Free to walk in, free to park, and a ticket economy once you are inside — a roadside carnival lot in Gwinnett rather than a farm, which makes it the lowest-risk option in the metro for a toddler who might last ten minutes.
Admission is free on most dates. On select October dates there is a $10 per person charge for ages 16 and up. Individual attractions are paid for with activity tickets rather than being included; a 2024 report described tickets at $1 each with most rides costing several. Parking is free.
Free to walk in. Your spend here is whatever you choose — pumpkins, food, and any paid activities. That makes it a low-risk stop if you are not sure how long the kids will last.
Call this what it is and it becomes easy to judge. Randy’s is a fall carnival on a highway lot in Lawrenceville — inflatables, a tractor-pulled train, carnival games, pony rides, a bunny petting zoo, face painting and a pumpkin display — and it is free to walk into and free to park at. Judged as a farm it is thin. Judged as a low-commitment evening out with a three-year-old, it is one of the more sensible options in the metro.
The free-entry model does more work than people give it credit for. Every paid farm in Georgia asks you to bet $15 to $25 a head that your child will cooperate for three hours. Here you bet nothing. If the toddler melts down at the gate you turn around having lost the petrol and nothing else, and that changes which days of the month a visit is even thinkable.
Inside, it is a ticket economy. The 2024 reporting we found described tickets at roughly $1 apiece with most rides costing several, so the practical unit is $3-$5 a ride. Two children doing five rides each puts you somewhere around $30-$40 — comfortably more than a family pass at a farm with an all-inclusive gate.
That is the real trade. Free entry buys you an exit ramp; it does not buy you a cheap day if you intend to stay and ride everything. The families who get the best of this place are the ones who arrive with a set number in mind and treat the rest of the lot as scenery.
The other cost trap is the calendar. Most dates are free, but on select October dates there was a $10 per person charge for anyone 16 and up. Two adults who did not check are $20 down before a ticket is bought.
The corn maze is an inflatable. The pumpkin jump is an inflatable. This is a commercial lot rather than a field, which means the pumpkins were brought in and arranged — a safe inference from the setting rather than something the operator has stated, but it would be strange if it were otherwise. None of that is a criticism unless you were sold something different, which is exactly why it is worth saying up front.
What you get instead is convenience: free parking on hard standing rather than a pasture that turns to mud, a location most of Gwinnett can reach in twenty minutes, and five days a week of opening rather than the two or three that most Georgia farms manage.
Wednesday and Thursday do not open until 5pm. Saturday and Sunday do not open until noon. Friday, oddly, opens at 9am and runs thirteen hours. That pattern rewards weeknight visits and punishes anyone who assumed a Saturday morning was available — it is not.
And plan for the cold. A Georgia October evening under lot lighting at 8pm is a different climate from the afternoon you left the house in.
Wednesday and Thursday are evening-only, 5pm to 9pm, and they are the quietest slots of the week. Friday is the outlier — it opens at 9am and runs to 10pm, the only daytime weekday on the calendar. Saturday and Sunday do not open until noon, which pushes the whole visit into the afternoon and evening, and Saturday runs to 10pm. If you have a small child and want the place near-empty, a Wednesday at 5pm is the answer. If you want daylight without a weekend crowd, Friday morning is the only door open.
An hour to ninety minutes. This is a compact lot of inflatables, games and rides rather than acreage — you are not going to fill an afternoon here, and the pricing model does not reward trying.
Not documented. The structural point is that a free-entry site on a main highway in a dense suburban county has no gate to throttle demand, so weekend evenings are likely to be the busiest hours of the week and weeknight openings the quietest.
Free, according to the state tourism listing — the only parking detail published anywhere. Being a roadside commercial lot rather than a farm field, it is unlikely to turn to mud, which is a genuine advantage after a wet Georgia October week.
You want a farm. There is no field, no livestock beyond a bunny petting zoo and no real corn — the corn maze here is an inflatable. If you came to Georgia's fall listings for a working farm with a cut maze and pumpkins on the vine, this is not that, and there are plenty of places nearby that are.
Entry and parking are free on most dates. On select October dates there was a $10 per person charge for ages 16 and up. Rides and games are not included either way — they are bought with activity tickets, reported in 2024 at about $1 each with most rides costing several tickets.
No. The listed corn maze is an inflatable, as are the pumpkin jump and the bounce houses. This is a carnival setup on a lot, not a farm with standing corn.
Wednesday through Sunday, closed Monday and Tuesday, per the most recent listings. Wednesday and Thursday run 5pm to 9pm, Friday 9am to 10pm, Saturday noon to 10pm and Sunday noon to 9pm. No 2026 season dates had been published when we checked.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Wednesday through Sunday; closed Monday and Tuesday.. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission is free. Admission is free on most dates. On select October dates there is a $10 per person charge for ages 16 and up. Individual attractions are paid for with activity tickets rather than being included; a 2024 report described tickets at $1 each with most rides costing several. Parking is free.
1460 Lawrenceville Highway, Lawrenceville, GA 30044, in Gwinnett 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. Entry here costs nothing, which puts it in the minority even in a region with several free options.
What sets it apart locally: it has an after-dark attraction, 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.
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Checked August 2026.