An 8-acre corn maze - much larger than the Texas norm - with a flat $20 gate and long Saturday hours, though the pumpkin patch is a 3-acre sideline rather than the main event.
General admission $20 plus tax for ages 3 and up. Bring one unexpired non-perishable food item for the Medina County food drive and get $1 off admission. Pumpkins from the 3-acre patch are an additional purchase.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $80.00 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.
The number that defines this place is 8. An 8-acre corn maze is large by any standard and unusual in Texas, where a maze is often a token few acres cut alongside a display patch and a photo backdrop. Set against it, the pumpkin patch here is 3 acres, and the ranch’s own phrasing about it - a really sincere 3-acre patch - reads as honest self-description rather than a boast.
So be clear about which trip you are taking. If your family’s picture of the day is walking a big maze, sliding down MatterCorn Slide Mountain, riding a zipline and finishing on a hayride, this is well matched. If the picture is a field of pumpkins to choose from, it is the smaller half of what you are paying for.
Two separate schedules run here and confusing them will cost you an evening. Attractions and grounds close at different times. Friday and Saturday, attractions stop at 9pm and the grounds stay open until 10pm. Sunday, attractions end at 5pm and the grounds close at 6pm.
The practical rule: your last useful entry is well before the attraction cut-off, not the grounds cut-off. A Sunday arrival at 4:30pm buys you thirty minutes of maze. For $20 a head that is a poor purchase, and Sunday’s noon start makes it easy to get wrong if you assumed the day ran later.
Friday is a second trap. It is an evening-only day, 6pm to 9pm, and it does not begin until October. A September Friday is not an operating day at all.
Admission is $20 plus tax for everyone 3 and up. A family of four - two adults, two school-age children - is $80 before tax, so roughly $86 or $87 out the door in Medina County. Under-3s are free.
The only advertised discount is the food drive: bring one unexpired non-perishable item and take $1 off. The ranch does not state whether that applies per person or once per party, which is worth two minutes of your attention. Bring four items, hand them over, ask, and let the answer fall where it falls - either you save $4 or you have made a slightly larger donation to a county food bank.
Then add the pumpkin, which is not in the ticket. A carving pumpkin and lunch pushes a family day comfortably past $120. That is a flat, honest, predictable structure by Texas standards - one gate price, one obvious add-on - and it compares favourably to farms that price every activity separately and let the total drift.
Saturday, 10am to 9pm, is eleven hours of access for the same $20 that buys five hours on Sunday. That alone settles it for most people.
Within the Saturday, weight your visit late. September and early October afternoons here are hot, the record says nothing about shade in the maze, and standing in corn rows at 2pm in Medina County is nobody’s idea of a good time. Aim to be in the maze from late afternoon into the evening, when the temperature drops and the light gets good. In October, the Friday 6pm-to-9pm window does the same thing in a more compressed form and is likely to be quieter than a Saturday.
Hondo is straight out US 90, about 40 miles west of San Antonio, which is one of the more painless approaches on this list - no Hill Country switchbacks and no weekend queue on a two-lane FM road. Budget an hour each way from central San Antonio and treat it as an easy half-day rather than an expedition.
The season opens September 19, 2026; the ranch publishes no closing date. Operating days are Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but Friday is evenings only, 6pm to 9pm, and runs in October and November only - so a September visit is Saturday or Sunday. Saturday is the long day, 10am to 9pm, and it is the one to take: the maze is better in the cooler back half of the afternoon, and a September or early-October midday in Medina County is hot enough to shorten anyone's patience for an 8-acre maze. Sunday closes at 5pm, which makes it the shortest and least flexible option.
Three to four hours. An 8-acre maze on its own can absorb an hour or more with children, and the slides, zipline and train rides sit on top of that. Sunday's five-hour window is enough but not generous.
Three operating days a week with only two of them in September concentrates the season considerably. Saturday's eleven-hour span is the best-spread day of the week; Sunday packs everyone into five hours and is likely to feel busier per hour than the numbers suggest.
Not published. The ranch is on US 90 east of Hondo, and rural South Texas ranch parking is normally field or caliche, so expect dust in a dry October and soft ground after a storm.
Not addressed on the ranch's site. A corn maze, hayrides and slide mountains all imply uneven ground. Call 830-741-3968 if a wheelchair or a stroller is part of the plan.
You are primarily pumpkin shopping. The patch is 3 acres against an 8-acre maze, and the ranch's own description of it - a really sincere 3-acre patch - is charmingly modest rather than a claim of scale. Skip Friday in September too: evening hours do not start until October.
Hondo sits directly on US 90 about 40 miles west of San Antonio, and Devine Acres Farm is in the same county roughly 35 miles southwest of the city. Two very different days - this one is a maze-and-slides ranch, Devine Acres is a festival with a beer garden and live music - so choose by the age of your children rather than trying to do both.
General admission is $20 plus tax for ages 3 and up. Bringing one unexpired non-perishable food item for the Medina County food drive takes $1 off. Pumpkins from the 3-acre patch are an additional purchase.
Friday 6pm to 9pm in October and November only, with the grounds closing at 10pm. Saturday 10am to 9pm, grounds closing at 10pm. Sunday 12pm to 5pm, grounds closing at 6pm. Note that attractions stop an hour before the grounds do.
The ranch publishes an opening date of September 19, 2026 but no closing date. Since it advertises Friday evenings in October and November, the season clearly extends into November, but the final weekend is not stated.
8 acres, which is considerably larger than most Texas farm mazes. The pumpkin patch alongside it is 3 acres.
Opens September 19, 2026 (closing date not published). Friday, Saturday and Sunday (Friday evenings in October and November only). Hours: Friday 6:00pm-9:00pm, October and November only, grounds close 10pm; Saturday 10:00am-9:00pm, grounds close 10pm; Sunday 12:00pm-5:00pm, grounds close 6pm.
Admission starts at $20 per person. General admission $20 plus tax for ages 3 and up. Bring one unexpired non-perishable food item for the Medina County food drive and get $1 off admission. Pumpkins from the 3-acre patch are an additional purchase.
911 US Highway 90 East, Hondo, TX 78861, in Medina County. It is one of 3 patches we track in San Antonio Region.
We track 3 patches in San Antonio Region. At $20 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $20.
There are 2 other patches we track in Medina County. All San Antonio Region patches →
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Checked August 2026.