A small, deliberately toddler-scaled patch in northeast McKinney with sensible $12 to $13 online pricing, but it sells timed reservations and holds back only a limited number of $16 walk-up tickets, so turning up unbooked on an October Saturday is a real risk of being turned away.
$12 Friday and $13 Saturday-Sunday when reserved online; $16 for limited walk-up admission. Free for children under 2, ticket required from age 2. Group rate for 15 or more is $12 per student and $8 per adult. Pumpkins, face painting, flower picking and food all cost extra.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $48.00 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.
This is a small farm that knows exactly who it is for, which is more useful than it sounds. Duck races, pumpkin bowling, a ball pit, a hay maze, a roping pen, animals, lawn games and a weekend farm train - read that list and you have the age range: roughly two to seven. There is no corn maze, no coaster, no haunt. A nine-year-old will do a lap and ask what else there is.
For the family it does suit, the pricing is reasonable and the structure is honest. $12 on a Friday, $13 on a Saturday or Sunday, booked online. A family of four with both children over 2 pays $48 on a Friday and $52 at the weekend. That is at the sensible end of the North Texas range for a two-hour visit.
The reservation system is the thing most likely to go wrong. The farm sells timed online tickets and keeps back only a limited number of walk-up admissions, priced at $16. Two consequences follow. The obvious one is that walking up costs $3 to $4 more per person, which is $12 to $16 on a family of four. The less obvious and more painful one is that on a busy October Saturday the walk-up allocation can be gone, and the trip fails at the gate.
Book the slot before you leave. It costs less and it removes the only real uncertainty about the day.
Note the age rule while you are booking: tickets are required from age 2, not from 3 or 4 as at several other Texas farms. A family with a toddler should count them in the total rather than assuming they walk in free.
Friday and Saturday open at 9am. Sunday does not open until 11am.
In late September and early October, Collin County afternoons are hot, and an outdoor farm with limited natural shade is unpleasant by two in the afternoon in a way that shortens everyone’s patience. The 9am opening is the answer to that, and for the age group this farm serves - children whose best hours are early - the argument doubles. A 9am Friday arrival gets you cool air, a near-empty property and children at their most cooperative, for the lowest ticket price of the week. There is not much to argue with there.
Sunday’s 11am start removes that option entirely, and the record notes closing time varies by date, so check your specific day rather than assuming a 7pm finish.
Admission covers a genuinely decent list: the hay maze, duck races, pumpkin bowling, the animals, the roping pen, the ball pit and the lawn games, plus the farm train at weekends. That is more inside-the-ticket content than at a lot of Texas patches, which tend to meter activities individually.
What is outside the ticket is worth naming, because it is exactly the set of things a small child will request. The pumpkin itself is a separate purchase. So is face painting. So are cut flowers from the u-pick field. So is food. A family of four at $48 through the gate can comfortably reach $80 or $90 by the time four pumpkins, a face painting and lunch are added, and none of that is a surprise if you plan for it.
The farm describes visitors choosing a pumpkin from its many varieties, but nowhere does it say those pumpkins are field-grown at McKinney. In Collin County that would be unusual - most metro-area Texas patches truck pumpkins in and build the day around them - and we are treating this as an unverified display patch rather than making a claim in either direction. If growing your own matters to you, ask when you book.
Weekdays are worth one last mention. Monday to Thursday, 9am to 4pm, are given over to school field trips, so the public season really is three days a week plus Columbus Day. If you are the one organising the school group, the rate is $12 per student and $8 per adult at 15 or more, which is the best number on this page.
The public season runs September 25 through November 8, 2026, on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays plus Columbus Day; Monday to Thursday are reserved for school field trips. Friday and Saturday open at 9am, Sunday at 11am, with a 7pm close that varies by date. Friday is both the cheapest day at $12 and the quietest, and the 9am opening on a Friday is the single best window in the week - cool air, low crowds and a small child's best hour of the day all lining up. Through late September and early October a Collin County afternoon is hot, so the morning matters more here than the price difference does.
Two hours, maybe two and a half with small children who want to repeat the duck races. This is not a property that sustains a five-hour visit and it does not pretend to be.
Timed online tickets are the main crowd control, and they work in your favour: the farm caps entry rather than letting the day fill unbounded. That also means October Saturdays sell out. Fridays are the loosest, Sundays start late at 11am and compress everyone into eight hours.
Not published. Northeast McKinney farm ground, so expect grass or gravel rather than pavement and soft footing after rain.
Not addressed in the material available to us. A hay maze, a roping pen and a ball pit are unlikely to be smooth-surface attractions, and the farm train boarding is not described. Call 214-450-6255 before booking if that is a factor.
Your children are over about eight. The scale and the activity list will not hold them, and there is no corn maze or ride element to fall back on. Skip it too if you only have weekdays free - Monday to Thursday are closed to the public for field trips, with Columbus Day the exception.
It is a working blackberry farm the rest of the year, on Sunset Trail in northeast McKinney, which puts it close enough to McKinney's downtown square to make a straightforward morning-then-lunch plan out of the trip.
Effectively yes. The farm sells timed online tickets at $12 on Fridays and $13 on Saturdays and Sundays, and holds back only a limited number of $16 walk-up admissions. On an October Saturday, arriving without a booking risks being turned away.
From age 2. Children under 2 are free. That is a lower cut-off than at many Texas patches, so a family with a two-year-old should count them in the total.
The hay maze, duck races, pumpkin bowling, the farm animals, the roping pen, the ball pit and the lawn games, with the farm train running at weekends. Pumpkins, face painting, u-pick flowers and food all cost extra.
Only on Columbus Day. Monday through Thursday are blocked out for school field trips from 9am to 4pm, so the public season is Friday to Sunday.
September 25 – November 8, 2026. Friday, Saturday and Sunday (plus Columbus Day); Monday-Thursday reserved for school field trips. Hours: Friday and Saturday 9am-7pm, Sunday 11am-7pm (closing time varies by date). Field trips Monday-Thursday 9am-4pm..
Admission starts at $12 per person. $12 Friday and $13 Saturday-Sunday when reserved online; $16 for limited walk-up admission. Free for children under 2, ticket required from age 2. Group rate for 15 or more is $12 per student and $8 per adult. Pumpkins, face painting, flower picking and food all cost extra.
1794 Sunset Trail, McKinney, TX 75071, in Collin County. It is one of 6 patches we track in Dallas-Fort Worth.
We track 6 patches in Dallas-Fort Worth. At $12 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $12, undercutting 1 of the 5 paid patches we track here.
Its season runs about 45 days against a regional average of 46, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
What sets it apart locally: it has u-pick fields, which most Dallas-Fort Worth patches on our list do not.
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
sunsettrail.com
Checked August 2026.