much published about Pharr Farms and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What the two directory listings agree on is a short, credible list: u-pick pumpkins, a corn maze, a produce stand, and pick-your-own strawberries, blueberries and blackberries across the rest of the year. No dates, no hours, no prices, from any source we could reach.
Read the list properly and it tells you what kind of place this is. A farm with three berry seasons, a pumpkin season and a roadside stand is a working agricultural operation with a retail side, not an October pop-up that plants a corn maze and sells trucked-in stock for six weekends. Barrow County sits well north of Georgia’s fall line, in the part of the state where farms genuinely grow what they sell. The pumpkins in that field grew in that field, and the maze is cut into corn that was planted there. That is not true of a great many places calling themselves pumpkin patches, and it is a legitimate reason to prefer this over a lot with a pallet on it.
It also tells you what the day is not. Four of the six listed activities are picking. There is no play barn, no hayride on the record, no animals, no food beyond the stand. Children who like being outside and putting things in a bag will enjoy it. Children who want rides will not.
Nothing is published, so the honest arithmetic is structural rather than numeric. U-pick farms typically charge for what you carry out, priced by the pumpkin, by size or by weight, and often have no gate fee at all. That is the good version, and it means a family of four can walk in and spend nothing until someone chooses a pumpkin, then leave having paid for exactly what they wanted.
The unknown is the maze. At farms this size a corn maze is sometimes free with a purchase and sometimes a small per-head charge, and four people paying separately is the difference between a cheap morning and a moderately expensive one. Our record does not mark this farm as free entry, but it also carries no price, so treat both the gate and the maze as questions to ask at the stand rather than assumptions to make in the car.
The trade-off with this farm is that it has decided a Facebook page is sufficient infrastructure. For the neighbours it is: the post goes up, people go and pick. For anyone driving in from Athens or the metro, it means committing an afternoon to a place that has not told you it will be open, and there is no phone tree, no booking page and no season calendar to fall back on.
That has a practical consequence beyond the risk of a wasted drive. Crop-led farms open when the field is ready and close when it is picked out, which means the pumpkin window can be shorter than the standard six-weekend festival season and can end early in a bad year. The last week of October is the point at which the risk of turning up to a stripped field rises fastest.
Our honest advice is to treat this as a local option rather than a destination. Find the page, watch it from mid-September, and go on the days they say to go. Take cash, take shoes you can hose off, and take the produce stand seriously while you are there, because that is the part of the operation that works all year.
There are no dates or hours to give you. The farm has no conventional website and announces its open days on a Facebook page, which is the only place the answer exists. What the record does support is a shape: a farm that runs u-pick strawberries in spring, blueberries and blackberries in summer and pumpkins in autumn is working to the crop rather than to a calendar, so its announcements tend to be short-notice and its season length depends on what the field gives. In north Georgia that generally means a pumpkin window somewhere from late September to the first days of November. Check the page the morning you intend to go, not the week before.
An hour and a half to two hours if the maze is open and you are picking. An hour if you are only after pumpkins and the stand.
Nothing is published, and we will not invent a figure. The relevant dynamic is that farms which announce openings at short notice on social media get a compressed rush in the first day or two after a post, particularly on a Saturday. A weekday visit in the middle of an announced run is the quietest version of this place.
Not published. Most working u-pick farms in this part of Georgia park visitors on grass or packed dirt beside the field, which is fine dry and slow after rain. Treat that as the regional norm rather than a fact about this farm.
Unpublished. U-pick rows and cut-corn maze paths are uneven ground almost everywhere, so anyone with mobility needs should ask before travelling.
You are driving any real distance, or you need to plan more than a day or two ahead. With no published schedule, no website and no price, an unannounced closed day is a live risk and the trip is not worth the gamble from outside the immediate area. Skip it too if you want a festival: six listed activities, and four of them are picking.
No price of any kind was found. The farm does not have a website and its Facebook page could not be read automatically, so neither an admission figure nor a pumpkin price is available. Bring cash and expect to ask at the stand.
Unpublished. Both directories that list the farm say the same thing: it posts on Facebook when it is open for picking. There is no season calendar to work from.
That is how both listings describe it, alongside a corn maze and u-pick strawberries, blueberries and blackberries. Barrow County is well north of the fall line, so a working farm here can and does grow its own pumpkins.
Not on spec. Without a published schedule you would be gambling an hour each way on a gate that may be shut. It is a strong local option and a poor destination.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked.
480 Argonne Road, Winder, GA 30680, in Barrow 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. The farm has not published a gate price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
What sets it apart locally: it has u-pick fields, which most Atlanta Metro patches on our list do not.
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.
facebook.com · cornmazesandmore.org
Checked August 2026.