Hamilton County's closest working cider mill, with themed weekends that decide what you actually get to do - and a 2026 calendar the farm had not published anywhere we could read it.
2025 Fall Fun Days admission was $16 bought online or $18 at the gate, with children under 2 free. The 2026 price has not been published on the farm's own site, so treat $16 as the last confirmed rate rather than a 2026 quote.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $64.00 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.
Stuckey is an orchard and cider mill first and a pumpkin patch third, and that ordering matters more here than at most farms in this region.
Its fall season has not been six identical weekends. It has been three distinct events sharing a site: an apple-picking block, a cider-pressing block, and a pumpkin-picking block at the end. That is a good thing - it gives a local family a reason to come back three times, and each weekend has actual content rather than just being open.
It is also a trap for anyone driving out once. A household that picks a random October Saturday because the children want to choose a pumpkin can quite easily land on a cider weekend. The admission is the same; the day is not. Before you commit, find out which block your date sits in. Given that the farm’s own website is app- and script-driven and published no readable calendar, that means social feeds or the phone rather than a webpage.
We have no 2026 price. The last confirmed figures are 2025’s: $16 per person online, $18 at the gate, under-2s free. For a family of four that is $64 online against $72 at the gate - an $8 difference for buying before you leave the house, which is the easiest saving available at any farm in this batch.
Assume those numbers have moved. Assume, too, that the cider mill side is not in the ticket. Donuts, pressed cider, caramel apples and cider slushies are the things people come for and the things you pay for separately, and a family of four working through that list adds $20 to $30 without trying. Picked apples are charged by weight or container on top again.
Central Indiana takes its cider mills seriously, and the queue behaves accordingly. At mills of this type the donut line is routinely the longest line on the property - longer than any ride queue at a bigger farm, because everyone wants the same thing at the same moment and it comes out of a fryer at a fixed rate. The practical answer is to arrive when the gates open, buy the donuts first, and do the orchard afterwards. It feels backwards and it saves forty minutes.
Sheridan sits northwest of Westfield, which puts this farm within easy reach of Carmel, Zionsville, Noblesville and the whole Grand Park catchment. That is a very large suburban population with one obvious cider mill, and October Saturdays reflect it. If you have weekday flexibility, it will not help you here - the fall operation has run weekends only - so the lever you do have is time of day.
No 2026 dates, no 2026 hours, no 2026 price, no parking or accessibility detail, and no confirmation of whether tickets are date-limited. We have not visited. The farm is clearly operating and clearly popular; it simply does not publish in a form that automated reading can reach, which is a website problem rather than a farm problem.
The honest advice is short: call 317-769-4636, ask which weekend does what, ask what a ticket costs, and buy online once you know.
The farm had not posted a 2026 season calendar or hours we could verify when we checked in August 2026, so we cannot give you dates. What we can tell you is the shape it has taken: weekends only, split into themed blocks that ran apple picking first, cider pressing in early October, and pumpkin picking across the final two weekends. If pumpkins are the reason for the trip, that puts you late in the season; if apples are, you want September. Confirm the block before you drive - the difference between an apple weekend and a pumpkin weekend here is the whole point of the visit.
Two to three hours. This is an orchard and cider mill with games and photo spots rather than a rides park, so the picking and the donut queue are the day.
Its location just northwest of Westfield and Grand Park is the whole crowd story: it is the closest cider mill to a very large and growing suburban population, and October weekends reflect that. Cider and donut queues at Midwest mills routinely run longer than the ride queues at bigger farms, so arriving at opening is worth more here than an extra hour at the end of the day.
Not published. A Hamilton County orchard will have a field or gravel lot; October is the wet month in central Indiana, so plan for soft ground after rain.
You need a weekday. Its fall operation has run weekends only. Skip it too if you want certainty from a website - this farm's own site renders through JavaScript and an app, and published no plain-text calendar we could read.
We do not have a confirmed 2026 price. In 2025 the Fall Fun Days admission was $16 bought online or $18 at the gate, with children under 2 free. Treat $16 as the last confirmed rate rather than a 2026 quote - the farm's own site did not publish a readable price when we checked in August 2026.
Unknown. No 2026 calendar had been published on the farm's own site in a form we could read. Its fall operation has run weekends only across roughly six weekends from mid-September to late October. Check the farm's social feeds or call 317-769-4636 before planning around a specific date.
The farm splits its fall season into blocks - apple picking first, cider pressing in early October, then pumpkin picking on the final weekends. The activity available on your date depends on which block it falls in, so this is the one thing worth confirming before you go.
Yes - it operates a cider mill on site, and pressed cider, cider donuts, caramel apples and cider slushies are all on its published list.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Weekends only during the fall festival season (2025 pattern; 2026 calendar not yet published). Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission starts at $16 per person. 2025 Fall Fun Days admission was $16 bought online or $18 at the gate, with children under 2 free. The 2026 price has not been published on the farm's own site, so treat $16 as the last confirmed rate rather than a 2026 quote.
19975 Hamilton Boone Road, Sheridan, IN 46069, in Hamilton County. It is one of 8 patches we track in Indianapolis Region.
We track 8 patches in Indianapolis Region, 1 of which are free to walk into. At $16 a head this one sits above the regional median of $13.95.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 6 of the 8 patches we track in Indianapolis Region had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There are 4 other patches we track in Hamilton County. All Indianapolis Region patches →
stuckeyfarm.com · visithamiltoncounty.com · pumpkinpatchesandmore.org
Checked August 2026.