A big, well-equipped Monroe County farm park with a serious pricing problem — its own pricing page and FAQ quote different weekend rates, and the spread between the cheapest and dearest way in is more than $30 a head.
The pricing page lists three weekend tiers: General Admission $23.99 online / $26.99 gate; Farmtastic $33.99 / $40.99; The Whole Hog $39.99 / $47.99. The FAQ page separately quotes weekend admission at $20.99 online and weekday admission at $15 - the two pages disagree, so confirm before buying. Children 2 and under free.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $60.00 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.
Stokoe Farms is one of the more elaborate operations in the Rochester area, and the attraction list backs that up: a corn maze, wagon rides, a petting zoo, a kangaroo pasture, a Canine Spectacular dog show, candy and apple cannons, a paintball target range, train rides, gemstone mining and cider donuts. Harvest Fest runs September 19 to October 25, weekends plus October weekdays.
It is also the farm in this batch where you most need to do homework before you arrive, and the reason is entirely about price.
The farm’s pricing page lists three weekend tiers. General Admission is $23.99 online and $26.99 at the gate. Farmtastic is $33.99 and $40.99. The Whole Hog is $39.99 and $47.99. The FAQ page, on the same site, quotes weekend admission at $20.99 online and weekday admission at $15.
Those cannot both be right, and the gap is not trivial. A family of four is looking at anything from $60 on an October weekday to $191.96 on The Whole Hog at the gate — a spread of more than $130 for the same four people at the same farm. We are reporting both figures rather than guessing which is current, but the practical advice is simple: ring the farm, confirm the rate for your date and tier, and buy online once you know.
The one thing that is consistent across both sources is that online beats the gate every time, by $3 to $8 a head depending on tier.
Tiered ticketing works when a family stays long enough to consume what it bought, and fails badly when it does not. The top tier at gate price is roughly double the base, which means a two-hour visit on a Whole Hog ticket is one of the worse-value fall days available in Monroe County. If you know you will be there from opening until you are tired, the upper tiers make sense. If you are fitting the farm around a lunch reservation, take the base ticket and pay for the one or two extras you actually want.
A kangaroo pasture and a scheduled dog show are the two things here you will not find at the other farms in this part of the state, and both carry the same caveat: show-based attractions run to a timetable, and no timetable is published. If the Canine Spectacular is a draw for your children, ask what time it runs at the same moment you are confirming your ticket price. Turning up at 3pm for a show that ran at noon is an avoidable disappointment, and a calendar-driven farm can move it week to week.
There are no published hours, which is a genuine planning obstacle — the calendar changes by date, so a visit that starts with an assumption about a 10am open is a visit that might start with a locked gate.
The season ends October 25, a week before Halloween, which is a normal pattern here: mazes get cut once the crop is done and the weather turns. Late October in western New York means short afternoons, cold once the sun drops, and a farm field that holds water. Layers, boots, and an eye on the forecast rather than the calendar.
Harvest Fest runs September 19 through October 25, 2026 — fall weekends plus weekdays in October. The farm does not publish fixed daily hours anywhere; it points visitors to an online calendar, so check it for your date rather than assuming. If the FAQ's $15 weekday rate is current, an October weekday is both the cheapest and the quietest way to do this farm by a wide margin.
Four hours or more on a weekend if you have bought anything above the base ticket. With a corn maze, wagon rides, a kangaroo pasture, a dog show, train rides, apple and candy cannons and a paintball target range, the higher tiers only make sense if you stay long enough to use them.
Weekends are the main event and the last two before the October 25 close are the peak. October weekdays are the pressure valve, which is also where the cheaper quoted rate sits.
Not published. Assume the usual Monroe County farm field, and assume mud if the week has been wet — a working farm in late October does not drain quickly.
No accessibility information is published. A corn maze, pumpkin field and wagon ride are uneven-ground activities, so plan for a stroller to struggle.
You want a simple pumpkin stop. Three admission tiers, a pricing contradiction and separately sold extras make this a farm you have to research before you visit. Skip the upper tiers entirely if you are only staying two hours — the Whole Hog ticket at gate price is $47.99 a head and needs a full day to earn out.
It depends which page of the farm's site you read, which is the problem. The pricing page lists three weekend tiers — General Admission $23.99 online and $26.99 at the gate, Farmtastic $33.99 and $40.99, and The Whole Hog $39.99 and $47.99. The FAQ separately quotes weekend admission at $20.99 online and weekday admission at $15. Confirm with the farm before buying.
The farm does not publish fixed hours. It directs visitors to an online calendar for the days and times of each date, so check that for your specific visit.
September 19 through October 25, 2026 — fall weekends plus weekdays during October.
September 19 – October 25, 2026. Fall weekends plus weekdays in October; the farm directs visitors to its online calendar for exact days.
Admission starts at $15 per person. The pricing page lists three weekend tiers: General Admission $23.99 online / $26.99 gate; Farmtastic $33.99 / $40.99; The Whole Hog $39.99 / $47.99. The FAQ page separately quotes weekend admission at $20.99 online and weekday admission at $15 - the two pages disagree, so confirm before buying. Children 2 and under free.
656 South Road, Scottsville, NY 14546, in Monroe County. It is one of 5 patches we track in Finger Lakes.
We track 5 patches in Finger Lakes, 1 of which are free to walk into. At $15 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $15, undercutting 1 of the 4 paid patches we track here.
Its season runs about 37 days against a regional average of 55, so it is a shorter window than most of its neighbours — miss it and the nearest alternatives will still be open.
What sets it apart locally: it has farm animals, rides and play structures, which most Finger Lakes patches on our list do not.
There are 4 other patches we track in Monroe County. All Finger Lakes patches →
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Checked August 2026.