Two businesses on one property: a free, no-ticket pumpkin patch attached to a Milton garden centre, and a separate ticketed play field at around $19 a head whose operating dates the farm has not published.
Walking through the pumpkin patch is free with no admission fee and no ticket; pumpkins are priced by weight at the garden centre register. The separate ticketed Family Fun Field is $19 plus tax per person and requires a signed waiver; a 2025 guide reported $9 per person, so the price appears to have changed.
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.
The most useful thing to understand about Scottsdale Farms is that you are looking at two offers, not one, and they have very different risk profiles.
The first is a free pumpkin patch attached to a working garden centre. No gate, no ticket, no wristband — you park, you walk into the patch, you take the photographs, and you either carry a pumpkin to the register or you do not. The farm states this plainly on its own 2026 page. For anyone who wants the seasonal picture without the expedition, that is close to ideal, and the long daily hours mean you are not fighting for a Saturday slot.
The second is the Family Fun Field, which is where the actual attractions are: the hayride, the corn maze, the zip lines, the giant slide, the animals and the lawn games. That is ticketed, it requires a signed waiver, and it is a separate decision.
The farm’s own family-fun page says $19 plus tax per person. An Atlanta guide covering the 2025 season reported $9. That is not a rounding difference — it is a doubling — and the farm’s page carries content dating to 2024, so we cannot tell you which number is live.
The practical consequence: do not arrive assuming a $36 afternoon for a family of four when it may be $76 plus tax. Ask on the phone, and ask in the same call whether the Fun Field is even operating on the day you want, because its dates and hours were not published anywhere we could find.
A small detail that catches people out: pumpkins here are priced by weight at the register, not by the piece. Children do not select pumpkins by weight. If your budget matters, do the choosing in the field rather than at the till, where the negotiation is harder.
North Fulton in October gives you the version of fall the decorations are promising — real leaf colour, cool mornings, and pumpkins from a state that can actually grow them. Because this is a garden centre rather than a pasture, the parking is likely to be hard standing, which means the wet-weekend mud that plagues field-parked farms is probably not a factor here.
What it also means, honestly, is that the free patch is a retail display in a nursery. It is a good one, and it costs nothing, but it is not acreage. Set expectations to “photo stop and pumpkin purchase” and it delivers exactly that.
The garden centre and the pumpkin patch keep long daily hours — Monday to Saturday from 8am and Sunday from 9am, closing at 6pm on the page we read, though a second listing on the same site says 7pm. That makes a weekday morning the obvious slot: you can be in and out with a pumpkin and a photo before the day warms up and before north Fulton's weekend traffic gets going. The Family Fun Field is the unknown. Its dates and hours were not published anywhere, so if that is why you are going, call first.
Thirty to forty-five minutes for the pumpkin patch and the garden centre — this is a shopping trip with a photo stop attached. Add two to three hours if you buy into the Family Fun Field, which is where the hayride, corn maze, zip lines and slide live.
Not documented. Milton is affluent, close-in north Fulton with a lot of families, and a free patch has no gate to slow anyone down — assume October weekend afternoons are the busiest and weekday mornings are close to empty.
Not published, but this is a retail garden centre rather than a pasture, which usually means a real lot and no mud risk after rain. That is a genuine advantage in a Georgia October.
You want a guaranteed farm day. The free part is a pumpkin display and a garden centre; the actual attractions sit behind a separate ticket whose schedule has not been announced, so there is a real chance of arriving to find the Fun Field shut.
Yes. The farm's own page states there is no admission fee and no ticket to walk through the pumpkin patch; pumpkins are priced by weight and paid for at the garden centre register. The separate Family Fun Field is ticketed.
The farm's own family-fun page lists $19 plus tax per person and requires a signed waiver, but the body of that page dates to 2024, and a 2025 Atlanta guide reported $9 per person. The price appears to have changed and we could not confirm which figure applies now. Ask before you commit a family to it.
The garden centre runs daily, Monday to Saturday from 8am and Sunday from 9am. One page on the farm's own site gives a 6pm close and another gives 7pm on weekdays. Family Fun Field operating dates and hours were not published at all.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Daily during the garden centre season.. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission is free. Walking through the pumpkin patch is free with no admission fee and no ticket; pumpkins are priced by weight at the garden centre register. The separate ticketed Family Fun Field is $19 plus tax per person and requires a signed waiver; a 2025 guide reported $9 per person, so the price appears to have changed.
15639 Birmingham Highway, Milton, GA 30004, in Fulton 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 u-pick fields, 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.
scottsdalefarms.com · atlantaonthecheap.com
Checked August 2026.