The hayride is the ticket here — $18 gets you the wagon out plus the whole activity area, $23 bundles a pumpkin in, and the extra five dollars is cheaper than most pumpkins you would buy separately.
Farm's own Hayrides/Fall Activities page: $18.00 for a hayride plus the activity area, $23.00 for a hayride including a pumpkin, children 33 inches and under free. Group rates for parties of 10 or more run $17.00-$20.00. All activities are listed as weather/availability dependent.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $72.00 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.
Most farms sell you admission and then sell you a hayride. Simmons has done it the other way round: the hayride is the ticket, and buying it opens the whole activity area. Eighteen dollars covers the wagon out to the patch plus two corn mazes at four and two acres, a hay maze, a tire maze, a pedal-car drag strip, a double mega slide and a combine slide. That is a lot of structure for eighteen dollars, and it compares well against the Pittsburgh-area farms charging a similar gate for less.
The pricing has one genuinely clever feature. The $23 ticket is the $18 ticket with a pumpkin included, which prices the pumpkin at five dollars. Very few carving pumpkins at a Pittsburgh farm cost five dollars, so if you were going home with one, take the upgrade.
The trap is buying it four times. A family of four paying $23 each spends $92 and receives four pumpkins, and unless everyone in your household genuinely carves their own, two of those are decoration you did not want. Two adults on the $18 ticket and two children on the $23 comes to $82 with two pumpkins, which is the arithmetic most families actually want. Do that sum in the car park, not at the booth with children listening.
Children 33 inches and under are free. Thirty-three inches is short — it is a typical two-year-old, and most three-year-olds have passed it. Farms vary enormously here, and a lot of them use age three or four as the cutoff, so it is easy to assume your preschooler is covered when they are not. Budget on the basis that anyone walking confidently is paying.
Two slots, 6pm to 8pm and 7pm to 9pm, booked separately from the daytime ride. That is a distinct product and it is the better one for older children and adults, provided everyone is dressed for it. An open wagon at eight o’clock on an October evening in southwestern Pennsylvania is cold in a way that a jacket alone does not solve — this is a hat and gloves situation, and children who were fine at four in the afternoon will be finished by half past seven if you did not plan for it.
The first is navigation. Simmons runs a second retail location on Route 19 with its own phone number, and it is not where the fall activities are. Put Simmons Road into the satnav and check the destination before you set off with a car full of children.
The second is the calendar. The farm publishes its prices and its attraction list but not its 2026 dates, and the third-party directory entry that comes up for it lists a September 21 opening with a weekday schedule — except September 21 is a Monday in 2026, which tells you that listing is copied from an earlier year. We have deliberately not used it. The farm’s own page said only that fall activities would reopen in September. Everything else here is well documented; the dates are not, and the farm additionally flags that all activities are weather and availability dependent. One phone call to 724-941-1490 closes both gaps, and it is worth making it the same week you intend to go rather than a month out.
The farm had not published 2026 opening or closing dates when we last checked; its own fall page still read that fall activities would reopen in September 2026, without naming a date. A directory listing circulating online gives a September 21 start with Monday-to-Saturday hours, but September 21 falls on a Monday in 2026 and that entry looks like a stale copy of an earlier season, so we have not used it. What the farm does publish is that night hayrides run in two slots, 6pm to 8pm and 7pm to 9pm. Treat the first half of October as the safe window for a farm in Washington County and confirm the day by phone on 724-941-1490.
Two and a half to three hours. The $18 ticket covers a lot of ground — two corn mazes at four and two acres, a hay maze, a tire maze, a pedal-car drag strip and two slides — and a family that leaves after ninety minutes has not used what they paid for. The pumpkin field is around five acres, so allow twenty minutes for the walk and the choosing.
Washington County sits in Pittsburgh's southern commuter belt, so October Saturdays here draw a city crowd on top of a local one. The night hayrides, being ticketed into fixed two-hour slots, are the most controlled part of the day and worth choosing for that reason alone.
Not published. Assume unpaved farm parking. This is also the farm where navigation matters more than surface: it runs a second retail site on Route 19 that is not the fall activity location, so set your satnav to Simmons Road specifically.
You need to know the dates before you commit. The farm's own page carries pricing and an attraction list but no 2026 calendar, and the third-party listings for it are demonstrably out of date. Skip it too if you want a low-cost pumpkin run — there is no cheap walk-up option published, and the hayride is how you reach the patch.
McMurray sits in the Peters Township corridor south of Pittsburgh, close to the other Washington County fall farms. Doing two in one day is feasible, but this one is priced as a main event rather than a stop-off, so give it the morning.
$18.00 per person for the hayride plus the activity area, or $23.00 for the same thing with a pumpkin included. Children 33 inches and under are free. Groups of ten or more can book $17.00 to $20.00 rates in advance.
$72 if all four take the $18 ticket, $92 if all four take the $23 ticket with pumpkins. The sensible middle is two adults at $18 and two children at $23, which is $82 and sends you home with two pumpkins.
Not published. The farm's fall page said activities would reopen in September 2026 without giving a date, and the third-party directory listing for it appears to be a stale copy of an earlier season. Phone 724-941-1490 before travelling.
No. Night hayrides run in two slots, 6pm to 8pm and 7pm to 9pm, and are a separate booking from the daytime ride.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission starts at $18 per person. Farm's own Hayrides/Fall Activities page: $18.00 for a hayride plus the activity area, $23.00 for a hayride including a pumpkin, children 33 inches and under free. Group rates for parties of 10 or more run $17.00-$20.00. All activities are listed as weather/availability dependent.
170 Simmons Road, McMurray, PA 15317, in Washington County. It is one of 7 patches we track in Pittsburgh Region.
We track 7 patches in Pittsburgh Region, 1 of which are free to walk into. At $18 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $18.
What sets it apart locally: it has u-pick fields, rides and play structures, farm animals, which most Pittsburgh Region patches on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 2 of the 7 patches we track in Pittsburgh Region had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
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Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
simmonsfarm.com · pumpkinpatchesandmore.org
Checked August 2026.