The latest-running fall festival in the Tampa area — 11pm closes on Friday and Saturday solve the Florida heat problem outright — but the farm publishes no prices, and the add-on list is long enough that you should not walk in without a budget.
Ticket prices not published on the site; tickets sold through their Aluvii store. Axe throwing, paintball, zip line, pony rides, gem mining and pumpkin painting are separate add-on tickets.
Two things make Raprager worth a look and one thing makes it hard to recommend blind.
The first is the hours. Friday 11am to 11pm, Saturday 9am to 11pm, Sunday 9am to 9pm is an extraordinary operating window for a Florida farm, where the standard is a 5pm close that shoves your entire visit into the hottest part of the day. Here you can arrive at six, eat dinner on site, and do the maze and the hayride in the dark. In late September, when Pasco County is still hitting the low nineties, that is not a small quality-of-life difference — it is the difference between a good day and an endurance test.
The second is breadth. The attraction list runs well past the usual patch inventory: a bounce pillow, corn pit, hay slide, maze, mechanical bull, zip line, petting zoo, hayride, pony rides, gem mining, pumpkin painting, and a haunted night trail once it gets dark. There is enough here for a genuinely wide age range, including the teenagers most pumpkin patches quietly write off.
The farm does not publish ticket prices on its own site. Tickets are sold through a separate third-party store, and the fall festival page lists what you can do without telling you what it costs. Separately, six of the headline activities — axe throwing, paintball, the zip line, pony rides, gem mining and pumpkin painting — are add-on tickets rather than part of admission.
That combination is the thing to plan around. At Florida farms generally, add-ons are where a manageable outing becomes an expensive one, and a farm with this many of them can escalate quickly with two or three children involved. Look up the ticket store before you leave the house, pick a number, and decide which two add-ons each child gets before you are standing in front of the gem sluice.
The farm advertised a September 18 opening for 2026 and a season running through November, but no closing date. If you are planning a November visit, call first rather than driving out on an assumption.
As at every Florida patch, the pumpkins were trucked in — the state cannot grow a commercial fall crop, so nobody here is harvesting their own. Come for the zip line and the evening hours; the pumpkin is a souvenir.
Evening, and specifically Friday. The farm is open until 11pm on Friday and Saturday, which is unusual in Florida and genuinely valuable: a 6pm arrival in late September gets you the whole property in falling temperatures instead of ninety-degree afternoon sun. Sunday closes at 9pm and opens at 9am, so it is the day for families who want daylight and an early night. Opening weekend from September 18 will draw a crowd; the first weekends of October usually do too.
Three to five hours, and more if you are staying for the haunted trail after dark. The attraction list is long — zip line, mechanical bull, bounce pillow, corn pit, hay slide, maze, petting zoo, hayride — and a short visit wastes whatever you paid at the gate.
Fri-Sun only across a season starting September 18 and running into November, so demand concentrates onto three days a week. The late closing time spreads it out more than most Florida patches manage — the 8pm to 10pm block on a Friday is likely the quietest usable window of the weekend.
The farm has not published parking details. Assume a field rather than a lot, as at nearly every farm of this size in Florida, and assume it is soft after rain — September in Pasco County is still firmly in the afternoon-thunderstorm season.
You need to know the price before you commit. Ticket costs are not published on the farm's site and are sold through a third-party store, so you are booking somewhat blind. Skip the late hours entirely if you have a toddler — a haunted night trail and a 10pm bedtime are not a good combination.
The farm had not published ticket prices on its own website when we last checked in August 2026; tickets are sold through its third-party ticketing store. Check there before you go, and budget separately for add-ons, which are not included.
The farm advertised a September 18 opening and a season running through November, but had not published a closing date. If you are planning a November visit, confirm first.
The farm runs a haunted night trail alongside the daytime festival. Treat it as a separate, older-audience attraction and plan your evening around whether your kids are in that group.
Opens September 18, 2026 (closing date not published). Fri-Sun. Hours: Fri 11am-11pm, Sat 9am-11pm, Sun 9am-9pm.
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. Ticket prices not published on the site; tickets sold through their Aluvii store. Axe throwing, paintball, zip line, pony rides, gem mining and pumpkin painting are separate add-on tickets.
16907 Boy Scout Rd, Odessa, FL 33556, in Pasco County. It is one of 11 patches we track in Tampa Bay.
We track 11 patches in Tampa Bay, 4 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 an after-dark attraction, which most Tampa Bay patches on our list do not.
There is 1 other patch we track in Pasco County. All Tampa Bay patches →
rapragerfarm.com
Checked August 2026.