One of the most transparently priced farms in southern Wisconsin — an $8 weekday or $10 weekend Fun Pass covers the maze, the activity area and the wagon ride, and pumpkins are capped at $10 however big you go — but it is shut Monday to Wednesday and it has not published an opening date for 2026.
Weekday Fun Pass (Thursday-Friday) is $8 per person over age 2 and the weekend Fun Pass (Saturday-Sunday) is $10; the pass covers the corn maze, the activity area and the wagon ride. Wagon ride alone is $4 per person over 2. Pumpkins are 40 cents per pound with a $3.00 minimum and a $10.00 maximum per pumpkin. Apple cider donuts $1.50 each or six for $7.00; apple slingshot $3 for eight apples.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $32.00 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.
Sutter’s Ridge publishes more of its prices than almost any farm we have covered, and that alone makes it easier to plan than most. You know the pass, you know the wagon ride, you know what a pumpkin costs per pound and what it cannot cost more than, and you know what a donut is. Very little about the day is a surprise, which is worth something on its own.
The Fun Pass is $8 Thursday and Friday, $10 Saturday and Sunday, per person over two, and it bundles three things: the corn maze, the activity area and the wagon ride to the pumpkin patch. The wagon ride on its own is $4.
That gap is the decision. Two adults and two children over two pay $40 on a Saturday for the full pass, or $16 for wagon rides alone. If your children are two and four, they will get very little out of a five-to-six-acre corn maze that takes about an hour, and the difference is $24 you could put into pumpkins and donuts instead. If your children are seven and ten, the maze and the activity area are the visit and the pass is obviously the right buy.
Then there is the weekday move. Thursday and Friday at $8 versus $10 saves that same family $8 and delivers a quieter farm. A four-day operating week means the weekend absorbs most of the demand, and the farm’s own $2 surcharge is effectively telling you when the crowds are.
Forty cents a pound, minimum $3, maximum $10. Most farms selling by weight have no ceiling, and the child who finds the biggest pumpkin in the field is usually a budgeting problem. Here it is not. At forty cents a pound, ten dollars buys you a 25-pound pumpkin and everything above that is free. If you have ever wanted an absurd porch pumpkin, this pricing structure is the one to use — and you should tell the children about the cap before they start looking, not after.
The minimum works the other way. A tiny pumpkin still costs $3, so a family grabbing four small decorative ones pays $12 for what would weigh under eight pounds together. Small pumpkins are relatively poor value here; big ones are excellent.
The farm closes at 5:00pm but stops selling Fun Pass admission at 4:00pm. Those are different things and the hour between them is real. Arrive at 4:20pm on a Sunday in October, having driven forty minutes, and you will find a farm that looks open, a store that is trading, and no route into the maze, the activity area or the wagon ride. Given the maze alone takes about an hour, the cut-off is not arbitrary — but it does mean the practical last useful arrival is closer to 2:30pm if you want to do everything without rushing.
No opening date was published when we checked in August 2026. What the farm does say is that apples start in mid-August across 25-plus varieties ripening at different times, and that pumpkins are pickable by mid-September. Read together, that means an August visit is an apple visit, and anyone driving for pumpkins should not go before the middle of September without calling first. Farm animals are described as being on site from September, which is another reason not to go early with small children.
The end is firmer: the season concludes on Saturday, October 31, 2026. That is Halloween itself, which is unusual — plenty of Wisconsin farms stop a few days short. It also means the final day is a Saturday with all the demand that implies, and a 5:00pm close on October 31 in the driftless ridges is right at dusk and cold. If you want a last-minute pumpkin on Halloween morning, this is one of the few places that will still be selling one; just do not expect it to be quiet.
Fresh cider donuts made daily at $1.50 each or six for $7 — buy the six, it saves $2 and you will eat them. The apple slingshot at $3 for eight apples is cheap as farm add-ons go. Neither is included in the pass, and neither will break a budget, which is a fair description of the whole property.
The farm is open Thursday through Sunday, 10:00am to 5:00pm, plus Labor Day Monday, and the season concludes on Saturday, October 31, 2026. It has not published an opening date — apples start ripening in mid-August and pumpkins are pickable by mid-September, so the practical answer is that a full pumpkin visit works from around the middle of September. Thursday and Friday are the value days at $8 rather than $10 a head and they are far quieter. Whichever day you pick, note the 4:00pm last admission for the Fun Pass: turning up at 4:15pm on a Saturday means no maze, no activity area and no wagon ride.
Two and a half to three hours. The corn maze alone takes about an hour, which leaves the wagon ride out to the patch, the pumpkin picking itself and the activity area. If you want the apple orchard as well, budget closer to four.
A four-day week concentrates demand into Saturdays and Sundays, and the $2 weekend surcharge tells you the farm knows it. Thursday and Friday are structurally quieter and cheaper at the same time, which is a rare combination. The 4:00pm last admission also shapes the day — it pushes arrivals earlier than the 5:00pm close implies, so the middle of a Saturday is the peak rather than the late afternoon.
Not published. This is a ridge farm on a rural road in the driftless part of Dane County, so a grass or gravel lot is the safe assumption. Southern Wisconsin gets serious October rain and unpaved farm parking on a slope drains unpredictably. Boots for anyone who would mind mud.
Not published. The wagon ride out to the pumpkin patch is the most likely accessible element but the farm does not describe it as such, and a corn maze, a tire park, a sand pile and human rat racers are all uneven or physical. Call 608-832-6445 in advance if wheeled access matters.
Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday is your only free day — the farm is closed all three, with Labor Day the single exception. Skip a late-afternoon arrival, because Fun Pass admission closes at 4:00pm. And skip it if you specifically want a night maze or a haunted attraction; nothing in the farm's material suggests either, and it closes at 5:00pm.
Mount Horeb sits in western Dane County just outside Madison, on the edge of the driftless area — which is why we file this farm under southwest Wisconsin despite the county. That location makes it the closest genuine ridge-country farm to Madison, and an easy pairing with a meal in Mount Horeb itself. Peak colour on the driftless ridges lands in the same weeks as the pumpkin season, so weekend traffic on the scenic routes west of Madison is heavier than the distance suggests.
$8 per person over age 2 on Thursday and Friday, $10 on Saturday and Sunday. It covers the corn maze, the activity area and the wagon ride out to the pumpkin patch. If you only want the wagon ride, that is $4 per person over 2 on its own.
40 cents per pound, with a $3.00 minimum and a $10.00 maximum per pumpkin. The cap means even a very large pumpkin tops out at $10.
The farm had not published an opening date when we last checked in August 2026. It does say apples begin in mid-August and pumpkins are pickable by mid-September, and the season concludes on Saturday, October 31, 2026. Check the farm's site or call before an early-season trip.
Thursday through Sunday, 10:00am to 5:00pm, plus Labor Day Monday. It is closed Monday to Wednesday. Last Fun Pass admission is 4:00pm.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Thursday through Sunday, plus Labor Day Monday. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission starts at $8 per person. Weekday Fun Pass (Thursday-Friday) is $8 per person over age 2 and the weekend Fun Pass (Saturday-Sunday) is $10; the pass covers the corn maze, the activity area and the wagon ride. Wagon ride alone is $4 per person over 2. Pumpkins are 40 cents per pound with a $3.00 minimum and a $10.00 maximum per pumpkin. Apple cider donuts $1.50 each or six for $7.00; apple slingshot $3 for eight apples.
2074 Sutter Drive, Mount Horeb, WI 53572, in Dane County. It is one of 2 patches we track in Southwest Wisconsin.
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suttersridge.com
Checked August 2026.