One of the few Triad farms that publishes an exact 2026 date list and a genuinely all-inclusive ticket, and paying cash knocks $2 a head off the gate - but it is weekends only, 14 days total, and pumpkins are not in the price.
$19 per person, or $17 if paying cash. Children 2 and under are free. Extra-cost items include horse rides ($10), additional train tickets ($4 each), pumpkins, you-pick flowers, bakery items, concessions and farm store purchases.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $68.00 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.
Smith Hollow does something most farms in the Piedmont Triad do not: it publishes the actual dates. Not “weekends in October”, not “opening late September” - a printed list of the 14 days it will be open in 2026, every one of them 11am to 6pm. That alone makes planning easier here than at most of its neighbours, and it is worth saying so plainly.
The second thing it does well is bundle. The included list runs to 17 items and covers the things families normally pay for piecemeal elsewhere: unlimited corn maze, unlimited hayrides, the corn pit, the trike track, the bouncy corral, the duck race, the hay runner, life-size checkers, a nature walk, horseshoes and lawn games. It also includes one train ride and an apple-launching voucher per person. There is no wristband upsell at the gate for the core attractions, which removes the most common source of frustration at ticketed fall farms.
The gate is $19, or $17 if you pay cash. Two adults and two children over 2 pay $68 in cash. That is the floor, not the day. Three things sit outside it and all three are the ones children ask for: a horse ride is $10, extra train rides beyond the included one are $4 each, and the pumpkin itself is a separate purchase, as are you-pick flowers, bakery items and concessions.
Work it through honestly. Cash admission for four is $68. One horse ride each for two children is $20. Lunch for four from concessions - and you cannot bring your own, so this is not optional if you stay through midday - is realistically $40 or more. Two carving pumpkins might be $20 to $30. That is a day somewhere near $150 for a family of four, against a headline of $17 a head. None of that is unreasonable for seven hours of entertainment, but the gate price is not the answer to “what will this cost”.
Most Triad fall farms are built for the under-eights and run out of ideas for anyone taller. Smith Hollow is a partial exception. Axe throwing, bow and arrow and a steer roping dummy are included in the ticket, and those are the activities a 13-year-old will actually do twice. If you have a wide age spread in the car, that matters more than another bounce structure.
Fourteen weekend days between September 19 and November 8 is a compressed season, and the Triad’s demand does not compress with it. The two September dates and the November 7-8 weekend are the ones with slack in them. Mid-October Saturdays are the crush.
Late September and early October are also when hurricane remnants reach central North Carolina. The farm has not published anything about its parking surface, but field parking is the norm at operations this size, and a saturated field is the most common reason a fall farm day goes wrong. If a storm has passed through in the preceding days, call 336-813-2409 before loading the car.
One more scheduling note: a 6pm close in early November is not the same as a 6pm close in September. On November 7 and 8 you are finishing in fading light, and the corn maze in particular is better done early on those dates than left until the last hour.
The season runs September 19 through November 8, 2026, and it is weekends only: September 19 and 26; October 3-4, 10-11, 17-18, 24-25 and 31; then November 1, 7 and 8. Gates are 11am to 6pm every one of those days. The late-September dates and the two November weekends are the quieter end of the calendar; the middle three October weekends are when the Winston-Salem and Greensboro crowd arrives. If you want the corn maze and the axe throwing without a queue, take a September date or the November 7-8 weekend.
Three to four hours. With 17 included activities and a seven-hour operating day, a family that arrives at 11am and works through the maze, the hayride, the train and the games is not done in two.
Fourteen operating days in the whole season, all of them Saturdays or Sundays, all of them the same seven-hour window. That concentration is the crowd story. Mid-October Saturday afternoons will be the peak; an 11am arrival on any date buys you the first hour before the day fills.
Not published. Most Piedmont farm lots of this size are mown field or gravel rather than pavement, so assume soft ground if a late-September or early-October storm has come through - hurricane remnants reach the Triad in that window most years.
The farm does not publish an accessibility statement. Service animals are permitted but require advance notice, which is worth a call to 336-813-2409 if you need one. Corn mazes, corn pits and hay-based play areas are rarely firm-surface, so ask before travelling if wheels are involved.
You need a weekday. There are no weekday dates at all in 2026. Skip it too if you were planning to bring the dog or pack a picnic - the farm does not allow pets other than ADA-certified service animals arranged in advance, and outside food and drink are banned, so lunch is a concessions purchase on top of admission.
Kernersville sits between Winston-Salem and Greensboro, so an 11am to 3pm farm visit leaves an afternoon for either city. If you are coming from the Triad, do the farm first and eat afterwards - you cannot bring food in anyway.
Admission is $19 per person, or $17 per person if you pay cash. Children 2 and under are free. Two adults and two children aged 3 or over pay $76 by card or $68 in cash.
Unlimited corn maze and hayrides, one train ride, an apple-launching voucher, the corn pit, duck race, hay runner, trike track, bouncy corral, swings, life-size checkers, nature walk, axe throwing, bow and arrow, steer roping dummy, farm animals, horseshoes and lawn games. Horse rides ($10), extra train tickets ($4), pumpkins, you-pick flowers, bakery items and concessions are all charged separately.
No. The 2026 season is Saturdays and Sundays only, plus Saturday October 31, always 11am to 6pm.
No to both. Pets are not permitted except ADA-certified service animals with advance notice, and the farm bans outside food and drink, along with smoking, balloons and glitter.
September 19 – November 8, 2026. Saturdays and Sundays: September 19 and 26; October 3-4, 10-11, 17-18, 24-25 and 31; November 1, 7 and 8. Hours: 11:00am-6:00pm.
Admission starts at $17 per person. $19 per person, or $17 if paying cash. Children 2 and under are free. Extra-cost items include horse rides ($10), additional train tickets ($4 each), pumpkins, you-pick flowers, bakery items, concessions and farm store purchases.
5920 Smith Hollow Road, Kernersville, NC 27284, in Forsyth County. It is one of 4 patches we track in Piedmont Triad.
We track 4 patches in Piedmont Triad. At $17 a head this one sits above the regional median of $15.
Its season runs about 51 days against a regional average of 55, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
What sets it apart locally: it has hayrides, rides and play structures, farm animals, which most Piedmont Triad patches on our list do not.
There are 2 other patches we track in Forsyth County. All Piedmont Triad patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
smithhollowfarm.com
Checked August 2026.