A six-weekend, weekends-only farm outing between Gainesville and Ocala that is fair value at roughly $17 a head if you use the whole afternoon, but the 2026 price had not been published when we last checked.
2025 ticket page listed $15.00 admission plus $2.59 fee ($17.59 total). 2026 pricing not yet published - treat $15 as the 2025 figure.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $60.00 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.
Red House Ranch sits on US 441 at Micanopy, which puts it in the useful middle ground between Gainesville and Ocala — close enough to both that a family in either city can treat it as an afternoon rather than a road trip. If the name does not ring a bell, the location probably does: this is the property that operated as Coon Hollo Farm, and the rebrand is recent enough that older reviews and directions still point here under the old name.
The season is short: roughly six weekends from early October to the first weekend of November, Saturdays and Sundays only, so twelve open days in total. That is typical for Florida and it has a predictable effect — a whole region’s fall outing gets pressed into a dozen days, and the ones nearest Halloween absorb most of it.
The attraction list is short and legible — corn maze, goat walk, wagon rides, pony rides, farm animals — and that is the honest frame for the ticket. This is a farm visit, not a small theme park. Two to three hours is a fair estimate for a family working through all of it without rushing, and if that sounds thin, compare it against the price rather than against the bigger Central Florida operations. At last year’s $17.59 all-in, a family of four was around $70. That is real money for an afternoon, but it is roughly half what the festival-model farms 90 minutes south charge for a day you also have to commit a whole day to.
The gap in the record worth taking seriously is what pony rides cost. The farm lists them as an activity without saying whether admission covers them. At most Florida farms of this size they do not, and a $5-to-$10-per-child add-on repeated across two or three kids is how a planned $70 afternoon lands closer to $100. Ask at the gate before anyone gets in line.
The Sunday noon opening is the single most practical thing on the schedule. It means a Sunday visit starts in the hottest part of a North Florida October day, with no option to beat it. Saturdays open at 10am and give you two good hours before the heat sets in, and both days run to 7pm, so the late afternoon is genuinely usable as the sun drops. If you have a choice, take Saturday morning or Sunday after 4pm and skip the middle.
Afternoon thunderstorms are normal here well into October, and a farm that parks cars on grass becomes a farm that parks cars in mud. Nothing in the record says what the surface is, so that is an inference — but a safe one, and cheap to plan around with the right shoes.
One last expectation to set, because it surprises people who moved here from further north: Florida’s climate does not support a commercial fall pumpkin crop. The pumpkins at essentially every patch in the state, this one included, were grown elsewhere and trucked in. It does not make the goat walk less fun, but nobody is picking gourds off vines. What Florida farms sell is the afternoon.
Saturdays open at 10am and run to 7pm, which is the widest window of the week and the only day you can arrive before the heat. Sundays do not open until noon, so a Sunday visit is a heat-of-the-day visit by design — plan it as a late-afternoon trip and use the back half of the 7pm close instead. Early October dates will be hotter than the November ones; if your group includes small children or anyone who wilts, the last two weekends of the season are the more comfortable choice.
Two to three hours. The activity list is a corn maze, a goat walk, wagon rides, pony rides and farm animals — enough to fill an afternoon at an unhurried pace, but not the four-to-six-hour agritourism park some Central Florida farms have become.
Weekends only, across roughly six weekends, which concentrates the entire season's demand into twelve open days. Expect the two weekends closest to Halloween to be the busiest, and the Saturday 10am opening to be the calmest slot of any given weekend.
The farm has not published parking details, so treat this as an inference rather than a fact: most rural North Florida farms park visitors on grass or dirt rather than pavement. North Florida gets afternoon thunderstorms into October, and a wet field means mud between the car and the gate. Closed shoes, not sandals.
You are chasing thrill attractions or a long day out. There is no zipline, no slide hill and no ropes course here, so a group of older kids will have worked through the list well inside two hours and the per-head price will feel steep for what they did.
The farm had not published 2026 pricing when we last checked. The 2025 ticket page listed $15.00 admission plus a $2.59 fee, for $17.59 per person. Treat that as a guide, not a quote, and confirm on the farm's site before you drive.
It is the same location under a new name. If you are searching old reviews or directions, Coon Hollo is what you will find.
Saturdays and Sundays only, roughly early October through the first weekend of November. Saturday hours are 10am to 7pm and Sunday is noon to 7pm.
October 3 – November 8, 2026. Saturdays & Sundays. Hours: Sat 10am-7pm; Sun 12pm-7pm.
Admission starts at $15 per person. 2025 ticket page listed $15.00 admission plus $2.59 fee ($17.59 total). 2026 pricing not yet published - treat $15 as the 2025 figure.
22480 N US Hwy 441, Micanopy, FL 32667, in Marion County. It is one of 15 patches we track in North Florida.
We track 15 patches in North Florida, 2 of which are free to walk into. At $15 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $15, undercutting 1 of the 5 paid patches we track here.
Its season runs about 37 days against a regional average of 31, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
There are 6 other patches we track in Marion County. All North Florida patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
redhouseranch.org
Checked August 2026.