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Pick'n Patch

📍 2205 Routes 5 & 20, Stanley, NY 14561🗓 August 21 – October 31, 2026🏷 From $11.95/person

One of the longest fall seasons in the Finger Lakes — ten weeks of Friday-to-Sunday opening from sunflowers in August to Halloween — but the only prices it publishes are promotional ones, so the real gate rate is a guess.

Pick'n Patch in Stanley, NY

What you get for the price

Included with admission

Pumpkin patchApple pickingSunflower FestCorn maze20+ attractionsFarm animalsCider and donutsAdult beverages

The pricing page shows a Fall Festival Flash Sale Pass at $11.95, reduced from a listed $20.95, and a 2026 Season Pass at $39.95, reduced from $46.95. Standard single-day gate pricing is not shown. Admission required for ages 3-79; under 2 free and 80+ free.

Rough cost for a family of four: about $47.80 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.

Our take

Ten weeks is a long fall season by any standard, and it changes how you should think about this farm. August 21 to October 31, Fridays through Sundays, 10am to 6pm — that is over thirty operating days, against the twelve or so that weekends-only October farms manage. You are not fighting for a slot; you are choosing one.

The season also splits in two. The early half is the Sunflower Fest, which needs warm weather and an August or early-September date to work. The later half is apples, pumpkins and the corn maze. Both halves come with the same twenty-plus attractions, farm animals, cider and donuts, but if sunflowers are what you pictured, October is too late.

The pricing problem

This is the one thing to go in aware of. The farm’s pricing page shows a Fall Festival Flash Sale Pass at $11.95, marked down from a listed $20.95, and a 2026 season pass at $39.95, marked down from $46.95. What it does not show is a standard single-day price. So the honest read is that a normal ticket probably sits around that $20.95 list figure, and the $11.95 is a promotion that may or may not be live when you book. Budget for the higher number and treat anything less as a win.

If the $20.95 list price is roughly right, the season pass logic is strong. Two visits cover it, and with a ten-week window spanning sunflowers at one end and Halloween at the other, two visits is a normal amount for a local family rather than an ambitious one.

One age quirk worth flagging: admission is required for ages 3 through 79. Free for under-2s is standard across the region; free from 80 is not, and it is the kind of policy gate staff apply when asked rather than when guessed. If a great-grandparent is coming, say so at the window.

Real corn, real weather

The maze is cut into a real Ontario County corn field and the produce is grown here, which is the whole appeal — and also the constraint. Autumn rain leaves a working farm soft underfoot, and the parking arrangement is not published, so assume grass and dress accordingly.

One traffic note specific to this address: the farm sits on Routes 5 and 20, a corridor that carries a lot of leaf-peeping traffic through October weekends. A Friday visit dodges both the queue at the gate and the queue to get there.

Planning your visit

Best time to go

The 2026 season runs August 21 through October 31, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 6pm. That long window is the point: an August or early-September visit gets the Sunflower Fest in warm weather with light to spare, while October gets apples, pumpkins and the corn maze. Fridays should be the quietest of the three days. By the end of October the 6pm close arrives at dusk, so the last hour is a different experience from the same hour in August.

How long to budget

Three to four hours. The farm advertises more than twenty attractions alongside the pumpkin patch, apple picking and corn maze, and a season pass only makes sense if you are the kind of visitor who uses them.

Crowds

Friday, Saturday and Sunday only, so the season concentrates into three days a week. Peak foliage weekends in October put heavy traffic on Routes 5 and 20, which is the road the farm sits on.

Parking

Not published. A working farm on Routes 5 and 20 will park visitors on grass or gravel, so soft ground after autumn rain is the reasonable expectation.

What to bring

  • Layers if you are going in October, and sun protection if you are going in August for the sunflowers — the two ends of this season are genuinely different trips
  • Closed shoes for the corn maze and pumpkin field
  • A card for food, cider and the adult beverages the farm lists

How to spend less here

  • The season pass is $39.95, reduced from a listed $46.95. Against the $20.95 list price of a single day, that pays for itself on the second visit — which is realistic given a ten-week season
  • The Fall Festival Flash Sale Pass at $11.95, down from $20.95, is the cheapest entry advertised, but it is a promotion and may not be running when you look
  • Children under 2 are free, and so is anyone aged 80 or over
  • Budget against the $20.95 list figure rather than the $11.95 promotional one — that is the number the farm is discounting from, and the only clue to what a normal gate ticket costs

Who it suits

Good for

  • Families who want more than one visit — the season is long enough that a season pass is a real option rather than a gimmick
  • Anyone chasing sunflowers, which most pumpkin farms do not offer and which needs an earlier visit than a pumpkin does
  • Multi-generational groups, since under-2s and visitors aged 80 and over are free
  • Ontario County and Canandaigua-area locals who can pick a good-weather Friday

Skip it if

You need to know the price before you commit. The published figures are a flash-sale pass and a season pass, both shown as discounts against higher list prices, and no standard single-day gate rate appears at all. Skip it too if Monday to Thursday are your only free days.

Common questions

How much does Pick'n Patch cost?

The farm does not publish a standard single-day gate price. Its pricing page shows a Fall Festival Flash Sale Pass at $11.95 against a listed $20.95, and a 2026 season pass at $39.95 against a listed $46.95. Admission is required for ages 3 to 79; under-2s and 80-plus are free.

When does Pick'n Patch open in 2026?

August 21 through October 31, 2026, Friday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm.

Is the sunflower festival the same as the pumpkin patch?

They are the same site across a long season. The Sunflower Fest belongs to the earlier, warmer end of the calendar; pumpkins and apples belong to the October end. If sunflowers are the reason for the trip, do not leave it until October.

When is Pick'n Patch open in 2026?

August 21 – October 31, 2026. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Hours: 10:00am-6:00pm.

How much does Pick'n Patch cost?

Admission starts at $11.95 per person. The pricing page shows a Fall Festival Flash Sale Pass at $11.95, reduced from a listed $20.95, and a 2026 Season Pass at $39.95, reduced from $46.95. Standard single-day gate pricing is not shown. Admission required for ages 3-79; under 2 free and 80+ free.

Where is Pick'n Patch?

2205 Routes 5 & 20, Stanley, NY 14561, in Ontario County. It is one of 5 patches we track in Finger Lakes.

How Pick'n Patch compares in Finger Lakes

We track 5 patches in Finger Lakes, 1 of which are free to walk into. At $11.95 a head this one sits below the regional median of $15, undercutting 3 of the 4 paid patches we track here.

Its season runs about 72 days against a regional average of 55, so it is a notably longer window than most of its neighbours, which takes the pressure off picking a weekend.

What sets it apart locally: it has farm animals, which most Finger Lakes patches on our list do not.

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Quick facts

SeasonAugust 21 – October 31, 2026
Days openFriday, Saturday and Sunday
Hours10:00am-6:00pm
AdmissionFrom $11.95
CountyOntario County
RegionFinger Lakes

Sources

picknpatch.com

Checked August 2026.