A pay-one-price fun park with roughly twenty attractions for $22 a head from age two up, undermined by two awkward policies: no online tickets at all in 2026, and cash only for everything past the ticket booth.
The Family Fun Park page lists $22 per person, ages 2 and up, in season; the FAQ page still shows $20 per person, so the two figures conflict and the higher one is used here. Haunted Park is $25 cash / $27 credit card, or $23 for military, first responders and seniors 65+. Group discounts apply at 30+ (fun park) and 25+ (haunted park). Tickets are in-person only for 2026 - no online sales - and everything past the ticket booth is cash only.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $88.00 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.
Phillips is not a pumpkin patch in the u-pick sense. It is a family fun park with a corn maze and a sunflower field attached, and reading it that way makes the $22 ticket make sense. The list of what that covers runs to roughly twenty things: corn maze, wagon ride, cow train and grain train, mega slide, pedal cart track, roller racers, bounce pillows, mini golf, petting zoo, duck races, fish feeding, candy cannon catch, an XL corn box and a toddler area.
For a seven-year-old that is a good afternoon. For a family of four it is $88, which is real money in the Triangle market, and the question is whether you will use enough of it.
First, there are no online ticket sales at all in 2026. Not a date picker, not a booking fee, nothing - you turn up and buy at the booth. That is unusual now, and it means there is no way to reserve, no way to guarantee entry on a busy Saturday, and no way to skip a queue.
Second, and more consequential in practice, everything past the ticket booth is cash only. You can pay for admission normally and then discover that lunch, drinks and anything else on site needs notes in your pocket. This is the detail that ruins afternoons, and it is entirely avoidable by stopping at a cash machine before you arrive.
Taken together, these two policies say something about how the farm operates: it is run lean and traditionally, and it expects you to come prepared rather than the other way round.
The farm did not publish daily hours when we looked, which is unhelpful. What it did publish is more useful than it sounds: the ticket booth closes an hour before the park does, and rides start closing thirty minutes before that.
So whatever the posted closing time turns out to be, subtract ninety minutes and that is when the park stops being worth full price. Arriving two hours before close at $22 a head is paying a full ticket for a half visit, and with a family of four that is a $44 mistake.
Check the events calendar before you go, too. The season runs weekends plus selected weekdays, and which weekdays is not something you can guess.
Two of the farm’s own pages disagree. The Family Fun Park page says $22 per person, ages 2 and up. The FAQ still shows $20. We have used $22 because it is on the primary page and because assuming the lower figure is how people get caught short at the booth.
Note the age rule as well. Ages 2 and up all pay the same, so there is no child rate here. A family with two adults, a seven-year-old and a three-year-old pays four full tickets. Farms that charge under-fives half price are meaningfully cheaper for young families, and it is fair to weigh that.
The Haunted Park runs 8pm to 11pm on Friday and Saturday and is separately ticketed at $25 cash or $27 card, with $23 for military, first responders and seniors 65 and over. That is a night-time attraction for teenagers and adults, not a bolt-on to the family day, and it should not be confused with the daytime park when you are planning.
Two last things worth knowing before you commit. Only certified service animals are allowed, with no exceptions stated. And there are no refunds for bad weather - so on a doubtful October forecast, an $88 family visit is a bet rather than a booking.
September 19 to October 31, 2026, weekends plus selected weekdays - the farm's own events calendar is the only reliable guide to which weekdays are open. Daily opening hours were not published when we checked, but the closing structure is: the ticket booth shuts an hour before the park closes and rides begin closing thirty minutes before that. In practice that means a late-afternoon arrival loses a large chunk of what you paid for, so treat the ticket booth cutoff as the real closing time. The separate Haunted Park runs 8pm to 11pm on Friday and Saturday.
Three to four hours. At $22 a person for twenty-odd included attractions, a ninety-minute visit is poor value, and with a corn maze, mini golf, pedal carts and a petting zoo on the list there is enough to fill an afternoon properly.
Cary sits in the middle of the Triangle, and a six-week season with weekend-heavy opening concentrates a large metro population into a small number of days. October Saturdays will be the peak. The absence of online ticketing means there is no timed entry to smooth arrivals, so the queue forms at the booth.
Not published. Good Hope Church Road is on the western edge of Cary and this is farm land, so expect a field lot. Note that a fun park with pedal cart tracks and bounce pillows is a drier-ground operation than a u-pick field, but the parking is still likely to be grass.
Nothing published. Bounce pillows, a mega slide, pedal carts and a corn maze are physical attractions and much of the site will be uneven ground. No phone number appears on the farm's own pages, so a message through the website is the route if you need to ask in advance.
You do not carry cash. Everything past the ticket booth is cash only, and that includes food. Skip it too if you were planning to buy tickets online - there are no online sales at all for 2026 - or if you are bringing a dog, since only certified service animals are permitted with no exceptions.
The address is on the western edge of Cary, close enough to the Wake and Chatham county line that the farm's own listings do not settle which county it is in. It is a short drive from Apex, Morrisville and west Raleigh, which makes it one of the more convenient fall attractions in the Triangle.
No. Tickets are in-person only for 2026 - the farm sells nothing online. You buy at the ticket booth when you arrive.
The Family Fun Park page lists $22 per person for ages 2 and up. The farm's own FAQ page still shows $20, so the two figures conflict; we use the higher one. The Haunted Park is separately priced at $25 cash or $27 card, with $23 for military, first responders and seniors 65 and over.
Yes. Everything past the ticket booth is cash only, including food and concessions. The record does not say whether there is an ATM on site, so bring notes.
Earlier than you would think. Daily hours were not published for 2026, but the ticket booth closes one hour before the park closes and rides start shutting thirty minutes before that. Arriving in the last two hours means paying full price for a partial visit.
September 19 – October 31, 2026. Weekends, plus selected weekdays (see the farm's events calendar). Hours: Not published for 2026. The ticket booth closes one hour before the park closes and rides begin closing 30 minutes before. The Haunted Park runs 8:00pm-11:00pm Friday and Saturday..
Admission starts at $22 per person. The Family Fun Park page lists $22 per person, ages 2 and up, in season; the FAQ page still shows $20 per person, so the two figures conflict and the higher one is used here. Haunted Park is $25 cash / $27 credit card, or $23 for military, first responders and seniors 65+. Group discounts apply at 30+ (fun park) and 25+ (haunted park). Tickets are in-person only for 2026 - no online sales - and everything past the ticket booth is cash only.
6800 Good Hope Church Road, Cary, NC 27519, in null. It is one of 5 patches we track in Research Triangle.
We track 5 patches in Research Triangle, 1 of which are free to walk into. At $22 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $22.
Its season runs about 43 days against a regional average of 43, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
What sets it apart locally: it has u-pick fields, an after-dark attraction, which most Research Triangle patches on our list do not.
There are 2 other patches we track in null. All Research Triangle patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
phillipsfarmsofcary.com
Checked August 2026.