A serious Columbia County pick-your-own orchard with an early 8am start and a seven-acre maze — but it publishes no fall dates, no prices and no maze information, and there is an address conflict worth resolving before you set off.
No admission or picking price is published on the pages read, and no gate policy is stated.
Samascott is an orchard that happens to sell pumpkins, not a fall festival with apples attached, and that distinction shapes everything about the visit. There is no jumping pillow, no cow train, no wristband. There is pick-your-own apples, pumpkin picking, a garden market, cider donuts, and a corn maze that regional guides put at seven acres.
The most useful practical detail is the schedule. An 8:00am open is unusually early for a pick-your-own — most farms in this region start at ten — and on an October Saturday that gap is worth more than any discount. Two hours of picking before the crowd arrives is a different experience from the same two hours starting at eleven. The corresponding trap is the 4:00pm last entry against a 5:00pm close: an hour’s difference that is easy to misread.
Beyond that, the record thins out fast. The farm published no fall opening or closing dates, no prices of any kind, and nothing at all about how the maze operates — no dates, no hours, no fee. The seven-acre figure comes from regional guides that carry no date, which for maze acreage is weak evidence, since farms recut and resize their mazes annually.
Then there is the address question. The orchard is on Sunset Avenue. A regional parenting site lists a Samascott’s Garden Market on Chatham Street in Kinderhook with a different phone and different hours. Two sites in the same small town under one name is not unusual for a family orchard — retail in one place, fields in another — but it does mean a phone call is the difference between arriving at the maze and arriving at a shop.
Open daily except Tuesdays, 8:00am-5:00pm, with last entry at 4:00pm. The 8am opening is the real advantage and almost nobody uses it — an hour in the rows before the weekend crowd arrives is the best version of this visit. Note the 4pm cut-off rather than the 5pm close; turning up at 4:15 gets you nothing.
One to two hours for picking; add an hour if the seven-acre maze is running on your date.
Columbia County peaks with the leaf season in the middle two weeks of October, when the Taconic and the Hudson corridor both fill up at weekends. The 8am open is the cheapest crowd-avoidance available.
Not published. Assume an orchard lot rather than pavement.
You need to plan around a budget or a firm date. No admission price, no picking price, no gate policy and no fall season dates were published on any page we read. Skip it too if you want play structures and rides — the list here is picking, a maze, a market and donuts.
The farm's site has a corn maze navigation link, and regional guides describe a seven-acre maze. But the farm published no maze dates, hours or pricing, and both guides are undated. Confirm it is open before you build a trip around it.
This is worth checking. The orchard is at 5 Sunset Avenue, Kinderhook, but a regional parenting site lists a Samascott's Garden Market at 65 Chatham Street in Kinderhook with a different phone number and hours. Those appear to be two separate sites, so confirm which one you should drive to.
5:00pm, with last entry at 4:00pm. It is open daily except Tuesdays.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Daily except Tuesdays. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. No admission or picking price is published on the pages read, and no gate policy is stated.
5 Sunset Avenue, Kinderhook, NY 12106, in Columbia County. It is one of 10 patches we track in Hudson Valley.
We track 10 patches in Hudson Valley, 2 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.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 2 of the 10 patches we track in Hudson Valley had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There are 3 other patches we track in Columbia County. All Hudson Valley patches →
samascott.com
Checked August 2026.