Free gate, free parking and a pumpkin field you can walk for nothing, with a $15 Adventure wristband that only pays for itself if you plan to ride more than twice — which makes this one of the lowest-risk farms in southeastern Wisconsin for families with unpredictable toddlers.
General farm admission is free. An Adventure wristband is $15 and covers Witch Hollow Maze, the barrel train, the big green slide, the pumpkin jump pillow, pedal carts and the hayride. Individual tickets: 9-acre corn maze $7, single hayride $7, pony rides $8 (weekends only, riders 50 lbs and under).
Free to walk in. Your spend here is whatever you choose — pumpkins, food, and any paid activities. That makes it a low-risk stop if you are not sure how long the kids will last.
The most useful thing about Swan’s is structural rather than scenic: you can drive here, park, walk the pumpkin field, buy a pumpkin and leave, and the whole exercise costs you the price of the pumpkin. In a region where the flagship farms now charge $20-plus a head at the gate before you have touched anything, that is a genuinely different proposition, and it changes who this farm suits.
Free entry is not a small thing when you are travelling with a two-year-old. The risk calculus at a ticketed farm is brutal — you commit $60 to $100 at the booth and then find out whether your child is going to cooperate. Here the commitment happens in stages. You see the farm, you see the mood, and then you decide whether to spend.
That also means Swan’s works as a short stop. Forty-five minutes for pumpkins on the way to something else is a reasonable use of this farm, in a way it simply is not at a farm charging admission.
The $15 Adventure wristband is the one real decision. It covers Witch Hollow Maze, the barrel train, the big green slide, the pumpkin jump pillow, the pedal carts and the hayride. Priced individually, a single hayride is $7. So the wristband is the hayride plus five more things for another $8, and it breaks even the instant a child rides two or three attractions.
The trap is the 9-acre corn maze, which sits outside the wristband at $7. A family of four buying four wristbands and four maze tickets is at $88 — not far off what a big ticketed farm charges, and worth knowing before you assume the free gate means a cheap day. Two adults and two children doing wristbands only is $60. Pumpkins on top of that are priced separately.
There is also a sensible middle path that ticketed farms do not allow: buy a wristband for the child who will use it, skip them for the adults, and pay $7 for a single adult hayride if you need to ride along. That flexibility is what a la carte pricing buys you.
The farm opens at 10am every day, but on weekdays the adventure attractions do not start running until noon. Two hours is a long time to fill with a pumpkin field. If your children want rides and your only free days are midweek, go after lunch. You get the calmest version of the farm with everything open.
Weekends run attractions from 10am, so the standard advice applies: arrive at opening or accept the mid-morning wave.
Two dates in our record pull unusual traffic. The Watermelon Festival in mid-September predates the pumpkin season proper, and opening day on September 19 is a Pumpkins and Kites event. There is also a pancake breakfast and a harvest dinner in late September. All of these are reasons to come, but none of them are the day to come if you want space in the parking area.
A six-week run ending November 1 means the last two weekends are properly autumnal. A 6pm close in late October is very close to dark, and this is southeastern Wisconsin, where October rain sits on farm ground rather than draining off it. Boots for the field, layers rather than a single jacket, and a plan for wiping down the car boot after the pumpkins go in.
One firm limit to note before you promise anything: pony rides run weekends only, cost $8, and cap riders at 50 pounds. That rules out most children past about age seven, and it is the kind of detail better discovered in the car park than in the queue.
The season runs September 19 through November 1, 2026, open daily 10am to 6pm. The catch is that the adventure attractions do not start until noon on weekdays, so a weekday morning gets you the pumpkin field and the store and nothing else. Weekends run the attractions from 10am. If you want rides and quiet at the same time, aim for a weekday afternoon from noon; if you only want pumpkins, a weekday morning is the emptiest the farm gets.
Ninety minutes if you are buying pumpkins and doing one ride. Three hours if you have bought wristbands and intend to use them, which is the only way the wristband makes sense.
Six weeks, open daily, which is a genuinely long and forgiving run by Wisconsin standards. The two spikes to know about are the mid-September Watermelon Festival and the September 19 opening-day Pumpkins and Kites event, both of which pull heavier traffic than a normal weekend. October Saturdays are busy; October weekday afternoons are the calm inside the season.
Free, per the farm's own site. Surface is not specified in our record, so assume the usual Racine County farm arrangement of a field or gravel lot that softens after rain.
Not published. The pumpkin field and farm store are the parts most likely to work for a visitor with limited mobility, and since the gate is free there is no financial risk in going to look. The corn maze, Witch Hollow and the ride area are unlikely to be level ground.
You want a large, elaborate attraction farm with live shows. This is a mid-sized operation with a solid ride list, not a 65-attraction festival. Skip a weekday morning if the rides are the point — nothing adventure-side opens before noon Monday to Friday. And skip pony rides for an older child: they run weekends only and are limited to riders 50 pounds and under.
Franksville sits between Racine and Milwaukee, so Swan's pairs naturally with Apple Holler in Sturtevant a short drive south if you want apples and a sit-down meal on the same day. Be aware you are pairing a free-gate farm with a paid one: Apple Holler charges $10 a head for the fun park and requires every person entering the orchard to buy a picking bag, so the second stop is the expensive half of the day.
No. General farm admission and parking are free. You only pay for rides, the corn maze and whatever you buy.
Witch Hollow Maze, the barrel train, the big green slide, the pumpkin jump pillow, the pedal carts and the hayride. The 9-acre corn maze is not included and costs $7 on its own, and pony rides are $8 separately.
No. The farm opens at 10am daily, but the adventure attractions do not start until noon on weekdays. On weekends they run from 10am.
Yes, on weekends only, at $8. Riders must be 50 pounds and under, which rules out most children over about seven.
September 19 – November 1, 2026. Daily. Hours: 10:00am-6:00pm daily; adventure attractions start at noon on weekdays and 10:00am on weekends.
Admission is free. General farm admission is free. An Adventure wristband is $15 and covers Witch Hollow Maze, the barrel train, the big green slide, the pumpkin jump pillow, pedal carts and the hayride. Individual tickets: 9-acre corn maze $7, single hayride $7, pony rides $8 (weekends only, riders 50 lbs and under).
5930 Highway H, Franksville, WI 53126, in Racine County. It is one of 7 patches we track in Milwaukee Region.
We track 7 patches in Milwaukee Region, 3 of which are free to walk into. Entry here costs nothing, which puts it in the minority even in a region with several free options.
Its season runs about 44 days against a regional average of 42, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
There are 2 other patches we track in Racine County. All Milwaukee Region patches →
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Checked August 2026.