A $35-a-head timed-entry festival with no child discount past 24 months, which makes it one of the most expensive fall days in Bucks County and only worth it if you stay long enough to use a serious share of the 25-plus attractions.
General admission was $35.00 per person for the sample Sunday, October 11, 2026 date checked. Everyone 24 months and older needs a ticket. Gem mining and private campfires cost extra. A pre-sale discount was advertised.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $140.00 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.
Do the arithmetic first, because it decides everything else. Two adults and two children aged three and six pay $35 each: $140 to walk in, before a single cider donut, before gem mining, before the drive. There is no child rate. There is no senior rate visible. The only person who gets in free is a baby under two years old.
That is a genuinely high number for a Pennsylvania farm, and it is not automatically bad value — it is buying access to more than twenty-five attractions on one flat ticket, which is a different product from a farm that charges twelve dollars at the gate and then sells you a hayride. But it does mean the ticket only works if you use it hard.
At $140 for a family of four, a two-hour visit costs you $70 an hour. A six-hour visit costs $23 an hour and starts to look like a reasonable day out. So the practical test before buying is simple: will your group actually stay from the afternoon into the evening, eat there, do the maze and the slides and the go-carts and the animals, and sit at a campfire afterwards? If the honest answer is that you will do the pumpkin patch and the maze and be home by four, a cheaper farm serves you better and there are several within an hour.
The corollary is that the group composition matters more here than at most farms. A four-year-old who cannot ride half the attractions and will nap by three is paying a full adult price for a partial day. An eight-year-old will get every dollar back.
You buy a 30-minute arrival window rather than a ticket for a day. On the sample date we looked at, those windows ran from 11:00am to 7:00pm. That is a wide spread, and it means two quite different visits are on sale under the same name.
An early window is the daylight visit: maze, wagon ride, animals, the physical attractions, with the shortest queues of the day because fewer arrival slots have landed ahead of you. A late window is the evening visit, built around Eerie Illuminations, the Halloween light show that pushes the schedule past dark. Both are defensible. What does not work is buying a mid-afternoon slot with no plan, arriving into the day’s accumulated crowd, and leaving before the lights come on — you pay for both halves and get the worst of each.
Book early for a second reason as well: a pre-sale discount was advertised ahead of the season. On a $35 ticket across four people, even a modest percentage is real money, and it rewards deciding in September rather than dithering into October.
Most things. The Sesame Street corn maze, wagon rides, the jumping pillow, the Cornado slide, pedal go-carts, the cow train, goat grove and barnyard animals, live music, the zinnia garden, rubber ducky races, the Alien Encounter and public campfires with marshmallow roasting all sit inside the gate price. The marked extras are gem mining and private campfires. Gem mining in particular is the sort of thing a seven-year-old spots immediately, so decide your answer to that question before they ask it.
Evening dates run to dark, and Bucks County in the last two weeks of October is cold once the sun goes. Layers rather than one jacket; a light show is a standing-around attraction, not a walking one, and the temperature difference between a 5:00pm arrival and a 7:00pm departure is significant.
The farm publishes no phone number, only a contact form, and no parking detail. Assume field parking, assume it is soft if it has rained in the preceding days, and put boots in the car.
FallFest runs September 11 through October 30, 2026, with timed arrival slots sold for each open day. On the sample Sunday we checked, October 11, slots ran in 30-minute increments from 11:00am to 7:00pm. An early slot gives you the daylight attractions with the shortest queues; a late-afternoon slot on an evening date rolls you into the Eerie Illuminations light show, which is the thing that justifies staying past dark. Choosing between those two is the real decision here, and you make it at the point of purchase, not at the gate.
Five hours or more. At $35 per person flat, a two-hour visit is very poor value; the ticket is priced as a full-day pass and should be used as one. If your group cannot commit an afternoon and an evening, the arithmetic argues for a cheaper farm.
Timed arrival slots are a crowd-management tool, and they work at the gate, but they do not thin the queues inside once several slots have stacked up through the afternoon. Late-morning slots on a Sunday put you ahead of the day's accumulation. October Saturdays with an evening light show are the peak of the peak.
Not published by the farm. Assume field or gravel overflow parking, which is standard for a farm of this size in Bucks County, and expect soft ground after the autumn rain that October reliably brings to the Delaware Valley.
Not published. A property spanning corn maze, wagon rides, a jumping pillow and campfire areas will vary a great deal underfoot between attractions. The farm's site carries a contact form rather than a phone number, so allow time for an emailed answer if this decides your visit.
You are bringing toddlers. Everyone 24 months and older pays the full $35, with no visible discounted child rate, so a two-year-old who will use three of the twenty-five attractions costs exactly what an adult costs. Skip it too if you want a spontaneous Saturday — this is a timed-ticket event and walk-ups on an October weekend are a real risk.
Yardley sits close to the Delaware River and the Bucks County river towns, so a morning slot leaves the rest of the day free for New Hope or Washington Crossing rather than a second ticketed attraction.
General admission was $35.00 per person on the sample date we checked, Sunday October 11, 2026. Everyone 24 months and older needs a ticket. A pre-sale discount was advertised before the season, so the price you pay depends heavily on when you buy.
Yes, from 24 months. There is no discounted child rate visible on the farm's ticketing, so a two-year-old pays the same $35 as an adult. Under-24-month children do not need a ticket.
Effectively yes. FallFest sells timed arrival slots in 30-minute increments for each open day, so arriving without a ticket on an October weekend risks finding your preferred window gone.
The flat rate covers more than 25 attractions including the Sesame Street corn maze, wagon rides, the jumping pillow, Cornado slide, pedal go-carts, the cow train, goat grove, public campfires and marshmallow roasting. Gem mining and private campfires are the marked extras.
September 11 – October 30, 2026. Varies by date; timed arrival slots are sold for each open day. Hours: Hours vary by date. Sunday, October 11, 2026 offers timed arrival slots in 30-minute increments from 11:00am to 7:00pm..
Admission starts at $35 per person. General admission was $35.00 per person for the sample Sunday, October 11, 2026 date checked. Everyone 24 months and older needs a ticket. Gem mining and private campfires cost extra. A pre-sale discount was advertised.
931 Stony Hill Road, Yardley, PA 19067, in Bucks County. It is one of 5 patches we track in Philadelphia Region.
We track 5 patches in Philadelphia Region, 1 of which are free to walk into. At $35 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $35.
Its season runs about 50 days against a regional average of 51, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
What sets it apart locally: it has an after-dark attraction, rides and play structures, which most Philadelphia Region patches on our list do not.
There is 1 other patch we track in Bucks County. All Philadelphia Region patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
shadybrookfarm.com
Checked August 2026.