A well-priced all-inclusive farm where the weekday ticket is $10 a head cheaper than the weekend one, and the two peak October weekends are explicitly blacked out from every discount — so the date you choose is worth more than any coupon.
2026 tickets: weekday (Mon-Fri, excluding Columbus Day) from $19.95 for 30+ activities; weekend and Columbus Day from $29.95 for 35+ activities; weekend combo from $32.95; weekend all-inclusive from $41.95 adding gem mine, train ride and shoot-out; group/family with train from $27.95 with a 20-ticket minimum. Ages 3 and up pay, under 2 free. Discounted tickets are blacked out Oct 17-18 and Oct 24-25, 2026.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $79.80 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.
The pricing here is unusually legible for a fall farm, and that is a compliment. Five published tiers, clear dates, clear age rules and a stated blackout window. You can plan a budget for this place before you leave the house, which is more than can be said for several of its competitors.
The weekday ticket at $19.95 covers 30-plus activities and is the best value on the sheet. The weekend ticket at $29.95 adds five more activities and $10 to the price. The weekend combo at $32.95 sits between that and the $41.95 all-inclusive, which folds in the gem mine, the train ride and the shoot-out gallery. Group and family tickets with the train run from $27.95 with a 20-ticket minimum.
For two adults and two children aged 3 or over, that is $79.80 on a weekday, $119.80 on a weekend, and $167.80 for the weekend all-inclusive. The gap between the cheapest and the dearest version of the same family visit is $88 — more than the entire weekday ticket for the family. This is the rare farm where “which day” is a bigger financial decision than “which farm”.
The all-inclusive premium works out at $12 a head for three attractions. Gem mining and a shoot-out gallery are both the kind of thing a seven-year-old will do once and then want to do again; a train ride is usually a single loop. If you have two children who will each do the gem mine twice, the maths holds. If you have a five-year-old who is going to spend ninety minutes in the corn maze and the playgrounds, it does not, and you should buy the base ticket.
October 17-18 and October 24-25 are explicitly blacked out from discounted tickets. Farms do that on their highest-demand dates, which means those four days will be the busiest of the season as well as the priciest. If your only constraint is that it has to be October and it has to be a weekend, October 3-4 or 10-11 gets you the same season at the same rate with fewer people in it.
Columbus Day is the other pricing trap, in reverse. It is charged at the weekend rate. Most school-holiday Mondays feel like a stolen weekday; here it is billed like a Saturday, so budget accordingly.
The line-up in our record is a pumpkin field, corn maze, hayrides, a train, the gem mine, a shoot-out gallery, animals to pet, playgrounds and a farm market. That is a classic Illinois farm festival rather than a mechanical ride park, which for a lot of families is the point — the attractions are the sort children direct themselves through rather than queue for in a line of twenty.
Six weeks of daily opening from 10am to 6pm is a generous schedule and takes the pressure off. The one thing to note is what that 6pm means at each end. On September 19 it is a long evening still to come; by November 1 you are closing at dusk with the temperature dropping. Late-season visits want proper layers, not a hoodie.
Nothing we read describes the parking or the paths. In practice, a Will County farm in October is on soil that holds water, and this one has a pick-your-own field at the heart of the offer, which means walking on cultivated ground. Boots for anyone who will be in the patch, and accept that if it rained in the previous forty-eight hours, the field will show it. That is not a criticism of the farm — it is October in Illinois, the state that grows more pumpkins than anywhere else in the country, and the mud is part of the deal.
September 19 through November 1, 2026, open daily 10am to 6pm. A weekday is the value play at $19.95 for 30-plus activities against $29.95 at the weekend for 35-plus. If it has to be a weekend, avoid October 17-18 and October 24-25, which the farm has blacked out for discounted tickets — those are simultaneously the dearest and the busiest dates of the season.
Four to five hours. A ticket covering 30-plus activities is not a two-hour purchase, and the all-inclusive tier at $41.95 needs most of a day to make sense.
The blackout dates tell you where demand sits: October 17-18 and October 24-25 are the two weekends the farm will not discount. Everything about those four days will be busier — parking, queues, the market. Daily opening across six weeks means midweek is comfortably absorbable.
Not published in what we read. Assume field or gravel parking, as at most Will County farms, and soft ground after autumn rain.
Not published. The site spans a pumpkin field, corn maze, hayride route and playgrounds, so surfaces will vary considerably. Call 815-741-2693 before travelling if that is a factor.
You are visiting for an hour. At $19.95 minimum per person aged 3 and up, a short stop is poor value here compared with the free-entry farms elsewhere in the county. Skip the weekend all-inclusive tier too unless you are certain the gem mine, train and shoot-out gallery are things your family will actually queue for.
Lockport sits in the same Will County cluster as the Homer Glen farms a short drive east, so if this one is booked out on a peak weekend there are genuine alternatives at both higher and lower price points within twenty minutes.
2026 tickets start at $19.95 on weekdays excluding Columbus Day, covering 30-plus activities. Weekends and Columbus Day start at $29.95 for 35-plus activities, a weekend combo runs from $32.95, and a weekend all-inclusive with the gem mine, train ride and shoot-out is from $41.95. Ages 3 and up pay; 2 and under are free.
The all-inclusive at $41.95 adds the gem mine, the train ride and the shoot-out gallery to the $29.95 weekend ticket. That is a $12 premium for three attractions, so it pays off only if your family will use all three.
October 17-18 and October 24-25, 2026. The farm blacks out discounted tickets on those four days, which marks them as the peak of the season for both price and crowds.
Daily, 10am to 6pm, from September 19 to November 1, 2026.
September 19 – November 1, 2026. Daily. Hours: 10am-6pm.
Admission starts at $19.95 per person. 2026 tickets: weekday (Mon-Fri, excluding Columbus Day) from $19.95 for 30+ activities; weekend and Columbus Day from $29.95 for 35+ activities; weekend combo from $32.95; weekend all-inclusive from $41.95 adding gem mine, train ride and shoot-out; group/family with train from $27.95 with a 20-ticket minimum. Ages 3 and up pay, under 2 free. Discounted tickets are blacked out Oct 17-18 and Oct 24-25, 2026.
17250 Weber Rd, Lockport, IL 60441, in Will County. It is one of 9 patches we track in Chicago Suburbs.
We track 9 patches in Chicago Suburbs, 2 of which are free to walk into. At $19.95 a head this one sits above the regional median of $15.95.
Its season runs about 44 days against a regional average of 48, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
What sets it apart locally: it has a market, bakery or taproom, which most Chicago Suburbs patches on our list do not.
There are 3 other patches we track in Will County. All Chicago Suburbs patches →
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Checked August 2026.